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Introduction

Since the summer, I've been trying to learn to play the Guitar. After practicing a fair share of Perfect, I've started to explore other songs. That's when 明天会更好's spicy tune hit me, and made me want to find out how to play it. I've found a few tabs online, but most of them were too difficult (I swear my fingers are too short). That's when I decided to just copy a piano sheet and try to change the key(?) to something that I can do fingerings for.

The Conversion

I found a 明天会更好 piano sheet music on Musescore1, and after browsing reddit for score generators, I was recommended Musescore 31. I recalled there being guitar tabs underneath the actual notes as well, when I used Musescore to learn Perfect, so I decided that it would be a good be the best choice. Given that Musescore requires a subscription to download the sheet music, I decided to manually copy the piano sheet music into Musescore 3.

Tomorrow_Will_Be_Better-1-Original

Making it Playable for Me

Given my beginner level of guitar playing, I wanted to limit the fret positions to the first 4 frets. Playing around with the ctrl+up and ctrl+down shortcuts, I lowered most of the notes by an amount to satisfy the above condition. This resulted in the following sheet (although it does sound a bit off and is less upbeat than the original):

Tomorrow_Will_Be_Better-1-Modified

Nonetheless, I'm pretty happy with the result. Time to practice!

Footnotes

  1. I will refer to the Musescore website as Musescore, and the Musescore 3 software as Musescore 3. 2