This newsletter is for Pueblo musicians - to keep us all connected and informed about opportunities.
Starting a new year!
Hello, and happy new year! I'm looking forward to a great 2024, full of music and growth. I'm back to business as usual with my live events this week, and for those of you who are Gold-level members, we'll also be resuming some musical projects - more info on that soon! I'll also take this opportunity to give up a heads-up you may have heard before but I want to remind everyone of. It is very likely that soon I'll be rebranding my site, to reflect the facts that a) what I do isn't just about MuseScore but about music more generally, and b) I operate independently and am not connected to the company that owns MuseScore. There will be other changes coming too - good ones! - and I want to minimize the impact of all this, so I'm proceeding carefully. I also don't want to blindside anyone, so I am trying to be as transparent as possible. 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 WeekOne of my favorite commands from MuseScore 3 that had been missing from MuseScore 4 until now is finally back with version 4.2. This command is one that had not been available very long, and not many people ever knew about it because there was no default shortcut for it. But it's extremely useful, and it's definitely worth your time to learn the command and create a shortcut for it. The command is called “apply current palette element” and it’s great for repeatedly applying a given palette item to multiple selections in your score. In this video post, I demonstrate the command itself and how to define a shortcut for it. 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 be looking at a variety of music and discussing project ideas.
In TheoryI shared this with those of you in the Harmony course just after Christmas, but I thought everyone might like to see it, so I'm reposting here. Although I've heard the passage many times, I recently became aware of how much of an impact a particular harmonization employed by David Willcocks in his arrangement of "O Come All Ye Faithful" has had on the choral world. One chord in particular - the first beat of the line "Word of the Father" - is enough of a "thing" as to have inspired a T-shirt design. In this video post, I explore what is going on harmonically in this passage, and ponder the subject of how harmony can affect us so deeply. |
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....