I found a solo piece for flute that I love. But I can’t follow the notes on You Tube. Is there a computer program that I could attach or forward the piece to a computer program and then have it print out the notation??? It wound be great if there was such a program.
Your best bet is to post the link and someone might be able to identify the tune and point you to the notes.
you could experiment with TunePal.org? That might well identify the tune if its traditional and exists somewhere in an online ABC archive. Once you have the ABCs (and if it’s not on thesession.org) you could then use the Tune-a-Tron on Concertina.net to get standard dots. But like Mike says… maybe just post the link to YouTube and see if someone here can tell you what it is?
I’ve no real experience with it, but I believe recent versions of Sibelius can generate notation from a recording (maybe?) - but you are talking seriously expensive professional specialist software there (unless you can get it through an educational institution)… I don’t think anything else can do that. Advice already given here is good. Tell us what the piece is/link the YouTube clip for us… then we may be more help.
The piece on You Tube is called Highland Heather by Jan Seiden. And it starts at 3:25. I have the same double E flute but I’m sure it could be played on a low and high D whistle.
[ Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmrnUDIYsao - Mod. ]
On *nix (GNU/Linux, for me), there’s a tool available called Scolily (description in French) that generates notation from sound - the Ubuntu version offers Lilypond, ABC and MIDI export. The results will need a lot of working over (if you don’t get the speed exactly right, that is), but it definitely works.
M.