Tips to improve transcription in ScoreCloud Express

• ScoreCloud Express does not know any songs – it attempts to analyze the musical structure like someone who never heard the song or musical style before. Singing or playing clearly and organically generally gives better results.

• ScoreCloud Express does not know what your foot is tapping. If you play or sing something that really needs accompaniment you will probably get an unexpected score. Keeping a steady pulse helps.

• You generally get better results from singing if you sing without lyrics since there can be unclear note onsets in vocal performance with lyrics. Singing with Da-da etc. is easier for ScoreCloud Express to understand.

• Sing or play fast songs a little slower and leave out ornamentation or ‘wailing’. Short notes are generally not so clear in intonation and can be difficult to separate from slides and noise.

• Experiment with the placement of the microphone and listen to your sound. You generally get better results if you do not sing, whistle or play very loud close to the microphone and soft far from the microphone, but it depends also on the background noise and the reverberation in the room.

• If you want the a notation be rhythmically simple, try not to cut-off or prolong phrase endings too much; let the beat continue and keep the duration of the notes.

• You can set the score detail to low if you want to leave out short unwanted notes.