Writing for Keyboard

In this project, you will learn some of the important features to help you produce jazz and commercial music. Perform complex keyboard
music and have Sibelius transcribe it; writing for guitar; storing and re-using snippets of music using the Ideas panel; how to create chord
symbols using text and MIDI input; using repeat structures and producing horn arrangements; as well as how to make your scores sound
more realistic for making audio recordings.

The first chapter of this project builds on the Note Input skills you learned in the first tutorial project and shows you how to input more
complex keyboard music with your MIDI keyboard using Flexi-time input.

Printout
First, print the project score:
1 Choose File > Open and find the example score called Project 3 in the Project Files folder in the Example Scores folder.

Press Command+O (Mac) or Control+O (Windows) to open.

2 Click Open.

You should now see a completed arrangement of a funk tune called “Urbane Filigree.” Since you will need to refer to a printout of this
arrangement throughout this project, print this score.
3 Choose File > Print.

Press Command+P (Mac) or Control+P (Windows) to print.

4 In the resulting dialog, click Print.

Within a few moments, a printout of Urbane Filigree should emerge from your printer. Hold on to this printout, because you’ll be read-
ing music from it when you edit the arrangement.

In order to continue with this project, do the following:

1 Choose Review > Versions > Edit Versions and select the 1 Writing for keyboard version from the list.
2 Click Make Current.
3 Click Yes to make this into the current version.
4 Click Close.

You should now see an arrangement that is missing music from the Electric Stage Piano and Electric Guitar parts.

Using a MIDI Keyboard

For this chapter, you will use a MIDI keyboard. You must have a MIDI device connected to your computer to use Flexi-time in Sibelius.
Configure the Input Devices page in the Sibelius Preferences to set up MIDI input and playback. To learn more about setting up input
and playback with MIDI devices, see  3.13 Input Devices in the Reference Guide.

Flexi-time Options
You are going to learn how to play complex music into Sibelius using a MIDI keyboard using Flexi-time input. If you would prefer not
to record music into Sibelius in real-time, you can still input the music using the step-time input method that you learned in the first of
these tutorial projects. If you don’t have a MIDI keyboard, skip to 3.2 Writing for Guitar on page 66.

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Writing for Keyboard