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Swiss army knife

Sibelius: Advanced Filter Tips part 2

Here’s another example of using the Advanced Filter. This one involves text. Filtering lyrics This is a situation I run ...
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Swiss army knife

Sibelius: Advanced Filter Tips part 1

Have you ever been working in Sibelius and come across a procedure that seems to take a lot of steps ...
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Sibelius: Sibelius 7 is Here!

Sibelius: Sibelius 7 is Here!

Avid recently released Sibelius 7 and as usual the folks who develop this award winning software have come up with ...
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Abbey Road

News: The Abbey Road Session January 2011

It’s taken a while to get my first blog post up this year but here it is! On January 22nd ...
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Welcome 2011 and Happy New Year!

Welcome 2011 and Happy New Year!

I wanted to wish a happy new year to all my blog readers!  2010 brought some really interesting projects and ...
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Sibelius, Finale & PDFs: How to view your PDF parts in score order and using “Name Those Files” to keep them that way

Sibelius, Finale & PDFs: How to view your PDF parts in score order and using “Name Those Files” to keep them that way

Have you ever had a problem, then you find the solution and the next thing the sound you utter resembles ...
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Music Prep Tutorial: How to keep your PDF scores and parts from printing with wide margins (the dreaded PDF “shrinkage!”)

The great majority of charts I deliver to clients are now attached to an email and sent as PDFs.  No ...
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Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 2 Tools-Articulation & Chord

Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 2 Tools-Articulation & Chord

This post is part 2 in my series of posts translating Sibelius 6 for Finale users. Remember I’m using Finale ...
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Sibelius: How to turn off the startup music

Sibelius: How to turn off the startup music

Note: There is another installment of “Finale to Sibelius Translation” coming soon.  In the meantime: Can’t you boys turn that ...
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Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 1 Learning and Semantics

Finale to Sibelius Translation: Part 1 Learning and Semantics

Many composers, arrangers, orchestrators and music prep professionals who are long time Finale users are finding that if pays to ...
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    About John Hinchey

    John Hinchey helps his clients' projects sound beautiful with the notes he puts on paper.

    John Hinchey is a producer, arranger/composer and speaker. He helps musical artists (such as Martina McBride), production companies (for cruise lines and theme parks), and independent singer/songwriters with musical arrangements, composition, music prep and trombone. In addition to arranging for Sting's Rainforest Benefit Concerts, he has also produced, arranged and/or composed music for the 2004 Democratic Convention, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, the critically acclaimed CD "Rewiring Genesis: A Tribute To 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" and more.

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