Hello! By popular request, we continue our orchestration theme this month. So you can expect more demonstrations and analyses, and more projects to work on. Moving beyond the somewhat structured exercises we did last month, we'll be tackling more open-ended / creative projects this month. If you'd like to participate, be sure to join as a Gold-level member!

Mastering MuseScore

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MuseScore Café

This 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 Week

MuseScore Studio supports a variety of different types of text "out of the box", but one thing it is missing is an "annotation" - a note you write to yourself or someone else studying the score that isn't necessarily meant to be "part" of the score. Traditionally, these might done with a yellow background, to look like sticky notes and stand out from the rest of the text. In this video post, I show you how to create this effect using the built-in staff text type and custom properties you can set.

Musicianship

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Music Master Class

This week in the Music Master Class with Marc Sabatella, we check out orchestration projects submitted by Gold-level members.

In Theory

When orchestrating a piece that was originally written for piano, you are often faced with accompaniment patterns that fit the piano well but don't necessarily translate well to other instruments. At least, not any one single instrument. In this video post, I demonstrate a technique for splitting one particular accompaniment figure into two separate parts to be played by two instruments. Similar approaches can be used for other patterns.