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Fascinating Rhythm
Hello! This week we continue working on rhythm in Basic Music Theory, so you'll hear me focusing on that. It turns out the song Fascinating Rhythm (George & Ira Gershwin) entered the public domain not so long ago. So, I'll be using it as an example where I find opportunities! BTW, in case you're wondering - I Got Rhythm enters the pubic domain soon as well. But, while an incredibly infleuntial song harmonically, it's actually not as interesting rhythmically! Mastering MuseScoreFor the ultimate guide to the world's most popular music notation software, see my online course Mastering MuseScore 4. MuseScore CaféThis week in the MuseScore Café with Marc Sabatella, we continue our first-Wednesday "ask me anything" series. Come with your questions, and I'll do my best to answer!
Tip of the WeekWhen entering notes into MuseScore, we normally select the duration first, then the pitch. That is built into how MuseScore works. But that doesn't mean it isn't possible to change the duration of a note after entering it. There are several ways of doing this, depending on whether you want to do it while still in note input mode or after returning to normal mode, whether or not you want to move subsequent notes earlier/later in response to the duration change, and if you want to change just a single note or an entire passage (say, to double the durations of all notes).
Musicianship SkillsIf you want to learn more about music - theory, composition, improvisation, and more - become a Gold level member and receive access to all of our music courses as well as exclusive benefits like my weekly Office Hours. Music Master ClassThis week in the Music Master Class with Marc Sabatella, we'll continue with the coursework on rhythm from Basic Music Theory, and dig deeper into the fundamental rhythmic patterns and how they relate to notation rules.
In TheoryAs an adjunct to the Let It Be project for the Basic Music Theory course, here is a video showing my process for transcribing rhythms by ear, using the first lines of the song Fascinating Rhythm (Tony Bennett / Diana Krall recording): |
Until next time, keep making music! Marc Sabatella c/o ConvertKit, 113 CHERRY ST #92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2205 |
Outside Shore Music / Mastering MuseScore
This newsletter is for Pueblo musicians - to keep us all connected and informed about opportunities.
Hello! This week in the Musicianship Workshop, we start creating compositions based on a model provided by an existing work of our choice. This project will be our focus for the remainder of the month. This ongoing workshop is becoming a pretty exciting thing, and people are learning a lot and enjoying the process. We'd love to have you as a part of it as well! If you'd like to join us, please become a Gold-level member of the Outside Shore Music community, and then head to the workshop to...
Hello! As I mentioned last week, I'm making some changes to how subscriptions work in the Outside Shore Music community. Those of you who have accounts on the site but no active subscriptions should already have received a message from me regarding this. Those of you with active subscriptions are not affected. For those of you who don't have accounts on the site already, I'd still love to have you join us, and I'll send out some more info later. This week in the Musicianship Workshop space,...
Hello! As September gives way to October and the leaves start changing here in the Northern hemisphere (and start appearing in the Southern), there are a few changes here in the world of Outside Shore Music also that I'd like to let you know about. First, as I have indicated recently, I have now enabled a new "gamification" feature for the Outside Shore Music community site. The idea is to incentivize engagement - and yes, I know how buzzwordy that sounds, but it's an accurate description....