Learn to use musescore
Imagine writing your own music! Well you can, using MuseScore. Musescore is a program commonly used to teach music by prestigious, internationally-known music schools and solo music teachers alike. Guitar students use musescore for everything from music fundamentals and simple chord/lyric sheets to complex, multi-part composition.
The musescore organization’s goal is to let musicians from all over the world create and share their works, as well as to make learning music exciting, easy and available for all. If you’re interested in creating your own music, musescore may be the tool for you… and it’s entirely free!
Musescore is available for windows, mac or linux and you can download whichever version you need here:
Much of the work I do with guitar, bass and ukulele students makes use of musescore! It makes learning music very straightforward. And if you’re interested in composing your own music but you don’t play an instrument, that is not a problem!
Let’s chat and see if you might benefit from an online musescore class with me… and the first one is free! Musescore will be especially useful if you are also interested in my “Music Theory for Guitar players” material.
If you’re interested in reading music, Musescore can help with that certainly. But if you’re interested in writing your own music, you can do that right out of the box. Interested? Set up your first free lesson here and learn to use musescore for yourself!
A half-hour, get-acquainted, on line lesson… and it’s FREE!
Click here to reserve your time.
A general outline for your private online or in-person musescore class:.
Week One:
Download the Musescore 4 handbook pdf here.
Create a new score of your own!
Week Two:
reading and modifying existing scores. Moving notation from one score to another
Week Three:
common problems and their solutions. “nuts and bolts” ideas in musescore. Places to go for help
Week Four:
composition for guitar- chords and melody. using and modifying chord diagrams for your scores
Week Five:
Adding tabs to an existing score. correcting,modifying and moving tabs to a new score.
Week Six:
keys, tempo, time signatures and repeats. Common music terms and symbols
Week Seven:
Common chord groupings. writing a melody line over chord changes
Week Eight:
composing “syllabically” from your imagination
Week Nine:
composing “syllabically” from your imagination
Week Ten:
your finished musical composition!
Here are some scores I’ve written in musescore. The program will not only output a pdf of your score, it will also create an accurate audio file (wav, aiff or mp3) of your music!
New Orleans Weekend:
Upside-down in the Boneyard:
Crudo Manana: