Features
Piano Notes for Any Song
Songs with piano get converted note for note. Songs without piano get arranged into a playable piano cover with left and right hand parts. Either way, you end up with piano notes.
Sheet Music and Falling Notes
Every conversion gives you both: a printable piano sheet and a piano roll that shows which keys to press and when. Learn from whichever one clicks.
Difficulty That Matches You
Too hard? Level the score down to an easier version that keeps the melody. Five difficulty tiers, from first-year beginner up to advanced.
Example Transcriptions
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Multiple output formats
Sheet Music
Our AI technology picks out the notes from your audio and intelligently notates them on a musical staff, automatically detecting a wide range of musical features including time and key signature, trills, staccato, and other expressive markings.
Sheet music is especially valuable for classically trained musicians, music students, music teachers, and composers.
Playback the score to hear the transcription.
Speed it up or slow it down to your liking.
Edit the transcription.
Piano Roll
Our interactive piano roll displays each note as it falls onto the piano keyboard, so you can see exactly what's being played and when.
Great for musicians who may not have a lot of experience reading other notation formats, such as sheet music.
Split the notes into left and right hands.
Control the speed, transposition, colors, and more.
Export as a MIDI file for use in your DAW.
Loved by musicians worldwide
Join thousands of musicians who have transformed their creative process with Songscription
"There are so many songs I've wanted to play but could never find the sheet music for. Songscription finally solves that problem; now I can just run the audio through and start playing."
Tomer
"I've composed a song that has lived in my heart for years - a deeply personal piece that I've never been able to share properly. Thanks to Songscription, I've finally translated it into sheet music. Now my composition can be performed and appreciated beyond just my own playing - a dream I've had since I first wrote those notes."
Tony
"There are so many songs I've written throughout my life that I hold in my hands but have never been able to pass on. Songscription opened a new door. For the first time, I have a lasting time capsule of my song that anyone, anywhere, can play, now and far into the future."
"I create at the piano, and Songscription cleans up my mess into real sheet music."
Jeff
"Songscription has helped me transcribe my own live recordings, transforming a mundane & time-consuming task into something that has saved me countless hours."
Yameen Sekandari
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Frequently Asked Questions
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How do I turn a song into piano notes for free?
Upload the song to Songscription and pick piano. Clips up to 30 seconds convert free with no sign-up, and a free trial covers longer songs. Every conversion includes both piano sheet music and the follow-along piano roll, so you can start playing right away.
Can AI convert any song to piano sheet music?
Yes. If the song has a piano part, the AI converts it note for note. If it doesn't, piano cover mode arranges the melody and harmony into a playable two-hand piano piece. Either way you get printable piano sheet music plus MIDI and MusicXML exports.
What if the song has vocals and drums?
Not a problem. We separate the mix first, so vocals, drums, and everything else stay out of your piano part. And for a piano version of the entire song, melody included, choose piano cover mode: the arrangement folds the vocal line into the piano part.
Can I get an easier version for beginners?
Yes. Run the score through the sheet music leveler and pick from five difficulty tiers. Level 1 keeps the melody over simple supporting notes; level 5 stays close to the original performance. The tune survives at every level, so easy never means unrecognizable.
How do I convert a song to piano notes?
Upload the song and pick piano. Songscription listens to the recording and writes it out as piano notes you can read two ways: standard piano sheet music, or a falling-note piano roll that shows the exact keys to press.
- Add your song. Upload an mp3 or any audio file, paste a YouTube link, or record a voice memo of the song you want to play.
- Choose piano or piano cover. If the song already has a piano part, we convert it exactly. If it doesn't, piano cover mode arranges the whole song into a two-hand piano piece.
- Play it your way. Read the piano sheet music, follow the piano roll, or export PDF and MIDI to practice however you like.
What if I don't read sheet music?
You don't need to. The piano roll view shows the song as notes falling toward a keyboard: when a note lands on a key, you press it. Left and right hand notes come color-coded, and you can slow playback down while you practice.
Plenty of players learn a whole piece this way and pick up notation later, on their own schedule. If you want a video-style walkthrough of a song instead, the piano tutorial creator turns any recording into exactly that. There's also a practical guide to learning a song your piano app doesn't have.
Can I make it easier to play?
Yes. Level the score to your skill. The sheet music leveler rewrites the piece at any of five difficulty tiers while keeping the melody and the chords intact, so the easy version still sounds like the song.
- Dense chords thin out to fewer notes per hand
- Fast runs simplify while the tune stays recognizable
- Wide stretches shrink to reaches a smaller hand can manage
- Your original stays saved, so you can level back up as you improve
What songs can I turn into piano notes?
Any recording works: mp3s, YouTube links, voice memos, live recordings, even songs that were never written for piano. Full mixes with vocals and drums are fine too, because we separate the mix before writing the piano part.
Pop songs, film scores, worship sets, video game themes, a melody you hummed in the car: if you can play it back, you can put it on the piano. We wrote up how players go from a recording to piano sheet music in practice. And if you're less after playing and more after understanding what notes are in a track, the audio to notes converter answers that question directly.