You will create lead sheets, choral and instrumental scores, drum maps and guitar notation, and explore many other ways to use Sibelius for your own personal and professional needs. You will become an independent user of Sibelius, and will learn the skills to find solutions to problems that you encounter in the future. You will also learn to share your Sibelius files with others in a variety of venues and formats.

Upon completing this course, you will have learned to:

• Input notation using the mouse, computer keyboard, and MIDI keyboard.
• Explore shortcuts to speed the note entry process.
• Edit, modify, and customize a variety of lead sheets, scores and parts.
• Apply the current best practices of notation principles in your scores and parts.
• Use plug-ins to enhance the composing and arranging process.
• Use a variety of methods to solve problems and answer questions in Sibelius.
• Share your Sibelius files with others via a variety of methods including PDF, audio and posting to a variety of web sharing options.

Syllabus

Lesson 1 Notating a Single Line Melody

Lesson 2MIDI Entry, Lyrics, and Chords

Lesson 3Time Signatures, Key Signatures, Expressions, and Lines

Lesson 4 Real-Time Note Entry with Flexi-Time

Lesson 5 Polyphony (Voices) and Roadmaps

Lesson 6 Drum Set and Percussion

Lesson 7 Instrument-Specific Notation

Lesson 8 Small Scores and Worksheets

Lesson 9 Score and Parts Formatting

Lesson 10 Playback, Exporting, and Plug-ins

Lesson 11 Large Scores and the Arrange Feature

Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements