About Notation Musician

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Notation Musician is the first member in the Notation product line above the free Notation Player version. Notation Musician adds to Notation Player many features that offer more musical enjoyment, educational value, and practical uses.

The primary purposes of Notation Musician are summarized below. For a tabular comparison of features in Notation Musician and Notation Player, see Comparison of Notation Products.

B846        indicates a feature or purpose shared by both Notation Musician and Notation Player

ArrowBullet        indicates a feature or purpose included in Notation Musician but not Notation Player

Have more fun listening to music

B846Download any of 100,000s of MIDI files on the Internet. Notation Musician converts MIDI files to sheet music with amazing accuracy. smallbullet5x12
B846Watch the notes on the screen as they play. Hear and see the score as a conductor does.
ArrowBulletSlow down the tempo for closer listening.

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ArrowBulletIncrease the volume for a selected instrument so that you can focus your listening on that instrument. smallbullet5x12
B846Improve your listening skills, and enhance your enjoyment of music with an exciting new visual dimension: the music notation.

Practice singing or playing your instrument

ArrowBulletPlay along with your acoustic instrument, or sing along, as you read the notes from your part from the screen. smallbullet5x12
ArrowBulletLet Notation Musician play the accompaniment for other instruments. smallbullet5x12
ArrowBulletTranspose the music for your instrument or voice range.
ArrowBulletSlow down the tempo when you are first learning the music. smallbullet5x12
B846Let Notation automatically turn pages for you. smallbullet5x12
ArrowBulletSet up practice loops for any range of measures, for any number of repeats, with optionally increasing tempo.

Save money on sheet music

B846Convert to sheet music any of 100,000s of MIDI files on the Internet. smallbullet5x12
ArrowBulletCorrect errors that Notation might make transcribing the MIDI file to sheet music, such as enharmonic spelling errors (eg, C# versus Db).
ArrowBulletAdd a wide variety of music annotations, such as: accent marks, dynamic marks, hairpin crescendos, slurs (phrase marks), sustain pedal marks, 8va (octave) marks, such as shown below:

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ArrowBulletEditng the beaming of notes.
ArrowBulletConvert written-out graces, trills and tremolos to notated ornaments, such as illustrated below:

OrnamentConvertIllustration

ArrowBulletAnnotate the score with free text, such as for tempo marks:

TempoMark

ArrowBulletAdd page titles, headers, and footers.

PageTextExample

ArrowBulletFor the voice, easily merge lyrics and the melody, or add and edit lyrics. smallbullet5x12

LyricsMultipleVerses

ArrowBulletFor the piano, split a MIDI keyboard track into right- and left-hand staves. With a single command, prepare a piano reduction of a instrumental or choir score. smallbullet5x12
ArrowBulletFor the guitar, autoharp, and piano, rearrange the score into a "fake book" with chord names, Musician analyzes the harmony of the music and displays chord names, such as C7 and Gm9.

FakeBookChords

ArrowBulletFor drums, split General MIDI (GM) drum tracks into a separate 1-line staff per each distinct drum instrument. Assign drum symbols to noteheads:

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ArrowBulletFor a wind or brass instrument, transpose according to the key of the instrument. View and print the conductor's score in concert pitch or transposed instrument pitches.
ArrowBulletControl the format and pagination of the score, such as the location of page breaks and system breaks.

Learn music notation

B846Learn to read music notation by seeing the notes as they play for songs you are familiar with. It is like learning a foreign language by having someone point to things and saying their names You will soon start associating in your mind the music notation that corresponds to notes that you hear. smallbullet5x12
ArrowBulletSlow down the tempo, even as little as one tenth of the normal playback speed, so that you can better see and hear what notes are being played. smallbullet5x12
ArrowBulletPrepare 'Easy Note' parts for student musicians, which look like this:

EasyNotes

ArrowBulletRefer to Musician's User's Guide for explanations of more advanced music symbols. smallbullet5x12
ArrowBulletUse Musician as a tool to learn music notation as you are also studying music with a teacher or friend.

 

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