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Lesson 1: Notating a Single-Staff Melody
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Adding and Deleting Measures; Layout and Formatting

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Applying the Make Layout Uniform Plug-in For-credit tuition: $1,400

Text Book and Video Review Non-credit tuition: $1,200

Add 6 CEUs: $25.00

Lesson 2: Creating a Lead Sheet with Lyrics and Chords Credits: 3

Duration: 12 weeks
Entering Notation Step Time via MIDI
Catalog #: BMW-103
Score Setup (Engraving Rules)
Entering Tempo Text
Entering Triplets Course Faculty

Entering Grace Notes and Multi-note Slurs Tom Rudolph

Entering Lyrics is one of the founding
directors of the
Entering and Editing Chord Symbols
Technology Institute
Changing the Print Size for Music Educators.

Lesson 3: Repeats, Lines, Rehearsal Marks, and Time/Key

Signatures

Your Goals as a Band/Individual

Score Setup: Metronome Mark and Selecting Violin
Time Signature and Key Signature Changes
Rehearsal Marks and System Breaks
Indenting Systems
Entering Notation and Articulations (Keypad)
Breaking Selected Beams
Expressions (entered below the staff)
Repeat Bars and First and Second Endings
Crescendos and Decrescendos (Hairpins) and Rit…..
D.S. al Coda
Changing the Size with Properties
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Lesson 4: Real-Time Note Entry with Flexi-Time

Setting Up the Score for "Saints"

Setting the Flexi-time Options
Recording and Playing Back "Saints"
Deleting Bars and Creating a Blank Score
Recording the Bass Riff
Recording with Two Hands
Changing the Default Note Beaming
Entering Piano Fingerings and Technique Text
Automatic Chord Symbol Plug-in

Lesson 5: Multiple Stave Scores and Worksheets

Starting a Score from Manuscript Paper

Grouping, Brackets, Braces, and Staff Names
Adding and Deleting Staves
Staff Spacing and Location
Viewing Staves
Score Setup and Copy/Paste
Notes Out of Range and Adding Intervals
Transposition (Diatonic and Chromatic)
Formatting Staves
Part Extraction (Dynamic Parts)
Sample Repertoire from Worksheets

Lesson 6: Voices, Polyphony, and Rhythm Section Parts

Setting up the Piano Staff

Voices (Polyphony in a staff)
Editing and Cross Staff Beams
Drum Maps
Entering Drum Set Parts
Slash Marks and Cues
Muting Playback and Editing Drum Maps
Technique Text and Metronome Mark

Lesson 7: Page Formatting, Staff and System Text, Properties

Page Formatting
Changing Noteheads
Bar Numbers and Rehearsal Letters
Articulation Entry
System text
Staff Text
Creating and modifying Word menus
Filter

Lesson 8: Scanning Music with Photoscore Lite; using the

Arrange Feature

Scanning with Photoscore Lite

Re-pitch
The Arrange feature
Customize dynamically linked parts

Lesson 9: Guitar Chord Diagrams, Tablature, Custom Staves, and

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Graphics

Guitar Diagrams
Edit Staff Types
Guitar Tablature and Guitar ASCII Tab
Symbols
Importing custom graphics for use in Sibelius.
Exporting Sibelius notation in graphic format
Music Fonts

Lesson 10: Playback, Saving Audio, and Downloading MIDI files

The Mixer
Performance Playback options
Live Playback and View Velocities
Transfer Live playback
Searching for and opening MIDI files
Playing back with Kontakt Player
Saving in Audio Format - converting to MP3

Lesson 11: Working with Video and Audio

Viewing and Scrolling Video

Hit Points and Time Code
Composing a Piano Accompaniment
Time Manipulation
Expanding into a Complete Arrangement
Importing Audio Files

Lesson 12: Sharing Your Sibelius Files

Sharing PDF files

Sharing MIDI files
Sharing MP3 files
Sibelius Scorch
Create a free website at www.sibeliusmusic.com
Sibelius Support Wrap-up

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