This newsletter is for Pueblo musicians - to keep us all connected and informed about opportunities.
More "coming soon"...
|
Hello! A little bird tells me a new update 4.0.2 is coming soon, so keep your eye out for that! It should fix most remaining critical issues in MuseScore 4, and make some further improvements to engraving. Meanwhile, there are still some features from MuseScore 3 that are missing, and work is ongoing to address this for MuseScore 4.1, which I'd expect to see later in the year. I am also working on devising workarounds to as many as possible; check this week's tip of the week for one example! 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. Ask your questions in the live chat and I'll do my best to answer!
Notation ProjectThis week, it's time to wrap up our work on our choral piece - see the full post here. Tip of the WeekMuseScore has a number of shortcuts for navigation during chord symbol entry - to move to the next note, beat, measure, etc. I have talked before about some changes made for MuseScore 4 (mostly made in order to meet accessibility standards), but unfortunately some of these changes have broken certain shortcuts on certain systems. While we wait for solutions, luckily, there are workarounds. For details, see the full post here. 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 wrap up our month-long project on chord voicings with a look at some examples of how these techniques are applied in practice.
Musicianship ProjectLearn to play your chord voicings using typical jazz rhythms - see the full post here. In Theoryt was almost exactly three years ago that I launched my first online music course, Basic Music Theory. This was right at the start of the pandemic and there was a flurry of interest in online courses - but that soon turned into complete burnout for many people. So I know there are many of you out there who enrolled but never really completed the course. I also know there are many more who weren't around here then and may have missed out entirely. Of course, being a "basic" theory course (covering the fundamentals of pitch, rhythm, notation, scales, intervals, and chords), I know it's really just review for many of you. Although even so, I also know there are bits of insight here and there that would be of interest to just about everyone. I'd love to hear your feedback - feel free to comment on the full post here. |
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....