Hello Noteflight Users!

We're just about at the end of 2012, so it's a great time to catch up with you with one last newsletter for 2011. In this issue, we'll offer another "Behind the Notation" article on best practices in writing music. We also profile Noteflight user, Kevin Clark, and talk about some exciting upcoming Noteflight features that will be released soon. Lastly, we’ll direct you to a great resource on approaches to writing commercial music from our online education partner Berkleemusic.com.

Behind the Notation: Beat Clarity. One of the trickier problems that can come up in notating rhythm is when note values (rhythmic durations), ties, and beams, don't match the way beats divide up in the given meter. In this article, Noteflight's Robin McClellan shows how you can make your rhythmic notation clearer. Read more...

Thinking About The Future The Noteflight team has been working on some features we want to roll out soon. Chief among these has been a new home page design, allowing users to manage scores by grouping them into named collections and copying them between sites. At the same time we've been experimenting with some more forward-looking ideas like melodic search and autocompletion. In this article, Noteflight CEO Joe Berkovitz expands on these ideas. Read more...

User Profile: Kevin Clark. "... I am inspired by words. I love the boundaries between spoken text and music, and turning words into music in unexpected ways...." Noteflight interviews composer Kevin Clark whose blog post caught our eye after we made our video sync available. Read entire profile...

Free Jingle Writing Tips from Berkleemusic.com. Ever wondered who makes the music for the ads or shows that you see on TV and hear on the radio? If you want to look under the hood at the world of commercial music, both from a process standpoint as well as a business standpoint, take a look at these top six jingle writing tips from Peter Bell, author and instructor of Berkleemusic's online Jingle Writing course. Jingle Writing, and 150 other courses in orchestration, songwriting, arranging, music theory, and more are enrolling now for the January 9th term at Berkleemusic.com. Find out more...

Talk to us! Please tell us about how you're using Noteflight to collaborate and share music with others, so we can let everyone know about your ideas and experiences in future newsletters. Send us an email at: info@noteflight.com. You can always find us on Facebook and Twitter too. Thanks for reading, and keep on making music!

Yours,

Joe Berkovitz
President
Noteflight

P.S. Thanks everyone who participated in our 2011 user survey!