Noteflight is proud to partner with the American Composers Forum to support their NextNotes High School Composition Awards. NextNotes is a national program designed to nurture the next generation of creative voices in music composition – in any genre! Students in grades 9-12 are invited to apply with a single composition in any genre or […]
We are pleased to announce the winners of our One Man Band Contest! For this contest, we invited composers to participate by writing or arranging a duet or trio and recording themselves playing each part using Noteflight’s Live Audio Recording feature. The voting was in the hands of the Noteflight community where members voted for […]
In our first feature with Shed the Music we showed off the great Guided Transcriptions from our friends Bob Habersat and Paul Levy. Well, they are at it again and with the help of Noteflight’s online notation editor, they have created some new tools designed to help students learn jazz more easily. Bob and Paul have observed […]
While using Noteflight, perhaps you have wondered: “why can’t I make the key signature different in my clarinet part?” Or perhaps you clicked “Add Part” or “Change Instrument” in the Staff menu, and you wondered about the popup window that appears, with its three options: Instrument key, Instrument octave, and Score octave. This article explores […]
At Noteflight, we love the opportunity to hear how our software has been instrumental (pun intended) in one of our users’ musical development. Stephanie Evans is a prime example of how a little inspiration can lead to a great musical journey with Noteflight. Stephanie’s Story Initially, I started using Noteflight when I was a freshman […]
The world of percussion is vast and varied: any sound-producing object, hit with any other object, can be called percussion. Percussion lends itself to alternate playing techniques: there are usually several ways to hit a percussion instrument to make it sound good in different ways. We provide some of the most common instruments and their […]
Are you using all the sounds Noteflight makes available for string and percussion instruments… pizzicato, mutes, harmonics, and so on? Even if you are, there may be some effects you haven’t encountered yet. Instrument makers design each instrument with a certain ‘main sound’ in mind. For example, the basic idea on a guitar is to […]
Noteflight is excited to showcase Bob Habersat and Paul Levy from Shed the Music! Not only have they utilized Noteflight and its media sync capabilities to the fullest, but they are helping to modernize jazz education. What is Shed the Music? Shed the Music was started by Bob Habersat and Paul Levy, two high school […]
One story we hear from our users goes something like this: “I’ve always wanted to compose, but I just didn’t have the right tools… with Noteflight I can jump right in and start writing music!” We love hearing this, of course, but is it always that simple? Once you know how to enter notes and […]
This summer we offered a series of short weekly challenges and gave away Noteflight Premium for life to one lucky winner each week! The rules were simple: Compose a piece using the weekly guidelines. Post your score URL on Facebook, Twitter, or both using the weekly hashtag. Tag two friends in your post. We enjoyed […]
