music search

[eliyes]

I wish there was something like Google where, instead of words, you could input a phrase of musical notes and find out what songs they might be from. I've never been good at sight-reading -- I basically have to learn a piece by ear while looking at the page(s) to really get what they mean, something not even 13 years in choir and almost 6 in band cured me of -- and so when I see musical notation in, for example, a comic book, I can't recognise what I'm seeing. I mean, I know sometimes it's probably not from an actual music piece, especially if it's scattered notes or something Piper is using to stop a train. But sometimes it's semi-obvious that the reader is supposed to get something from the music notation, and it would be nice to have some way of looking it up.

So get on that, Internet. (If "there's an app for that", feel free to tell me. Just because I don't like Apple doesn't mean I don't own any.)

Comments

[kermitdef.livejournal.com]

Not only is there an app for that, but it was featured in an apple commercial long ago. There's even a free version now that works just fine. You can even play you own playlist with it and it will look up the lyrics for you, which is a good cure for commonmislyriccossis. I'm sure by now you want me to stop jibbering and give you the name of said app... Ok then. Fine. Here it is. It's called SoundHound. Aaaand, can be found here, linky linky; https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/soundhound/id355554941?mt=8

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

We discussed this in person over lunch, but to reiterate: this sounds cool and useful, but isn't what I meant, alas.

[kermitdef.livejournal.com]

Well I've found ones that you can make notations on, and it'll play back what you wrote with some crappy synth from the app, but alas, the 1st app and those can't interact...maybe a pc based program can be found to input notes can be found, and then use SoundHound on it. I shall investigate more in my free time...cause now I am les interested.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Well, I wasn't really expecting an answer at all, so you've already gone above and beyond. XD

[kermitdef.livejournal.com]

Here we go. There's a free and simple to use music writing pc program called Finale Notepad which can be found at http://www.finalemusic.com. So you can pop the notes you want to hear in there manually, and play it back, and if it doesn't seem familiar then, then you can try playing it back with SoundHound listening in.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thank you!