Composer and educator David MacDonald describes in detail how he teaches composition using the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, and why he can't imaging returning to the dead-tree way of doing things.

Thank you John Barron for mentioning Notation Express for Dorico and SMuFL fonts available for sale on Notation Central like November, MTF and BopMusic on today's Discover Dorico session! https://youtu.be/j0AleuK37jo

Coming this weekend, the next Scoring Notes podcast with internal ID SN-007. A hint of what's to come? Looking for that Midas touch… In the meantime, check out our past episodes: https://www.scoringnotes.com/podcast/

Numbers with Rings is a sophisticated font that can bring the beauty of many enclosure styles to your scores. Learn how to use it by setting up your document to work with it.

New on Notation Central: Nor Eddine Bahha’s BopMusic fonts, completely “SMuFL”-ized for Dorico with more than 1300 symbols for jazz and commercial music.

Here's how to change the size of expressive text in Sibelius without affecting the size of music text used for dynamics.

Modify and arrange music in Sibelius with Notation Express. http://notationexpress.com/?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

New podcast episode! We speak with Newzik's CEO Raphaël Schumann about their music reader for iPad and how it's grown into a complete digital solution that serves musicians, publishers, orchestras and opera companies. Please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast, it really helps! https://podcasts.apple.com/pod...

We explain the different types of text used in Sibelius, such as staff text, system text, and lyrics, and cover some tips and plug-ins for changing one type of text to another.

Ever wonder how to independently move a staff or a system without affecting other staves on the same page? Learn how to do this, and more, in your Sibelius and Finale scores.