As a continuation to the Blog entry I posted a couple weeks ago - "Sheet music in your key (3 ways to transpose your music)...Part 1", here is a look at the other 2 options you have for getting your sheet music's key changed (or "transposed").
Choice 2. Paying someone to transpose it for you. There are many songs you may want transposed that online sheet music stores either don't have, or don't give you the option of transposing. In this case there are several people in NYC who you can pay to transpose your sheet music for you. In addition to being able to transpose that rare piece of sheet music into a key that no one else will have, going to someone to do it for you will also give you the advantage of being able to personalize your music with other small changes and finishing touches that you wouldn't get from the generic sheet music store, such as getting them to insert a different ending, add a key change, make it an 8, 16, or 32 bar cut, or even possibly making major changes to the song (if they're able & willing).
A couple people you can pay to transpose your music are stepUPmusic (Chris Guilmet) 917-453-3851 cguilmet@earthlink.net, or Michael Hicks 212-946-1434 m.d.hicks@mindspring.com
Choice 3. Doing it yourself.
Obviously, if you have this capability, you would know it. What you may not know, however, is that by using free MIDI files that you can find online, you can make the process of inputting the notes into your music composition program amazingly easy. If you go to http://www.hamienet.com/ and go to their Broadway Musical page (on our Ultimate Theatre Homepage you can get there by clicking on "Broadway MIDI Accompaniments (Free)" under Scripts & Breakdowns), they have hundreds of MIDI files for Broadway songs. If you click on and download the MIDI file for the song you want, you can then open up that MIDI file through your music composition program (I know this works for Finale, I'm not sure how well it works for other PC and Mac programs) and you will have notes to the song in your program, ready for transposition. You may want to add the lyrics to the song, and maybe clean up some of the notes, but it can save you an amazing amount of time in not having to enter the entire song yourself.
In Conclusion: I really hope that this is helpful to you. Sometimes getting that song in the perfect key for your voice can make all of the difference. If you have any comments, suggestions, or recommendations for other people you know who transpose music, please do pass them along. You can contact me at StepStub@aol.com (Stephan Stubbins). Happy Transposing!
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