How can MusEdit be used to help transcribe a guitar riff?
1) If you can, you might want to make a recording of the short riff using the standard Windows “Sound Recorder” program. This will be saved as a .wav file. Because MusEdit supports OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) you can actually insert this sound directly into your MusEdit score and play it at any time by double clicking on it. 2) Insert a Tab line (Ctrl+A), play the sound sample by double clicking on it, then try entering the fingering you think is correct on the tab line. 3) Make note stems visible on the tab line with: View | Show Note Stems on Tab and then add quarter, eighth, sixteenth… note stems to the Tab fingering to get the timing right. Use selection and Options | Join Note Tails to tie notes together where appropriate. 4) When the tab version sounds right (either by playing as MIDI, or by playing it yourself) select the tab line(s) and choose: Options | Tanslate Current Line(s)… | To Treble and then the treble version of your tab transcription will appear below the
