Sibelius resources
The funny thing about this course is that I knocked it up in an afternoon to celebrate getting Sibelius 6. Now it gets tens of thousands of hits on YouTube and elsewhere. Ah well, I hope you find it useful!
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Developing an idea in Sibelius
I’m very proud of this one. This free online course takes Beethoven as the model for brilliant thematic development and steps students through using his compositional techniques focusing on an amazing set of “Composing Tools” plug-ins which come free with Sibelius 6.
Sibelius 212Elivepage.apple.com Teaching Film Composition
A website I made to support the Sibelius Training course in Film Composition.
iWeb and embedding Sibelius Scorch files
A simple written tutorial showing you how to embed Sibelius Scorch files in websites made with Apple’s iWeb.
Drum Notation in Sibelius 4 (also useful for later versions)
Another simple written tutorial that has helped a few people out. Nowadays (personally), I just nick one of the really good drum patterns in The Ideas Hub and modify it a bit!
Setting up MIDI in Windows in Sibelius 3 (possibly useful for later versions)
An interactive PDF
Editing text styles and word menus in Sibelius 3 (also useful for later versions)
A unit of work for elective music students in which they perform a structural analysis of the opening of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells and then use it to reconstruct the piece from provided loops, first in GarageBand and then in Sibelius. Extends into a composition task.
A piece of music for classroom ensemble. Performance class extends from improvisation into composition through GarageBand and Sibelius templates.
Paul Grabowsky Sibelius Education Kit
An education kit which together with Paul Grabowsky’s In Search of a Comedy was commissioned by Sibelius to celebrate the launch of Sibelius 5. It includes a detailed analysis of the work with ideas for dozens of lessons for secondary students, high quality recordings and composition exercises to be completed in Sibelius. And all for free.
