I see a few threads asking how to transpose a given tune.
I use a shortcut, badly needed since I started learning to read music together with buying my 1st instrument, a few months ago. This, thanks to a link in Shaw’ site http://www.shaw-whistles.co.uk/.
It relates to Melody Assistant myriad-online.com, a shareware for writing music, and much more–arrangements, gregorian chant, string chords–. It is a shareware ($ 15) for Windows AND Mac. The “Demo” version is fully functional, except it does not allow any other key than C, and rythmic but 4/4, and the printed sheets are marred with an obtrusive “watermark”.
Type down any music ; then just ask “fast Transpose”, and it will do it. So I type down whatever score I have, typically in D or G, transpose it to another key, print it out and voilà !
The best is if sheet music doesn’t “sing” to you, the software will actually play it (the standard sampling for “Low whistle” sound is just as bad as “Piccolo”) or even sing it if you got the words.
Also, since the demo version is free, you can e-mail scores to anyone, and the written version of a tune gives a way more compact file than .mp3.
Guitar players will love the automatic chords (tablatures ?) feature.
What would be nice now, is someone MIDI-savvy enough around here to provide the program with real whistle/low-whistle sound samples.
[ This Message was edited by: Zubivka on 2002-09-30 13:19 ]
[ This Message was edited by: Zubivka on 2002-09-30 13:19 ]