Steps to convert piano clefs into guitar clef and transpose key

mcleanblades

• Oct 21, 2023 - 03:37

Hello.

I've always loved the Theme Song to Sailor Moon.

I purchased the score on Ebay. The key is B flat.

I play classical guitar - and I think I've never site read a medium level piece in B flat.

I want to:

Import the 2 clef easy piano score into a single clef guitar score.
Bring the base clef up an octave
Transpose the music into a guitar friendly key: Maybe E,D,A or G.
Manually tweak the music to remove outlier and duplicate notes.

Could someone point me to a few YouTube videos which would get me started?

I wanna start with #1 first.

Thanks.

Comments

bobjp

• Oct 21, 2023 - 04:07

I would suggest spending some time in the manual. It's all there.

HildeK

• Oct 21, 2023 - 09:16

I don't know a video. There will hardly be one that covers your exact problem. But the necessary steps are easy.

> I purchased the score on Ebay.
In paper form? Then transcribe it into MuseScore. Or as a PDF - then you can use the import function. But beware: this doesn't work perfectly ... It's best to transcribe it manually for a piano as it is written.
Now you have a piano score. Then the next steps are:

Add with 'i' a guitar staff to the score
Select all notes of the bass clef and use Ctrl+ArrowUp to move them an octave up
Select all treble and bass notes of the piano and use "Tools/Implode"
Copy the notes of the new piano treble clef to you guitar
Use "Tools/Transpose" to change into the desired key signature

I've mentioned some keywords, you can find details in the manual.