Working with lyrics and vocal music presents a special set of challenges and opportunities to burnish your music engraving skill set.

The space is the foundational unit of measurement in music notation. These basic settings in Finale, Sibelius, and Dorico matter as much as anything to affect how your music appears.

On the podcast, we work on worksheets, that quintessential element of music instruction that appears in everything from homework assignments and classroom activities to quizzes and final exams.

Keyboard shortcuts are essential tools for pro users on any platform. Although it's not possible to natively program global shortcuts in Finale, you can use FinaleScript to fill the gap.

New post! Jason Loffredo is back, and measure for measure, his video tutorial series sets the bar for working with Finale Music Notation Software’s Measure Tool. From the basics of the Measure Attributes dialog and custom barlines, to beat and note positioning, group barlines, display options, split measures, and mo...

An articulation in the musical sense is just one of many types of characters that can be used in Finale’s Articulation Tool. Learn all about it in this comprehensive series of video tutorials.

In notation software, you have to get the notes onto the staff one way or another. Thankfully, there are several features in Dorico that can make real-time MIDI entry a regular part of your workflow.

Working with lyrics and vocal music presents a special set of challenges and opportunities to burnish your music engraving skill set.

One of Dorico's most helpful features for score layout is the introduction of master pages. We explain the basics of how master pages work and how to edit them.

New post! Ian Blick illustrates how to make the Emvoice One voice synth emulate the voice of a trained singer, adding more realism to a score which has been produced in Dorico Pro.