NotateMe Now: App Review

 

 Free Single Staff Version

 

Great for iPhone / iPad

Great music composition software

Get it: NotateMe Now - Neuratron Ltd

 

 Description

Free single-staff version of NotateMe - the ground-breaking music composition and music notation software from Neuratron, with handwriting recognition plus PhotoScore Now printed sheet music capture (using your device's camera!).

- Featuring powerful handwritten music recognition - quickly and accurately enter music notation with your finger or stylus, on a tablet or smartphone.

- Write music on the train, in a plane, by a lake, or just sitting comfortably on your sofa!

- Simple, intuitive interface with little to distract you from your creativity - similar to writing with pen and paper, but with instant playback, editing and a printable score at the end!

- Includes PhotoScore Now - A free 1-staff version of the PhotoScore Add-In (In-App Purchase) for full NotateMe. Take photos of printed sheet music with your device's camera, so you can play back and edit them with NotateMe Now! Recognizes 5-line staves and most markings including chords, flags, beams, rests, accidentals, articulation marks, clefs, key signatures, time signatures, tuplets, slurs, ties, hairpins and text including lyrics, dynamics and instrument names.

- Great when learning or teaching music notation.

- Email MusicXML and MIDI files of your scores to friends or other musicians. Open in Sibelius, Finale and other desktop software.

- NotateMe Now recognizes a wide range of music notation symbols, including notes (with solid, open, and slanted noteheads), flags, beams, leger lines, multiple voices per staff, chords, rests, accidentals (natural, sharp, double sharp & flat), articulation marks, augmentation dots, ties, slurs, hairpins, clef changes, key signatures. Barlines, clefs, time signatures and triplets are added automatically.

- It works while you write - the printed score updates automatically without you needing to stop and wait.

- If NotateMe Now doesn’t recognize your style immediately, keep at it, as it will adjust. Leave clear space between symbols and make markings clearer with further strokes if any transcription errors occur. If you experience problems, tap 'Help Improve NotateMe' from the Export menu and we will analyze your handwriting to help us improve NotateMe further.

 Review

This is an awesome tool for teaching music notation and is loaded with lots of cool stuff. Upon opening the program, you can accurately enter notations with your finger or stylus on your tablet or iPhone. If you don't have a stylus, I'm pretty sure you can get one at Fry's for little cost.

The app is nicely laid out, as well as user-friendly. I found the software easy to understand and very effective. You'll find that bar lines, time signatures, clefs and triplets can be added automatically.  There are many dynamics to choose from. Plus, you  can email your files to friends, students and other musicians.

There's a good selection of activities and you can customize it to fit your needs. Check out the requirements, here and download NotateMe Now - Neuratron Ltd. I'm very pleased with it and give it 5 stars! If you'd like a glimpse of what it's all about, here's a video presentation.

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How To Play Manhattan

English: Sara Bareilles live at De Melkweg Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 16th June 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 I like to play Sara Bareilles' Love Song. Another favorite of mine is Manhattan because the tempo is a slow shuffle with 3/4 time signature. I play it in the Key of A. I believe she wrote this song after ending a long-lasting relationship.

If you like Sara's style of music, you'll find other song chords in Sara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest Songbook.

Manhattan

Intro

A5  Amaj9  A5  C#m  C#m/G#

F#m7  Fmaj7(no5)

Verse 1

A5              Amaj9/G#
You can have Manhattan
F#m7               Amaj7/E
I know its for the best
     A5            Amaj9/G#
Ill gather up the avenues
F#m7(add4)              Dsus2/F
And leave them on your doorstep
D(add2)         Dsus2/C#
And Ill tip toe away
Bm7(add4)            Asus
So you wont have to say
A5             A/C#  A/G#  F#m7(add4)  Fmaj7(no5)
You heard me leave

Verse 2

A5            Amaj9/G#
You can have Manhattan
F#m7(add4)            A(add2)/E
I know it’s what you want
A5                    Amaj9/G#
The bustle and the buildings
F#m7(add4)          Dsus2/F
The weather in the fall
D(add2)              Asus2/C#
And I’ll bow out of place
Bm7(add4)         Asus
To save you some space
F#m          Amaj7/E
For somebody new

Chorus

D6
You can have Manhattan
Dm
Cause I can’t have you

Interlude

A   Amaj9/C# Amaj9/G# F#m11 Fmaj7b5 


Verse 
[ Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/sara_bareilles/manhattan_crd.html ]
A5             Amaj9/G#
You can have Manhattan
F#m7(add4)           A(add2)/E
The one we used to share
A5                     Amaj9/G#
The one where we were laughing
F#m7(add4)                Dsus2/F
And drunk on just being there
D(add2)        Asus2/C#
Hang on to the reverie
Bm7(add4)              Asus
Could you do that for me?
F#m               Amaj7/E B7/D#
Cause I’m just too sad to

Chorus

D6
You can have Manhattan
Dm
Cause I can’t have you

Bridge

E(add4)  Esus2/4  E

D(add2)  Dsus2/C#  Bm7(add4) Asus
And so it goes
    E/G#
One fight after the other
     Dm7               Dm9     Em7  A(add2)
Til black and white begin to color in
E/G#  F#m7  A/E
And I know
      D            Dmaj9
That holding us in place
          Dm(maj7)                A5
Is simply fear of what’s already changed

Interlude

Amaj9/G#   F#m7(add4)   A(add2)  A5
Amaj9/C#  Amaj9/G#  F#m  Fmaj7(no5)

Verse

A5             Amaj9/G#
You can have Manhattan
F#m7(add4)           A(add2)/E
I’ll settle for the beach
     A5              Amaj9/G#
And sunsets facing westward
F#m7(add4)            Fmaj7b5 
With sand beneath my feet
Dsus           A(add2)/C#
I’ll wish this away
Asus2/B          Asus2
This missing the days
     F#m        C#/G#      Amja7/E  B/D#
When I was one half of two

Chorus

D6
You can have Manhattan
Dm                  A5
Cause I can’t have you

Outro

Amaj9/G# F#m7(add4) Esus

*A(add2)  Amaj9/C#  Amaj9/G#

F#m7(add4)  Fmaj7b5* repeat 

Well, have fun with the song and let me know how it goes.

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Learn To Play Ballerina Girl

Cover of Dancing on Ceiling

 If you haven't heard by now... I'm a huge fan of Lionel Richie. You can find the chords to Jesus Is Love that I posted awhile back. There's another cool song written by this artist in 1986, Ballerina Girl . It's from the Dancing on the Ceiling album. It's a moderate tempo in the Key of C.

Chord Progression

Lionel Richie Anthology (Book in my music library of Lionel Richie songs, piano and guitar)

Intro

F  Am  G (2 times)

                 F
Ballerina Girl
C               F/C  G/C  Dm/C
You are so lovely
 C                          
With you standing there
F            G
I'm so aware
                                      Cmaj7  Dm/C
Of how much I care for you
C                            F
You are more than now
G                F/C  G/C  Dm/C
You are for always
 C
I can see in you
 F                          G
My dreams come true
                              Cmaj7  F/C  Cmaj7
Don't you ever go away


  Fmaj7           Em7
You make me feel like
            Dm7                 C  F/C  G/C
There's nothing I can't do
 Fmaj7         Em7
And when I hold you
  Dm7              Gsus4
I only want to say
  C/G    Dm/G
I love you


                F
Ballerina Girl
       G           F/C  G/C  Dm/C
The joy you bring me
 C
Every day and night
 F                  G
Holding you tight
                                         Cmaj7  F/C  Cmaj7
How I've waited for your love

 Fmaj7                Em7
Sometimes I've wondered
              Dm7              C  F/C  G/C
If you'd ever come my way
 Fmaj7           Em7
Now that I've finally found you
 Dm7                     F/G         Em/G  F/G
This is where my heart will stay


C/G  Dm/G  Em/G  C  F  G
F/C  G/C  Dm/C  C  F  G
Cmaj7  F/C  Cmaj7  Dm9

      Fmaj7       G                   Dm9
I'm never gonna break your heart
 Fmaj9       G             Dm9
Never will we drift apart
           Fmaj7          G
'Cause all I wanna do
         Am               F             G
Is share my whole life with you
Fmaj7                         Em7
'Cause you make me feel like
             Dm7                C  F/C  G/C
There's nothing I can't do
Fmaj7                 Em7
I guess I finally realized
Dm7                                F/G     Em/G
There's nothing else like loving you




F/G  C/G  Dm/G  Em/G

C             F
Ballerina Girl
G               F/C  G/C  Dm/C
You are so lovely
 C               F
I can see in you
                             G
My dreams come true
                               Cmaj7 F/C  Cmaj7  (F  Am  G 2 xs)
Don't you ever go away
               F
Ballerina Girl

Dancing On the Ceiling

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