For the first ~30 songs I transcribed, I relied on a mix of visual and auditory analysis of the original music â I would show the music as a spectrogram in Cool Edit Pro (audio editor), listen to a few seconds of audio, memorize the sequence of pitches, refer to the spectrogram for beat timings, write down the notes, and repeat until done. When I say by eye, I mean looking at Fourier transform graphs or spectrograms of the audio signal, and finding the frequency with the highest amplitude peak. I judge the pitch of each note mainly by eye, but I confirm by ear. Comments about specific aspects of musical accuracy: Pitch By listening to each channel independently via a Game Boy emulator, I was able to transcribe every channel with perfect pitch and no guessing. The key feature is that it has 4 monophonic channels of audio, each playing either a single note or silence. The Game Boyâs sound hardware makes my job of transcribing songs tremendously easier and more accurate than transcribing most other pieces of music. Some of its quirks include the fact that accidentals apply to all octaves, octave up/down is indicated on the clef rather than within measures, and the spacing between notes looks odd.

It is relatively easy to use but not the best composition software in the world. I cleaned up and edited the data, put them on a new page, and continued the transcription journey by adding a ton of new songs.Īll of the musical scores are written using the NoteWorthy Composer software. In late 2016 I decided to unearth my then-small collection of PokÃ©mon Game Boy music transcriptions for publishing. 6 of the songs here were first transcribed by me in year 2003, 2 songs in 20 combined, and the remaining bulk in late 2016 to early 2017.

I have been doing musical transcriptions for a long time, way before this website came into existence. Viridian, Pewter, Cerulean, Saffron City Cinnabar Island PokÃ©mon Gold/Silver/Crystal (2nd generation) PokÃ©mon Red/Green/Blue/Yellow (1st generation) These tracks are also available on my SoundCloud (albeit in lower quality). More details are available below the big table of songs. A collection of ~62 songs transcribed from the PokÃ©mon series of Game Boy games, with an emphasis on musical accuracy.

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