Explore Songscription's guides to music transcription, sheet music, MIDI, piano roll, and AI-powered music learning, plus product updates and company announcements from the Songscription team.
Leveling is the quiet work behind every well-chosen lesson piece: matching the difficulty of the notation to the player in front of you. Here's what leveling means in practice, how it fits lesson planning, and how to do it without rewriting scores by hand.
Sometimes the sound in your head is already in a record you love. Audio-to-MIDI lets you pull the notes out of that record and play them back through your own instruments. Here's how producers use it to rebuild a part, swap the sound, and make it theirs.
Drum transcription is its own beast: no pitch to track, just hits, timing, and which piece of the kit. AI can map a groove to notation faster than counting it out by ear. Here's how it works, what to expect, and where you'll still want to check the result.
A full band recording is the hardest thing to transcribe: several instruments competing in the same space. The trick is to stop treating it as one job. Here's how to transcribe a band one instrument at a time, and when a piano arrangement of the whole thing is the smarter move.
Jazz piano hides its secrets in the voicings. Working out a pianist's chords by ear can take hours, and you still miss the inner voices. Here's how to use AI transcription to get the notes down, then read the harmony back as chords you can study.
The bass line is the part you feel more than hear, which makes it tricky to transcribe by ear. AI handles low single-note lines well. Here's how to pull a clean bass transcription from a recording and turn it into tab or notation.
A lead sheet is the fastest way to capture a song: melody on top, chords above it, nothing else. Working one out by ear is a real skill. Here's how to get a lead sheet from a recording with AI, and how to clean it into something a band can read.
Ableton Live is built for working with MIDI and audio, not for working out what's in a recording. Songscription fills that gap. Here's how to turn a track into MIDI or notation and drop it cleanly into a Live set.
GarageBand is where a lot of musicians start, and it plays nicely with MIDI once you know the steps. Songscription turns any recording into MIDI you can drop into a project. Here's how to connect the two.
Most composers live in two worlds: a DAW for sound and a notation editor for the page. Moving ideas between them is where time disappears. Here's how AI transcription bridges audio, MIDI, and notation so the work flows in one direction.
MuseScore is the free notation editor most people reach for, and it opens Songscription's exports directly. Here's exactly how to bring a transcription in, which format to use, and what to check first so the score lands clean.
MusicXML is the format that lets a score move between notation programs that otherwise can't read each other's files. Here's how to open one in MuseScore, Sibelius, and Finale, and what to expect when it lands.
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