Dive deeper into Avid Sibelius Ultimate, the professional music notation, layout, sharing, post-production, publishing, and educator tool.
Overview
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
- 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
- The single-document design
- The document tab bar and dynamic parts
- The status bar and page display buttons
- 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
- 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
- Edit selections and deleting staves
- Non-contiguous edit selections
- Focus on staves
- System selections and deleting bars
- 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
- 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
- Challenge: Notation exercise 1
- Solution: Notation exercise 1
- 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
- Working with tuplets
- Creating and extending slurs
- Creating and extending hairpins
- Exploring the Lines gallery
- Changing barline types
- Overview of text styles
- Tempo text
- Expression text
- Technique text
- Creating and editing lyrics
- Creating and editing chord symbols
- Positioning and editing text
- 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
- Challenge: Notation exercise 2
- Solution: Notation exercise 2
- Where to go from here
Taught by
Jenny Amaya