Tapping notes

How to add multiple notes in one go

In this lesson you will learn how to

add a single note,
delete notes,
quickly add multiple notes by tapping.

Before you start

After the previous lesson you should already have a folder with the song's audio & txt file. Your txt file should have 2 song lines and the first line should be ready - both synchronization and pitches.

You can also download the files required for this lesson here:

3MB

David Amber - Second Time Around [tap-notes].zip

Adding notes

Adding a single note

In the previous lessons we have learned how to add notes by dividing them but how do we just add a note?

It's easy.

This is what the second line of our song currently looks like.

Let's remove the note by selecting it and pressing delete key:

Now to add a note just use ctrl + enter shortcut. It will add a note starting from the current time marker's position. You can also use the button on the toolbar:

Either way the result should look like this:

Adding notes by tapping

Instead of adding notes one by one, we can also use tapping feature. In the tapping mode the song will be played continuously and you can add a note by pressing almost any key e.g. space. If you hold the key, you will add a longer note. If you press enter you will start a new line.

Tap only several lines at a time - a single chorus or a verse of the song at most.

The choruses and verses repeat. You can just tap one occurence, finetune it, set pitches & lyrics and once it's ready just copy-paste it as described later in this tutorial. There is no need to waste time tapping the whole song.

Let's go back to the first line.

Entering the tapping mode

To enter the tapping mode, press ctrl + t shortcut. You should hear the song, but contrary to normal playback, the time marker's color should be red instead of green.

To exit the mode just click anywhere in the editor or press esc key.

Adding notes

To add a note press space (or some other key), hold the key to make it longer. Try to tap one or two lines of the song.

The result may look e.g. like this:

If you are not happy with the result, just delete the notes and tap that part again. Currently our notes are all part of a single line and we need to split them into lines.

You can also do it while tapping - just press enter after you finish tapping some line and before the next line starts:

As you can see the tapping mode is active and there is "/" symbol visible in the lyrics displayer below the editor signalizing that there is a line break there. You can also see it in the lyrics editor - we have 4 lines now (as opposed to the 3 lines in the previous picture).

Tapping does not have to be exact, done is better than perfect.

Just tap the part of the song once (or twice if you really messed up). You are going to finetune the notes anyway - tapping is just meant to add the notes roughly in the places that you want them to be, not to be a replacement for finetuning.