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Piano recording to sheet music

Upload a recording of solo piano and get sheet music you can read, print and edit. Look at any 30 seconds and listen to it for free. The full piece is $2.99, paid once — no subscription, no account.

  • 30 sfree preview, as notation and as sound
  • $2.99for the whole piece, paid once
  • 106/107notes found in our studio Bach test
The first bars of the sheet music PianoToSheet wrote from a recording of Bach's Prelude in C Real outputBach, Prelude in C — first 30 seconds, no edits
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    Four public-domain recordings, the first 30 seconds of each, exactly as PianoToSheet wrote them. Play the recording and read along.

    J. S. Bach

    Prelude in C major, BWV 846

    First 30 seconds, as written by PianoToSheet, no manual edits. Studio grand piano. Time signature, key and notes right: 106 of the 107 notes in this excerpt, no extra ones.

    Original recording

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    Sheet music PianoToSheet wrote from the first 30 seconds of J. S. Bach, Prelude in C major, BWV 846

    Download this sample: PDF · MusicXML. Recording: Kimiko Ishizaka, Open Well-Tempered Clavier (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons.

    From sound to score

    How it works

    1. 01

      Hear the notes.

      A piano transcription model (Transkun) listens to the recording and writes down every key press, with timing and loudness.

    2. 02

      Find the beat.

      A beat-tracking model plus the notes themselves place the beats and barlines, even when the tempo moves.

    3. 03

      Write the score.

      Our engraver picks the time signature and key, splits the hands, keeps held notes in their own voice and rounds rhythms to readable values.

    4. 04

      You check it.

      Look at any 30 seconds and listen to them. If the barlines are off, change the time signature or move them — it re-writes in a second, without re-listening.

    Works best on

    One piano, any style, recorded clearly.

    Not made for

    Songs with singing, bands, several instruments, or very noisy phone recordings.

    Pay per piece

    Pricing

    Look first, pay only if the sheet is worth keeping. No account, no subscription.

    Preview

    Free

    • Any 30 seconds of your piece, as notation and as sound
    • Longer pieces get up to 3 sections, never more than a third
    • Up to 3 recordings a day
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    Full piece

    $2.99per recording

    • Every bar of a recording up to 10 minutes
    • PDF + MusicXML + MIDI, with bar-by-bar fixes
    • Paid once; no account, no subscription
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    Questions

    Does it work on songs with vocals?

    Not yet. It is built for solo piano. With singing, drums or guitar the model gets confused and the sheet will be poor. If you have a piano cover of the song, use that.

    How accurate is it?

    The notes are usually right: in our tests the piano model found 99–100% of the notes in synthesized piano recordings and 106 of 107 notes in a studio recording of Bach. Rhythm notation is harder. When the playing is free in tempo, barlines can land in the wrong place; the time-signature and barline buttons fix most of these in one or two clicks.

    Can I edit the result?

    Yes. Download the MusicXML file and open it in MuseScore (free), Sibelius, Finale or Dorico to change anything.

    What happens to my recording?

    It is processed on our server and deleted as soon as the notes are written out. The sheet music is kept for 7 days so you can come back, then deleted. Nothing is published or used to train models. See the privacy policy.

    Can I transcribe copyrighted music?

    Only if you have the right to: your own playing, music in the public domain, or with permission. You confirm this before each upload. See the terms.

    Something else?

    Write to support@pianotosheet.com, or see how we compare with other tools.

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