This newsletter is for Pueblo musicians - to keep us all connected and informed about opportunities.
Not *quite* so simple
Hello, and thanks yet again to everyone who attended the MuseScore 4 Jump Start workshop! If you missed it live, or want to review, just click here for the recording. 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 first-Wednesday "ask me anything" series. Come with your questions and I'll do my best to answer!
Tip of the WeekSince we're starting to dive into non-diatonic chords in the Harmony and Chord Progressions course this week, I thought I'd give you some tips on accidentals. In this video post, I show how to enter them and discuss the meaning and value of "courtesy" accidentals. 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, we will be looking at some diatonic harmonizations done for the Harmony and Chord Progressions course and how one can extend them with secondary dominants. This will be a session you don't want to miss (and as always, it will be recorded).
In TheoryA few weeks ago, I demonstrated a "surprisingly simple" approach to playing songs from a lead sheet on the piano - melody in the right hand, bass note (usually the root) in the left, and at most one additional note where needed to define the chord. It works, but is obviously still pretty bare-bones. In this video post, I show you how to take this to the next level by playing full chords that are distributed between your hands. |
Until next time, keep making music! c/o ConvertKit, 113 CHERRY ST #92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2205 |
Outside Shore Music / Mastering MuseScore
This newsletter is for Pueblo musicians - to keep us all connected and informed about opportunities.
Hello! This week in the Musicianship Workshop, we start creating compositions based on a model provided by an existing work of our choice. This project will be our focus for the remainder of the month. This ongoing workshop is becoming a pretty exciting thing, and people are learning a lot and enjoying the process. We'd love to have you as a part of it as well! If you'd like to join us, please become a Gold-level member of the Outside Shore Music community, and then head to the workshop to...
Hello! As I mentioned last week, I'm making some changes to how subscriptions work in the Outside Shore Music community. Those of you who have accounts on the site but no active subscriptions should already have received a message from me regarding this. Those of you with active subscriptions are not affected. For those of you who don't have accounts on the site already, I'd still love to have you join us, and I'll send out some more info later. This week in the Musicianship Workshop space,...
Hello! As September gives way to October and the leaves start changing here in the Northern hemisphere (and start appearing in the Southern), there are a few changes here in the world of Outside Shore Music also that I'd like to let you know about. First, as I have indicated recently, I have now enabled a new "gamification" feature for the Outside Shore Music community site. The idea is to incentivize engagement - and yes, I know how buzzwordy that sounds, but it's an accurate description....