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The Noteflight team is happy to introduce our newest tool, “Feature Previews,” which will give users a sneak peek into the future of Noteflight and enhance how we intake feedback from the Noteflight community!

So, what exactly are Feature Previews? This function allows customers to test upcoming beta features before fully integrating them into Noteflight. Imagine having the opportunity to explore and experiment with the latest tools and functionalities, giving you a glimpse into the exciting advancements Noteflight has in store! The benefits of Feature Previews extend beyond mere exploration. Noteflight is deeply rooted in its community, and customer feedback is pivotal in shaping our platform’s evolution. With Feature Previews, users can provide valuable feedback on beta features directly within the platform. We value your input and want your thoughts, suggestions, or details of issues you may have found.

To access Feature Previews, click on your profile icon in Noteflight, and you’ll find a dedicated section in the menu. Here, you can read detailed descriptions of each upcoming feature and activate or deactivate them with a single click. To share feedback with the Noteflight team, users will find a “Give Feedback” button within each Feature Preview. By offering early access to beta features and soliciting feedback, Noteflight is looking to continue to foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

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From Sheet Music to Supplementation: Ideas from a Music Educator https://notes.noteflight.com/from-sheet-music-to-supplementation-ideas-from-a-music-educator/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:07:10 +0000 https://notes.noteflight.com/?p=17050 Jill Dobel is a 17-year veteran of the music classroom, having taught instrumental music at varying levels in grades 5-12 during her tenure. She is a former Chair of the … Continue reading "From Sheet Music to Supplementation: Ideas from a Music Educator"

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Jill Dobel is a 17-year veteran of the music classroom, having taught instrumental music at varying levels in grades 5-12 during her tenure. She is a former Chair of the Iowa Bandmasters Association Middle School Affairs Committee and a founding member of the Iowa Women’s Jazz Orchestra.

She’s currently the Music Education Marketing Specialist with Sheet Music Plus and is an active as a performer, clinician, and private studio teacher in Iowa.

In her free time, Jill enjoys home reno projects, watercolor painting, and spending time with her husband Scott, their two pit bull terriers Greta and Snickers, and their ill-tempered orange tabby Hobbes.


No method book is perfect…

No matter what method or curriculum of study we choose to follow, our students will always need different or further instruction to master specific skills and concepts. To meet their individual needs, we must supplement. Supplemental instruction will look different for each director because methods, resources, and student populations are so widely diverse. So, how do we know what and how to supplement?

Here are a few questions I like to reflect on:

“What are some skills/concepts my students seem to struggle with every year?”

And,

“What are some things that our method glosses over or doesn’t spend enough time on?”

This is the easy part – identifying what to supplement. Again, this may look different for every director. Focus on the needs of your students. Over the years, some things I often chose to supplement in my band method were things like below-the-staff notation for clarinet players, lip slurs for brass players, and enharmonic pairs. Not to mention trying to cover topics like vibrato and pitch correction, which are scarcely included in method books, or not at all!

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Once you know what to supplement, it’s time to address how.

More questions to ask are:

“Do my students need better preparation for this skill? Better instruction? Or do they just need extra practice?”

When you’ve identified the roadblocks to learning, you can develop supplements to help your students overcome them. For the examples I provided earlier, here’s what my thought process looked like:

Below-the-staff notation for clarinet players

When students begin the clarinet, they spend pages and pages on the left hand only, and they become very familiar with those notes and fingerings. When it comes time to learn the right-hand notes (below the staff), they’re given a half page of exercises and expected to have mastery.

My supplement: Better preparation. Before we even approach this page of the method, I have students working on playing the right-hand notes descending, one at a time. They learn the muscle memory first, and then we add note names once they have success. Once they reach that page, they’re already skilled at playing those notes and can focus on simply learning to read ledger lines. If this sounds familiar to your classroom, you can easily create custom exercises for your clarinet students using a music notation program like Noteflight! (Pro tip: You can access exercises from the Essential Elements method books in Noteflight Learn, allowing you to edit existing exercises and adapt them to the specific needs of your students.)

Lip slurs for brass players

Lip slurs are essential for embouchure and pitch development, and methods don’t focus much on them.

My supplement: Extra practice. I create a full page of exercises for players to choose from as part of their warm-up for each practice session, and we don’t begin lesson exercises until we’ve completed lip slurs. I want it to be automatic for students to pick up their instrument and have the first thing they play be a lip slur. To stay on top of your students’ practice habits, you can create weekly recording assignments in Noteflight utilizing SoundCheck performance assessment! You can also assign the lesson to your students via Google Classroom and other LMS platforms. Plus, weekly recordings can help showcase your students’ progress over the last week or even the entire school year. (Pro tip: This could also work as a digital practice log!)

Enharmonic pairs

There are certain concepts that students struggle with year after year, and for me, it was always enharmonic pairs. I find a way to get students to grasp it, and the next year, the new kids don’t understand it, and I’m back to square one.

My supplement: Everything but the kitchen sink. I create multiple scaffolded supplements – customized by instrument, including visual organizers and practical applications, with written and performance-based assessments. My strategy is “whatever works”.

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In the end…

You know your students and their learning strengths and weaknesses better than anyone else! The better you know your curriculum, the easier it will be to anticipate stumbling blocks and prepare to supplement.

Your additions can be anything ranging from an extra exercise or two, mastering new rhythms, or an entire warm-up packet of extended tone studies. Let your students’ needs be your guide!

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Playing In The Sandbox: An Exercise of Creativity for Composers https://notes.noteflight.com/playing-in-the-sandbox-an-exercise-of-creativity-for-composers/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:19:28 +0000 https://notes.noteflight.com/?p=16801 The Noteflight Team is pleased to welcome guest blog writer Jesse Strickland! Jesse is a Composer and Music Theorist specializing in sacred choral music. For the last 8 years, his … Continue reading "Playing In The Sandbox: An Exercise of Creativity for Composers"

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The Noteflight Team is pleased to welcome guest blog writer Jesse Strickland! Jesse is a Composer and Music Theorist specializing in sacred choral music. For the last 8 years, his studio Take 3 Creative has been producing content and resources for music students and music educators. His latest online course, Start Write Now, walks students through the process of writing their first composition. More on this and other resources is available on his website: https://www.jessestrickland.com/composition-resources


I want you to think back to when you were a kid. You’d go to the playground, and in the midst of all of the slides, swings, and monkey bars, there would be a sandbox – very unassuming – it’s just a box, and that box was filled with sand. Or, maybe you lived close enough to the ocean, and you can remember going down to the shore and being there amongst hundreds of square miles of sand. You probably even brought specific toys to better enjoy the sand.

Here’s the thing about the sandbox: You don’t come to the sandbox with an agenda – unless your agenda is “to have fun.” You approach with curiosity and excitement – your only goal is exploration. You just find enjoyment in letting the sand run between your fingers and toes. Your only limitation is your imagination. Even if you came into the sandbox with a goal to build a castle, whatever you build is temporary, and you’re okay with that. If it falls apart, it’s not a big deal. There are no right or wrong answers here. When you’re done, you either smooth the sand over, or the next kids to show up will destroy whatever you made. At the end of the day, you had a great time doing it.

It makes sense, really. Sand is made up of rocks that have been broken down into tiny grains. It stands to reason that anything built with this material is also destined to be broken down so finely that no evidence remains. It’s rather poetic.

As composers, we need more of the sandbox in our writing process.

This may seem strange at first. We want to make things that last. We want our music heard in concert halls, churches, auditoriums, and stages all over the world. Often we feel like we must constantly focus on setting our music apart from our competition, especially in an economy in which ensemble directors have seemingly infinite music from which to choose. How will my music even be heard if I don’t carefully craft it into a masterpiece? So, it may seem strange that I recommend intentionally writing something “temporary.”

Maybe that’s not you. Maybe you’re in a situation where music needs to be churned out constantly. How can I suggest that you goof off in a sandbox when there are deadlines approaching? I fully understand that. I spent a few years as composer-in-residence at a church, and Sunday comes every 7 days, relentlessly. The turnaround is rapid, and you’ve got to constantly be on it. But yes, even for you, I think the sandbox would be helpful.

Regardless of our situation, sometimes, we just need to go play in the sandbox. I’d venture to say that our work as composers is made easier if we spend time in the sandbox. Much like the sensory and cognitive development we get from playing in the sandbox as children.

Perhaps you’re asking at this point: What is the compositional equivalent of the sandbox? It’s a technique called freewriting. It’s not unique to music composition, it has applications in every form of writing, but I have found it immensely helpful in my writing process.

How Does Freewriting Work?
The mechanics are pretty simple: clear your mind, and then write down whatever pops into your head. There’s nothing more. I know. Crazy, right? It’s a concept so simple that I overlooked it for years.

I do suggest setting aside time for this exercise – this allows you to come into that time with the proper expectation, which is “whatever happens, happens.” Perhaps you want to allot a specific amount of time, but it’s okay if you just want to go until you feel like stopping.

5 Benefits of Freewriting
Other than the fact that it is really fun and can remind you of the excitement and wonder you felt when you first started composing, there are quite a few benefits that come from freewriting. Additionally, I think you’ll be quite surprised at how effectively you transfer lessons from your freewriting that you didn’t even realize you had learned.

1) Removes All Pressure
Approach the freewriting session with curiosity and excitement. Your only goal is exploration; your only limitation is your creativity. It’s possible you want to use some writing prompts to guide your time, and that’s perfectly fine, so long as you retain the mindset that whatever you write is, for all intents and purposes, temporary, and you’re okay with that. If it falls apart, that’s okay. There are no right or wrong answers here. Having this mindset removes all the pressure of writing “good” music.

2) Creative Flow State
The term “flow state” means a complete mental focus on one task or activity. The lack of an agenda in freewriting allows for uninterrupted writing. Furthermore, since nothing is right or wrong here, you won’t be pulled out of the flow state pondering if an idea is good or worthy to be used – all ideas are equal. You might be particularly excited to enter a flow state if you’ve been experiencing writer’s block.

3) Fighting Writer’s Block/Lack of Inspiration
I’ve just released an eBook on overcoming writer’s block. It’s a step-by-step guide made up of strategies I’ve learned and employed over the years in overcoming my own creative struggles. One of the first and best recommendations I have for writer’s block, or just a lack of inspiration or motivation, is to try a number of freewriting sessions. There are plenty of causes for writer’s block, but honestly, most of them dissolve when you engage in freewriting. You’re overthinking the music, or you feel the pressure of an impending deadline – that doesn’t apply in freewriting. Perfectionism, fear of rejection or failure – that doesn’t matter in freewriting. As much as a kid can forget that his mom is sitting over there watching from a park bench, you can temporarily forget all of your stressors and just write. It’s therapeutic.

4) Getting out of a Formulaic Approach
I personally feel this when my workload is on the heavier side, and I’ve got a number of deadlines that are imminent. You start hastily solving all of your problems using the same musical tropes and cliches. And yeah, sometimes that is necessary. But, after a while, you start to feel like you’re in a creative rut. Freewriting is a great solution to that. It encourages you to approach writing from different angles. In the course of daily writing sessions, an idea came to your head, but you dismissed it. But in freewriting, ideas you may have overlooked otherwise now have a chance to come to the forefront. This leads us to…

5) Experimentation
Now you’ve got a chance to really start digging around: What would happen if I did this unusual thing? This melody is a little off the wall; why do I like it so much? Hmm, I didn’t care for that, but I’m glad I tried it. This chord here just makes me really happy.

You can find some really cool new sonorities in freewriting you might not have found without giving yourself the freedom to explore. In the immortal words of Ms. Frizzle from the Magic School Bus: “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.”

I know I’ve said that everything here is temporary. Perhaps I should clarify: Everything here has the option of being temporary. If, in the course of your experimentation, you find a nugget of gold buried in the sand – I highly suggest you take it with you. I tend to go back and forth. Sometimes I’m more like a kid in a sandbox, and sometimes I’m more like a scientist. If you want to write down notes on your findings, by all means, go ahead. But don’t put any pressure on yourself to produce something more permanent.

Give Freewriting a Try
So, regardless of your skill level as a composer or how busy your writing schedule is, you can greatly benefit from adding freewriting as a fixture in your writing process. Whether you’re looking to overcome writer’s block, run some experiments, or just to remind yourself why you fell in love with writing music in the first place – each and every composer could stand to spend a little more time playing in the sandbox.


 

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How Backward Chaining Can Help Novice Composers! https://notes.noteflight.com/how-backward-chaining-can-help-novice-composers/ Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:35:19 +0000 https://notes.noteflight.com/?p=16791 The educational value of notating an original composition in Noteflight is far beyond a thousand theory assignments. Unfortunately, novice composers often get stuck somewhere in the process. Getting stuck is … Continue reading "How Backward Chaining Can Help Novice Composers!"

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The educational value of notating an original composition in Noteflight is far beyond a thousand theory assignments. Unfortunately, novice composers often get stuck somewhere in the process. Getting stuck is what Melanie Meehan calls “the gum in the straw.” Melanie Meehan is the author of three books about teaching elementary writing. She is a main contributor to the blog called The Two Writing Teachers. I first heard about Melanie as a guest on the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast in the episode “How to Use Backward Chaining to Differentiate Instruction.” To help her students get unstuck and become better writers, Meehan recommends backward chaining. This specific kind of scaffolding has students begin a task closer to the end rather than starting it from the beginning. Occupational therapists frequently encourage kids to complete the last stage of a task which allows them to end in success. As children develop confidence and skills, they can “take over” earlier steps in the sequence. Learn more here.

Meehan claims, “There’s no telling where the gum in the straw might be for somebody getting stuck doing something, so finding it may require assessment and experimentation.” The starting point depends on the steps involved and students’ particular needs. For students learning how to write a research paper, it may begin with choosing a topic, gathering information, or summarizing the main points.

A meal kit service like HelloFresh is a cook’s form of backward chaining, and it definitely met my particular need! HelloFresh offers recipes and ships pre-measured ingredients with clear instructions on preparing each meal to my doorstep. This service puts me a few steps closer to the end of the meal prep and takes grocery shopping–MY gum in the straw–out of the sequence. 

So how can backward chaining be applied to notating an original piece in Noteflight? Considering the steps involved, there are plenty of places for students to get stuck when composing: where to begin, harmonizing a melody, transitioning to a new section, to name a few, and of course, how to notate it. Since notation is the final step in the composition process, the following sequence shows how to help students gain confidence in using Noteflight first. It begins with the end–the notation–then backtracks using creative prompts I call Choose and Change Cards and Choose and Add Cards. These steps shift the composing process in reverse by offering ideas for creative decision-making after the initial notation.

In essence, students follow a recipe:

  • Learn to use Noteflight by copying a piece already notated.
  • Follow the suggestions of the Choose and Change Cards that change the original.
  • Follow the suggestions of the Choose and Add Cards that broaden the choices and nudge students to flex their creative muscles.

 

For this backward chaining, I purposely chose a simple tune, “Are You Sleeping” and then notated it in Noteflight. You can download the PDF here. Then, ask students to notate the piece so it looks as similar to the PDF as possible. If students are new to using Noteflight, assign them to watch this video to learn how to use Noteflight.

If you like, create a template with blank measures and share it in your Noteflight Community. Ask students to save a copy, and they can copy the notation without starting from scratch. If you have a Noteflight Learn account, you can make a blank template and share it with your students.

After they duplicate the short piece, encourage students to change up their score by following the suggestions on the Choose and Change Cards. (Download the PDF here, consider laminating and cutting the cards to make a small deck.) The cards ask students to choose a line, measure, or pitch and then change something. Choices give students ownership and “permission” to explore. The suggestions on the cards test students’ comprehension of theory concepts like pitch recognition, rhythmic notation, modes, and much more. This really is a two-for-one assignment!

 

The Choose and Add Cards are less specific than the Choose and Change Cards. They invite students to expand creative possibilities and dive deeper into using more Noteflight features. To extend this activity, ask students to devise their own ways to change or add to their scores.

After getting over the hurdle of notating a piece in Noteflight, students see that manipulating the original tune by changing it or adding to it leads to something original. Research shows that the human brain does not like new or hard. Backward chaining minimizes the “pain” of creating and notating new music. 

Keep in mind that backward chaining is not a permanent solution. Meehan advises:

“Scaffolds, by definition, should be temporary, and there should be a plan to take them away. I am intentionally and purposefully doing work for kids, but with the idea that they are going to build their confidence, they are going to build their competence, they’re going to build their curiosity around the whole process, and they’re going to become more willing to go backward in the process to an earlier step.”

 

As you gradually move the starting point back in the composition process, continue to offer choices. A blank page, 12 tones, and 88 keys are intimidating. Encourage musical imaginations to stick within limitations like chord progressions or the pentatonic scale. As students flex their creative muscles within a “safety net,” they’ll experience success. That success builds confidence, and they’ll feel the urge to step out of the “safe zone.” That’s when creativity skyrockets and novice Noteflight users get hooked–not stuck–on composing.

 

Leila Viss

Leila Viss is known for her innovative teaching methods incorporating technology and creativity. Her imaginative instructional resources inspire students and teachers. Viss is the past coordinator for the University of Denver’s Piano Preparatory Program and offers Composiums that guide teachers to nurture their creative voice through composition and arranging. Viss is known internationally for her innovative and engaging presentations and is a longtime church organist and pianist. Viss is Colorado’s 2024 Foundation Fellow, Music Teachers National Association.

Site: LeilaViss.com

Composium: https://www.leilaviss.com/composium

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/88pianokeys/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leilaviss/

 

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Introducing Noteflight’s Newest Features! https://notes.noteflight.com/introducing-noteflights-newest-features/ Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:00:28 +0000 https://notes.noteflight.com/?p=16730 Greetings, Noteflight fans! Our team has been hard at work, and we’re delighted to share some exciting news with you. Noteflight has recently introduced a range of incredible new features … Continue reading "Introducing Noteflight’s Newest Features!"

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Greetings, Noteflight fans!

Our team has been hard at work, and we’re delighted to share some exciting news with you. Noteflight has recently introduced a range of incredible new features that will elevate your music notation experience! Let’s dive right in and discover the new additions.

Music Section:

Big news – all community and public scores can now be found in the Music section! This means that every title in Noteflight can now be found in one place. All titles are discoverable using our search and filter tools and represented in new collections in the Music section. Noteflight Premium subscribers can also explore over 80,000 digital sheet music titles from Hal Leonard within the Music section. From pop hits to orchestral works and community scores…there’s an endless library of music at your fingertips!

 

My Scores Updates:

We’ve also improved the My Scores section and have added new ways to sort and filter your scores. Easily categorize and organize your music by creating collections and adding tags to your works, such as Genre, Instruments, Difficulty Level, and more! You’ll also see “Recently Deleted” scores under the My Scores section. Recently deleted scores can be accessed for 1 month before being permanently removed.

 

Sharing Tools:

Sharing your musical creations is now more accessible and convenient than ever, with one prominent Share button in the top right corner of your scores. With our improved sharing features, you can sell your score with ArrangeMe, publish it to the Noteflight community, or share it with groups or individuals. Scores shared publicly within the Noteflight Community will now appear under the Music section. Start sharing to connect and collaborate with fellow musicians!

 

Noteflight Groups:

Have you joined our community of musicians, composers, and music lovers in the Noteflight Groups section? Discover your favorite groups and forums, engage in discussions, and expand your musical horizons with like-minded individuals. The Groups section, previously called Community, is now available directly from the navigation bar and contains all our existing community groups!

 

These incredible new features are just the beginning of an exciting journey with Noteflight. We’re constantly working to enhance your musical experience and provide you with the best tools for your creative endeavors. Start exploring these features today and unlock your full musical potential with Noteflight!

– The Noteflight Team

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The Gold Standard of Pedagogy – Available in Noteflight Learn! https://notes.noteflight.com/essential_elements_in_noteflight_learn/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:00:01 +0000 https://notes.noteflight.com/?p=16724 Teachers and musicians worldwide have relied on Essential Elements for ages to nurture budding musicians in the music classroom. Its carefully designed curriculum for Band and Strings programs makes student … Continue reading "The Gold Standard of Pedagogy – Available in Noteflight Learn!"

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Teachers and musicians worldwide have relied on Essential Elements for ages to nurture budding musicians in the music classroom. Its carefully designed curriculum for Band and Strings programs makes student learning efficient yet fun at all levels. Did you know that exercises from the Essential Elements method book series are available in Noteflight Learn? That’s right! You can access exercises from EE Books 1, 2, and 3 for Band and Strings in Noteflight with the Premium Music Library add-on! Plus, every score in Noteflight Learn, whether created, edited, or imported, can be assessed with SoundCheck™, powered by MatchMySound™, and shared with your students via Google Classroom and other popular learning management systems.

With Noteflight Learn, your students can utilize this tried-and-true method book series in a digital format with the capability to edit and transpose every exercise. Exercises can be edited to help students isolate specific fingerings or transitions, create a composition or arranging assignment, or even adapted to teach music theory. Discover the exciting possibilities when you incorporate Noteflight Learn into your existing Essential Elements curriculum!

 

Here are some tips on getting started:

Create a Customizable Learning Experience: It’s time to make your classroom the ultimate musical playground. With Noteflight Learn, you can take control of the content and completely customize the Essential Elements exercises. Tweak and adapt the exercises to align perfectly with the needs of your students.

Empower Student Growth with SoundCheck Performance Assessment: Grading and assessing can be a real struggle, but fear not…with SoundCheck Performance Assessment, students can receive high-quality and personalized feedback in real time! Plus, if you’re using Google Classroom or another LMS platform, SoundCheck grades can be automatically submitted to your grade book! Quickly evaluate student progress, offer constructive feedback, and assign targeted practice exercises—all within Noteflight Learn. How’s that for saving time and boosting student confidence?

Nurture Creativity through Composition and Arranging:
Who says music class has to be all about following the notes? We encourage all students to get creative! With Noteflight and Essential Elements by their side, they’ll have familiar musical elements to build upon, sparking artistic expression and a deeper grasp of music theory. You can share all the Essential Elements exercises with your students and any of the 85,000+ digital sheet music titles in the Noteflight Learn Premium Music Library.

Noteflight Learn Access
Noteflight Learn provides a private, COPPA-compliant website designed specifically for music education. All teachers and students have Noteflight Premium composition features, and teachers can organize students into classes and easily create assignments. Noteflight Learn directly integrates with Google Classroom and other popular Learning Management Systems via the LTI standard, plus all titles created or imported in Noteflight Learn can be assessed with SoundCheck performance assessment! EE Book Codes are not required to access Essential Elements content inside Noteflight Learn.

 

 

SoundCheck™ Performance Assessment

SoundCheck provides instant ratings and feedback for pitch, rhythm, and intonation and is available for use with any Noteflight score, including the Essential Elements Method Book exercises. With SoundCheck, it’s not just “red, yellow, and green.” SoundCheck provides accurate real-time feedback on timing, tempo, incorrect notes, and tuning. It even displays the audio waveform of the students’ recording, which can be utilized for additional instruction regarding dynamic levels and tone quality.

Quoting Noteflight Learn with SoundCheck

Teachers can quote or purchase Noteflight Learn with SoundCheck right away using our online form. If you are not already a Noteflight Learn subscriber, sign up for a 60-day trial to get started!

 

Try Noteflight Learn for Free!

 

 

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Noteflight Premium Now Includes a Massive Library of Digital Content https://notes.noteflight.com/noteflight-premium-now-includes-digital-content/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:13:41 +0000 https://notes.noteflight.com/?p=16689 Noteflight Premium now includes full digital access to a Premium Music Library of over 80,000 scores! All Premium subscribers can view, play, and edit their own versions of the most … Continue reading "Noteflight Premium Now Includes a Massive Library of Digital Content"

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Noteflight Premium now includes full digital access to a Premium Music Library of over 80,000 scores! All Premium subscribers can view, play, and edit their own versions of the most popular songs from Hal Leonard. In addition, all Premium music can be used for performance assessment with SoundCheck™, powered by MatchMysound™.

Edit and Arrange Popular Songs

The Premium Music Library from Hal Leonard offers the most popular songs in serval formats, including piano/vocal/guitar, piano solo, guitar, ukulele, instrumental solos, and more. Premium members can view and play the music in any key, and create editable copies to make their own arrangement using the Noteflight editor. All Noteflight subscribers can purchase music on Noteflight to download, print, and have in their account forever.

View All Premium Content

Sell Your Music

Noteflight Premium members can also use ArrangeMe to sell original compositions, arrangements of public domain songs, or arrangements of over 4 million approved copyrighted songs. Your music will be for sale on Noteflight, as well as SheetMusicDirect and SheetMusicPlus.

Sign Up For ArrangeMe

 

More To Come

This is only the beginning of Noteflight’s expanded Premium benefits for accessing and sharing the music you love. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements in the coming months!

 

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Hal Leonard Adds Over 84,000 Titles for Performance Assessment and Composition with SoundCheck™ and Noteflight Learn https://notes.noteflight.com/hal-leonard-adds-over-82000-titles-for-performance-assessment-and-composition-with-soundcheck-and-noteflight-learn/ Fri, 29 Jul 2022 18:51:39 +0000 https://notes.noteflight.com/?p=16669 We are excited to announce that the Content Libraries in Noteflight Learn have now been upgraded to a comprehensive Music Library of over 84,000 titles! This includes the entire Hal … Continue reading "Hal Leonard Adds Over 84,000 Titles for Performance Assessment and Composition with SoundCheck™ and Noteflight Learn"

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We are excited to announce that the Content Libraries in Noteflight Learn have now been upgraded to a comprehensive Music Library of over 84,000 titles! This includes the entire Hal Leonard Flex-Band catalog, hundreds of band, choir, and orchestra works, over 41,000 instrumental solos, and over 25,000 pop piano/vocal/guitar songs!

All titles can be used for performance assessment with SoundCheck™, powered by MatchMySound™, performed and transposed in our interactive viewer, as well as adapted for composition and arranging assignments. All Noteflight Learn scores, including SoundCheck scores, the Noteflight Learn Content Library, and the Essential Elements Method Book exercises, can also be assigned with Google Classroom and other learning management systems.

 

Interactive Viewer Makes Playing Easy


Our Interactive Viewer allows students to easily play along with all titles, plus transpose and change the top line instrument. Over 25,000 pop songs can be used for any instrument in any key with piano accompaniment!

The viewer also allows you to adjust the playback speed, mute and hide staves, and adjust note size. To edit files in the notation editor, simply “Create Editable Copy” to save a notation file in your account.

 

 

SoundCheck™ Performance Assessment

SoundCheck™, powered by MatchMySound™, provides instant ratings and feedback for pitch, rhythm, and intonation, and is available for use with any Noteflight score you create or edit, the entire Noteflight Learn Content Library, and the Essential Elements Method Book exercises.

SoundCheck can be used in Unlocked or Locked mode, allowing teachers to unlock controls so students can change the settings and tempo to help them learn, or lock assignments for assessment.

Any Noteflight file can be used with SoundCheck! Adapt our 85,000 titles, create your own, or import MusicXML.

 

Noteflight Learn Access

Noteflight Learn provides a private, COPPA-compliant website, designed specifically for music education. All teachers and students have Noteflight Premium composition features, plus the ability to organize classes, easily create assignments, and get performance feedback with SoundCheck.

Noteflight Learn also directly integrates with Google Classroom as well as other popular Learning Management Systems via the LTI standard.

Quoting Noteflight Learn with SoundCheck

Noteflight Learn with SoundCheck and over 84,000 titles is sold as an annual subscription for $129 for 10 users, plus $6 per additional user. Additional plan options are available for composition only.

Teachers can quote or purchase Noteflight Learn with SoundCheck right away using our online form.

 

Quote or Buy Noteflight Learn & SoundCheck

If you are not using Noteflight Learn already, please sign up for a 60-day trial to get started!

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Exploring Creativity: A Webinar Series Hosted by Hal Leonard https://notes.noteflight.com/exploring-creativity-a-webinar-series-hosted-by-hal-leonard/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 23:46:36 +0000 https://notes.noteflight.com/?p=16623 Join us for a series of webinars, hosted by Hal Leonard, that demonstrate how music technology can support and enhance your own creativity!

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On Tuesday, May 3rd, Hal Leonard is hosting a series of webinars that demonstrate how you can use music technology to support and enhance your own creativity! From inspiration to promotion, to selling, learn how you can take your music creation to the next level.

Each registrant will receive the recording of the webinar shortly after it airs live. Continue reading to learn more and sign up for one or all of them today!

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022

 

Creating Music With Soundtrap and Noteflight

4 pm ET

Soundtrap and Noteflight are the most popular online music creation platforms and allow limitless creative possibilities for producing and composing music. Hal Leonard owns Noteflight, and is excited to now distribute Soundtrap to educators! This webinar will demonstrate several lesson examples.

 

Register for SoundTrap and Noteflight Webinar

 

Easily Sell Arrangements with ArrangeMe

5 pm ET
Presented by Scott Harris and John Mlynczak

ArrangeMe is Hal Leonard’s free self-publishing program that allows anyone to sell their compositions and arrangements on the world’s largest sheet music websites. This webinar will demonstrate how to use ArrangeMe and provide tips for getting started!

 

Register for ArrangeMe Webinar

 

Eric Whitacre’s Virtual School: Get Inside the Mind of the Composer With “The Beautiful Mess: Masterclass in Composition and Creativity”

6 pm ET
Presented by Eric Whitacre and John Mlynczak

Eric Whitacre’s new online course, “The Beautiful Mess: Masterclass in Composition and Creativity,” provides over four hours of video content with lessons and reflections on his entire creative process. This webinar will present the course and demonstrate how to use it with students, and will include a LIVE appearance and Q&A with Eric Whitacre!

 

Register For Eric Whitacre Virtual School Webinar

 

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Noteflight Adds Custom Styles https://notes.noteflight.com/noteflight-adds-custom-styles/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 02:25:21 +0000 https://notes.noteflight.com/?p=16614 Noteflight Premium members can now create custom styles. Instantly use this feature in the formatting panel today!

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You asked, and we listened! Noteflight Premium members can now instantly create and save formatting settings as a Custom Style. These Custom Styles can be applied to any editable Noteflight score!

To create a Custom Style, first choose all of your preferred General, Sizing, Text, and Page Setup settings for that style within the “Formatting” panel. You can then select “Create Style” to save your settings and apply them to other scores.

You can also update, reset, rename, and delete the styles you create. For more information on how to build your Custom Style, visit our Help Center.

Upgrade to Noteflight Premium

Creating Custom Styles is an exclusive Noteflight Premium feature. Sign up for a free 30-day trial or upgrade to Noteflight Premium for $7.95 per/month, $49 per/year, or a one-time-only fee of $299. With Premium, you can access custom styles along with many other benefits including…

and much more! Upgrade today to instantly access all of these features.

Upgrade to Noteflight Premium

 

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