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⌈ Secret Post #2701 ⌋

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[The Almighty Johnsons]

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[X-Men Evolution]

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[The Dreaming Machine]

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[Parasol Protectorate]

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[Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Interview with the Vampire]

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[Marvel Disc Wars: The Avengers]

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[Orphan Black]

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[Team Fortress 2]

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[Severus Snape, Gerard Way]

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[Neil Patrick Harris/Ramin Karimloo (Les Misérables/Hedwig and the Angry Inch)]

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[Gakuen babysitters]

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[The Walking Dead Game]

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[Billie Piper, Penny Dreadful]

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[Sherlock]

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So F!S I've been curious to know if any of you can listen to a piece of music, probably slowly enough or bits at a time, and determine what the notes of the music are. I'm not incredibly musically inclined, I can only really play songs single notes at a time on a guitar, but I've always kind of wanted to know how people like my music teacher were able to listen to a song and be able to come up with approximation sheet music, essentially. Any techniques or sites where I can learn this would be really helpful.

If you can already read music, start by memorizing any one pitch, doesn't matter what--if you can always sing a certain song dead on key, find out what the starting note is and that's your touchstone. After that, start learning how to recognize different intervals. That way, you can hear a song, say to yourself "Oh, that's a perfect 5th up from the start note for XXX song, it's totally an A" and you're fairly good to go from there.

If you don't care about it being accurate for key, you can skip the first step and just really double down on the interval bit. You're going to need a fairly solid grounding in how sheet music works though, and I don't have any websites for you since I actually took this in college so we got real textbooks and some half-assed training. Even then, it was pretty much *prof plays chord on piano* "Okay, what was that?"

I've got absolute pitch so I can't really help. Perhaps your teacher's got it too? I think it's possible for classically trained musicians (I'm a professional) to develop an ability that strongly ressemble absolute pitch.

Practice. I learned musical theory, and from the beginning they would make us do music dictation, where the teacher would play notes and we had to write them by ear.
We started easy, and then moved to chords and more complicated things. A good chunk of it is training your ear to recognize notes and being able to translate that into writing, that's all. You learn how different types of scales and chords sound.

Like flip said, a large part of it for me is having all the pitches in your head and knowing your basic intervals. Also general knowledge of different keys helps because then you can start predicting what notes are going to come next, even if you're not very familiar with a piece.

But yeah, I play both piano and trumpet, and it's a lot easier to figure out specific notes for a song on the piano. Probably because it's all visually laid out.

I've always kind of wanted to know how people like my music teacher were able to listen to a song and be able to come up with approximation sheet music

I can only really play songs single notes at a time on a guitar

That.

Listen.
Imitate.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
As many times as needed.

Kids (and young adults) who have never had any kind of music theory or music background are able to put together whole arrangements in Mario Paint Composer. Like others said, it takes practice. Definitely a whole lot of listening.

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