Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'd like to learn how to sing songs. I
have sheet music with 4 part harmony, but I don't really know
how to read notes that well. Are there any tools that can sort
of read sheet music for me? Like if I could tell it to play the
bass or tenor part.  share|improve this question  2 Answers 2  I
know choirs whose members use Finale Reader which is a free
program that can display and play music from Finale or MusicXML
files.  Obviously it requires the piece you are learning to be
in Finale or MusicXML.  share|improve this answer  Neuratron
PhotoScore  is the best tool for doing what you want.  Put the
sheet music on a scanner, feed the scans into PhotoScore, and it
uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert it to
digital music notation which it can then play back using
software MIDI instrument sounds. It's not perfect, and to use it
effectively, you need to know how to manually correct the
reading mistakes that it makes. It has a rather steep learning
curve.  While it will work s