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Learn how to create combo and big band arrangements with MuseScore, the leading free & open source notation software. You will create a short big band chart with horn parts (properly transposed) and rhythm section parts (including drum notation), both as a score and as individual parts. This presentation was made by Marc Sabatella for the TIME/JEN conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Fee free to download the presentation and adapt.Download free music notation software MuseScore from http://musescore.org
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Creating Arrangementsusing
2012 TI:ME / JENNational Conference
@MarcSabatella
What Is MuseScore?
90% of the power of Finale or Sibelius for 0% of the price!
• Create, playback, and print sheet music for free• Open source• Cross-platform: Windows, MacOS, Linux• Multilingual: over 30 languages• WYSIWYG• Unlimited staves, four voices per staff• Part creation• Dynamics, articulations, lyrics, chords, lead sheet notation• Import/export of MusicXML and MIDI• Export of PDF and WAV• Online score sharing
Installation
Program• Download: http://musescore.org• Install: http://musescore.org/en/handbook/installation
Plugins• Download: http://musescore.org/en/plugins• Install: http://musescore.org/en/handbook/plugins• Recommendation: Slash, Add Staff, Explode/Implode
SoundFonts• Download: http://musescore.org/en/handbook/soundfont• Install: same• Recommendation: FluidR3
Create New Score From Template
• File->New
• Title, Composer, Lyricist ("Score"), Copyright• Create new score from template
• Jazz Big Band
• Key signature
• Time Signature, Pickup Measure, Measures
Create New Score From Scratch
• File->New
• Title, Composer, Lyricist ("Score"), Copyright• Create new score from scratch
• Add and order instruments• Hint: use two instruments of one staff each for piano
• Key signature
• Time Signature, Pickup Measure, Measures
Score Setup I
Style->Load Style->MuseJazz
Style->Edit General Style->Chordnames• cchords_muse: ma7, mi7, mi7b5, o7• cchords_nrb: ma7, mi7, mi7(b5), o7• cchords_rb: maj7, -7, -7b5, o7• cchords_sym: Δ, -7, ø, o7• stdchords: Maj7, m7, m7b5, dim7• jazzchords: ma7, mi7, mi7b5, dim7
Style->Edit Text Style• Font, Offset
Score Setup II
Instrument names• Right click, Staff Properties
Size and spacing• Layout->Page Settings
o Space, Landscape• Style->Edit General Style->Page
o Staff distance, System distance, Page fill threshold
Concert pitch
Note Entry & Editing
Note entry: numbers for duration, letters for pitch
All editing is "replace mode"
Copy / cut / paste
Explode plugin
Grace Notes
Adding and hiding staves
Text
Tempo Text
Staff Text
System Text
Rehearsal Marks
Lyrics
Markings
Articulations
Dynamics
Crescendo/Diminuendo
Slurs
Clefs, Key and Time Signatures
Clefs• Use treble8 clef for tenor sax, bass clef for bari
Key Signatures
Time Signatures
Alternate Notation
Slash Notation
Rhythmic Notation
Accent Notation
Cue Notes
Drum Notation
Playback
Recommended SoundFont: FluidR3
Jazz: Swing, Chord Symbols
Mixer
"Crescendo or Diminuendo Note Velocities" plugin
Use note properties to suppress playback of passages
Add playback-only staves for rhythm section instruments
Add staves for doubles
Proofing
Turn off concert pitch
Set treble clef for tenor and bari sax
Check enharmonic spelling
Add courtesy accidentals
Creating Parts
File->Save As: "parts score"
Layout->Page Settings: Page Size, Scaling
Delete "Score" from upper left
File->Parts• New• Name, Title, Instrument (include doubles)• Create Part• Include "print score" with all but playback-only staves
Processing Parts
Save
Style->Edit General Style->Hide empty staves if using doubles
Right click to left of first staff, delete instrument nameInsert horizontal frame if indent desired
Check line layout
Check shape of slurs, position of elements
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