# Entering Notes

Capo lets you easily record the notes you hear in a song using your mouse. You no longer have to keep a notepad at hand to transcribe solos, because Capo lets you save your transcriptions for when you return to learning, or playing, a song later.

The Capo window has two main areas dedicated to the note entry process. These are the spectrogram, and notation, areas. The spectrogram contains a visualization of your music that provides hints for where the notes appear in the song. The notation displays the note entries you have placed on a guitar tab (and, eventually, staff).

You will only enter notes in the spectrogram area, and the notation area will update to reflect the notes you've entered. No entry or adjustments can be done in the notation area.

#### To listen to a note, do one of the following

- Click anywhere in the spectrogram area to hear the note that would be placed.
- Click an existing note entry to hear it played

#### To enter a note

- Click and drag anywhere in the spectrogram area to place a note entry.

As guitarists know, notes appear in multiple places on the fretboard. When you drop a note entry, the chosen string location on the tablature may not match how the song is actually played.

#### To change the note's string selection, do one of the following

- Hold the option key while clicking on an existing note entry to change the entry's string to a lower position.
- Hold both the shift and option keys while clicking an existing note entry to change the entry's string to a higher position.
- Right-click on a note entry to reveal a menu for selecting the string position directly.

Often times you'll enter notes that aren't actually being played, or it's a note that's played by a different instrument. The spectrogram can play tricks on you, so be sure to continue using your ear, and clicking the notes in the spectrogram, to verify the notes you hear.

#### To delete a note entry

- Click on an existing note entry to select it
- Press the delete key to remove the entry

#### To delete multiple note entries

- Hold the shift key while clicking on the note entries you would like to delete
- Press the delete key to remove the selected entries