tools for transcribing a song

[michaelstalios]

What tools do you use to transcribe a song?

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I take a lot of the songs from live versions off youtube because they usually have more improvisational and solo stuff. I use the Video Downloadhelper extension for Firefox to download the video to my Mac. Then I drag it into a Transcribe! by Seventhstring. Transcribe! lets you slow down the song, loop sections, and even provides note guesses. You can’t really rely on the note guesses but with the slow down and looping this is a great tool. I use Sibelius to do the transcriptions.

I use an app called Mac X Video Converter Pro. If you pay for full version, you would be able to download long videos such as movies, but I use free version that allows me to download al least those two videos. Then I listen to them on an app called Amazing Slow Downer which I’ve been using for transcribing