The short answer
Choose your input and the problem you need to solve. These guides explain the next steps and limitations; available browser tools are linked separately.
A curated directory of related user tasks. Similar questions share a substantial guide rather than separate duplicate pages.
Start with the file you actually have
For a first conversion, start with the MIDI guide, audio guide, PDF guide, or tab-file guide. The directory below routes more specific problems to the relevant workflow. It is a guide index, not a file-upload service.
Readable worksheets and note names
Choose readable note labels, staff landmarks and print size. These guides explain how to prepare an exercise manually; they do not certify accessibility or automatically simplify a score.
- Simplify sheet music for a beginner pianist
- Convert note names to solfege
- Make movable do solfege practice worksheet
- Fixed do solfege chart printable
- Printable piano note naming worksheets for beginners
- Large print music notes worksheet
- Enlarge sheet music pdf for easier reading
- Make a piano practice worksheet from note names
- Beginner piano worksheet with note names under the notes
- Ledger line notes worksheet printable
- Piano grand staff landmark notes worksheet
- Music note matching worksheet staff to piano keys
- Easy rhythm and note reading worksheet for piano
- Custom music theory worksheet generator for piano students
Recordings, melody and harmony
Audio contains sound, not encoded note events. Use these guides to separate listening, transcription and score correction; Clef does not accept audio uploads.
- What piano notes are being played in this recording
- Convert piano recording to sheet music
- Turn my humming into musical notes
- Convert singing recording to sheet music notes
- Find the vocal melody notes in a song recording
- What chords are in this audio clip
- What key and scale is this recording in
- Find the bpm and time signature of an audio file
- Which notes are in this piano chord recording
- Compare my piano recording to the notes i was supposed to play
- Transpose a recorded melody into my vocal range
- Convert piano audio to an editable midi draft
- Make a lead sheet from a song recording
- Audio transcription tool that shows uncertain notes
- Turn a difficult part of a recording into a piano practice exercise
Chord charts and key changes
Chord symbols identify harmonic material. Choose voicings and rhythm explicitly, then use the browser tools where supported.
- Turn a chord chart into piano sheet music
- Show all inversions of a piano chord on sheet music
- Make a lead sheet from melody notes and chords
- Convert chords to roman numerals in any key
- Transpose a chord chart to a new key and keep slash chords correct
- Convert roman numerals into chords for a key
- What notes should i play for slash chords on piano
- Add rhythm notation to a chord chart
- Plan a key change between two sections of a song
- Fix chord spelling after changing key
- Simplify complicated chords for beginner piano
- Turn a guitar chord chart into piano voicings
- Convert a midi chord progression to readable sheet music
- Extract chords from a pdf lead sheet and transpose them
Notation formats and export repair
Choose a format that preserves the information you need. A new filename extension does not convert a file.
- Why won't my abc notation file open
- Transpose abc notation to another key online
- Convert abc notation to musicxml without losing repeats
- Check and repair a broken musicxml file
- Open or repair a corrupted mxl file
- Convert old musicxml to a newer compatible version
- Extract one instrument part from a musicxml score
- Convert mei to musicxml for editing
- Convert musicxml to mei for a digital music edition
- Turn a daw piano roll midi export into readable sheet music
- Convert musicxml sheet music to midi for a piano roll
- Compare two musicxml exports and find what changed
- Fix tuplets ties and beaming after musicxml export
- Convert pdf sheet music to musicxml and check the errors
- Convert piano recording to musicxml with editable notes
MIDI notation troubleshooting
MIDI performance data needs decisions about rhythm, voices, staff assignment and spelling before it becomes readable notation.
- How do i turn a midi file into readable piano sheet music
- Which midi tracks should i choose for piano sheet music
- Best quantization settings for converting live midi to sheet music
- How to simplify a midi tempo map before making sheet music
- Split a midi piano track into left and right hand sheet music
- Convert midi sustain pedal data into piano pedal markings
- Midi file has no time signature how can i make readable notation
- How to fix a pickup measure when converting midi to sheet music
- Separate overlapping midi notes into voices for piano sheet music
- How to get triplets and swing to display correctly from midi
- Remove drums from a midi file before converting it to piano sheet music
- Combine separate midi tracks into one piano grand staff
- Fix wrong sharps and flats in midi sheet music conversion
- Turn a multi-instrument midi arrangement into playable piano sheet music
- Why does my midi to sheet music conversion look unreadable
Turn musical patterns into practice
Extract a small reading or rhythm problem manually, practise it, and return to the original score. Clef cannot import the source piece.
- Turn a midi song into note reading exercises for piano
- Make piano rhythm exercises from a midi file
- Find the intervals used in a midi melody for ear and piano practice
- Show piano keyboard notes and suggested hand positions from a midi song
- Turn a recording into simple piano note reading exercises
- Extract a piano rhythm pattern from an audio recording
- Make piano sight reading exercises from a pdf score
- Create rhythm-only practice from a piano sheet music pdf
- Generate piano sight reading drills from a musicxml file
- Analyze intervals and chords in a musicxml piano piece for practice
- Make slow practice loops from difficult parts of a midi piano song
- Find accidentals and key signature practice from a midi file
- Turn a piano score into left hand right hand coordination exercises
- Analyze a piano piece and tell me what to practice before learning it
Scans, PDFs and editable notation
A PDF or photo needs recognition or manual entry before its notation can be edited. Check every converted passage against the original.
- Turn a photo of sheet music into editable notes
- Convert scanned sheet music pdf to musicxml
- Combine photos of sheet music pages into one digital score
- Clean up a sheet music scan before converting it
- Fix mistakes after converting sheet music to musicxml
- Transpose scanned sheet music to another key
- Transpose musicxml for a b flat or e flat instrument
- Extract one instrument part from a scanned full score
- Make sheet music larger and easier to read
- Convert musicxml sheet music to braille music
- Convert sheet music into note names for beginners
- Describe a musicxml score in accessible text
Tablature, tuning and piano pitches
Read the tuning, string order, fret and capo before mapping pitches. Plain text tab usually lacks reliable durations.
- Convert ascii guitar tab to piano notes
- Turn guitar tab chord shapes into piano chords
- Convert guitar tab in alternate tuning to piano notes
- What piano notes are these guitar tabs with capo on 3
- Fix reversed string order in ascii guitar tab converter
- Explain guitar tab symbols and show the resulting piano notes
- Add rhythm and note lengths to ascii guitar tab
- Convert bass guitar tabs to piano notes
- Move bass tab notes into a playable piano range
- Convert ukulele tabs to piano notes
- Is this ukulele tab high g or low g and what are the piano notes
- Open a gpx or gp5 file and see the notes without installing software
- Convert a gp file guitar track to piano notes
- Extract just the bass or melody track from a gpx file
- Split guitar or bass tab notes between left and right hand piano
Sources and checking notes
The linked guides contain format references and original worked examples.
Put it into practice
Connect the notes to the keys.
Clef offers short piano drills, including MIDI input for supported pitch exercises. It is a practice companion, not a song course or a sheet-music library.
Email me the free Piano Note Flashcards Practice Guide
A printable note-reading worksheet to use beside your instrument.