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doc:piano_notation_from_midi [2025/09/22 14:47]
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doc:piano_notation_from_midi [2025/09/22 15:26] (current)
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| We'll start with "[[https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=889|The Water of Tyne]]" from the [[https://www.mutopiaproject.org|Mutopia project]]. You can download the MIDI file and the score from here: | We'll start with "[[https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=889|The Water of Tyne]]" from the [[https://www.mutopiaproject.org|Mutopia project]]. You can download the MIDI file and the score from here: |
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| * {{:doc:wateroftyne.mid|wateroftyne.mid}} | * <del>{{:doc:wateroftyne.mid|wateroftyne.mid}}</del> (broken for now, use the next one) |
| | * https://rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/piano/data/wateroftyne.mid |
| * {{:doc:wateroftyne-let.pdf|wateroftyne-let.pdf}} | * {{:doc:wateroftyne-let.pdf|wateroftyne-let.pdf}} |
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| They should be quarter-eighth-quarter. Press Y 4 to switch to rest drawing mode and quarter note. Note that the tool has switched from Arrow (select and edit) to pencil (draw). Click on the dotted quarter rest and you will have quarter-eighth-eighth-eighth rests. Click on the second eighth rest and you should have quarter-eighth-quarter which matches the score. | They should be quarter-eighth-quarter. Press Y 4 to switch to rest drawing mode and quarter note. Note that the tool has switched from Arrow (select and edit) to pencil (draw). Click on the dotted quarter rest and you will have quarter-eighth-eighth-eighth rests. Click on the second eighth rest and you should have quarter-eighth-quarter which matches the score. |
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| In bar 4, the two sixteenth notes are not beamed and they need a phrase mark. | In bar 4, the two sixteenth notes are not beamed and they need a slur. |
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| {{:doc:pnfm-notation-06.png}} | {{:doc:pnfm-notation-06.png}} |
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| Switch back to the arrow tool by pressing F2. Select the two notes by dragging the selection rectangle over them, and press Ctrl+B to beam and Ctrl+Shift+0 (aka Ctrl+) ) to add a phrase mark. | Switch back to the arrow tool by pressing F2. Select the two notes by dragging the selection rectangle over them, and press Ctrl+B to beam and ")" to add a slur. |
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| Repeat this for the sixteenths in bars 6 and 8. | Repeat this for the sixteenths in bars 6 and 8. |
