@jessevoostrum If you were to put in a sort option, maybe it would be only a little extra code to allow for 1 at the top too? Yes, there are some who think that way up! 
I really like the āmelody pathā display, you can get a real feel for the underlying chords and how the melody picks out chord tones.
As for where to put the 1, does it not depend on where the melody is going and where the melody note is in the underlying chord? For example, if there was a high/upper register 1 in the melody then 1 would appear high up in a 1 chord, with 3 and 5 lower down. Or would you want a high 1 and a low 1?
@mem My assumption was that @jazzyotter what thinking along the lines of how Melody Paths charts are usually drawn?
I canāt talk for others, but I always do that when drawing melody path charts.
Yes, the thought is to always have the 1 start at the bottom, then 2-3, etc. going up to 7, then another 1 at top.
However, if the melody is such, I suppose the melody path could repeat further above or below that range in order to be able to highlight the melody note?
Thatās an impressive load if songs youāve converted, I was looking for Autumn Leaves, jazz standard but I didnāt see it. Did I miss it?
Blockquote Thatās an impressive load if songs youāve converted, I was looking for Autumn Leaves, jazz standard but I didnāt see it. Did I miss it?
Itās called āLes Feuilles Mortes - Autumn Leavesā and is in the list with All Sheets
this is great jesse!! and team. thanks for sharing!
Hi everyone, @jessevoostrum that looks fantastic!
Unfortunately, I donāt understand how to handle the files downloaded from your github page. I have downloaded all the folders, have installed the latest version of python.
Then I open python and try to run.py file, enter the commands you have given in your explanation, but python isnāt happyš and gives a bunch of error messages.
Should I move your folders inside the python folders, what am I doing wrong?
If anybody has an answer, your help would be much appreciatedā:pray:
@Olivvier Did you also add matplotlib & music21 using pip? I had to do web search to find out how to do thatā¦
Hi all,
I am currently working on a web application to convert the sheets online, so that people donāt have to do any installations themselves. It is still under development but for the people who would already like to give it a try you can do so here:
https://hello-app-381410.ew.r.appspot.com/
it is important to note that only files with the extension .musicxml can be uploaded. if it is not yet in this format you can do so with e.g. musescore.
Please let me know if you run into any problems using the website.
PS @DavidW is there a way to edit my first message to incorporate this information, and maybe also my contact details and donation link? I actually created a new email address to contact me: integerbook@gmail.com
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@jessevoostrum Iāve made an āEdit To Addā addition to the top post to mention this development with a link direct to this post. Howās that?
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Hi, thanks for the reply, no i didnāt. I must confess that I did everything in āsurvival modeā , I didnāt really understand what was doing and hoped for the bestš. Iāll try that out!
By the way, do you know if the āmelody pathā visualisation has been implemented in the current version?
hi @Olivvier,
did you see my earlier comment on the existence of a web application for converting sheets? for people without programming knowledge, I would recommend first giving this a try. I plan to make this soon more advanced so that there is also optionality for the melody paths, etc.
In case you still would like to try to run the code yourself, I have updated the instruction on github, which hopefully make the installation process easier. Let me know how it goes.
Thank you! there is actually more edits I would like to make, since for example now it is also not necessary any more to download the github repository, since I now created a pypi package called integerbook and can simply use the run.py script.
PS is there also a way of contacting you directly, (like a private message or email) so that I donāt have to clutter the conversation with questions about the forum itself.
See PM (that Iām about to writeā¦)
Thank you very much for your response, I will try it out.
I look forward to try to do the installation of the program when Iāll be back at my place after the holidays.
Happy Easter to you
Olivvier
Hi Jesse,
thanks again for your excellent work with your tool for converting sheet music to ifr notation!
Iām currently using the IFR notation to teach melodies/improv/comping to my guitar students with huge results (not to mention that I am learning a lot too with that approach!)
Just to let you know, I have tried your web application, managed to create musicxml files properly with Musescore to get a good IFR lead sheet, thatās perfect!
On the python side, on the other hand, I keep trying to make it work, but even if I did some C++ programming back in the day, itās really cumbersome for me, so I will have to investigate further to find out how it works (Iām not asking you to explain me further, donāt get me wrong, itās my job to find out ).
I really hope to find how to work out the melody paths in order to implement that into the lead sheets.
By the way, I have one question: how does your tool handle upper extensions of the chords in the melody paths, does it include the added note, i.e. CMaj9 = 1 3 5 7 2ā (or 1 2 3 5 7)?
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update on webapp
I have just updated the webapp https://hello-app-381410.ew.r.appspot.com so that custom settings can be chosen for conversion (including melody paths, etc. ). Also my personal collection of musicxml files can now be used for conversion with custom settings.
update on melody paths / plotting chord tones
I have now made the plotting the chord tones so that the when there is no melody printed the lowest and the highest note is both the ā1ā. When the melody is printed the lowest and highest chord tone are simply determined by the lowest and highest melody tone.
By the way, I have one question: how does your tool handle upper extensions of the chords in the melody paths, does it include the added note, i.e. CMaj9 = 1 3 5 7 2ā (or 1 2 3 5 7)?
@Olivvier in both cases the ninth will be printed as (1, 2, 3, 5, 7)
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Hi @jessevoostrum, thank you for your response.
Iāve checked the updated online tool out and just wanted to give you some feedback. All functions seem to work, except for the āShow Chord notesā, which never seem to appear whatever the selections are.
With the following setting, (where I get the closest to what I look for):
The output looks like this:
Iāve noticed that:
- if I click on ābass line: noā it shows me some additional unwanted vertical lines
- if I click on ālyrics: yes/noā it shows the lyrics in both cases
- if I click on āchord progression: yes/noā it shows only the chord progression notes in red, without melody in both cases