how do you translate musical notes to keyboard notes?

Question

the reason for this is because my son needs to translate the musical notes of All you need is love - by the Beatles - any help on this would be most appreciated.

please reply by Thursday afternoon 15.30 pm gmt

Answer 1

What format are the originals in?

Answer 2

If you look at the keyboard you will notice that the black notes are arranged in groups of three and two. Take one of the groups of two...the white note inbetween the two black notes is a D.
The white note to the left of D is C. The white notes run in alphabetical order from left to right so the full cycle of white notes starting with C will be as follows:
C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D....etc.
The black notes are sharps/flats and can have two names, e.g. G sharp (#) is the same as A flat (b).
The full sequence of black and white notes starting from C is therefore:
C, C# or Db, E, F, F# or Gb, G, G# or Ab, A, A# or Bb, B, C, C# etc.
Now that you know where the notes are on the keyboard you should be able to follow sheet music providing you know where the notes are on the stave: i.e. reading the lines upwards the notes are E, G, B, D, F, and reading the spaces upwards the notes are F, A, C, E.
A '#' after the note means it is a sharp and a 'b' after the note means that it is a flat.
Hope this helps and remember...There's nothing you can do that can't be done!

Answer 3

Are you trying to come up with a piano accompaniment for a vocal you know by heart? You don't have enough info here to allow us to help.

If you can sing it you could pick it out a not at a time on the piano, but you would have to determine the key signature also.

If you are transposing it, in other words changing the key so instruments in other keys can all play the same music; you need to know a bit of music theory and the key you want to write it in.

I have heard there is actually computer software that will do this stuff these days.