Why is that an issue? Well number one – time. The quality of what you start with is always an issue as well – it used to be that in order for me to have ANY hope of PhotoScore working well I had to scan all my music as TIFF files at 400 DPI. The size is a factor in getting scanning software to recognize what it is trying to read. Now, for those of you who have ever worked with marching band music you will know that it is pretty small. The marching percussion music has always taken me the longest to get input into the computer so I think this is a good example. The results are pretty amazing….ĮXAMPLES: Let’s take a look at just one part, the Quads part. I wanted to share with you what my latest findings are with the new PhotoScore 8 update running against the iPad version of PhotoScore inside of NotateMe. THE SCENARIO: I am always looking for the fastest way to get my marching band arrangements into my computer so i can do things like I mentioned above. NotateMe and NotateMe Now for iOS also have a PhotoScore plug-in available that simply is as amazing as PhotoScore on a computer (well, pretty close anyways) NotateMeNow and NotateMe are for iOS and allow us to handwrite our parts out on our iPads/iPhones so we can do this anyplace we happen to have a few moments. NotateMe Ultimate is for those of you, with a touch screen computer, who want to handwrite music but have it turned into computerized notation. PhotoScore is now at version 8 and now it comes with NotateMe Ultimate. Neuratron LTD has released their latest and greatest of PhotoScore.

The nice thing is, these days it is getting easier and faster to get this job done. Maybe you just need a rehearsal recording and you don’t want to play in all the parts yourself. Maybe one of your students arranged a piece of music and now the students in the band need parts printed out for their instruments even though the basic arrangement was only a quintet.

Maybe it is because a part is too hard for your student, maybe it’s because you don’t have the correct instrumentation, or you need a different instrument to cover a section of the piece but the music isn’t in the correct key. If you have ever worked with a group of musicians then you have run into the same issues I have – you will at some point in time need to take printed sheet music, turn it into digital notation and tweak it in various ways.

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