Sunday, March 22, 2015

Noteflight - Week 2




 So after many errors, I finally finished my transcription of "A Bicycle Built for Two" on Noteflight. And I suppose that's the key to this - many errors! While I'm glad control+z erased any mistakes, and I finally figured out how to type "k" to get the chord symbols in easily, learning the shortcuts were not as easy as MuseScore. It was also frustrating that I couldn't use my Midi keyboard - which I LOVE - to enter the notes - so I was constantly having to fix octaves. If I were to become a regular user of this program, I would have to upgrade to the Noteflight Crescendo version.

In fact, I feel like a lot of my issues would be solved by the Crescendo version.

However, I do think the feature of being able to share a score with colleagues / classmates  / students would hold many of the same advantages as Google Docs - anyone can edit it from anywhere. And the added benefit to everything being on a cloud, so I could access it from any computer, anywhere.

So perhaps if I needed a program like this (in elementary general music, many of Noteflight's desired features aren't necessary), and I had the Crescendo version, this would be an excellent program. But for my uses? Not worth the effort! I much preferred MuseScore!

 (If my embedded version of my score doesn't work, here's the link... http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/5d7f46b45b55a73e486ea550b0f79e89cb99b9e9)

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