JOHN HINCHEY'S THOUGHTS ON MUSIC NOTATION, ARRANGING AND MUSIC PREP
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Here’s a quick tip that you might not use every day but could come in very handy. The situation is this: You need to display a staff as a small staff in a particular part but in the score and perhaps another part the staff needs to still be the normal size. Sometimes what happens [...]
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Yeah, there’s an easier way to install plugins With all these recent blog posts on plugins, I thought it might be a good time to talk about the new Install plug-ins feature in Sibelius 7. I realize looking back at these posts that I’ve created links to Extra plugins for Sibelius download page but really that is [...]
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This post is part 2 in my series of posts translating Sibelius 6 for Finale users. Remember I’m using Finale 2010 as Finale version of reference for these posts. Since Finale bases many of the elements of notation on the Tool menu, that seems like a good place to start. Let’s go through some [...]
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Many composers, arrangers, orchestrators and music prep professionals who are long time Finale users are finding that if pays to be fluent in Sibelius as well. Both programs give you excellent professional output and both are being widely used. In my consulting work with clients and colleagues, I’ve developed a few tips and techniques that [...]
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Here’s a question from an email I recently received related to my last series of blog posts. “Hi John, Thanks very much for your posts on Sibelius 6! I’m trying to figure out how to write drum kicks in a flute part (above the staff). I found the Make Pitches Constant plugin, but I’m actually trying to [...]
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With this post I’ve cover the remaining drum set notation types sited in my first post in this series. 5. Combination notated and slashes As you can see from this example above, sometimes you have bars that are fully notated for part of the bar and then go to slashes for some reason, in this [...]
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Next on the list of drum set notation 2. Repeat bars Let’s face it, most drum set parts consist of a lot of repetition. The drums create that steady undercurrent that moves the piece along. If you want the drummer to play exactly the same pattern over and over, the best way is to use [...]
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Make Pitches Constant-Drums is one of my favorite plugins related to creating drum set parts. It is a variation on Stefan Behrisch’s very versatile Make Pitches Constant plugin which I mentioned in my previous blog post. Thanks to Roman Molino Dunn for tweaking this version of the plugin and Daniel Spreadbury for posting it to [...]
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Using the concepts I’ve presented in the “Signal Flow and Music Notatation Software” blog posts, let’s look at an example of how to apply this to a real world notation situation. My friend Pete Huttlinger is a fabulous guitar player and author of many excellent guitar books and videos. Pete uses Sibelius for his guitar [...]
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Review: basic signal flow chain is: source> chain (with or without modifiers)> output. See my previous posts: “Signal Flow & Music Notation-part 1″ and “Signal Flow & Music Notation-part 2″ How Signal flow and Signal modifiers apply to music notation software Your music notation software program is just a series of signal flow chains happening in [...]
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