My name is Marc Sabatella, and I am the founder of Outside Shore Music - a pioneer of online music education since the dawn of the web. As the creator of Mastering MuseScore, A Jazz Improvisation Primer, and other resources, I have dedicated most of my life to helping as many musicians as I can. Subscribe to my free newsletter for MuseScore tips, theory insights, and more information on how to create your best music!
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Hello! The Basic Music Theory spring cohort is now underway, so if you already enrolled, click here to access the course. I'm closing the door for further enrollments at the end of the day today. If you've been considering joining us, this is your last chance - click here to enroll now. In other news, MuseScore 4.0.2 released this week as well - see the Tip of the Week below for more information. Mastering MuseScoreFor the ultimate guide to the world's most popular music notation software, see my online course Mastering MuseScore 4. MuseScore CaféThis week in the MuseScore Café with Marc Sabatella, we continue our third-Wednesday "score of the month" series with a look at the theme music from the Music Master Class, which is our current notation project. The free MuseScore Café is live on Wednesday at 12:30 PM Eastern (16:30 GMT, or 17:30 during the winter months), and you can access past episodes in the archive. Notation ProjectThis month we're working on the short string quartet piece Symphosium that you may recognize as the theme music for the Music Master Class. See the full post here. Tip of the WeekThis week's tip is very simple: download 4.0.2, which fixes a whole bunch of bugs and introduces some further engraving improvements. Here is the full release announcement. For more info on how to update - or how to install MuseScore 4 if you haven't done so already - see the my post here. Musicianship SkillsIf you want to learn more about music - theory, composition, improvisation, and more - become a Gold level member and receive access to all of our music courses as well as exclusive benefits like my weekly Office Hours. Music Master ClassThis week in the Music Master Class with Marc Sabatella, I'll be going over coursework from the first week of the Basic Music Theory course, and talking some more about the subjects of music notation and pitch in particular. The free Music Master Class is live on Thursday at 12:30 PM Eastern (16:30 GMT, or 17:30 during the winter months), and you can access past episodes in the archive. Cohort ProjectThe first project for the Basic Music Theory course is an improvisation & composition exercise involving the diatonic pitches. See the full post here. In TheoryIn the very first project for the Basic Music Theory course, I already sneak in something that would normally be thought of as a much more advanced topic: the hypodorian mode. Not that I use this term explicitly in the lesson, but that's what it is about. I don't pretend to be an early music scholar, but see the full post here for more on this topic. |
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by Marc Sabatella
My name is Marc Sabatella, and I am the founder of Outside Shore Music - a pioneer of online music education since the dawn of the web. As the creator of Mastering MuseScore, A Jazz Improvisation Primer, and other resources, I have dedicated most of my life to helping as many musicians as I can. Subscribe to my free newsletter for MuseScore tips, theory insights, and more information on how to create your best music!
Hello, hello! This week in Practical Counterpoint, we begin the section on imitation, so you can look forward to hearing much about that. This week I also am starting the ball rolling towards crowd-sourcing a library of high-quality scores in MuseScore format. We'll discuss this during Wednesday's MuseScore Café, and hopefully return to the subject in the weeks ahead. My goal is to eventually have a reliable way of finding the "best" MuseScore editions of any given piece for further study....
Hello! Thanks for bearing with me over the past week as I was setting up my new studio. While I still have work to do, we should be back to business as usual with respect to my live events.Meanwhile, this week in Practical Counterpoint, we're wrapping up our initial exploration of writing for three or more voices, and in Music Master Class we'll be looking at your projects on this topic. Mastering MuseScore If you are interested in getting the most out of the world's most popular music...
Hello! I wanted to give you a heads up that I am in the process of setting up a new studio, so bear with me if there are any glitches in my live events this week.Meanwhile, this week in the Practical Counterpoint course, we're continuing to expand to three parts and beyond. I'll be posting some new things for us to work on shortly. Mastering MuseScore If you are interested in getting the most out of the world's most popular music notation software, join our community with a Mastering...