Composition archive

Playing In The Sandbox: An Exercise of Creativity for Composers

The Noteflight Team is pleased to welcome guest blog writer Jesse Strickland! Jesse is a Composer and Music Theorist specializing in sacred choral music. For the last 8 years, his studio Take 3 Creative has been producing content and resources for music students and music educators. His latest online course, Start Write Now, walks students […]

How Backward Chaining Can Help Novice Composers!

The educational value of notating an original composition in Noteflight is far beyond a thousand theory assignments. Unfortunately, novice composers often get stuck somewhere in the process. Getting stuck is what Melanie Meehan calls “the gum in the straw.” Melanie Meehan is the author of three books about teaching elementary writing. She is a main […]

SoundCheck Check One Two

SoundCheck Now Has Video! We are so excited to announce that video recording is now available in SoundCheck™! This allows you to view video of the recorded performance along with SoundCheck’s performance assessment. Video recording is now available in Noteflight Learn and Noteflight Premium! This new video feature will be added at no additional charge, so […]

Featured Composer and Piece: Danielle Williams, What We Will Be.

Noteflight and El Sistema USA

We sponsored El Sistema USA’s National Symposium & Seminario. We chat with Danielle Williams about her featured work available on Noteflight.

Using Noteflight For Learning & Teaching Guitar by Ellie Mckinsey

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As a guitar teacher for kids aged 6-10, one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced is the steep learning curve presented by traditional notation. It’s no secret that learning to read music is like learning an entirely new language, and for children, that whole process is about 10x harder. Noteflight Learn totally changes that! Yes, […]

Noteflight Learn and SoundCheck Review by Eric Posner

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Eric Posner, Atholton High School Director of Bands, has been using Noteflight Learn and SoundCheck™  with his students this fall and was even able to help beta test in the summer. Continue reading below for Eric’s first-hand review on how Noteflight Learn and SoundCheck works for him and his students and how it could work […]