Music Prep
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sibelius Tutorial: Non consecutive rehearsal letters “ A B A1 B1 C A2 B2 D-outro”
When it comes to rehearsal marks my personal preference is using bar numbers. But many arrangers use rehearsal letters A, ...
Notes On Notes Mailbox: Sibelius-Drum cues in a flute part
Here's a question from an email I recently received related to my last series of blog posts. “Hi John, Thanks ...
Sibelius Tutorial: Drum set notation-part 2-fully notated bars
Fully notated drum parts are fairly straight forward if you’ve mastered the concept of inputting notes in 2 voices. If ...
Sibelius Tutorial: Drum set notation-part 1
Many if not most of the projects I arrange for require drum set parts. A drum set part can be ...