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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. 

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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,violin-student use your imagination.dancing

No matter where you go, there you are!

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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

 

violin-student

There's a program called Finale 2012 that transposes, but it costs money.  You can download a free trial for 30 days here:

http://www.finalemusic.com/Dow.....Trial.aspx

I've learned so much from my mistakes that I've decided to make some more.

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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 smile

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