Out of Print Music
If you have sheet music that is out of print and out of copyright, Audio
Graffiti can assist you by creating a reproduction of it for you. For example,
Audio Graffiti was given a copy of the sheet music for the Show Boat
tune Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man; it had been printed in 1927. The music was
in a faded and torn condition. It was hard to read because of its condition
and because of the untidy engraving style used in the original. We created
a reproduction of the music then prepared a second edition with a more contemporary
look:
Scores and Part Extracts
Shepherds & Angels is an instrumental for trumpet, saxes, bass and drums
written for a "Carols By Candlelight" Christmas event. The full score is available
along with part extracts for each instrument.
Part extracts:
Classroom Resources
Audio Graffiti can help music teachers preparing resources for the classroom
or for private students. Teachers and students no longer need to struggle
with rough, hand-written exercise sheets and classroom notes, nor be limited
to the range available commercially. The samples below give an idea of the
kind of product we can prepare for you:
Instructional Books
If you are writing an instructional book that requires music notation, Audio
Graffiti can help you! We can create image files of the music you want notated
that you can import into your desktop publishing program, or we can handle
the typesetting of the entire book. The following example is a page taken
from a fictitious instructional book on drumming:
Sometimes print music of commercial recordings does not exist. The next sample is a piece by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto that we transcribed for a client. (For copyright reasons, only four pages are available in this sample and printing is disabled. Note that this music is not available for sale.)
Here is another piece not available in print. It is a transcription of the well known song La Cumparsita as performed by Shin-Ichi Fukuda. Although TAB is normally not used for classical pieces, our client requested it and we were happy to oblige. (For copyright reasons, only three pages are available in this sample and printing is disabled).
The following is a transcription of Steve Lukather's first guitar solo in the original recording of Rosanna:
The following MIDI sequences and MP3 files demonstrate what you can expect from us for sequenced drum parts. The first MIDI file is typical of the "mechanical" drum part that we often come across (it is an example of how not to sequence!). The next two samples show how we would tweak such a part to make it more "human" and to add some nuances you might expect from a professional drummer. Note the differences in "feel".
These MP3 files give a small glimpse of what is possible when we combine a professional MIDI drum sequence with the BFD accoustic drum module. We can add audio drum tracks of this quality to any recording project.
Samples of Audio Graffiti's digital recording work can be heard at the MonoMusic web site. There are currently two samples available. The guitar parts in both of these were recorded at Audio Graffiti:
Unfortunately, we can not sell full versions of the samples on this page. This is mainly for copyright reasons. Further, the clients who originally paid to have the music transcribed have asked that we not re-sell it.
However, if you desperately require a piece of music, you can ask us to transcribe it for you at our usual rates. (see our Terms & Conditions)
Our Engaving/Notation and Transcription examples are in the Adobe Acrobat "PDF" format. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to print these, and you can download it from the Adobe site.
The quality of the samples will depend on the capabilties of your printer. We suggest you use a printer with a resolution of at least 600dpi for best results.
Printing is disabled for several samples. These samples also are limited to just a few pages. However, they will give you an idea of the detail we put into our transcriptions.
Our music examples are provided as either MIDI or MP3 files. You will need software capable of playing these kinds of files. Windows Media player is one example of software that can be used.
The quality of what you hear from a MIDI file will depend on the quality of your sound card, and there is likely to be variation from computer to computer.
