Explore Songscription's guides to music transcription, sheet music, MIDI, piano roll, and AI-powered music learning, plus product updates and company announcements from the Songscription team.
Cover bands, worship teams, and school bands all hit the same wall: the song exists as a recording, and nobody has the parts. Here is how to turn a recording into a part for each player, check it, fit it to the people actually playing, and get it on their music stands.
AI can now edit sheet music: inside Songscription's editor, you describe a change in plain words and the assistant, Annie, makes it on the score. It works best on clear, well-defined requests, and you should always review the result. Here is what to hand to AI, what to keep doing by hand, and how undo keeps you safe.
Piano finger numbers run from 1 for the thumb to 5 for the pinky, in both hands. They are printed above or below the notes to suggest which finger plays what. Here is how to read them, the patterns they encode, and when it is fine to cross them out and write your own.
The same song can be a gentle melody over single bass notes or a full two-handed arrangement with moving inner voices. This walk-through takes one familiar tune through all five piano cover levels, shows what actually changes at each step, and explains how to choose your level and when to move up.
The same song can be written three common ways: a piano solo that carries the whole song in two hands, a piano + vocal score with the sung melody above the piano, or a lead sheet with just the melody and chord symbols. Which you need depends on who is playing and who is singing. Here is how to choose.
MIDI quantization moves notes onto a rhythmic grid so their timing lines up with the beat. It explains why a MIDI file that sounds perfect can look like a pile of tied 64th notes in notation software, and it is the setting that decides how much of the human feel survives. Here is how it works and when to use it.
A full score shows every instrument at once, but each player needs a part with only their own music. In Songscription, every instrument in a score gets its own linked part automatically. Here is how parts work, what to check before you print, and how to hand each player the right page.
Most tabs for capo songs number the frets from the capo, not the nut, so a 0 means the capo itself. Here is how to read capo-relative tab, how chord shapes relate to the chords that actually sound, and how to convert a tab from one system to the other.
Two scores can contain exactly the same notes and still be very different to read. Music engraving is the craft that decides where every symbol goes on the page. Here is what engravers pay attention to, how to spot good and bad engraving, and why it matters as much as the notes in an AI transcription.
Intermediate is where this whole category quietly stops working, because your constraint stops being instruction and becomes repertoire. A different problem needs a different app.
No. Sixty-one is enough to start and enough for most popular music. The question people should be asking instead is whether their app knows how many keys they actually have.
One of the most requested and least available categories of piano repertoire there is. Learning it is mostly a problem of getting accurate notes, and only then a problem of practicing.
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