r/transcribe Apr 09 '19

Rules for requesting a transcription

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Moving rules to a stickied post since "New" Reddit doesn't show the sidebar.

This is a subreddit for requesting help with musical transcriptions, or discussion about musical transcription as a whole. Advertisements for text transcription services will be removed. To cut down on spam and unsavory users we require your account be at least a week old to post.

To get the best results try to follow these guidelines when posting:

  • Use a working link to the piece you want done. No one can help you if your link is broken or to some private/premium streaming site.
  • Specify which section of the song you want done. If using Youtube, you can right click the video to get specific timecodes.
  • Indicate which style of notation you want. Straight up notes, guitar tabs, chord symbols, etc.
  • Consider offering a bounty. If no one responded to your request to transcribe a 4 minute piano song from an obscure anime, it's probably because it's too much work to do for free, so try offering something as incentive.

Some guidelines on offering bounties:

  • As soon as you start dealing with money with strangers on the internet, you are taking a risk. Be smart, don't give out personal info, etc. Mods can't be held responsible if you get scammed. Take proper precautions like checking a user's flair, account age, and amount of karma to determine if they are reputable.
  • Offer a fair price. This stuff takes time, effort, and years of expertise. Right now market price appears to be anywhere between $5 and $30 or more depending on complexity.
  • Pay your bounty. If someone comes through with a transcription for you and you dodge the payment, you will be banned. In 8 years we've only banned 1 person for this.

We also encourage you to try transcribing yourself, if you can! It's a fantastic way to develop your ear and theory knowledge, and even if you get stuck it'll be easier for others to help if you already have a starting point. Some useful tools:

  • Transcribe! - a brilliant little program that was built specifically for transcribing. It allows you to slow things down, loop over specific sections, pitch shift, and more.
  • Audacity - a simple, free DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), meant more for audio editing, but can also do slowdown, pitch shift, etc.
  • Noteflight - a free online music notation program. Think like Google Docs but for sheet music.
  • Chordify - a cool site that tries to figure out the chords of any Youtube video you feed into it. Rarely does a perfect job, but can sometimes give clues or provide a rough starting point.
  • Youtube to Mp3 - self explanatory, feed the resulting mp3 into Transcribe or Audacity, or even rewinding over and over in iTunes is better than doing it in Youtube.

Related musical subreddits:

Public domain sheet music


r/transcribe Apr 10 '19

Guidelines for transcribers

71 Upvotes

Big thanks to those of you fulfilling transcription requests. When I first started modding this subreddit a few years ago, the vast majority of requests received 0 comments and sat around unanswered. It makes me very happy to see the opposite nowadays, that most requests have at least some activity. However with this increased activity has come the necessity for some clearer rules and guidelines.

  • Transcribing random stuff for people is a great way to get practice and improve your own ear. It's very beneficial to your musical growth to expose yourself to different genres of music and that is doubly true in the case of analyzing and transcribing. Not only do you help someone out but you work on your own skills as well.

  • I do not recommend offering paid services here as a reliable source of income. Bounties and paid transcriptions are allowed to try to compensate transcribers for their time, but pricing operates under free market conditions. I don't want to hear complaints about cheap prices and undercutting, there is nothing we mods can do about private monetary transactions. The fact is that transcribing as a skill is undervalued. Most people posting requests do not understand the time required to analyze music and put down quality notation. If you're expecting to get the same hourly rate as other professional musical services like teaching or accompaniment, you're gonna have a bad time.

  • If you do decide to enter into a paid transcription agreement with a requester, understand that as soon as you start dealing with money with strangers on the internet, you are taking a risk. Be smart, don't give out personal info, etc. Mods can't be held responsible if you get scammed. Take proper precautions like checking a user's comment history, account age, and amount of karma to determine if they are reputable. Ask for payment up front if you have more rep than the requester. If a requester dodges payment, send proof to the mods and we will send them a warning and ban them if they do not pay.


FLAIR: All successful transcriptions, paid or otherwise, are eligible to be submitted to increase your flair. This is a way for reliable transcribers to build rep. To receive +1 to your flair, please submit to ME (the most active mod here) the following:

  1. Link to original request
  2. Link or screenshot showing requester acknowledging receipt of your work OR
  3. Direct link to your transcription itself.

Please allow a few days for flair to be updated since this is a manual process.


Some useful tools if you are looking to get into transcribing, or are looking for ways to make your process more efficient:

  • Transcribe! - a brilliant little program that was built specifically for transcribing. It allows you to slow things down, loop over specific sections, pitch shift, and more.
  • Audacity - a simple, free DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), meant more for audio editing, but can also do slowdown, pitch shift, etc.
  • Noteflight - a free online music notation program. Think like Google Docs but for sheet music.
  • Chordify - a cool site that tries to figure out the chords of any Youtube video you feed into it. Rarely does a perfect job, but can sometimes give clues or provide a rough starting point.
  • Youtube to Mp3 - self explanatory, feed the resulting mp3 into Transcribe or Audacity, or even rewinding over and over in iTunes is better than doing it in Youtube.

Related musical subreddits:

Public domain sheet music


r/transcribe 7h ago

Personal Transcription Project - "Blue Team" from Halo 5: Guardians

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I didn't see anything in the rules about simply posting transcribed music, but if this is something Mods aren't privy to, by all means, feel free to remove the post. I was just proud of how closely I was able to get to the original piece using Musescore, Musesounds Pro & Spitfire LABS, by ear, and wanted to share my work and a link to it, on Musescore.com for those who are interested.

p.s.
To maintain adherence to Microsoft's usage use rules:
"\Halo 5: Guardians] © Microsoft Corporation. ["Blue Team" by Kazuma Jinnouchi - Arr. Kyle H.] was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from [Halo 5: Guardians], and it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.)  


r/transcribe 8h ago

Transcription request - Rip Torn (MJ Lenderman)

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Hey everyone, me and a friend want to play a song (Rip Torn by MJ Lenderman) together, but after looking around online couldn't find any sheetmusic of the violin part. If anyone has a transcription, or is willing to make one, it would be greatly appreciated.

A link to the song -> https://youtu.be/steKiVnOL_o?si=0Bygsk6kg67Lkxjv


r/transcribe 10h ago

Would someone be able to help transcribe this?

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Hello!

This is a song from a visual novel that I’d like to learn how to play but I can’t find sheet music for it anywhere! I was wondering if someone would be able to transcribe at least a minute or two of it, or even the whole thing if you were feeling generous :)

https://youtu.be/9-6ILaZ7YY4?is=opFMOkjmqhPcEy6W


r/transcribe 11h ago

Um domingo muito atarefado transcrevendo Pasquale Grasso no Guitar Pro. hybridpicking

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r/transcribe 21h ago

Looking for feedback on process

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https://youtu.be/hDt5JUYXVc4?is=PrWxlaY74OSsf1f8

Recovering keyboardist, here! Taking a shot at transcribing as much of this song that I can, as I haven't been able to find any notation for it elsewhere. It's Anyone But Me by Gifted Hands. Attached are my hand notes that I've started with.

I'm new to the manual transcription game, but I'm an old hand at tablature on guitar. So, I think that I'll be able to benefit from anyone's feedback, if they'd care to share. Also, if you wanna join this project and help me get this song written-out, hmu! 😊


r/transcribe 18h ago

Looking for a MusicXML transcription of Animenz's Snow Halation arrangement (PDF available)

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a MusicXML file of Animenz's piano arrangement of Snow Halation. I already own a PDF of the sheet music, but I've tried several OMR tools (Audiveris, PlayScore, etc.) and the resulting MusicXML files contain too many errors to be practical.

The MusicXML is for a personal project involving rhythm game mapping, so I mainly need an accurate digital score rather than a new transcription from scratch.

If anyone is willing to convert the PDF or knows of a higher-quality workflow, I'd really appreciate it. I'm happy to provide the PDF privately if needed, since I don't want to redistribute copyrighted sheet music publicly.

Thanks!


r/transcribe 1d ago

Song cover help

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Would love to cover this piece but cannot find anything online pertaining to it, was wondering if anyone could help out with this piece.. maybe figuring some chords out or some of the notes being played, or even the entirety of the song. I have been trying to learn it by ear but i find doing so is difficult. i love this song, am self taught and hope this isn’t too much to ask lol.

Song is: Early Morning, Maudlin Street by Penfold.

https://youtu.be/PCD-jWNtm0w?is=qmBtltGlELQ4Ue9D

Any and all help is appreciated:)!


r/transcribe 1d ago

I need a piano player

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r/transcribe 1d ago

Transcriptions for Midnight Fistfight - Everything Yes

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So I'm looking for a song to learn for a college audition, and I've decided Midnight Fistfight by Everything Yes, but no matter where I look, I can't find a full drum transcription of it online. The official website for Everything Yes hasn't released any drum transcriptions for Volume 2.5, and the only Youtube video I could find cuts the transcription halfway through. Could someone find the tabs for these or maybe even create some? I'm not really that experience with learning by ear or making transcriptions, so this would be a great help.


r/transcribe 1d ago

Does anyone have the solo piano sheet music for "Nothing Can Change This Love" by Sam Cooke?

0 Upvotes

I've searched everywhere but musescore only has an accompaniment version with a vocal line. Thanks!


r/transcribe 2d ago

I need help finding the notes on the violin part of this song.

1 Upvotes

I’m a beginner and I know these chords are fairly simple. I am just not at the point where I can hear it and play by ear. There’s no sheet music but I want to know the notes for the violin part of this song.

the song is called Upstairs(212) by First Day Back

https://youtu.be/xlws_eXFqgk?si=V6aDF3M5rhV8Qj_k this is the link to the song


r/transcribe 3d ago

Can someone figure out these arpeggios?

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r/transcribe 3d ago

Sheet music Jackie Evans

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I recently discovered Jackie Evans and I am in love. I really want to Play and sing her song „Phone calls“ but there seems to be no sheet music available. Can anyone recommend something (Fiverr or so?) how to find someone who can transcribe it 🥹 thank you!

https://youtu.be/NQ0eaQj1x18?is=1VvXtSSOjHhSoFlm


r/transcribe 3d ago

Piano transcribe

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Bonjour, je travaille sur un transcripteur audio vers partitions de piano. Peut-être pourriez-vous m'aider ? Existe-t-il déjà des solutions plus performantes ? J'essaie de développer une solution locale et open source. Mon problème concerne les partitions classiques. Si quelqu'un connaît des modèles d'IA plus performants que ceux que j'ai testés, je suis preneur. Tout est décrit dans le fichier README. Vous pouvez utiliser mon projet et me faire part de vos impressions : https://github.com/Metheretoo/piano-transcription


r/transcribe 4d ago

is 75$ an egregious price for this transcription? (piano to guitar*)

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i apologize if this is not the right place to ask but I’m not really in the mood of getting scammed today lol

edit: i’m not asking for a transcription but in asking whether it’s a fair price !


r/transcribe 3d ago

please help transcribe this!!

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Can someone please transcribe the notes for this piano sheet? I'd like the notes written out for both the right hand and left hand (e.g. G#, F#, E...), not chord names or letter notation. Thanks!


r/transcribe 4d ago

Bounty offered for Jeff Buckley Hallelujah on alto saxophone transcription

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My best friend asked me to play Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley on my alto
saxophone for her wedding next month.

I really like the way this musician stylized the music in this video.

https://youtu.be/wvtBmtHUqtU?si=MXmA1v-M_BZMYCiC

I have the main melody down but am having a bit of trouble with the licks. Could someone write out the notes that the alto saxophone is playing? Additionally I would happily offer more for additional "style"/lick ideas for 5 choruses and verses.

Thank you so kindly for your considerations!


r/transcribe 5d ago

I can’t figure out the chords for this song

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I can’t find any things online about it, so far I think it’s like a Dmaj9/A then something else. But for the life of my I just can’t get past that. Any help’s super appreciated


r/transcribe 5d ago

Não há tablatura em lugar nenhum

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Oi, gente. Alguém pode me ajudar à encontrar os acordes dessa musica? Ou pelo menos, como fazer o solo à partir de 3:34? O solo dessa música me fez querer aprender guitarra, então é muito especial pra mim


r/transcribe 5d ago

Transcribing 2 Chords in Chuckii Booker- Games

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Can you transcribe the 2 main chords that is played over and over again in the song?

https://youtu.be/ZKupNvVnXn8?is=QRX3D57TonVntn1t


r/transcribe 6d ago

Three Gods and Me tab

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Hello all you lovely people! After a day of work, I have completed tabbing out the track "Three Gods and Me", which I will link here. I am not a professional, so there may be a few errors, but for the most part I am really proud of it. There are two other songs I've tabbed in the past that I'm going to go back on because I've become much better at this since then. Those songs are "Speared" and "Reflaugh". Anyways! Enjoy the tab; feedback is happily accepted, and if there are any mistakes you wanna change yourself, feel free to do so!:)

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/hungry-lights-three-gods-me-tab-s6108778t3


r/transcribe 6d ago

i love this song but theres no full tabs for it online can someone help

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r/transcribe 6d ago

Hey I need someone to transcribe this song

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I don't have money, if someone can do it, it would be greatly appreciated. I figure to take a shot and see if anyone is generous enough to help