It’s summer in New York City, which means visits to the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Central Park, Yankees (and Mets) games, and of course, our Sibelius training sessions. You won’t read about it in the tourist guides, but our workshop is just as fun as all of the standard stops, and more educational […]
“Speculative fiction” blog SF Signal recently interviewed New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster (pictured right), author of more than 110 science fiction books. His most recent book is Predators I Have Known, an autobiography. One interesting snippet in the interview is as follows: CT: Do you plan on writing more nonfiction in the […]
My post linking to James Humberstone’s Learn Sibelius in one hour videos remains the most often-viewed post on this blog after more than 18 months. Now James has written an ebook to accompany the videos, and it’s available as a Kindle book on Amazon. Weighing in at a svelte 60 pages, James’s book covers the […]
My friend and former colleague Richard Payne has just launched his new web site, Double Sharp Training, to promote his Sibelius training service. If you’re based in the UK and want to arrange some training on Sibelius, Richard would be an excellent choice. Richard is also the man behind the Sibelius Essentials tutorial video application […]
Educator and blogger Chad Criswell, whose site is MusicEdMagic.com, has posted a review of the new version of Sibelius Student, and says: Sibelius Student has greatly improved its utility as an educational tool for both classroom and home use. He concludes: Sibelius Student is an excellent value and provides an excellent set of included features […]
The Sibelius tutorials continue to come thick and fast! My friend Richard Payne, who worked with us at Sibelius for many years, contacted me today to let me know that he has devised a set of 10 tutorial videos for Sibelius 6 packaged up as an app to download from the iTunes App Store. Called […]
The fine folks at MacProVideo.com have just launched a series of tutorial videos for Sibelius 6, devised and hosted by Sibelius ambassador Gary Atkins. The tutorials are split into four sections, lasting more than three hours in total, and taking you through the creation of a lead sheet, from starting a score all the way […]
If you’re within easy reach of London and have Sibelius 4 or later, you may be interested in spending an afternoon at Somerset House in the company of Neil Luck, a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and an editor and engraver for Faber Music. Neil will be running a Sibelius workshop on Tuesday 16 […]