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Dracius wrote on 2013-02-22 03:12
From scratch, that is.. Not importing a MIDI file and editing it, that's simple (Except for finding a good MIDI)
How the hell do people figure out all this stuff? Especially the note-length, tempo, rests, all that.
Kudos to all the real composers out there, I can never do what you guys do.
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Blassreiter wrote on 2013-02-22 04:17
I find it hard to figure the correct tempo for songs (i.e.
Cobh's tempo, yes I attempted to try to create it but not much free time anymore and I can't hit the right tempo). Getting the notes is easy but the co-ordination of each chord and the tempo and length of the notes is the hard part. It would be easier if we can set a time signature instead.
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Dracius wrote on 2013-02-22 22:37
Quote from Blassreiter;1037219:
I find it hard to figure the correct tempo for songs (i.e. Cobh's tempo, yes I attempted to try to create it but not much free time anymore and I can't hit the right tempo). Getting the notes is easy but the co-ordination of each chord and the tempo and length of the notes is the hard part. It would be easier if we can set a time signature instead.
Cobh is insanely difficult for me.
I used an Mp3 -> MIDI converter, and it set the tempo at a manic 240.
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BananaFort wrote on 2013-02-27 19:43
If you want to get the tempo of any song, go here:
http://www.all8.com/tools/bpm.htm
and tap your spacebar to the beat. Look at the average tempo after about a minute of that, then round to the nearest whole number.
Then just stick that in the beginning of your song. Cobh's BPM is 120, so you'd put T120 at the start of track 1.
In my experience, importing a MIDI won't import the tempo unless you import the entire song (which you generally don't want to do as it'll import things like drums which don't sound good on a Mabi instrument) so you'd have to do this regardless of how you start a song.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-02-27 19:46
Another thing you could do if you don't mind a bid of experimentation is use 3mle and just keep playing the song with various tempos until it sounds right. You'll eventually hit the correct tempo sooner or later.
From scratch though, ya, I'm not very musically inclined :(
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Paradise wrote on 2013-02-28 13:05
PRO tip:
Use guitar pro to compose songs > export to midi> import midi on 3MLE>Fix some details> Done
i like GP cause it uses music sheet format
But i do use 3MLE from scratch sometimes as well
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Kouki wrote on 2013-04-03 16:55
If you study music theory and know the MML language, it's actually not that difficult to type it from scratch. Of course I would not compose anything advanced that way, but I can do some basic melodies just typing. (assuming I know or memorized the sheet music)
The length of the note is determined by the number, so "a1" is like a whole note of A.
R is for rest, which can also have number after it.
T is for tempo, and V is for volume, both usually would be written first unless it also changes later on.
You can also change the octave with O or < or >