The vox? Beat? Bass? Rhythm guitar? That will help focus you on what to try and learn first.įor example, if you think of Whitney Houston I will always love you, I bet the vox are what you recall first. I also suggest taking note of what parts of songs you notice first. Tunes you already know (reluctantly!) and that don't have other melodies or instrumentation like the songs you eventually want to play.

Then try a few nursery rhymes, and the happy birthday tune. Start with the peppa pig ditty on whatever instrument you have: keys, guitar, etc. It's not normal to just be able to do that, it's a skill that can be developed. You'll likely need to improve your note/pitch perception enough so you can feel more confident discerning what's the right note and what isn't. So would it be correct to conclude that, unless a song is well known and popular enough to have been transcribed, that what most people do, who probably know music theory orders of magnitude better than I, is just work it out manually every time? I'm curious what is common practice. So, relying on my hearing is, well, a hurdle. Every note I tried on the keyboard, even the correct ones, didn't initially sound right until hearing in context with surrounding notes, which were equally tough to nail down. As an example, for a college electronic music class once, long before the Web was even a thing, I picked a very simple song, Dockland by China Crisis, for the recording project. My problem with working out notes is that, while I can sing in pitch, I can't recognize notes to save my life.

I may have to face reality that the internet doesn't really have everything, or I suck at searching, which is quite possible. Maybe the label got the music to the participants, or maybe they're just real musicians (unlike yours truly), but I'm fairly confident they didn't get the sheet music at the local Guitar Center, or even the web. Another example off the top of my head, a few years back there was a tribute album to the band Frozen Autumn. Similar for Claudia Brücken (just to stick with previous examples), there are a couple of results for Duel by Propaganda, and looking further on one of the pages you can get some chord progressions for a few of her solo songs, but only a few.

Results now, though, for Human League's Don't you Want Me are common, but if I'm interested in Empire State Human, I'm not finding much. It's true, the searches I've done in the past have been a couple or 3 years ago, so maybe things changed.

Propaganda duel midi file