Using music notation software
After you have input your composition into your notation software, it is worthwhile reviewing the timbres and textures of your composition and considering whether they are effective or not. You might find that you need to add a few more bars of transition or that a certain key change is not effective. Tweaking your composition in notation software is easy and worth spending time on.
Consider the following questions:
- Structure. Are you happy with the number of sections in your piece and how they flow into each other? Do you need to repeat another section using cut and paste, and adapt it?
- Texture and instrumentation. Are your textures consistent within sections but varied? If not, how can you move melodies and accompanying lines to improve the texture?
- Expression marks and dynamics. Have you included them your composition? Make sure you don鈥檛 just click them at random.
Don鈥檛 forget that notation software is best used to support your musical decisions, not make them for you. It is essential that you do not rely on your software and input phrases and music which don鈥檛 make sense in your composition.