My first Arrangement

[jcardana]

Originally Posted by Sherry C

Howdy,

Wow - that's some first arrangement! I'm thinking it must be the first one you did with Composer, not the first one you've ever done

Nope, first one EVER... kinda... I play the organ so I do make arrangements, but I've never done anything like this before.

From what I'm hearing, this should work well as a band arrangement. I'd be interested to hear a bit more background about the band and what you're doing with them.

You're right, it's for my dad's band, the Amador County Community Band - http://www.accband.org/ My dad complains he's always having to transpose his music (French Horn). I'm not really affiliated with the band except that I record their performances and make cd's so dad can hand them out to the members.

When I switched to Page view, I noticed that the individual parts all scored nicely, but the conductor's score was "squished" at the top.

Yeah, I noticed that too.

It looked like the staves had all been shifted to where they overlapped with the heading text. I just clicked on the Layout tab, then Page layout, and 'grabbed' the red square in the middle of the top staff. I then dragged the whole notation portion of the score down so it wasn't overlapping the heading text anymore. It all looks great - you did a really nice job with this!

Thanks, now I know how to fix it. I've been "playing" with this software for a few days now and am still learning the techniques.

I don't play any of these instruments, so I'll leave it to others to comment about playability and such.

My dad's going to review the individual instruments and provide some guidance. After I get the music to the band members, I'll get much more feedback on what they want.

But if I were sitting in the stands (eg. for a half-time show at a football game), I think I'd really enjoy this performance

Thanks so much for the positive critizism.

I'm still making minor changes for tempo and volumes and such. You may have noticed the flute and Piccolo are way too loud compared to the trombones and horns, but I'm tweaking them.