When I was thinking over the problem of words-matching-music, I decided it’d be great if I could learn how to notate music. And doubly so if I could do it while I was at work. One google search later, I was on the homepage of Noteflight.
There’s a free version of the site (which I’m currently using) and a more robust, super-cool looking paid version. I’m thinking of investing in the paid version, but it’s still too early to tell whether I’d make good enough use of the features. A basic breakdown of what I dig about the service:
-You can input anything you’d see on a score. I don’t know what a fermata sounds like, but it’s in there.
-You can input your lyrics below the music, too
-Files can be private or shared
-You can output the files in MIDI.
That last one is a HUGE one. If I can learn enough about how to write my ideas down, I could export the parts right into Garageband, and that’s all kinds of exciting. The biggest downside to the program is that the input is difficult. It’s easy to add a note, but that note replaces the following beats in the score, which screws me up. Finally, because the program is geared towards people who know exactly what they’re doing, it’d help to be more music-literate (my fault, not theirs).
In short: if you read music and could use a tool to keep track of notation and share it among others, Noteflight is something worth looking into. I’m very interested in how the ‘pro’ version works. If you’re interested in seeing what it’s like, there’s the aforementioned free version and also a working demo (no signup required) here.
Though this is a little messy and hard to do.
(Jeff Buckley - Night Flight [Led Zep Cover])
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