Just found a great free notation program.

[micwalt]

https://musescore.org/

I needed to transcribe a section of Frankenstein for my keyboard player, and this really did the trick. It read the notes from my keyboard--I just had to do the note values, time sig, key sig. Saved me a bunch of time having to show him at the next practice.

 

[Mark Wein]

One of my classmates uses that I think. Her charts look great.

 

[micwalt]

Pretty slick.

 

[gtrjunior]

So does this program transcribe things that you actually play on an instrument or do you have to manually enter the note(s)? I see that you said it read the notes from the keyboard but could you say, play you're guitar instead and it could transcribe that?

 

[micwalt]

So does this program transcribe things that you actually play on an instrument or do you have to manually enter the note(s)? I see that you said it read the notes from the keyboard but could you say, play you're guitar instead and it could transcribe that?

You can play it on a keyboard, as long as you're connected properly via midi. You have to choose your own note values, though (half note, quarter note, dots, ties, rests, etc.--although, if you skip to the next measure, the program inserts the appropriate rests for you).

 

[vonbladet]

I've been recommending MuseScore for a while. It is decent, free, well-documented, actively developed, it reads midi files and there's a plugin for embedding snippets in Open Office docs.

(I like to grab midi files from the net and extract bass lines; is a cheat-code for the idle transcriber.)