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Friday, June 17, 2005

Here’s another look at the opening sounds to “Zen” from John Cale’s Hobo Sapiens. This view was created with a program called Transcribe! (with the “bang,” as computer nerds call an exclamation mark). It’s sold by Seventh String Software and is a tool to assist transcribing music from .WAV files. Just above the piano keyboard, you can see the software’s best guess at what notes are being played by means of spectral analysis. The dissonance of the opening sound is explained by the peaks above B4 and C5, two notes close enough together to generate “beats.” You can see overtones an octave higher above both these notes and there are probably some more even higher. Way down at the left side of the keyboard, you can see the droning bass.   This software allows you to slow music down without changing the pitch, really handy if you plan to steal some licks. You can play the notes on the keyboard and see if they match up with what the guess is. You can work on a small section at a time, tapping the rhythm on the computer keyboard to mark the beats. It costs about $50 US.     6:11:09 PM    comment []