Getting Started score—revised version
This started out as a mission to fix some capitalization and punctuation issues. Then I realized that part of the instructions actually wouldn't work right, and spent some time trying to rewrite them with the missing information. Then I deleted the whole line and replaced it with something else. I think this really is much better. Revision is attached.
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Comments
Thank you very much for making these improvements. I made a very small extra improvement by putting the text blocks on the same left alignment. See attached.
In reply to Thank you very much for by Thomas
It's not so clear what each piece of text is referring to—see especially the third and fifth lines. Also, I thought of something else that really ought to be mentioned in there: "Press the Escape key to leave note input mode." Otherwise I can easily imagine frustration occurring.
In reply to It's not so clear what each by Isaac Weiss
I think it's really fine for the text blocks to be aligned with the beginning of the measures. So, with that in mind, this is basically ready to go:
In reply to I think it's really fine for by Isaac Weiss
This is now included in e5060cdc86
Oh no! I could have sworn "note input mode" was supposed to be all lowercase, but now I went back and checked at http://musescore.org/en/node/36126#note-input-mode and most of the time it's capitalized as "Note Input" over there. Should the Getting Started score change to match?
In reply to Oh no! I could have sworn by Isaac Weiss
That's fine.
In reply to That's fine. by [DELETED] 5
Which is fine? It's fine to change it, or it's fine as it is?
It's here at last! Many long hours have I worked on it. This is the ultimate Getting Started score. This is the ultimate one-page introduction to note entry. Everything I could think of that made sense is covered in easy-to-follow, customized-style text. The instructions are easy and informative—just what a new user of MuseScore needs when they open the application for the first time.
Why am I going on like I'm a commercial? Just download it and check it out! I think you'll be impressed.
(Note that I put "MuseScore Team" in the composer text box. I don't feel that I should give credit to myself, especially considering that other people came up with the initial idea. If anybody has strong feelings about changing that, though—I don't know what to—we can do that. Otherwise, this is ready to go for the next release of MuseScore. I have a feeling it will be part of the package for a long time to come.)
In reply to It's here at last! Many long by Isaac Weiss
Looks great to me, thanks for doing this!
In reply to It's here at last! Many long by Isaac Weiss
Very nice instructional score.
It fits a lot of info. onto only one page, and the instruction: 'Can't see? Zoom in with the shortcut Ctrl + (Mac: Cmd +).' is nicely positioned at the very top in a larger font size, so it's readable when first opening the score.
(That's actually the first thing I did.)
One error I came across is in #7. After all the 16th notes are entered in measure 25, the slur must be added. The instructions state: 'select all eight notes, and press S to slur them.'
It should read: 'select all 16th notes, and press S to slur them.'
Regards.
In reply to Very nice instructional by Jm6stringer
All *eight* notes, not all *eighth* notes. There are eight sixteenth notes :-)
In reply to Very nice instructional by Jm6stringer
It means "select all eight of those notes." But thank you very much for the comments. I'd like to see this included with the next release of MuseScore, and I'm hoping that it will be helpful to a lot of people.
I'm curious: did I actually introduce you to the "Zoom in" shortcut, or is that simply the first thing you usually do anyway?
In reply to It means "select all eight of by Isaac Weiss
Ha!
... I thought 'eight' was a typo!
@Zack:
I use Zoom a lot - especially when trying to select amongst colliding/overlapping score elements.
I was just remarking that the zoom instruction is easily read and almost 'jumps out at you' which is good because if one needs the remaining text larger, the Zoom instruction is the first thing (s)he reads.
Regards.
In reply to It means "select all eight of by Isaac Weiss
Having zoom on top is great. It was the first thing Werner did as well and he gave it an approving nod ;)
In reply to Having zoom on top is great. by Thomas
"Werner Schweer likes me!" Right now I am laughing like a maniac. ;-) Now, to be really accessible, I've increased the size of that hint to 18 points, lowered the second line by a whole step for no good reason, and corrected an actual typo in line 5—all while finally beginning to use musescore.com. The score is now available from https://musescore.com/user/607771/scores/792126.
In reply to "Werner Schweer likes me!" by Isaac Weiss
Great work! Let's include it in MuseScore 2.0.1 !
In reply to Great work! Let's include it by [DELETED] 5
That's the idea! Thanks!
In reply to That's the idea! Thanks! by Isaac Weiss
Done!
It looks great -- much clearer and easier than the 1.x Getting Started score. Thank you!
One piece of the instructions to refine: in example 6 (measure 21), following the instructions creates notes an octave higher than the example (because the higher D is closer to the preceding A than the lower D is?) -- or am I missing something?
NOT FOUND: 1
Example 7 introduces Ctrl-Down, but it could be taught in this example as well.
(And typos in Ex. 7: "stacatto(s)" should be "staccato(s)".)
In reply to It looks great -- much by grinningcat
Well spotted, and thank you very much for reporting it! (By the way, welcome to the community!) Yes, you have identified the reason exactly right—the note is placed at whichever octave is closest to the last-entered note. My mistake. I've just corrected it to something that works:
https://musescore.com/user/607771/scores/792126
And thank you for the typo correction, as well. ;-) I really appreciate your taking the time to point it out.
@Thomas, it's not critical, but you might want to replace the score with the corrected version in future builds.
In reply to Well spotted, and thank you by Isaac Weiss
Pushed in the MuseScore repo.
In reply to Well spotted, and thank you by Isaac Weiss
Thanks for the elegant correction. (And I'm glad to be here!)
In reply to Thanks for the elegant by grinningcat
I've just updated it slightly again—the underlined paragraphs at the top may help clarify the basic structure of the thing. Nobody asked for it, but it made more sense to me. ;-)
In reply to I've just updated it slightly by Isaac Weiss
Measure 5 always makes me think of this:
![Getting Started m5 makes me think of this.png]()
(with apologies to Vince Guaraldi and his tune "Linus and Lucy")
Anyway, a happy new year to everyone!
In reply to Measure 5 always makes me by grinningcat
Oh, yeah. ;-)
"Getting Started" may be becoming one of the more popular items uploaded to musescore.com. ;-)
https://musescore.com/sheetmusic?instruments=0&parts=1&text=getting%20s…
This one is more unique though:
https://musescore.com/aprado/scores/878096
In reply to "Getting Started" may be by Isaac Weiss
Thanks to ZackTheCardshark . It's good to be in this thread!.
I'll check the latest version and comments published here to edit details in the score "Empezando" :)
In reply to Thanks to ZackTheCardshark. by aprado
Hi everyone, the post is a bit old, but I thought to add a reference to 'Voices', if it can be useful
In reply to Hi everyone, the post is a… by Shoichi
Good idea.
If possible without complicating too much things, mention that the 4 voices of MuseScore are NOT SATB and writing TB on a stave means using MuseScore voices 1 and 2 and not 3 and 4 as it is a very frequent confusion for new users.
In reply to Good idea… by frfancha
You can proceed, or propose but consider: There is not much place on the page (you can download it from MsS.com);
The information is general, currently the software can, via F1 take you to the manual to learn more.