Are you a penny-pinching upcoming musician like me, that wants to learn how to play the piano without paying a single cent?
Great this repo has you covered!
Simply find any synthesia style video-tutorial on youtube and copy the link.
Now run the script and there you go! You have a semi-beautiful midi file to further convert to sheet music or anything you'd like.
YouTube download is currently disabled due to the recent changes in the YouTube API. You can still download the video manually and provide the path to the video file as an argument.
- Automatically extracts the key positions
- Only a link to the video is required
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt>> python youtube_midify.py --help
Usage: youtube_midify.py <youtube-url / "videofile.mp4"> -o <outputfile = out.mid> -s <start_in_seconds = 0> -e <end_in_seconds = -1> -t <activation_threshold = 30> -k <proportional_keyboard_height_from_top = 0.88>
>> python youtube_midify.py https://youtu.be/HNPZ6KuJZYk
Downloading video...
Detected 88 keys.
Recognized key 39 as middle C.
Saved as out.mid.from youtube_midify import convert
convert("https://youtu.be/HNPZ6KuJZYk", output = "out.mid", start = 0, end = -1, keyboard_height = 0.85, threshold = 30)
This is a preview of the generated midi file.
I am not responsible for any psychological damage that may occur upon taking a look at the source code.
INSPECT AT YOUR OWN RISK