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Using Noteflight: Tips, All-time Practices, and Cool Features Y'all Might Not Know About

| October 19, 2014

Dear Noteflighters (or Notepilots, as some of you prefer to be called),

In our travels on the forums, on our user support line, and in discussions with composers, students, and teachers (including me, working with my students equally my alter-ego the composition teacher), we hear a lot of things about Noteflight: mostly tales of joy and musicality, a few tales of puzzlement (which we assist resolve right away!), and so e'er those tales of… "oh hey! I didn't know Noteflight could do that!"

Yeah, nosotros regularly see things that users tin do to make their music-making in Noteflight smooth, fast, fun, and problem-free. Our User Guide gives the full moving picture, but we desire to share a few highlights and "all-time practices", tips from our users, things that "but work", and cool tricks y'all might not know yet.

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Salve! Oftentimes!

It'southward quickest to use control-South (picket out: on some browsers command-Southward saves the whole web folio to your hard bulldoze, which is not what you desire), or one of these options:

If the button looks like this, your latest changes may not accept been backed upwardly yet!

When it looks like this, yous're prophylactic:

This is a habit affair: if you train yourself to save all the time, even every few seconds, you'll stop noticing and information technology will just happen…and you'll be then glad y'all did. If Benjamin Franklin had had Noteflight, he would have added frequent saving to his listing of 13 virtues.

A few of our favorite keys

Get to know our Keyboard Shortcuts (a complete list here). You won't regret information technology!

Hither are a few of our favorites. These volition instantly increase your dear of Noteflight!

P is for Play

Instead of the Play button, or using the option in the Play menu, only printing:

to play from the showtime, or

Shift-P to play from the currently-selected measure out.

R is for Echo

Select any office of your score: a unmarried annotation, a chord, a whole bar, a series of bars… printing:

…and voilà! It shall be repeated, as many times as you wish. This is too a handy style to add together new bars: select an empty bar, hit R a one thousand thousand or so times, and you will have measures to fill with glorious music until the end of time.

Bracket Keys to change Elapsing
One of the most useful of all: to change the note duration, utilise the bracket keys:
[ makes the note shorter (quarter/crotchet to 8th/quaver, or 8th/quaver to 16th/semiquaver)
] makes the note longer

Movement notes one footstep college or lower: use the Up / Downward arrow keys

Movement notes upwards or down i octave: hold Control/Command and printing the Up / Downward arrow keys

A few other handy keystrokes:

Break or connect a beam: shift-[ and shift-]

Tie vs Slur
One of music notation'due south most confusing tricks: ii things that expect exactly the same, but mean completely unlike things! Meet the tie and the slur.

For a tie, to connect 2 of the aforementioned pitch into ane longer duration, type a comma: ,
For a slur, to show shine playing between different pitches, type the Southward key

Here is a sample from our consummate list of Keyboard Shortcuts… click the prototype to see the total list!

Sharing Your Scores

Noteflight is a great annotation editor, and our heart and soul is in helping you to create music. But Noteflight's sharing features make it something more: the ability to instantly share, collaborate, comment, follow, and favorite make Noteflight a customs. Each score, like a Google Drive document or Youtube video, is a unique web folio with an address on the internet which you, as owner and creator of that score/web page, can control access to. The default setting keeps it private, visible only to y'all, just equally it would be if information technology were a file on your hard drive.

Merely just like a Youtube video, if y'all desire to transport your score to a friend for feedback — or for them to add the brass section equally role of a collaboration, perhaps — simply copy-paste the link into an email, web log, even a text message, and they tin open it instantly…

…IF y'all have set the sharing options to let them see it. That'south why the Sharing Console is then important: for your colleagues, students, and friends to come across your score, you must SHARE your score. The default is set to individual, so this doesn't happen automatically.

Delight review the department on Sharing in our User Guide for complete details on how to share and publish your scores on Noteflight.

Save your score as a PDF

You can do this in the Score palette, under Impress. But the easiest way is in the same palette under Export then cull the PDF option.

Teachers! The Sites menu

If you are the administrator of a Noteflight Larn site, go along in listen the left panel that opens up when yous click the Noteflight icon on the upper left. This is where you can switch betwixt your scores on our public site at www.noteflight.com and your individual school site(s), which have a different web address:

If you are non seeing the scores you want, check the spider web address URL and if it says www.noteflight.com, switch to your school site in the Sites menu!

*If you are a instructor or student in a Teacher, Studio, or Classroom site, but non the admin, this doesn't apply.

Other good things to know

Change role names right in the margin!
Yup: just double click the part proper noun, and then rewrite it as yous come across fit. If you're writing for an instrument nosotros don't accept yet, you can use an instrument we do have, then put the correct name in for the player to read. Or if your friend Julia is playing the clarinet part, you can put her name right in there adjacent to the clarinet staff!

How do rests work in Noteflight?
In Noteflight, a rest occurs when there is no annotation — there can't be a gap in the bar. And then if you select a notation and hit Delete/Backspace, Noteflight automatically fills in a residuum of the same value.

Starting time and Second endings
In the Echo palette you will so meet the "get-go ending" symbol, with a 1 and a line following it.

To create the 2nd ending, add another first ending and double click the "ane" to get the blinking cursor, then supercede it with a "2".

You tin apply an "incoming necktie" to the first note in the second ending. This symbol is on the Duration palette:

Need a 2d line of lyrics? And so like shooting fish in a barrel, it'south like shooting fish in a barrel to miss! Just double click the first syllable of the outset line of lyrics: yous demand the blinking cursor. Then, but hit Return/Enter. It will jump to the second line, and y'all can continue typing your second (and third, and quaternary) verses.

Hymns or Folk songs? Add together verses at the bottom

For hymns or folk songs, sometimes you want to add together additional verses at the end in block text format. Select a annotation in the eye of the lesser staff. So type "T" to create a new text particular with blinking cursor. And then type the lyrics, adding line breaks where needed. Then click somewhere else in the window to "prepare" the text (get rid of the blinking cursor). And then drag the text item where you need it to become.

Work with parts right within your score

Click on the Instruments button at the top of the screen, and show or hide any combination of parts you lot need. Read more here.

Hide Time Signatures or Bar Lines

Sometimes for a school do, or Gregorian chant, or the like, y'all don't want to show the time signature and bar lines. You can hide them!

Click the fourth dimension signature to open the "change time signatures" box. Cull whatever value volition give you plenty infinite to add all the notes you lot need – for example if y'all want 6 quarters and two 8ths, you could choose a "7/4" fourth dimension signature – THEN, click "hidden" before you close that box, and you'll get a measure with plenty infinite just no visible time signature.

To hide bar lines: click the bar line and in the box that pops up (or in the Measures palette, cull the dotted line.

Hide Cautionary Time Signatures and Cardinal Signatures

Don't want that "actress" time signature or key signature at the end of a line to warn the reader of a modify on the next line? Select the bar line, hold downward the Control key, and hitting return/enter!

Import scores from other notation programs

Have a score yous created elsewhere, and y'all desire to work with it in Noteflight? Piece of cake!

1. Export as XML (not MXL) from the other program, and save it to your hard drive.
2. Open up a new score in Noteflight, and pick any instrument (information technology will be replaced after import)
3. New Score > import > cull your XML file

Upshot: a Noteflight score you can edit (you should wait through and brand any needed fixes)

Lost your Metronome Mark?
Take you deleted the metronome marker and you can't go information technology back? Just change the number in the petty box at the bottom, and the mark reappears. Then you can change the number back.

Terminal but not least…

Be artistic and expect for workarounds!

This tin hateful a lot of things, and so hither'southward an case:

Separate one measure between two systems

1. Create two measures in place of the ane y'all want to dissever.

2. Change both time signatures so that together they add up to the original time signature; for case if the music is in 4/iv time and you desire to split a measure out into 3 beats plus i vanquish, use 3/four and i/iv…
…BUT before you close the time signature dialog each time, choose "hidden".

three. Select the bar line after the "3/4" bar and hit return/enter to create a system/line break.

4. Select the same bar line, which is now at the end of a line, and get in invisible by choosing the dotted line bar line option.

5. You'll end up with a "corrective" time signature dorsum to iv/4, and you may stop upward with an extra measure or two. Delete those bars, and to hide the iv/iv use the "subconscious" button in the Time Signatures dialog again.