This article was co-authored by Melissa McDermott. Melissa McDermott is a Musician and accomplished Social Media Manager at coBranding Studio based in New York City. She has over seven years of experience teaching piano and music theory, she currently works as a Piano Instructor at O DiBella Music Inc. Additionally, she specializes in creating meaningful, informative, and quality social media content for health and wellness brands and musicians. Melissa received her B.A. in popular music studies from William Paterson University.
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Learning to write sheet music is a valuable skill if you want to transpose the beautiful complexity of the music you're hearing in your head, or working out on an instrument, and give it to other people to play. Fortunately, computer technology allows us to much more easily generate sheet music, transposing sound directly onto the staff. If you want to learn to do it the old-fashioned way, though, you can start with the basics and develop more complex compositions. See Step 1 for more information.