{"id":1980,"date":"2015-07-29T19:43:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T00:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2015-07-29T19:43:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T00:43:25","slug":"software-for-music-documentation-musescore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2015\/07\/software-for-music-documentation-musescore\/","title":{"rendered":"Software For Music Documentation: MuseScore"},"content":{"rendered":"

After completing a short, there are always a few after-the-fact items I need to tackle (in addition to getting a little R&R). One of the more time consuming things is documenting\/ scoring the music I had written. For my guitar pieces, I tend to scribble down the general rhythm along with any lead parts I\u00c2\u00a0feel are deserving.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t take very long; but for pieces written\/ recorded with my MIDI Keyboard, I do a more formal transcription. In the past, I have done these by hand… on a sheet of paper with a ruler and pen. It is pretty time intensive but worth the effort. However, this time around, I used a scorewriter – specifically, MuseScore. Below is a screenshot of the program.<\/p>\n

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Overall, I was very pleased with my experience using the program. Not only was it free, which is always a good thing, but it greatly sped the process up. Despite being open source, it was fairly easy to use and had a lot of capabilities to address the various types of compositions I wanted to document.<\/p>\n

Plus, it resulted in neater output files. MuseScore is able to output to a PDF, which easily gave me an digital copy of my music.\u00c2\u00a0The only downside was that it did take a little time to figure out the basics of the program (along with its shortcut keys), but they had a solid online Help Doc to get me up to speed.<\/p>\n

Needless to say,\u00c2\u00a0I definitely plan on doing future transcriptions digitally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After completing a short, there are always a few after-the-fact items I need to tackle (in addition to getting a little R&R). One of the more time consuming things is documenting\/ scoring the music I had written. For my guitar pieces, I tend to scribble down the general rhythm along with any lead parts I\u00c2\u00a0feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,111],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-musescore","tag-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}