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Who here writes/arranges music?

RickG

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I don't do any arranging really, but I make up a lot of songs...I can write lyrics and usually can write actual music to it. I play piano mainly so I stay within that.

Cool. Do you write the music down when you make songs up so you can play it later? What I write and arrange I do with a music program (Sibelius).
 
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Ahh Sibelius...

I usually just write the chords down and if I want to write the music down later I'll do it in Finale Notepad. Typically my memory is pretty good and I improvise on the chords. Everyone tells me I should write actual sheet music for the music I play but I've found that rather tedious!
 
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Ahh Sibelius...

I usually just write the chords down and if I want to write the music down later I'll do it in Finale Notepad. Typically my memory is pretty good and I improvise on the chords. Everyone tells me I should write actual sheet music for the music I play but I've found that rather tedious!

Finale and Sibelius I believe are the two best software programs, Finale probably being the most used. I have found that Sibelius is much more user friendly. Both Finale and Sibelius will allow electronic keyboard entry, but I'm not sure Notepad will, being a watered-down free version of Finale, but still very useful. There is just so much more that can be done with the full programs. :)
 
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Well, it's really a cool service and many individuals will earn a good money from this. A decent distributer searches out awesome music and extraordinary authors and musicians, bolsters writers and lyricists in the innovative methodology, advances their lists over a mixture of stages, deals with the business misuse of the inventories (counting the enrollment of works and the accumulation and forward installment of every single due royaltie) and by and large looks to secure and improve the estimation of their works with enthusiasm and expert responsibility.
 
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