Overview

• - Street Smart Guide to Sibelius 5 - PDF ONLY
• - 73 Lessons to Proficiency
• - With 4-Color Screen Shots on Most Every Page
• by Massimo Tofone
• Ill., 314 pps

Max Tofone's Street Smart Guide to Sibelius 5 is a 73 lesson blockbuster organized in a bite-sized step-by-step progression that takes you from beginner to master. Start at the beginning or dip-in where you have a specific need. Nearly every software step has a four-color screen shot to illustrate it.

Film composers will appreciate the lessons on oversized time signatures, adding cautionary time signatures, and how to number each bar with the number centered.

Songwriters learn how to create a lead sheet, input the lyric, add chord symbols and guitar fingering charts.

Graphic and MIDI exports also covered.

Sibelius is an easy program to learn. But the Street Smart Guide to Sibelius 5 makes it even easier!

Note to Sibelius 6 owners - much of this book covers Sibelius 6.

Organized by four broad categories:

• Section 1 - Score Preparation
• Section 2 - Score Input
• Section 3 - For Songwriters: Lead Sheets, Piano/Vocal/Guitar & More
• Section 4 - Your Score As Document

Table of Contents

Section 1 - Score Preparation
Lesson 1 - Picking the Score and the Correct Size
Lesson 2 - Assigning the Instruments
Lesson 3 - Choosing the House Style
Lesson 4 - Assigning the Time Signature and Tempo
Lesson 5 - Assigning the Key Signature
Lesson 6 - Score Information
Lesson 7 - Adding More Bars to Your Score
Lesson 8 - Allow a Cautionary Time Signature
Lesson 9 - The Oversized Time Signature
Lesson 10 - How to Create a Pickup Bar
Lesson 11 - Bar Numbers for Film/TV Scores and Parts
Lesson 12 - Removing Bar Numbering
Lesson 13 - Assigning Rehearsal Letters or Numbers
Lesson 14 - Creating and Saving a Score Template
Lesson 15 - Concert and Transposed Scores
Lesson 16 - Viewing Instrument Parts
Lesson 17 - Extracting Parts
Lesson 18 - Changing the Time Signature Size in Parts

Section 2 - Score Input
Lesson 19 - Inputting Notes
Lesson 20 - Deleting Notes
Lesson 21 - Correcting Notes
Lesson 22 - Inputting Tied Notes
Lesson 23 - Inputting Chords
Lesson 24 - Creating Two Voices on the Same Stave
Lesson 25 - Flipping Notes & Other Objects
Lesson 26 - Inserting Bars in the Middle of the Score
Lesson 27 - Deleting a Bar(s)
Lesson 28 - Transposing Up and Down an Octave
Lesson 29 - Transposing a Melody
Lesson 30 - How to Select Single and Multiple Objects
Lesson 31 - How to Select a Music Passage
Lesson 32 - Multi-copying Objects and Passages
Lesson 33 - How to Create Triplets and Tuplets
Lesson 34 - Clef Changes in the Middle of a Line
Lesson 35 - Changing a Key in the Score
Lesson 36 - Adding Expression Marks (Dynamics)
Lesson 37 - Adding Hairpins for Dynamic Changes
Lesson 38 - Technique Instruction Like Pizz, Divisi, etc.
Lesson 39 - Adding Articulations Like Staccato, etc
Lesson 40 - Creating a Fermata
Lesson 41 - Adding Slurs, Phrase Marks, Trills, etc
Lesson 42 - Adding Bar Lines, Repeat Marks, etc.
Lesson 43 - Adding Words Like Accelerando, Rit, etc.
Lesson 44 - Adding Text to Your Score

Section 3 - Lead Sheets, Piano/Vocal/Guitar (PVG), Hymns
Lesson 45 - Choosing the Lead Sheet Template
Lesson 46 - Inputting a Song
Lesson 47 - Inputting Lyrics
Lesson 48 - Adding Chord Progression Symbols
Lesson 49 - Adding Guitar Finger Charts
Lesson 50 - Choosing the Chorale Template
Lesson 51 - Inputting a Bach Chorale
Lesson 52 - Keying German Lyrics Into a Bach Chorale
Lesson 53 - Adding Figured Bass

Section 4 - Your Score As Document
Lesson 54 - Document Setup
Lesson 55 - System and Page Breaks
Lesson 56 - Using Auto Layout For Instrument Parts
Lesson 57 - Adding a Title Page to Your Score
Lesson 58 - Adding a Blank Page in the Middle of a Score
Lesson 59 - Useful Formatting Commands
Lesson 60 - Align Objects in a Row/Column
Lesson 61 - Focus on Staves
Lesson 62 - Hide and Show Empty Staves
Lesson 63 - Adding/Removing Instruments and Staves
Lesson 64 - Panorama View
Lesson 65 - Moving Around Your Score
Lesson 66 - Saving and Backing Up Your Score
Lesson 67 - Exporting As a Graphic
Lesson 68 - Exporting and Importing a MIDI File
Lesson 69 - Exporting As Audio
Lesson 70 - Creating a PDF of Your Music
Lesson 71 - Printing Scores on a Desktop Printer
Lesson 72 - Printing Out Multiple Instrument Parts
Lesson 73 - Printing Out Multiple Copies With a Plug-In

About the Author

MASSIMO TOFONE
Max Tofone is a Sibelius master. He's done score preparation for Scottish opera composer Sally Beamish. In 2006 he edited How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite. In 2009, Max produced From Piano to Strings book and Workbook, and recorded the audio for all the book and workbook's examples using Sibelius 5.