I knew a bit about music notation from being in a liturgical boys choir where I learned to sight-sing soprano treble clef music notation-and only soprano treble clef.

īig Band, Country Western, Rock and Roll, Heavy Metal, Rhythm and Blues, Polka, Classical, Symphonic, Baroque, and Ska? It's like Bulgarian buttermilk, salted lemons, pickle juice, and butter beans (a.k.a., 'lima beans') in the sense that if you are introduced to these treats as a child under five years-old, then they become lifelong gourmet pleasures but otherwise mostly are categorized as being horrible or inedible. I started with Musescore in 2010 when I was exploring the possibility of using music notation and something called a 'virtual instrument' to create a Flamenco percussion pattern, since while I play drums, Flamenco rhythm patterns made, and for the most part continue to make, zero intuitive sense to me. There is a bit of overlap but (a) nothing beats NOTION for performance and (b) nothing beats the others for elaborate engraving-observing that I have not done anything with MuseScore in a decade (at which time it was primitive) and never have used Dorico. I think it's accurate to say (a) Dorico, Finale, MuseScore, and Sibelius primarily are engraving tools, while (b) NOTION primarily is a performance tool that does engraving at a reasonable level of complexity. NOTION does not open native Sibelius files, but it imports and exports MusicXML. I'm thinking of switching, but can Notion open Sibelius files & if so, are they accurately converted? Rick Bell wroteBeen using Sibelius for transcriptions.

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