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Focus on basics

Published 8 days ago • 2 min read

Hello! This week we continue our focus on melody in the Musicianship Workshop space. If you'd like to join us for this month-long exploration of melody, please become a Gold-level member of the Outside Shore Music community, then pop over to the workshop to see what we're up to and get started!

Mastering MuseScore

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MuseScore Café

This week in the MuseScore Café with Marc Sabatella, I am doing a special session for newcomers to MuseScore Studio - especially for folks coming over from other programs such as Finale (RIP). I've give an overview of the program and cover import of existing work via MusicXML and the basics of entering notes and other markings.

The free MuseScore Café is live on Wednesday at 12:30 PM Eastern (16:30 GMT, or 17:30 during the winter months), and you can access past episodes in the archive.

Tip of the Week

MuseScore Studio allows you to create music for ensembles of any size, showing staves for all the instruments on a single score (assuming you've set your staff size small enough and/or page size large enough for them all to fit, in Format / Page settings). But individual musicians seldom read from the full score. Instead, you normally need to create separate parts for each instrument containing just their own staves. In this video post, I demonstrate how to generate the individual parts from your score.

Musicianship

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Music Master Class

This week in the Music Master Class with Marc Sabatella, we continue our exploration of melody a look at music created for the projects in the Musicianship Workshop space.

The free Music Master Class is live on Thursday at 12:30 PM Eastern (16:30 GMT, or 17:30 during the winter months), and you can access past episodes in the archive.

In Theory

There are many different forms a melody can follow in terms of how it develops its motifs. In a previous video, I discussed "period" form, which is very common. Another common form is called a "sentence". In this video post, I demonstrate sentence form using two examples from a Clementi sonatina.

Until next time, keep making music!
Marc Sabatella

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Outside Shore Music / Mastering MuseScore

by Marc Sabatella

My name is Marc Sabatella, and I am the founder of Outside Shore Music - a pioneer of online music education since the dawn of the web. As the creator of Mastering MuseScore, A Jazz Improvisation Primer, and other resources, I have dedicated most of my life to helping as many musicians as I can. Subscribe to my free newsletter for MuseScore tips, theory insights, and more information on how to create your best music!

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