How do i find notes people used?

[zerbaman]

Just fiddle around copying melodies into the piano roll, you don't need ANY musical experience at all to do this!
I would know, that's how I learned, I can't read music, or play any instruments.

[Ldizzy]

A good way like someone was saying before is to learn basic intervals and assign them to a tune that helps you remember them, for example:

Major 2nd - happy birthday
Major 3rd - the simpsons
perfect 4th - amazing grace

and so on..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_%28music%29

hope that helps a little

thats actually very cool

[HomeNoiseRecord]

for single notes, does your DAW have a tuner function? it should show a realtime display of what note is being played. either that or buy a £3 guitar tuner and hum the note you want to find into it

[Njamimars]

I also quite fucking around with this, but I am getting better, you should just know how a note sounds and you can try to play it, it may take a while but in the end you will get there.

[Sharmaji]

A good way like someone was saying before is to learn basic intervals and assign them to a tune that helps you remember them, for example:

Major 2nd - happy birthday
Major 3rd - the simpsons
perfect 4th - amazing grace

and so on..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_%28music%29

hope that helps a little

thats actually very cool

yup learning how intervals sound is a great way to start building harmonies. it's also a good thing to know, as you can very often trick yourself into believing the 4th or 5th is the dominant note when you're trying to do a map of a complex arrangement.

if you can recognize a maj 3rd, min 3rd, 4th, 5th, maj7 and min7-- you're golden.