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Music Note Finder

Hear a melody and need the notes? Upload it and get the note names in order, each with its start time, length, and how far it sits from perfect tuning.

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Who uses a note finder

Learners working out a melody by ear

Ear training is the goal, but being stuck on one phrase for an hour teaches nothing. Reading back the note names gets you unstuck and lets you check whether the answer you heard was right.

Songwriters capturing a hummed idea

The melody you sang into your phone at midnight is a real idea in a useless format. Turning it into note names is the first step to putting it into an instrument or a DAW before you forget it.

Music teachers

Checking a student's recorded exercise note by note, with the cents deviation alongside, turns 'that sounded a bit flat' into a specific, fixable observation about which notes and by how much.

Transcribers doing a first pass

A rough automated pass over a monophonic line gives you something to correct rather than a blank page. Faster than starting from nothing, as long as you treat it as a draft.

How it finds the notes

  1. 1. Upload a melody

    One line at a time works best — a hummed idea, a guitar riff, a vocal take, a synth lead. Everything is decoded and analysed on your own device.

  2. 2. Frame-by-frame pitch tracking

    The audio is chopped into overlapping frames and each one is pitch-detected by autocorrelation. Frames that are silent or unpitched are skipped, not guessed.

  3. 3. Frames merge into notes

    Consecutive frames landing on the same note are merged into one event, and anything shorter than 60 ms is dropped as detection jitter rather than printed as a note.

Music note finder FAQ

How do I find what notes a song plays?

Upload the audio here. The tool tracks pitch across the recording and converts each stable stretch into a named note with its timing. For a clean single-line melody it's usually close enough to play back straight away; for a full mix you'll want to isolate the part first.

Does it work on chords or a full song?

No — it's monophonic. Autocorrelation looks for one repeating cycle, so when several notes sound at once the strongest one wins and the rest are invisible. Feed it one instrument or voice at a time. For polyphonic material, Audio to MIDI is the better tool.

What does the cents column mean?

Cents measure how far the detected pitch sits from the nearest equal-tempered note, where 100 cents is one semitone. A reading of +18 means slightly sharp, -25 means noticeably flat. Anything within about ±10 sounds in tune to most ears; larger values suggest bends, vibrato, or an instrument that needs tuning.

Can I export this as MIDI?

Not from this page — it gives you note names and timings to read. If you need an actual MIDI file to drop into a DAW, use the Audio to MIDI tool, which handles polyphonic material and produces a downloadable MIDI file.

Why are some notes missing or repeated?

Missing notes are usually below the confidence threshold — too quiet, too breathy, or masked. Repeated ones happen when a held note wavers enough to cross a semitone boundary and come back. Legato passages where notes blur together are the hardest case for any frame-based tracker.

How long a recording can I analyse?

The first 45 seconds are analysed, which covers most melodies, riffs and vocal phrases. The on-screen list is capped at 120 notes for readability, and it tells you when there were more.

Turn a melody into note names.

Upload a line and read back the notes, in order, with timings.