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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 8, 2021 0:41:54 GMT
If so, what program?
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Post by zontar on Feb 8, 2021 2:00:16 GMT
I have considered it but never actually bought one
I did try a free one but I don’t remember the name
It was more work than writing it out by hand
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 8, 2021 2:43:58 GMT
I use Finale. There is a steep learning curve but once you get the hang of it, it goes much quicker. I often use it to figure out complicated rhythms in melodies I don't know so I can play it back
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Post by Bill h on Feb 9, 2021 2:21:06 GMT
What does music notation software do?
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 9, 2021 2:38:11 GMT
What does music notation software do? On the most basic level it lets you input the melody to print or play back. For guitar players like us, the value is probably more adding the lyrics and the chord names over the measures. Obviously the complexity goes up from there and you can add harmony parts or even capture an entire symphony with 100 parts of you want to. I will never need that level of functionality. I use it for a lot of things like listening to unfamiliar melodies that I can't work out from sheet music or transposing parts into other keys, which is important when you are writing music for instruments that play in different keys. For example a C for trumpet is a Bb for guitars so they can't use the same sheet music |
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 9, 2021 9:00:08 GMT
Not me. If on the odd chance any of my simplistic originals were published then I suppose I would try some.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 9, 2021 12:28:24 GMT
Not me. If on the odd chance any of my simplistic originals were published then I suppose I would try some. In my case it just isn't a good option not to. When my son's band started 9 years ago when he was 9, I used to print all the charts out from fake books. Sometimes I got the lead sheets from a website called Wikiphonia (which no longer exists). Often I could only get those songs in one key so I would have to hand write in the chords for the C parts for myself. Any changes to the arrangements, like changing repeats or where solos were supposed to be would have to be hand written. Trouble ensued more than once where things has been scratched out and rewritten so many times that the roadmap to the song simply wasn't clear and legible and I would sometimes get confused as to what section to play next. As the only chorded instrument in the band, if I am playing the wrong chords, it sinks the front line completely. Music notation software for me was the only option because it allowed me to clean up messy written arrangements and allowed the flexibility that if we ever change a song's roadmap, I can simply print out new parts. I still have a few of the old arrangements floating around in set lists for our older books, but most I have cleaned up |
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