]Hi Anthony,

I sometimes make a style from a midifile.
In the beginning it is a lot of try and error. But after a while you find out your working methode.
Like you say, knowing the Key of the song is the most inportant. So if you have no good ears to find it out or a small portion of the theory than the falling can help you. It helped me.

Use a program that is able tot convert chords out of the midifile.

Midinotate is a good one. Free to use for 30 days and that program is able to make so called leedsheats or a fakebook and print it all for you during 10 days and the other days only page one.

So than you have a sheet which contains the chords. Load the part(s)(measures) you need form your midifile via seq to composer than transpose every part and messure.

e.g. measure one says at the sheet Emaj than all the notes you find in that measure lower with 4 or up wiht 7
then that measure is in the Cmaj key etc ect.. Do this with all the tracks and measures in the composer following the leadsheet with the chords.
It is no work when you are in a hurry. And with the * (stars) as a dot instead of the real notes it can took you a long time. Even when expression and pitch bend is used a lot.
Many dots (*) before you find a * which is a note.
But it works.

Another program that also include the possibility of recording audio is Powertracks Pro 8. Also a demo avalable.

If you want to do it a little easier use, buy the program from EMC, styleworks. But you still have to make some changes.

rgds.
Willem

[This message has been edited by waterschip (edited 07-28-2003).]

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