Building a better workstation, starting with the desk! https://www.scoringnotes.com/tips/upgrade-your-desk/

If you can learn how to use music notation software, you can build a better workstation for where you use it! Our thoughts and recommendations: https://www.scoringnotes.com/tips/upgrade-your-desk/

The Check Pizzicatos plug-in ships with Sibelius and it has saved me many minutes of work on many scores, and saved many minutes of rehearsal time. Its sole purpose is to locate suspect arco and pizz. markings in your score.

Metatools are Finale shortcuts that are programmed to a letter or number so you can quickly modify your score. In this video we learn how to use them with articulations.

An essential element of Sibelius's dynamic parts feature is the ability to make certain changes in a part without affecting the score. This extends to the ability to have different names for instruments in parts than what they are in the score.

In Sibelius, harp notation text objects are created in a variety of text styles and often contain a mixture of fonts. Learn how they are fabricated, how to filter them, and how to change their appearance.

If you use music notation software — or any software where you need to edit text — you will very quickly encounter the concept of point size. But have you ever stopped to consider what point size actually means?

New post! If you use music notation software — or any software where you need to edit text — you will very quickly encounter the concept of point size. But have you ever stopped to consider what point size actually means?

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.

Composer and orchestrator Jeremy Borum shares his tips about sheet music preparation to streamline your process and get from raw MIDI to a printed score, regardless of what DAW or notation software you use.