Translating sheet music into Garageband

Find a musician who can read music and enter the notes into GarageBand for you.

Or, you could just find a Standard MIDI file of the Brownie Smile Song on the Internet, download it, and drag it into a blank GarageBand project. Problem solved.

Here's one:

http://www.leominstergirlscouts.org/songs/browniesmile.mid

http://www.leominstergirlscouts.org/songs.htm

I'm not sure what you expect this plugin to do. You can select a software instrument (preferably a piano) in GB, create a track, open the editor window and "write" the notes into it, corresponding to their lengths and pitches etc. But from your post I take it that you can't read notes, right? So how do you want to get the paper staff into your computer?

Christoph, I do not agree. Boy Scouts is an international movement started in England 100 years ago. Girl Scouts is an international movement started in the United States just a few years after Boy Scouts got started.

While it is true that Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts is popular in the United States, it would be a mistake to characterize them as American traditions.

The World Scouting headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland.

http://www.scout.org/front/index.shtml

You can read about the Boy Scouts of Germany here:

http://www.scoutnet.de/info/

I was involved in the Cub Scouts and the Boy Scouts between the ages of 8 and 16, in Atlanta Georgia. Now I am 41; last year I was Scoutmaster of a troop composed entirely of Spanish-speaking boys from Central and South America.

Singing is an important Scout tradition. However this is usually a capella around a campfire at night and not in a studio with GarageBand loops.

Here are a few German Boy Scout songs:

http://www.scoutnet.de/lieder/

Wir wollen zu Land ausfahren

G C G D7 G
Wir wollen zu Land ausfahren, wohl über die Fluren weit,
C D7 G D7 G
aufwärts zu den klaren Gipfeln der Einsamkeit.
C
Wollen lauschen, woher der Sturmwind braust,
G
wolln schauen, was hinter den Bergen haust
C
Und wie die Welt so weit
G D7 G
Und wie die Welt so weit.

Well, Alice, I'm known around here for over-discussing a topic.

Anyway, yes, you can enter notes one at a time and construct music in GarageBand without being able to play a keyboard instrument. It's called "step time entry" and you can do it either in the MIDI "piano roll" mode or the standard music notation mode. There are many programs that can do this, not just GarageBand.

GarageBand comes with a PDF manual called "GarageBand GettingStarted.pdf" which you can access through the GarageBand Help menu. Chapter 9 in this manual is called "Working in Notation View". This explains how to enter notes in that manner.

Keep those Brownies singing!

I was just thinking that
there was maybe some blank sheet music that you could
"type" the notes onto

You can't "Type" them, but there is a notation editor in GB, you use the mouse to insert notes on the staff.

However, as has been discussed, I would certainly try searching for a MIDI file online first before takling it myself.

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Hi there alice,

I am not sure if you still need any help with your sheet music, but this might help and it's free.
http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/default.aspx

Or send me an email with the sheet music as an attachment and I would be more than happy to do it for you, and send it back as a midi file. No charge,

All the best,
J.
www.jaymyerson.com

(What an interesting culture you have! 🙂 )

Was meinen Sie, mein Herr?

By the way, as an Eagle Scout myself, I support and encourage Girl Scout singing activities.

I was just joking, don't want to offend anyone. I think this girl scout/brownie thing is a very special American custom. But hey, you also kick these egg-shaped things and call it "football" ... 🙂