{"id":362,"date":"2013-01-17T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimsmusic.posterous.com\/nobody-does-it-better"},"modified":"2023-03-14T18:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T01:09:13","slug":"nobody-does-it-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/nobody-does-it-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Does It Better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of music where I did absolutely nothing. None of this is me. I found a PDF of a lead sheet of music for the song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikifonia.org\/node\/19906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nobody Does It Better<\/a>&#8221; online which I downloaded and scanned with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sibelius.com\/products\/photoscore\/ultimate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PhotoScore<\/a>. I then sent the song file to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sibelius.com\/products\/sibelius_first\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sibelius First<\/a> which is a music notation application. I saved it out as a general MIDI file and imported it into Garageband. This gave me the melody line. I added Garageband loops in other tracks to add drums, bass, and electric piano. Presto, instant music.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the PDF:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/10355798-Marvin_Hamlisch_Carol_Bayer_Sager_-_Nobody_Does_It_Better.pdf\">Nobody Does It Better.pdf<\/a>\u00a0(76K)<\/p>\n<p>and the resulting MIDI file (saved as AIFF and converted to MP3):<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/Nobody_Does_It_Better.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nobody Does It Better<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of music where I did absolutely nothing. None of this is me. I found a PDF of a lead sheet of music for the song &#8220;Nobody Does It Better&#8221; online which I downloaded and scanned with PhotoScore. I then sent the song file to Sibelius Firs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-electronic-music","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-5Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}