Transcribing a tune

Audacity Help Forum GNU/Linux
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Hello!
New to forum, to Audacity, to sound stuff in general …

I’m teaching myself to play mandolin- I want to take an audio fiddle tune and break it up by phrase so I can learn each phrase on its own. Basicallly I’d like to be able to break a tune into 3-5 seconds segments of my choosing, play a section so I can write it down, then play the next section, etc etc etc

Is Audacity ‘the right tool’ to do this?
What is such a function called in the RTFM so I can read up on it?

thanks

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So you aren’t recording anything after you have the tune in Audacity - just playing it?

You can click and drag a selection in the blue waves. SHIFT-click on the green Play button to loop play that section over and over or just click to play the section once. You may want to label the sections http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/label_tracks.html.

You may want to play the tune more slowly - making speed changes in real time as per Transcription Toolbar (affecting pitch) or with Change Tempo Effect (not affecting pitch).

Where are you writing down - on a manuscript using pen and paper? Audacity does not come with built in scores you can write on. For doing that, you should find a version of your tune in MIDI format and use something like MuseScore.


Gale

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Tip: To make a section repeat over and over, select that section with your mouse, then press shift+spacebar.

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exactly

that may be just the tool I’m after- will let you know :slight_smile:

may come in very handy- thanks

yes- until I find ‘the perfect’ software that will playback Kevin Burke straight into standard notation (better yet, my brain :slight_smile:

thanks again