From the course: Learning Music Notation

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Part setup

Part setup

From the course: Learning Music Notation

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Part setup

- [Instructor] A well formatted score saves time when it comes to creating parts. But there's a number of issues to consider and always some additional formatting to do. So let's take a look and discuss some of the common aspects of part setup and layout. So there's a big difference if you're doing parts by hand rather than computer. So if you are doing them by hand make sure you review the score first and then begin the layout and then notate it. I'll just say that I don't know if I've seen a handwritten part in the last decade in my experience. Most everyone I know is using computer notation programs to do that. Depending upon the version of the software you are using you may have to extract parts and create separate documents once you get to the process of creating the actual parts. But for the most part today the score and parts are linked in one document and you can flip back and forth between the two. You can actually make updates in one which will update in the other. And so…

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