Writing Music on Paper

[5COPY]

I still do it sometimes just to keep it fresh. But I never really use the melodies I make on paper.

[Raddons]

My thoughts on 4/4:

[Mundius]

Yeah, I did that once (months before I got my keybaord) and it sucked. That's the problem when you have a way of writing about 120 notes on paper in the FL style with tempo, instrument, and everything else defined. Went a bit crazy just writing the plan (which I then lost, sorry bronies)

[Trillionage]

I want to try writing a song in 15/8 because this:

[Navron]

I can still read music for clarinet, but when it comes to writing music for guitar, piano, and other instruments on paper (especially regarding the bass clef), I suck.

[LunchBagMusic]

All these bitches with their cray-cray time signatures.

[Magnitude Zero]

I don't really write music on paper, but when I'm not at home and a melody pops into my head I just scribble it down. Even then I usually just a write it as a rhythm. All I need is a reminder, really.

[Captain Ironhelm]

I use paper when I have to. When I do, I have to have a keyboard next to me. With my programs, I can hear the note that I set out. It's a lot faster.

[PhillyPu]

I find that most of my ideas/motifs are more refined when I compose on paper (with piano, of course). Since you have to play it through, write it down, and probably play the same thing again. Most of the time I forget what the original thought was, but the next thing I play would flow much better, and I'll put THAT idea on paper.

If you want me to compose a quick 8-bar piece of counterpoint, I'll still use paper. DAWs make it a tad bit easy to skim over the arrangement/composition work.

[Kopachris]

When doing electronic, I use paper mostly just for keeping notes (no pun intended). Chord progressions, melodic outlines, etc. For classical, I do almost all of it on paper, then edit it in Finale to hear how it sounds. I do my final engraving in LilyPond.

[LunchBagMusic]

I do my final engraving in LilyPond

>Haven't heard of this
>Quick Google
<<ten minutes passes>>
>holy shit that's awesome

[Kopachris]

I do my final engraving in LilyPond

>Haven't heard of this
>Quick Google
<<ten minutes passes>>
>holy shit that's awesome

I export musicXML from Finale, then use an included converter to convert it to LilyPond's format, which I can then edit to make it all prettyful.

[WavesOfParadox]

Lilypond? I've heard of it but never tried it. Does it have any advantages over MuseScore?

[Kopachris]

Lilypond? I've heard of it but never tried it. Does it have any advantages over MuseScore?

That depends. Someone who knows MuseScore inside and out might be able to produce a score as nice as one LilyPond produces, but it'd probably take a lot longer and require a lot more tweaking. There are probably still things you can do with LilyPond that you can't do with MuseScore, though those are things that require massive tweaking, even in LilyPond.