This newsletter is for Pueblo musicians - to keep us all connected and informed about opportunities.
MuseScore 4 workshop coming soon!
Hello! As I announced last week, I will be conducting a live MuseScore 4 workshop on Saturday, September 23 (half-day, 11 AM - 3 PM Eastern time). It is intended primarily for newcomers to MuseScore or anyone who feels they are struggling with basics like note input and page formatting. The workshop will be free for all current students in Mastering MuseScore 4, so be sure to enroll today if you are not already! I'll be sending out more information soon. 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, I demonstrate the creation of SATB arrangements and theory exercises. We will focus on the basics of note input and editing using multiple voices as well as other topics that come up in this context.
Tip of the WeekWe all make msitakes (and I swear I didn’t make that one on purpose). When errors creep into our work, we need to know how to fix them. A common question that comes up with MuseScore is, how to delete a spurious note or rest and move the following notes over. There is a simple solution, but it isn’t always obvious at first: cut and paste. In this video post, I show you how to accomplish that. 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 discuss work done on the projects for the Harmony and Chord Progressions course, and I'll answer your questions.
In TheoryJazz musicians often use the term “avoid tone” to mean a particular type of dissonance that we try to, well, avoid. It doesn’t mean we don’t use these notes at all, but we try not to make them too prominent. The same concept applies to arranging music in other genres, and also to reharmonizing melodies - we should be careful about choosing chords that turn prominent melody notes into avoid tones. In this video post, I illustrate this idea using the most common example: the fourth over a major chord. |
Until next time, keep making music! 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....