Hi people,

If anyone here is a transcriber, could they tell me what to do when the melody collides with voice? Is there any specific tactic or should I just bite the bullet and sacrifice a part of my transcription?

Thanks

what exactly do you mean?

For example:
When I have a piano melody going on my left hand side, and a vocal on the right hand side, what do I do when both the piano and the vocal are to be played on the exact same note?
This wouldn't be a problem if it happened occasionally, but I have a couple of songs I want to transcribe where this happens throughout the whole piece :\

Any ideas?

If you have voice and piano separately, it shouldn't be a problem.
I'm not sure what you mean by you have piano melody on one hand and voice in the other. Are you transcribing a vocal song with piano accompaniment or is this some kind of counterpoint melody?

If you can post what you mean (the section of the sheet music) it'd be clearer what you are talking about

Sorry if it doesn't make sense :sweat: I don't have any music notation software to create the sheet music (I do it in midi) so I'll try to explain as best as I can:

I'm transcribing a vocal song with a piano accompaniment (and occasional bass) into solo piano piece and my problem is that both the voice and the piano play in the same octave. Now this wouldn't be bad so far, but very frequently the voice and the piano want to use the same note eg: C5.

I know that if someone was to play my transcription on a piano, they would have a hard time pressing C5 twice at the same time (it's impossible to do as far as I know). I hope this explanation was clearer than the previous one :shifty:

What do I do in this case? I was thinking of shifting the piano melody an octave lower, or the vocal an octave higher, but the song doesn't sound good anymore :(

In piano, there are a lot of times that notes "collide" to be one when different lines meet at the same note. It's actually possible to do. You can choose to press the key with two fingers or just hit it twice as hard, which is what it means. However, I don't see why this would be a problem anyway as the piano accompanist would not be playing the vocal line.

Ok thanks for the tip! I'll see what I can do with it :D


However, I don't see why this would be a problem anyway as the piano accompanist would not be playing the vocal line.
But I'm transcribing this song into piano solo, so the player must play both the piano(the background) and the voice(the melody). But thanks anyway!

They can play the same note. There really isn't anything wrong with that if that's the case.