This newsletter is for Pueblo musicians - to keep us all connected and informed about opportunities.
Heard but not seen
Hello, and happy Halloween! The seasons are definitely changing here in Colorado - we just had our first snow. Which also reminds me - there is no time change for us this week, but heads up that next week will see the end of daylight savings time in the US. Meanwhile, in the Harmony and Chord Progressions course, we are in week 9, focusing on diminished chords and pedal point. 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 will do my best to answer!
Tip of the WeekIf you want to have a staff that is seen but not heard, that’s easy - just mute it in the Mixer. But if you want the opposite - a staff that is heard but not seen - it’s a little trickier. This should become simpler when MuseScore 4.2 releases in a couple of months or so. But meanwhile, it is possible, if you know the trick. In this video post, I show you exactly how to hide a staff while still leaving it audible. 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 will be exploring the use of diminished chords in the literature and in some of your projects completed for the Harmony and Chord Progressions course.
In TheoryJazz pianists have hit upon a pretty mind-blowing way of voicing diminished chords using eight different pitches at once. It’s an amazingly rich and “crunchy” sound that might not be what you want all the time, but when it’s right, there is nothing else like it. In this video post, I walk you through the what, how, and why of the combination diminished chord voicing. |
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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....