Sibelius Ultimate 2019 Essential Training: The Basics

Dive deeper into Avid Sibelius Ultimate, the professional music notation, layout, sharing, post-production, publishing, and educator tool.

Introduction

• Discovering Sibelius
• What to know before taking this course
• Choosing the right Sibelius for you
• Installing and launching Sibelius
• How to use the exercise files
• Challenge overview

1. Navigating and Understanding the Interface

• The Sibelius Quick Start window
• Opening, closing, and quitting
• Exploring the score page
• Using escape, undo, and redo
• Navigating through the score
• Zooming in and out
• Important single-key shortcuts
• System breaks and page breaks
• Saving your score
• Setting essential preferences

2. Getting to Know the Score Window

• The single-document design
• The document tab bar and dynamic parts
• The status bar and page display buttons

3. A Closer Look at the Interface

• Exploring ribbon tabs and view options
• Understanding Magnetic Layout
• Marking, coloring, and reviewing your score
• Working with panels
• The Timeline panel
• Quick access to the ribbon

4. Playback Basics

• Getting sound out of Sibelius
• Sibelius sounds and configurations
• Playback devices and configurations
• Playback preferences
• Basic playback features
• Replay and loop playback
• The transport controls
• The Sibelius Mixer

5. Selection

• Edit selections and deleting staves
• Non-contiguous edit selections
• Focus on staves
• System selections and deleting bars

6. Creating a New Score and Inputting Score Objects

• The New Score setup window: Part 1
• Time signatures and beam and rest groups
• The New Score setup Window: Part 2
• After the score appears
• Inputting and editing key signatures
• Inputting and editing time signatures
• Inputting and adjusting clefs

7. Note Input

• Getting familiar with the keypad
• Mouse Note Input and snap positions
• Inputting ties, articulations, and accidentals
• Editing during and after note input
• Alphanumeric note input
• Step-time note input
• Re-inputting pitches
• Multiple voices and inputting voice 2

8. Challenge and Solution 1

• Challenge: Notation exercise 1
• Solution: Notation exercise 1

9. Editing, Copying, and Pasting

• Editing pitches
• Transposing pitches and key signatures
• Editing rhythms
• Cut, copy, paste, and repeat
• Nudge and slide
• Rhythms and time signatures
• filtering, copying, and pasting voice 2

10. Additional Score Objects

• Working with tuplets
• Creating and extending slurs
• Creating and extending hairpins
• Exploring the Lines gallery
• Changing barline types

11. Working with Text Styles

• Overview of text styles
• Tempo text
• Expression text
• Technique text
• Creating and editing lyrics
• Creating and editing chord symbols
• Positioning and editing text

12. Finishing, Printing, Exporting, and Sharing

• Making your score print-ready
• Laying out a score in portrait
• Laying out a score in landscape
• The Print dialog
• Score Info and exporting options
• Sharing options

13. Challenge and Solution 2

• Challenge: Notation exercise 2
• Solution: Notation exercise 2

Conclusion

• Where to go from here