Beginners to learn to play the guitar or piano, as well as experienced musicians may find it boring to search around for scores, while composers may want to save time writing notes.For both there is a wonderful program that allows you to listen to music and automatically see the notes on a score.
Basically, you open a song to listen to it, which can be famous or even recorded on the computer, and, automatically, you will see all the notes played by the various instruments and during the listening the musical notes played will be highlighted.
This program is Notation Player, free, specially designed for those who study music and are able to read notes.
You can then play any music and see the notes in front of the automatically generated score.
For some of the most famous songs you can also read the lyrics, to get the complete score.
Notation Player, however, does not work with MP3 or CD files, but with Midi files from backing tracks or Kar files from Karaoke.
The good thing is that a search on the internet is enough to find the Midi file of almost every famous song, to be able to listen to it with Notation Player and to be able to read the notes in real time during playback.
Each score generated with musical notes can be saved as a .not file to be reopened when you want, without the need for a midi.
Those who want more, for example the ability to print the notes on a sheet or edit the notes on the score, can buy the enhanced version of the program called Notation Musician or, with even more features, Notation Composer.
In other articles on the same topic I had also recommended the use of other programs for:
- Compose music on your PC, write notes to print and download sheet music
- Write the notes of a song on the computer and hear it as it composes
See the notes of each song while listening and save the score
