Today a loyal follower wrote in and said: "Hello! I’m really enjoying the podcast and blog. [Thank you!] What is the best way to fold MANY 12x18 booklet pages quickly?" See this video, and this link, for some essential equipment used at NYC Music Services: https://www.amazon.com/shop/scoringnotes

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.

At NYC Music Services we've made a demo of Notation Express available for anyone to try. The demo includes just a small subset of the hundreds of functions in the paid version, so you can see how it all generally works and do a few useful things with it.

We speak with Daniel Ray, the head of strategy for Muse Group, the company that originally started with Ultimate Guitar and later acquired MuseScore, the free and open source music notation software.

David Newman's score to the 1996 Danny DeVito movie Matilda, with its energy, whimsy, and sweetness, is a favorite among film score enthusiasts. Learn what it took to prepare the music for a premiere with live orchestra.

New post! Dorico for iPad 2.2 adds Open in Place, bringing a more desktop-like file opening and saving process to the app and making it easier to handle files when moving between different devices.

Samuel Z. Solomon's "How to Write for Percussion" is a wealth of information, guidance, opinions, and reference material on the subject.

Essential to any good printed part layout is the page turn. The easiest way to check for good page turns on-screen is to view the music as a two-page spread. We'll quickly run through how to view music this way in all the major desktop music notation applications as well as in Adobe Acrobat and Mac Preview.

New podcast episode! As the Scoring Notes podcast approaches the two-year mark and our 100th episode, we announce some changes to the release schedule and preview what's coming in future episodes.

New post! For a limited time, all NorFonts distributed through Notation Central are on sale at up to 60% off. This is the beautiful and growing catalog of music and text fonts by Nor Eddine Bahha, who has fully embraced SMuFL font design, giving Dorico and Finale Music Notation Software v27 users more distinctive op...