People have been bugging me on doing a workflow video for Sibelius 6 - this isn't exactly that, but it still will give some insight into the whole Sibelius process. Follow me on the interwebs / adamneely / its_adamneely Peace, Adam
As a vibe player, don't be afraid to spread voices out because you think it would be hard for us. :P it's all about adapting and making your grip work for you (most vibe players I know are comfortable with hitting at least an octave in one hand, especially if you're using Steven's grip as opposed to Burtons grip.) That being said, most also have decent enough 4 mallet technique (especially if they can play 3 chord voicings) For clarification, I am not butthurt, just explaining from the percussive side. As a bass player as well, I love your content, and I find it highly helpful!
Yeah, the hardest thing is voicings using accidentals on the inside mallets and natural keys on the outside mallets. Outside of that, you should expect mallet players to be able to hit up to a a thirteenth in the upper register of marimba and an octave on the bottom of marimba, 10th+ on vibes.
No that things too far gone to clean he should just get a cheap mechanical to replace it with. Something with MX Browns or Blacks. Would say the blues would be nice for him but their clicky and you don't want the clickys near recording equipment.
It looks taken out, doesn't it? I wonder if Adam had the same issue with his keyboard and computer as me. Whenever caps lock would be pressed, it'd lock the keyboard for an indefinite amount of time. So I just took the key off lol. Good thing I'm not a very angry person. Caps lock will not be missed.
The problem with holding shift is that you either have to switch which hand is holding shift, or type using stretched fingers. Here's an example of text which is much harder to type using only shift: APZPQ'A"Z/Q}A?
4:14 "I think I'm gonna create a new time signature just 'cus I feel like it" Composers really are as cruel as it seems when you come across funky time signatures.
Do a 10 minute piece for piano and violin. starting F#minor and modulate to EbMajor in one measure! If you do it I will post a video response of me playing it.
Adam, I'm really impressed with your depth of knowledge, your passion for what you do and your wish to share what you know. I am not a musician tho I studied piano for 10 years, so I find myself very interested in what you are teaching but I have to laser concentrate to keep up. I would like to suggest that people might find it easier to follow if you would speak a little slower. Good luck with your endeavor. I will stay tuned in.
Your command of the keyboard for entering notes and rhythm is impressive. I enjoyed this video and the music you wrote. Hope you're thriving these days!
supadox There's a bunch of places online, but I think Teoria and MusicTheory.net are good websites. There's also a bunch of youtubers who cover it. And of course, you can also take classes at a college or maybe in high school.
I learned from buying Music Theory For Dummies at chapters. Took me 4 months.(Spending an hour or two each day, and having known how to play guitar already, figured it was worth noting) Make sure you write down the main ideas from each chapter; it makes retaining the knowledge much easier
Hey Adam! This might be a deep like, but I just followed along with this while I was using Noteflight for the first time and doing my first composition ten years out from my only piano class. It was a real treat that helped me to start to see what was on the table, creatively speaking and just to make something. Really awesome that you made this video. Thanks!
I notice you dont use Sibelius 7. I watched Tantacruel's video on SIbelius 7 and wondered if that's the reason why. I didnt see any quit sibelius buttons or anything like that
Great introduction to what it's like to use the tool. Your knowledge of music theory and composition shines - demonstrating that the tool can be mastered enough not to get in the way.
10 minutes of production and what we have as a result?.... Steve Reich, LOL . Adam, now seriously, this is a fabulous motive. Your capacity to audiate is enviable
I'm pretty sure you don't need to click on the first note when you hit "P" to start playing. It should start at the beginning by default and save you a couple of seconds. I love the channel. Thanks for all your hard work.
''Kind of don't like that rolly thing even though I made a big deal about it'' That happens surprisingly often to me, I sometimes end up making even more of a big deal about it before I finally realize it's just too much.. However, I like to start something new with those ideas when I feel I shouldn't cram them into something else
Dude, that's insane, youre a musical monster Thanks for the push, I am currently finding a way to save my musical ideas, I'll probably try this sibelius thingy
I really loved this video and would be eager to see more like this! For me, it's less about the Sibelius instruction as I have switched to Musescore since I'm poor and maybe masochistic. It's more watching your compositional tendencies and workflow, and getting more of a glimpse into your unhindered and unedited mental process.
Hi Adam, that was a very cool video! It gave me a lot of insights into composition and actually inspired me to try it on my own. Please do more videos like this or even longer ones! It would be very great!
That was excellent and so inspiring both in terms of composing and using the technology! How about writing a 16 bar duet for two single voice instruments. E.g. Flute and monophonic synth. Thanks.
I would really love to see you turn this into a full series. I was hooked on Ben's series when I found it. And as for instrumentation, maybe do something for electric bass, as a lot of us found your channel for bass - but written in addition to instruments the bass doesn't conventionally support, something a little quirky and interesting that might lend the bass different ground to explore :)
I laughed, cried and nodded while thinking how this is an obvious advertisement for Dorico. While I’d love to try it the thought of going through the pain of learning what would amount to my 4th notation program is also very painful. I may just have to deal with the inadequacies of Sibelius and Finale. I’ve actually recently made an effort to return to Finale and so far so good once I got started.
Very nice. Wouldn't mind seeing some very related instrument trios (alto flute, flute, piccolo or sop sax, alto sax and baritone sax) with the composition focused on a strong melody being exchanged between the voices. Really enjoyed it!
thank you for even considering limitations of 4-mallet technique. Some things are much harder than they seem on mallet keyboard instruments (Porgy and Bess, Bach's Prelude to Cello Suites)
Love your videos man... but you are FLYING through this notation with your keyboard shortcuts. Any chance you could do a beginner tutorial on entering notes/rhythms with the keyboard? You're doing this ridiculously fast, and I have no idea how your inputting the chords that fast, in the Vibraphone... I just can't follow exactly what you're doing... while MIDI is helpful in entering notes, since not everything is a steady 8th or 16th note rhythm, I just would love a tutorial on how you you do that "1 e and" rhythm as quickly as you did. Maybe you're a master at the numpad thing... but sometimes I can't get around it. Sometimes a keystroke enables the rest (0 key) constantly and screws me up. If you have time/desire to do a beginner's "entering notation with the keypad and keyboard" tutorial, I and a million other people would be most grateful. Thanks Adam!
Hey dude this was great! I think it would be cool if you tried writing a short piece like this for two trumpets, hammond organ, double bass, drums and bassoon. It would be more challenging to do because you'd have to right more parts, and the organ would have three staves. This is the instrumentation of my rock band. We all love your videos and would be super thrilled to play something you wrote.
I love your videos. I particularly like this one . . . if I only had a Mac, eh? Another thing I like is all the comments! When taken collectively, the comments show a lot of intelligence by those who watch your intelligent video and then comment on it. I still like using a MIDI keyboard to input material. It DOES get a little complicated when you have to go back and forth between a MIDI keyboard and a QWERTY keyboard.
That was super interesting, thanks for sharing! Very impressive how you seem to kind of music-theoretically construct the piece and then check if it sounds right. I wish I could hear what went on in your head at that time :) Anyway, great video!
As a cellist, I can tell you that you need to stretch your hand a fuck ton to play that a and b together... It's not impossible, but it is not nearly as trivial as you said. A cello is strung cgda, but in fifths, not fourths. (C2 being the lowest string and the next one (g) is a fifth above it and so on...) You would have to play the b on the a string, and the a on the d string. In order to reach that a and b together, you either have to resort to playing with the thumb on the a string, or you have to have pretty big hands/long fingers...
A recurrent question, maybe a fundamental one, why is it that some major composers (like Ravel or Debussy…) worked with a piano or harpsichord and others didn't. One famous composer in France (Karol Beffa) often mentions his favourite composers used a clavier and that's no accident. Thoughts?
Hi Adam! I'm a fourth-year music student at Pacific Life Bible College, and I absolutely love your lessons on theory and music philosophy--very similar to what and how we're taught here, actually. Have you considered teaching at a school of music in your future? You are extraordinary at it and, in my opinion, we need more educators like you in our schools. :D
This is super insightful! So many shortcuts I didn't know! Thanks! When you split the Vibraphone into two parts, is there a easy way to alternate between the blue and green? Also, I notices you were jumping up and down the notes in a chord without clicking on them individually, what is the shortcut you used?
Two questions (which are probably irrelevant in a 10 minute timed session): 1. Should you tell the cello to play pizzicato on the staccato portions or is that redundant/irrelevant? 2. When you write for instruments that are not in C (trumpet, alto/tenor sax, others) do you "think" in concert pitch or in what they are written in?
Hello from 2022. Looking for the best music composition/creation software similar to this one. This composition reminds me of an old progrock group called Happy the Man. Good stuff.
So awesome. I'm beginning to learn Notion and still getting a hang of creating just writing music. Being a beat-maker and a novice at transcribing and composing on manuscripts, what would be some pointers you could give someone just starting out?
I like the Sibelius feature of using the numpad as a dedicated menu shortcut. Other than that: 10 minutes for five measures. Wow! I wonder if hand notating with a #2 pencil on paper might not be faster. ^_^
Is there any actual reason to buy sibelius when you can just use a free program like MuseScore? Are there for example any features in Sibelius that MuseScore does not have?
Sir heXagenius most of the for pay scoring programs offer a more refined workflow and feature set. The biggest difference is the playback engines in Sibelius et.al. are very robust. Many of them are paired with DAWs (Sibelius and Pro Tools, Notion and Studio One, Dorico and Cubase etc) which makes exporting the audio and mixing it into a usable track much easier. I was a Musescore user, then a Sibelius user, moved to Finale, then Notion. I've been trying Dorico (Cubase is my DAW) and honestly, it blows me away. It is "smarter" than other scoring programs. The VST support is obviously the best as well so I can render out pieces that sound better than the others. BUT if you have no intention of creating pro renders or you aren't looking to create engraved scores for sale, it's probably not worth the money to use anything but Muse. It's a great program for hobbyists.
Why Sibelius instead of another scoring program? I've tried it and others but always migrate back to Encore. I'm not a "piano" keyboardist, but have "typewriter" home row chops and Encore makes more sense with rest/note, cut and paste, note duration with the left hand and my mouse (pitch) in my right. I have some common guitar chord fingerings, and drum riffs in other windows that I can cut and paste using standard c&p.
Would a Gmaj 7 sound better on the end ? Just curious , my ear could be decieving me..cool program though..I am still working on my harmony and comp ,This really helps.. do more of these segments!
i have a problem, u say + and - can change the menu on the sibelius keypad, well on your keyboard it looks like they are two separate keys on the numpad so it works. I'm looking online for one and most have them combined into 1 key so that's annoying.
