hmm

[super_kick08]

this is for my friend...and ive been wondering two..whats a good program called that you can take a song and play it through there and it'll write out the parts for you..im not sure if they even exist..i heard they do...but if they do can you all help me and him out?
sorry im fairly new here

[slpntrx5]

i think you guys are being lied to. the closest thing ive heard of is just slowing down a song and picking it out yourself. or you could just buy the fake books...

[HAZCHEM]

If you could write a program that would do that you would be a very rich man indeed... or you'd get riped of by some Bill Gates type :p

[miku]

There exist programs that do that, but they do it very poorly. The human ear is vastly superior, you just need to train your ear not to be deaf to music. Once you do that, not only will you be able to play by ear (which for some reason is seen as an incredible ability.. it really isn't), but you'll also enjoy good music a lot more.

Why do you think you can hum the melodies of your favorite songs to yourself? It's because you have the basic human ability to 'play by ear.' You just need to do two things to further develop this ability:

#1. Practice listening to chords and harmony and listening to the notes other than the top note. It's not that you can't hear those notes, it's that you're not paying attention to and recognizing them. It's like you have a painting in front of you, and it's got some various swirls of colors but right near the top middle of the canvas is a naked woman. This naked woman represents the top note of a chord / melody of a piece of music. Pay attention to the other stuff on the canvas too, eventually you'll be able to notice everything that's there.

#2. Intervals. Learn the names of the intervals and practice them so that you can name them by ear, and produce them given an interval name. Practice playing simple pieces of music by ear. Get a feel for intervals and chords.

You're on your way to understanding what you hear as well as just simply enjoying it.


P.S. Of course, some things can be extra difficult to play by ear. Take the weird atonal arpeggio riff in Dream Theater's 'Dance of Eternity' for example. For these sort of things, often you'll find you need to slow the recording down.
But Greenday's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"? Anyone with a somewhat developed ear should be able to play something this simple by ear with ease.

[super_kick08]

alright thanks guys i appreciate it

[Britton]

I love mx for tis reason