In Sibelius it’s technically impossible to center a group name between two staves and also individually name each staff. Here's a clever workaround to the problem, along with a video tutorial explaining the concept.

A brief tutorial on using the Quick Change feature to change expressions and articulations in Finale.

Some great score prep and Avid Sibelius tips from Jessie Montgomery's music, with links to her pieces on Notation Central!

New post! Composer Jessie Montgomery interweaves classical music with vernacular songs, improvisation, and language, presenting exciting challenges for a music copyist or engraver. Here are some of those challenges and how the results were achieved.

Check out our Scoring Notes blog right now featuring @jmontgomerymusic with lots of great score prep tips and @avid.sibelius hints from her music!

New post! Finale Music Notation Software version 26.3 brings a fully-translated Spanish version, support for Dark Mode on Mac, better performance while editing and scrolling, MusicXML improvements, and a handful of bug fixes.

A friendly reminder, since 2018, you can apply dotted rhythms in Avid Sibelius in one go, making note input a little less painful. https://wp.me/p1OLc1-49P

Such a fun time talking with one of the best in the biz on our Scoring Notes podcast: Emily Grishman. Don't forget to rate and review the show — it really helps! https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/scoring-notes/id1514590215

New podcast episode! An interview with Emily Grishman, acclaimed Broadway copyist. We learn about the world of music theatre copying, the process of getting the music from the composer’s pen to the player’s stands, and the tools Emily uses to achieve superior results. Please rate and review the show! https://podcast...

You may know that the tilde can be used to hide staff or system text in Sibelius, but here's a clever way of using it to hide bar numbers for only a partial region of a score.