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Gail said
I'm going to devote my time to practicing scales for a few weeks, but that's not very interesting. It's like housework. You have to do it.
In the meantime, there's a song I like that I want to learn to play, so I went online to find sheet music. It took hours but I finally found the melody in the key of C Major. That's fine, but I'm also learning to play cello and I wanted a piano score so I could play two cello parts and two violin parts and dub them all together. I finally found a piano score in the key of F Major. I don't like F Major. I found a transposing graph to help me change the piano score to C Major. Then I found free software online that you can use to transcribe music. Now I'm busy making my own sheet music. So that's my progress so far.
If I had a musical education this would all be so much simpler.
I know the feeling! Frustrating, right?!
You'll learn eventually. I do not know notes. I think it is about time, but I have never been able to read notes. I tried learning about 12 times. But it just vanished from my head as quickly as it stuck.
Though I have practiced transpositioning stuff as far as scales goes. It's actually quite simple once you get the hang of it. It's just that you have to literally crack the code 😉 Good luck with that! And also.. It is still not too late to ask on misc. forums and so on for help in learning 😉 Remember that internet is your friend 🙂
"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild."
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Scales can be fun! Mix up the finger patterns and tempo,
use your imagination.
No matter where you go, there you are!
Gail can you put a link to the software to transpose the music?
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I hope links are allowed. Here is the software I got. It doesn't transpose, but it transcribes:
http://download.cnet.com/Cresc.....53404.html
For transposing I found a graph. It's pretty easy to understand:
http://www.shanemcdonald.org/m.....poser.html
There's a program called Finale 2012 that transposes, but it costs money. You can download a free trial for 30 days here:
I've learned so much from my mistakes that I've decided to make some more.
I don't know how committed you may be but I want to mention a super little ($49) program called NoteWorthy Composer. It writes, transposes, does midi and I think there is a trial version available. I've used it for writing for about 10 years even though I have 3 other similar programs. I hope it is as good as it used to be 
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