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Everything about getting notation you can read, edit, and print: making sheet music from a song, simplifying and arranging it for your level, and exporting a clean score to PDF or MusicXML.
Chord symbols pack a whole chord into a few characters, and once you can read them you can play from a chart for any song. Here is how to read chord symbols, from plain triads to sevenths, extensions, suspensions, and slash chords.
A capo lets a guitarist change a song's key without learning new chord shapes: clamp it on a fret and your open chords sound higher. Here is how a capo transposes a song, which fret raises the key by how much, and how to find the position that fits your voice.
Concert pitch is the shared reference that lets a band play in tune together, and the reason a trumpet and a piano reading the same note do not match. Here is what concert pitch means, which instruments play at it, and why transposing instruments do not.
Arranging a song for solo guitar means fitting the melody, the harmony, and a bass line onto six strings and two hands. Here is how to arrange any song for guitar, from choosing a guitar-friendly key to balancing chord-melody and fingerstyle, starting from a transcription you can edit.
A string quartet gives you four voices, two violins, a viola, and a cello, that can carry almost any song. Here is how to arrange a song for strings, from splitting melody and accompaniment across the parts to writing in each instrument's range and clef.
Arranging a song for choir means turning it into singable parts for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, each in a comfortable range. Here is how to arrange any song for an SATB choir, from setting the melody and harmony to handling the words, starting from an editable score.
A transcription is a starting point, not a final answer, which is why getting an editable score matters more than getting a picture. Here is how to edit sheet music after you make it: fixing notes and rhythms, changing the key, reassigning hands, and exporting a clean copy.
Every December the same problem returns: the holiday song you want to play is in the wrong key, the wrong difficulty, or has no sheet music at all. Here is how to get any carol or modern holiday song as editable sheet music, then fit it to the player.
The song that matters most at a wedding is often the one with no sheet music, or only a version in the wrong key for the singer or instrument playing it. Here is how to turn any song into a part for the ceremony, from the processional to the first dance.
A Guitar Pro file holds tab, standard notation, and playback together in one editable document, which is why so many guitarists prefer it to a flat PDF. Here is what is inside a .gp or .gpx file, how to open one, and how to get a Guitar Pro file from a recording.
A transposing instrument reads its music in a different key than it sounds, which is why a trumpet and a piano playing the same written note do not match. This guide explains what makes an instrument transposing, why it happens, and gives a full chart of the B-flat, E-flat, F, and concert-pitch instruments.
Hand a trumpet player a concert-pitch part and it comes out a whole step too low. The trumpet is a B-flat instrument, so it reads in a different key than the piano. Here is the interval the trumpet needs, why concert pitch is wrong, and how to get a part in the right key without doing the math.
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