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  1. Does anybody know if there's a source to find just the keyboard tracks for U2 songs or sheet music for the keyboard parts. I'm talking about the sequencer part from "Bad" and "WOWY" or the intro to "Streets", etc. There's a few sites out there that have them as midi but they sound like they're being played on a digital watch. Any help would be great.

    Cheers!
    Bret
  2. If you have the MIDI you can make sheet music out of it right?
  3. Originally posted by thechickenIf you have the MIDI you can make sheet music out of it right?


    I know NOTHING about MIDI.
  4. Originally posted by bcgd[..]

    I know NOTHING about MIDI.


    HUm...basically, MIDI is only information, not noise...so when you hear it, you are actually listening to the sound your computer make based on that information. The information is intensity, rhythm (how long the notes last), and the note itself. The last two are the vital parts of sheet music. I am almost 100% sure that Guitar Pro, and probably a lot of other programs, can take MIDI and give it you written on standart notation.
  5. Originally posted by bcgdDoes anybody know if there's a source to find just the keyboard tracks for U2 songs or sheet music for the keyboard parts. I'm talking about the sequencer part from "Bad" and "WOWY" or the intro to "Streets", etc. There's a few sites out there that have them as midi but they sound like they're being played on a digital watch. Any help would be great.

    Cheers!
    Bret


    I'm afraid I'm no use where the actual sheet music is concerned, and I guess this probably won't be much help, but I reckon you could work them out if hard pressed to because those songs you mentioned use fairly simple chord progressions in fairly standard keys, so you could work it out basing it on ear?

    Sorry if that's sounds a bit simple, and I don't mean to sound like I'm assuming you don't know because I really don't mean to, but I've often found that people overlook working it out by ear or using just basic knowledge of theory...
  6. Originally posted by thechicken[..]

    HUm...basically, MIDI is only information, not noise...so when you hear it, you are actually listening to the sound your computer make based on that information. The information is intensity, rhythm (how long the notes last), and the note itself. The last two are the vital parts of sheet music. I am almost 100% sure that Guitar Pro, and probably a lot of other programs, can take MIDI and give it you written on standart notation.


    Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]

    I'm afraid I'm no use where the actual sheet music is concerned, and I guess this probably won't be much help, but I reckon you could work them out if hard pressed to because those songs you mentioned use fairly simple chord progressions in fairly standard keys, so you could work it out basing it on ear?

    Sorry if that's sounds a bit simple, and I don't mean to sound like I'm assuming you don't know because I really don't mean to, but I've often found that people overlook working it out by ear or using just basic knowledge of theory...


    Thanks for the info guys. No offense taking in assuming I don't know what I'm doing because I don't. I'm just lazy wanted to check first before I start. I'm going to see what happens when I put a middi file in Garage Band.

    Cheers!
    Bret

  7. Cool news!! I dragged the MIDI files into Garage Band and BOOM!* they exploded into multi-tracks allowing me to extract the keyboard parts. Thank you Thechicken for the crash course in MIDI. Before today I only knew what the letters stood for and it's how electronic instruments "talked" to each other.

    Cheers!
    Bret
  8. Out of curiosity, which sites did you get the MIDI tracks from?
  9. Originally posted by bcgdCool news!! I dragged the MIDI files into Garage Band and BOOM!* they exploded into multi-tracks allowing me to extract the keyboard parts. Thank you Thechicken for the crash course in MIDI. Before today I only knew what the letters stood for and it's how electronic instruments "talked" to each other.

    Cheers!
    Bret


    More than me - still not sure what it's all meant to do lol...

  12. Originally posted by bcgdCool news!! I dragged the MIDI files into Garage Band and BOOM!* they exploded into multi-tracks allowing me to extract the keyboard parts. Thank you Thechicken for the crash course in MIDI. Before today I only knew what the letters stood for and it's how electronic instruments "talked" to each other.

    Cheers!
    Bret


    I don't know that!! Everyone here knows I suck at acronyms tho!
    Thanks for the link man!