Video tutorials - let's make a list!

[Sherry C]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the kind words

The "Page Layout for printing" is now on the wish list. As I mentioned, I'll try to get as many of these done as possible as quickly as I can. They're a bit "rough and ready", because I figure folks wouldn't mind less "polish" if they could at least get a good idea about how to do things quickly.

ttfn,
Sherry

Originally Posted by Jellyall

Hi Sherry,

Just reviewed the first tutorial - very well done and I think that's a perfect start for Notation users

One suggestion I have for the 'wish list' is a tutorial on setting up the printed page .... page size, page breaks, page titles etc.

Kind Regards .... Richard

[Sherry C]

Hi friends,

Here's the current status on tutorial videos. Please note that the order of topics is not necessarily the order they will get done in

Done - Setting up your workspace - menus, (moveable) toolbars, palettes, playlists

Done - Transcription options - what are they, why do they matter, and how do I change them for opening a file or for recording a new file. (and re-transcribing after opening a file)

Done - Lyric entry - How-to guide for syllable-by-syllable Maybe a trouble-shooting guide as well.

Done - Lyric entry - copy/pasting from text files, and multiple verse entry.

Done - Lyric editing - changing font, size, etc.

Done - Transpositions - explanation of the two different types (Actual pitches/instrument transpositions), and how to do each.

Note entry methods - show each one, including changing pitch and accidentals
Done - 1. using a mouse
2. Step-time recording
3. "live" time recording - and mention with or without metronome

Page Layout for printing - "One suggestion I have for the 'wish list' is a tutorial on setting up the printed page .... page size, page breaks, page titles etc. Kind Regards .... Richard"

Creating an upbeat measure (could use a better video than the one on YouTube)

Music symbols in the score

Using the Rebar feature - recording a new file or using a "found" file recorded without a metronome, and then fixing the barlines to give usable sheet music.

Two-hand recording in Notation Composer, and splitting hands for keyboard staves for easy two-hand piano parts.

Creating Piano reductions from multi-instrument files.

Graph Over Notes - using this feature to affect the performance of a file, eg. for creating backing tracks or for demonstrating what your performance annotations are intended to do to the performance of the piece by real musicians.

Saving/exporting filetypes (and "printing" PDFs)
Parts - what is the difference between "part" and "staff", and how to create parts.

If you have suggestions, please feel free to make them

ttfn,
Sherry

[inspired]

Hi Sherry

I think the Video Tutorials are a great idea! especially for someone like myself with little Musical knowledge. I really would like to see a video on "How To Copy and Paste Different Instrument Parts in a Midi" I so often get really stuck when I try to do this, and even if I manage to get part way there, as soon as I then try to have the score display in "Easy Notes" I end up with the basic score!

Have a Great Day!

Kind regards

Inspired

[mgj32]

Hi Sherry,
After all these years of using MidiNotate and Notation, the most helpful thing for me would be an explanation/demonstration of getting melisma dashes to continue on the next page. I've never been able to make this work. Perhaps trouble shooting in Lyric Entry would be a good place for it.

all best,
mgj

[Sherry C]

Hi,

Thanks for the input here! These types of replies are what help me to know what folks want

Originally Posted by inspired

I really would like to see a video on "How To Copy and Paste Different Instrument Parts in a Midi" I so often get really stuck when I try to do this, and even if I manage to get part way there, as soon as I then try to have the score display in "Easy Notes" I end up with the basic score!

I've been thinking of doing a tutorial on "note and score editing", which would include copying and pasting regions. I've also been thinking of doing one specifically on Parts and using the "Prepare Part" wizard, which would include the "Easy Notes". I'll add a vote to bump those up in priority (FWIW, these topics are both covered in the Users Guide;you can go to Help/Users Guide and use the Index to look up "copy and paste" and "Easy notes" respectively. That said, I know the value of a video step-by-step demonstration, too )

Originally Posted by mgj32

After all these years of using MidiNotate and Notation, the most helpful thing for me would be an explanation/demonstration of getting melisma dashes to continue on the next page. I've never been able to make this work. Perhaps trouble shooting in Lyric Entry would be a good place for it.

Melismas are on the "to do" list for improvement, and you do have to do a bit of fanagling at present if the melisma is more than a couple of dashes long, or if it is a "stand alone" melisma (without other letter/number characters).

Short story (til I can get a tutorial shot):
Melismas are treated as Lyric text, and thus are associated with a particular note. Therefore, melismas currently won't "break" automatically and then continue on to the next page nor even the next system on a page. You have to enter another "extension" manually to another note in the staff.

You can do this by
(1) in Text/Lyrics (add mode) clicking on the next note location (either the second half of a tied note or the next other-pitch note) to add a "lyric" and
(2) hold the "Shift" key while pressing the space bar (to manually add a space in the lyric, to give something like " --" with a space in front) and then press the "-" key to add more melisma dashes. Adding that space in the beginning will bring the "stand alone" melisma into better vertical alignment with other melismas in the score that are attached to text (eg. "my--").

Also, a melisma currently will stick out (and over other objects) as far as it's dashes ("-") tell it to go. Therefore, you should be in Page View when adding any additional melismas, and you'll need to manually delete some of the dashes if the melisma is too long, or add more if it's too short.

Hopefully the above can get you both going for now, though a picture (or video) is worth a thousand words (I didn't really want to type a thousand words just now, so I'll do the videos hopefully soon ).

Thanks for the input!
Sherry