This past weekend, Philip Rothman held two Sibelius training sessions in New York City. I got in touch with Philip to ask him how the sessions had gone. “It was a great day!” he said. “About half of the participants brought laptops to follow along with the exercises. The others followed along with handouts I […]
If you’re looking for the highest-quality marching percussion sounds available, then look no further than Tapspace Virtual Drumline, the most comprehensive set of sampled sounds for marching band and drum corps percussion. Percussion notation is famously complex, and even more so when you’re writing for a whole ensemble of instruments with dozens, if not hundreds, […]
Practical advice from an expert arranger is worth its weight in gold, and my pal John Hinchey, both a talented trombonist and a successful arranger based in Nashville, is sharing his wisdom on his blog, Notes on Notes, which I commend to you. He’s currently posting an invaluable multi-part tutorial about producing effective drum charts in […]
Back in June I wrote a short series of posts about lyrics in Sibelius. In the first of those posts I wrote about Sibelius’s unique feature that allows you to flow lyrics from a text file directly into your score in a single operation. Now Dr Tom Rudolph has dedicated a post on his Making […]
Back in April I talked to arranger and multi-instrumentalist Gil Goldstein about his collaboration with Bobby McFerrin at this summer’s Lübeck Music Festival, which ended a couple of weeks ago. Now, courtesy of Czwórka Polskie Radio 4, some concert footage has surfaced on YouTube, and offers a chance to hear Gil and Bobby talk about their […]
My friend and former colleague Bruce Munson got in touch to let me know that he will be running two more Sibelius training sessions at the Marin Youth Center in Marin County, CA this coming October. On 2 October, between 9am and 4pm, Bruce will be running an Intermediate to Advanced Sibelius training session: A […]
Plug-in guru Bob Zawalich has outdone himself with his latest plug-in, Add Fingering to Notes. This rather ingenious plug-in allows you to add fingering to your guitar or keyboard music in record time, with no need for manual repositioning of the resulting fingering numbers or text. The video above (no need to adjust your speakers: […]
This tutorial was contributed by Robert Puff, orchestrator, arranger, copyist and Sibelius user. For more information about Robert, check out his company’s web site. If you’ve ever worked on the same project using two different computers, you may have wondered if there was a way to synchronize not only your scores, but your settings in […]
Sibelius has been nominated in the Music category for German web site Softwareload.de’s Software of the Year 2010 awards. Until 30 September, the awards’ organisers are inviting users of all of the nominated products to vote for their favourites, and then the eventual winners will be picked by a jury of prominent figures from the […]
The nominations for the 2010 Latin Grammy Awards were announced yesterday, and among the nominations for Best Classical Album is the first album of chamber music from Cuban American composer, Yalil Guerra, entitled Old Havana. Yalil has been featured on the blog before, so I got in touch with him to ask him about the […]