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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by zeppy5d@pawb.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'm kind of training myself to transcribe music (and learning musical notation in the way) so I've wanted to learn all that by transcribing a pop song. (Also, i'm doing this because of a karaoke project i want to make)

The problem is, i'm at the chorus and idk how it should be transcribed, should i use slurs at the "healthy, not me" or are these glissandos? Also, are grace notes ok in this part?

Since i can't upload audio, let me say that the source of the transcription is the chorus of "good 4 u" by Olivia Rodrigo

Any other tips are welcome too

[EDIT] Yeah i know it's missing a note in "Not" in the first picture... It should be making the glissando to the next note... I'll add it if needed

[EDIT 2] Maybe i can send a better reference of what i want to transcribe... Here's some gameplay of Rock Band which transcribes the vocals i want into a MIDI of some sort

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[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Glissandos should be fine to indicate a vocal swoop I think. Slurs would usually indicate no break between the notes, rather than a swooping of pitch between the two.

[-] zeppy5d@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

Well there's a swoop thing in the backing vocals of the chorus (which i haven't started transcribing yet bc i'm still doing lead). There's some back vocals going "Ah ah ah" and then swoop up at the end of the chorus. The problem would be, how should i notate that if the ending note is not definite?

Back to the lead vocals, I think this is not the case so i think i'll want to use the slurs. What i'm still not sure is of the use of the grace notes... i can send a video as a noting reference if it works, hold on i'm editing the main post

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

You could probably leave off the ending note if the glissando to indicate indefinite final pitch. A lot of this stuff doesn't have only one right answer, there are a couple different ways you could tackle it.

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