music notation software
Jan 3rd 2008retroDanmiscellaneous
I was over at a friend of mine’s place who plays bass and is also the musical director of a house band at one of the local venues here in town and he was showing me some of his latest work. he works up his own demos using Reason and ProTools like most musicians but he also prints out all his arrangements using Finale® music notation software. He’s pretty thorough and demands precision when his live band learns his new songs and obviously writing out all the parts for his musicians helps out in that department. I personally haven’t used the software but I could imagine if I had to teach my band some complex jazz-fusion type parts, Finale® would come in handy. From what he was showing me, I was pretty impressed with what you can do with it. Not only is it a great music engraving tool, it can also incorporate audio as the score is shown on the screen. it’s not as labor intensive as it could be if it was all done on paper so it’s definitely a great tool to use when writing out your music.