Basic workings of musescore

• Mar 3, 2017 - 21:34

Excuse my ignorance in asking such a basic question but If I have an original piano arrangement that
I play/created, how can I use musescore to get it in sheet music form (also pdf). I have listened to many
musescore arrangments but never tried to create/record anything. I assume there is likely more than
one way or one answer but here are some questions;

1) What are the simplest/easiest ways to convert an audio/or video format of a piano song in to
sheet music if I don't have the song transcribe or written down in sheet music? I currently only have
an acoustic upright piano and not a digital so can't connect my piano via Midi or USB to my computer
(although I could possibly borrow someone's digital piano).

2) Can I record myself playing a piano piece on my smart phone or MP3 and send in that audio
to musescore and somehow musescore will convert that to sheet music without connecting my piano via
Midi or USB to my computer or musescore?

3) If I have a digital piano with Midi (or UBS) and have a piano song I want to convert to sheet music,
how would I do that?

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• Mar 3, 2017 - 21:45

Think of MuseScore as being basically like a word processor. You don't create sheet music by taking an audio recording of you playing your piece and "converting" it to notation in MuseScore, any more than you would create a book by taking an audio recording of you reading your book and "converting" it to text in Microsoft Word. Instead, to enter a book into a word processor, you type the words one at a time, and similarly, you type (or otherwise enter one at a time, using the mouse or a MIDI device) the notes of your composition into MuseScore.

To learn how to enter notes into MuseScore, see the Handbook under "Note input" (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/note-input)

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