Transcript Woodshedding with Sibelius Scorch

Scales & Changes:
Woodshedding with
Sibelius SCORCH
Tim Howe
Holly Ruth Gale
John Gale
Deborah Barber
[email protected]
http://lfa.atu.edu/music/barber/
SCORCH
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Advantages of Scorch over simple playback
•Anybody can use it with any computer.
Free Scorch plug-in allows use without
owning Sibelius.
•Flexibility of Tempo
•Flexibility of Transposition or Key
•Exercises and patterns can be posted
on a web page and downloaded,
or e-mailed to students.
•Anything you can create in Sibelius
can be turned into a Scorch file.
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Ways to use Scorch
Jazz Exercises and Patterns
• II V I: Exercise can be used as a scale
exercise and improvisation exercise, etc.
You can transpose it to any key.
You may wish to add an accompaniment.
http://lfa.atu.edu/music/howe/IIVIexercise.htm
file
• Scale Review: Start it slow and change the
speed in Scorch to work on Dorian and
Mixolydian modes (scales).
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Improvisation
•Create an accompaniment for any set of changes
in Sibelius and export it as Scorch.
•Students can download the file and play
the head and improvise as well.
•Change to a slower speed for fast bop charts
until they can keep up with the
changes and the head.
•Students can transpose the file into any key.
•Example: “Billie’s Bounce”
http://lfa.atu.edu/music/howe/bbchanges.htm
file
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Woodshedding Difficult Ensemble
Passages
•Difficult ensemble passages can be put in
Sibelius and saved as a Scorch file.
•Students can play along gradually
increasing the speed.
•Rhythmic and pitch accuracy can be improved.
•Example: mm 88-114 from Gordon Goodwin’s
“A Few Good Men”
file
http://lfa.atu.edu/music/howe/fewgoodmenwoodshed.htm
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Holly Ruth
vocal
http://lfa.atu.edu/music/gale/IAJEScorchCopyright
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A Plug-in is a tiny app that assists browsers
in viewing/executing specific types of files.
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How do you create Scorch files?
They are actually two files .htm and .sib
Create new Sibelius file
Export > Scorch Web Page
Save to a folder.
Choose to enable Print or Save (?)
You can also have the students create
warm-ups or chorales for their sections.
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From a MIDI file.
1.Open Sibelius
2.Open File - Accept defaults (first time).
3.Export > Scorch Web Page
4.Rename Put in * folder (create)
5.Choose to print or save?
Browser - Open file (open the .htm file)
Screencast of this on next page
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When sharing be sure to always include
.htm & .sib files. (name.htm & name.sib)
E-mail to students
Save on flash drives or data CDs
Put on webpages
Put on computers in practice rooms.
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John
Copyright Concerns
http://lfa.atu.edu/music/gale/IAJEScorchCopyrigh
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Discussion…
Thank You!
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EXTRA FUN:
You can save your work as a MIDI file. (.mid)
You can drag that MIDI file to iTunes
(I drag to a playlist - easier to find the new song)
(note the name is same as masthead)
Select Advanced > Convert to MP3.
Now you can burn to CD or put on an iPod or
use as a ringtone.
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It is nice to have options.
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More Examples
Easy two-part exercises - Go
Guitar Etude - Go
Note “substitute instrument” option
Easy solo with piano - Go
Woodwind trio - Go
TECH Students “If You’re Happy..” Go
Note “Save as a Sibelius file” option
Solfege - Go
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http://indexed.blogspot.com/
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Jazz - Scales Worksheet
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=65570
See next page…
From SibeliusMusic.com you can publicize and sell your music
worldwide. Or offer it for no charge. You can even include your
biography, photograph, contact details and list of scores on your
own page on the site.
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/
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From your own website, anyone, anywhere
can view, play, transpose and print your
music, if you wish. Visitors to your site don’t
need Sibelius, they just download Scorch,
(Sibelius' free plug-in for browsing scores
online).
You can also let people save music from your
site onto disk , useful for giving coursework to
students.
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