Via my man David Valdez, here’s Musescore, a new free music notation program. I’ve gotten reasonably comfortable with Finale, and have developed kludges for doing most of the weird things I want to do with it, and I don’t know if I want to re-learn it all on a new program. Let us know what you think.
Here’s their little tutorial for creating a drum part:
I'd love this as an app for my iPad.
MuseScore has become my best buddy since I discovered how useful it is for my business. Most of it, I super love it because it is user friendly and it's for free!