Hi Sherry,

The above .not file shows the notes of your aire nicely, but does not do justice to your beautiful aire if it is played only through a General MIDI sound card. Anyone looking at this should hear Sherry's GPO (Garritan Personal Orchestra) version of the aire at www.soundclick.com/beanfield_castle.

Your method of getting the notes into Composer is one that almost any Composer user with a MIDI keyboard might find useful. This method emphasizes getting the rhythm of the notes right when you record them, even if you hit the wrong notes. It is a lot easier to fix the pitches of notes if you hit the wrong keys at the right time, than it is to fix the rhythms of the notes if you hit the right keys at the wrong time.

Thanks for submitting your first piece in this Share Your Music section of the forum. I hope to see and hear many more in the future.

Cheers
-- Mark