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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 more running to FEDEX and scrambling to get the charts …
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 2010 as Finale version of reference for these …
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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 music down! When Sibelius …
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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 be fluent in Sibelius as well. …
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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, B,C etc and there is a really good …
Sibelius Tutorial: Quick filter & delete with the Sibelius keypad
Sibelius has many powerful filters in the Edit menu that are useful for all sorts of duties. The reason to filter a note, rest or other notational element falls …
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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 very much for your posts on Sibelius 6! I'm …
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Sibelius Tutorial: Drum set notation-part 5-Combo & Cues
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 …
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Sibelius Tutorial: Drum set notation-part 4 Repeat, Slash & Rhythmic
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 …
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