Cakewalk Pro & finding chords for piano

Subject: Cakewalk & finding chords for piano
From: GUEST,Nancy
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 03:45 PM

Hello Folks, I use Cakewalk pro to take apart midi tunes and use them to learn tunes for my fiddle all the time, it's great!

My question is I'd like to use it to figure out piano chords so my son can back me up when Im playing the melody. Any Einsteins out there that have already figured out how to do this? When I mute the melody and listen to the piano part of the midi the "piano roll" function looks like a mystery to me. Any advice?

As long as Im at it, what about figuring out harmonies for the fiddle? Just mute out the main melody?

Cheers, Nancy

Subject: RE: Cakewalk Pro & finding chords for piano
From: Jande
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 04:02 PM

Hi Nancy,

Instead of using the piano roll, select (click on) the track that is playing the piano part and choose "staff" from the View menu. That should open the staff view for you for just that track.

Which version of CWPro Audio are you using?

Hope this helps...

~ Jande

Subject: RE: Cakewalk Pro & finding chords for piano
From: Bernard
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 05:59 PM

A lot of what you ask depends on the way the MIDI file was put together. If the melody is a separate 'track', fine - you can mute it.

Otherwise you will need to be more adventurous:

Select the track with the accompaniment and melody in it.

Copy the track to another track (paste as one track).

Carefully go through the track, erasing the melody notes. Now you have the accompaniment - which you could paste into a new file.

What you can do depends on what you have to start with!!

I'm still using Version 3 - maybe newer versions have more clever bits?