MuseScore: The Essential Beginner’s Guide Available Now
Posted on 26. Sep, 2011 by MuseScoreTips.
Today I’m publicly launching the ebook I’ve been working on for the last few months – MuseScore: The Essential Beginner’s Guide which shows you how to publish, play and share your music The ebook contains tutorials that walk you through the basics of creating your own sheet music using MuseScore. By working through step-by-step projects, you’ll learn [...]
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New ebook coming soon – MuseScore: The Essential Beginner’s Guide
Posted on 09. Sep, 2011 by MuseScoreTips.
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been busy writing an ebook for MuseScore beginners which is due for release in a couple of weeks’ time. The ebook - titled MuseScore: The Essential Beginner’s Guide (by Katie Wardrobe) - will be available to purchase as a digital download straight to your computer. The book contains two major projects [...]
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How to write two parts on one stave: working with Voices [MuseScore Tutorial Video]
Posted on 22. Aug, 2011 by MuseScoreTips.
At times you might find that you need to write a score with notes of different durations on the same stave – that is, two parts that are rhythmically independent. In notation software, writing two parts on one stave is referred to as “voices” or “layers”. For a quick overview of how to use Voices [...]
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MuseScore 1.1 Released
Posted on 04. Aug, 2011 by MuseScoreTips.
You may already know that last week, MuseScore version 1.1 was released. In addition to more than 60 bug fixes, version 1.1 brings a few new features. Some of my favourites are: MuseScore Connect MuseScore Connect is a new interactive panel that appears on the right side of your screen when you launch version 1.1. [...]
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How To Change An Instrument In Your Score [Video]
Posted on 01. Aug, 2011 by MuseScoreTips.
The tenth video in the Quicktips series. This one shows you how to change an instrument in your score: you can alter the name of the stave and the playback sound whilst retaining any notes you may have entered. Video Transcript Hello and welcome to another Quicktips video. Sometimes you might decide to change an [...]
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How To Transpose Your Score [Video]
Posted on 26. Jul, 2011 by MuseScoreTips.
There are times when you need to transpose your score to make it higher or lower than currently written. This video tutorial shows you how. If you’d prefer to read through the instructions, there’s a video transcript below. Video Transcript Hello and welcome to another Quicktips video. Musescore allows you to transpose your score – [...]
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How To Change The Background Color Of Your Score [Video]
Posted on 12. Jul, 2011 by MuseScoreTips.
When people view my videos, they often ask how I managed to change the background color of my score to white. I’ve written about it earlier in a post titled 4 Top Tips for Customising Your MuseScore Experience, but I thought I’d also make a quick video that shows you how. And if you’re after [...]
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Synchronize Your Score With A Youtube Video [Video]
Posted on 08. Jul, 2011 by MuseScoreTips.
On MuseScore’s score-sharing website, MuseScore.com there is a nifty option to create VideoScores – scores that playback in time to a Youtube video. If you’d like to create your own videoscore, take a look at this tutorial video.
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How To Set The Playback Tempo Of Your Score [Video]
Posted on 17. Jun, 2011 by MuseScoreTips.
The latest Quicktips video shows you the best way to set the playback tempo of your score: by using a tempo text marking. A full transcript appears below the video. Video Transcript Hello and welcome to another Quicktips video. In MuseScore, there are two things that affect the tempo (or speed) of your score: The [...]
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User Spotlight: Kristel Behrend (North Carolina, USA)
Posted on 15. Jun, 2011 by MuseScoreTips.
Kristel Behrend (pictured dressed as her favourite book character, Rita Skeeter, for Read Across America Week) is a Elementary general music teacher at Lake Myra Elementary School in Wendel, North Carolina who is also studying to get her masters at ECU. She stumbled across MuseScore during an internet search and has been using it for just over 8 [...]
