Student Resources
​Composing

​The Basics of Composing  (Motives, Repetitions, Sequencing, and Retrogrades)

Scoring Programs
​This is the site I visit most.  FOR FREE and for any instrument you can
1)  Search the site for transcribed* songs and download them
​2)  Score your own song
3)  Listen to the song played in the instrument of your choosing
​4)  Import a .pdf to make changes to a song
​5)  Export a .pdf of your own song,
6)  Export a .wav or .mp3 of the song
7)  Transpose a song in seconds
MuseScore.COM

*transcribed:  Some nice person listened to a song and then scored it.  This is great to find arrangements of songs that may be hard to find, like TV/Movie/Video Game theme songs or popular songs.  Or maybe you just want a partial song but don't want to pay to buy it...this is a great first step, though there are many benefits to also buying music.  Because the transcribers are amateurs, you may need to try the song (by simply playing within MuseScore).  If there are lots of changes to be made I would just search for a new transcription because the library is so large and is constantly being updated from people across the world.   

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