It’s been an exciting couple of weeks at Noteflight, as we’ve watched the number of registered users climb from less than 100 before our launch to nearly 2,000 today. But an even bigger deal for us is the increasing number of original scores being shared by people on the site. This kind of sharing is one of the main reasons we built Noteflight, and it’s so gratifying to see it happening.

We’re aware that Noteflight could offer much more support for the kind of online musical community that we want to grow. It’s easy to share music on Noteflight, but there are still few features for people to share their thoughts and opinions about that music, or to find each other and find each other’s works in useful ways. The fact that so much music is being shared now is motivating us to think very hard about what to do next.

Our design team met today to plan for the next couple of releases. We think we’ve got some good ideas that can help this community organize and build itself, and make it easier to find and follow music and people that interest us. We’ll say more about those ideas here when we’re more definite! There will also, of course, be many assorted improvements, bug fixes, and new music notation features. If you have specific ideas about things you’d like to see on the service, we hope you’ll get in touch with us or post a comment here.

There are many interesting scores out there on Noteflight; let me close by embedding a couple of scores from the many that I heard today that connected with me in some way:

KanonKaeru, posted by minimitkj

Also, here’s Fervidus by Bridget Whelan of London:

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