This mnemonic system probably makes little or no sense to anyone else on the planet but it makes sense to me and a few other subhuman mutants, all of whom are superb musicians. Instead, we developed a 'secret' musical language based on the name of the first song or artist we heard and liked, where for example the classic Heavy Metal rhythm guitar chord is called a 'Purple Haze' and it becomes more elaborate and is a type of musical shorthand, with a 'James Brown', 'Stormy Monday', 'Sleepwalk', 'Louie Louie', and 'Heat Wave' being a few more examples of the mnemonics. Most of my popular music knowledge comes from being in garage bands with like minded subhuman mutants, none of whom-with one exception-read music notation. I taught myself electric bass, rhythm guitar, drums, and a bit of keyboards and after 11 years of working daily with music notation in NOTION, it continues to be the case that only soprano treble clef is intuitive. Other than a piano player and a trumpet player when I was playing string bass and electric bass in nightclubs when I was in high school, I do not know anyone outside of a choir, who actually reads music notation.

ДЄfter a week or so, this led me to NOTION 3 and the solution, which soon was followed by discovering SampleTank (IK Multimedia) and its sampled-sound libraries and the fact that it's possible to spend thousands of dollars on an ever-expanding set of sampled-sound libraries and effects plug-ins from a virtual festival of companies (which is good reason to get on mailing lists and to watch for discount sales). However, in 2010 I had no idea what a 'virtual instrument' was but it appeared to be the key to doing Flamenco rhythm patterns with a virtual drumkit and some virtual Latin percussion instruments. I knew a bit about music notation from being in a liturgical boys choir where I learned to sight-sing soprano treble clef music notation-and only soprano treble clef. Д«ig Band, Country Western, Rock and Roll, Heavy Metal, Rhythm and Blues, Polka, Classical, Symphonic, Baroque, and Ska? It's like Bulgarian buttermilk, salted lemons, pickle juice, and butter beans (a.k.a., 'lima beans') in the sense that if you are introduced to these treats as a child under five years-old, then they become lifelong gourmet pleasures but otherwise mostly are categorized as being horrible or inedible. I started with Musescore in 2010 when I was exploring the possibility of using music notation and something called a 'virtual instrument' to create a Flamenco percussion pattern, since while I play drums, Flamenco rhythm patterns made, and for the most part continue to make, zero intuitive sense to me.

There is a bit of overlap but (a) nothing beats NOTION for performance and (b) nothing beats the others for elaborate engraving-observing that I have not done anything with MuseScore in a decade (at which time it was primitive) and never have used Dorico. I think it's accurate to say (a) Dorico, Finale, MuseScore, and Sibelius primarily are engraving tools, while (b) NOTION primarily is a performance tool that does engraving at a reasonable level of complexity. NOTION does not open native Sibelius files, but it imports and exports MusicXML. I'm thinking of switching, but can Notion open Sibelius files & if so, are they accurately converted? Rick Bell wroteBeen using Sibelius for transcriptions.

Open sibelius files online