OK, first complete transcription using Musescore, doing basically everything I need it to do for this site. Same recording I’ve been working with, Flight For Freedom by Oliver Nelson, from his record Skull Session, with […]
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Working with Musescore – 02
Getting further into Musescore with an easy Shelly Manne transcription, a rock arrangement called Flight For Freedom, from Oliver Nelson’s record Skull Session. I like Manne’s rock playing— it’s a little different, with a great […]
Working with Musescore
Reporting on a work in progress on Musescore, ever since Finale’s parent company MakeMusic informed us their program would self-annihilate along with our current computer hardware, and destroy all of our prior musical output along […]
Finale to self-exterminate
Heads up to Finale users— Finale’s publisher, MakeMusic, made this announcement yesterday: 35 years ago, Coda Music Technologies, now MakeMusic, released the first version of Finale, blah blah blah. Four decades is a very long […]
Stickings in Finale
A quick thing for you frustrated Finale users*: Here’s how you write stickings. You probably tried adding them as text, and met with bitter failure, then you tried them as lyrics, met with bitter failure, […]
Open-source music notation software
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 […]