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Sibelius Ultimate 2019 Essential Training: The Basics

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Overview

Dive deeper into Avid Sibelius Ultimate, the professional music notation, layout, sharing, post-production, publishing, and educator tool.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Discovering Sibelius
  • What to know before taking this course
  • Choosing the right Sibelius for you
  • Installing and launching Sibelius
  • How to use the exercise files
  • Challenge overview
1. Navigating and Understanding the Interface
  • The Sibelius Quick Start window
  • Opening, closing, and quitting
  • Exploring the score page
  • Using escape, undo, and redo
  • Navigating through the score
  • Zooming in and out
  • Important single-key shortcuts
  • System breaks and page breaks
  • Saving your score
  • Setting essential preferences
2. Getting to Know the Score Window
  • The single-document design
  • The document tab bar and dynamic parts
  • The status bar and page display buttons
3. A Closer Look at the Interface
  • Exploring ribbon tabs and view options
  • Understanding Magnetic Layout
  • Marking, coloring, and reviewing your score
  • Working with panels
  • The Timeline panel
  • Quick access to the ribbon
4. Playback Basics
  • Getting sound out of Sibelius
  • Sibelius sounds and configurations
  • Playback devices and configurations
  • Playback preferences
  • Basic playback features
  • Replay and loop playback
  • The transport controls
  • The Sibelius Mixer
5. Selection
  • Edit selections and deleting staves
  • Non-contiguous edit selections
  • Focus on staves
  • System selections and deleting bars
6. Creating a New Score and Inputting Score Objects
  • The New Score setup window: Part 1
  • Time signatures and beam and rest groups
  • The New Score setup Window: Part 2
  • After the score appears
  • Inputting and editing key signatures
  • Inputting and editing time signatures
  • Inputting and adjusting clefs
7. Note Input
  • Getting familiar with the keypad
  • Mouse Note Input and snap positions
  • Inputting ties, articulations, and accidentals
  • Editing during and after note input
  • Alphanumeric note input
  • Step-time note input
  • Re-inputting pitches
  • Multiple voices and inputting voice 2
8. Challenge and Solution 1
  • Challenge: Notation exercise 1
  • Solution: Notation exercise 1
9. Editing, Copying, and Pasting
  • Editing pitches
  • Transposing pitches and key signatures
  • Editing rhythms
  • Cut, copy, paste, and repeat
  • Nudge and slide
  • Rhythms and time signatures
  • filtering, copying, and pasting voice 2
10. Additional Score Objects
  • Working with tuplets
  • Creating and extending slurs
  • Creating and extending hairpins
  • Exploring the Lines gallery
  • Changing barline types
11. Working with Text Styles
  • Overview of text styles
  • Tempo text
  • Expression text
  • Technique text
  • Creating and editing lyrics
  • Creating and editing chord symbols
  • Positioning and editing text
12. Finishing, Printing, Exporting, and Sharing
  • Making your score print-ready
  • Laying out a score in portrait
  • Laying out a score in landscape
  • The Print dialog
  • Score Info and exporting options
  • Sharing options
13. Challenge and Solution 2
  • Challenge: Notation exercise 2
  • Solution: Notation exercise 2
Conclusion
  • Where to go from here

Taught by

Jenny Amaya

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