Monday, March 19, 2012

Write Your Own Sheet Music



If you'd like to learn how to write your own sheet music then you'll need to learn how to read music notes and have some understanding of music theory first. But don't worry, it's easy.

So here is a guide to show you how to write your own sheet music:


• You'll need some obvious tools: paper and music score paper or some kind of notation software.

• Decide what kind of music you'd like to write. What style, what genre? Happy or sad?

• What is the tempo going to be like? Is this song going to be a ballad, a mid-tempo or an up-tempo song? It's important to decide in advance because you probably won't use many eighth or sixteenth notes in a ballad, for example.

• Decide about the key of the song and choose the bass or treble clef accordingly.

• Decide which octaves you'll use.

• Decide if your song is going to be in the 4/4 time (which is the most common) or something else.

• Now write out the melody and draw the line to the end of the measures.

• Then label the different sections of the song and put repeat, first and second endings, etc. signs in it.


It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an advanced composer, I think the best, fastest, easiest and most reliable way to write your own sheet music these days if you use notation software.

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