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General Discussion / Re: New at this - Inserting Choruses?
Thanks so much for all your suggestions. I did stumble across the Noteworthy songs library - I think it's called the Scriptorium? That really wowed me - there's a lot you can do with this, if you really know how to write music!! And I can certainly see how an auto-wrap would be bad once you throw in 5 or 6 parts. I just wasn't thinking at that level.

I do know how to use the keyboard, but I don't use it enough to really flow - it's a clunky process of "Ok, this is an E [enter].. then an A [arrow up, arrow up, enter].. [squint at hymnal] ok, then an eighth note B [arrow up, 4, enter]. I'm sure I will get better over time.

I'm familiar with music and play a smattering of clarinet, but this certainly seems to be a more powerful program than my level of experience 'deserves'. For instance, I have no idea what David Palmquist means in his comment by the term 'parallel thirds'. It's amazing to download and listen to other folks' songs, though.

Thanks again - I'll keep playing with it!
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General Discussion / Re: New at this - Inserting Choruses?
The format is A B A B A B A B.

What bugs me about the long staff is that I already HAVE a printed copy in my old hymnal - my trouble is, I can't sing by sight so I try to teach myself the song by putting it in NWC and playing it there (usually selecting the piano or clarinet though I occasionally amuse myself with the other offbeat instruments, especially gunshot since my denomination is pacifist) :-)

It's not so hard, I guess, if I just let it play across on NWC to give me the tune and notes while following along in my hymnal. It's just clunky for me. If I was more musical and wrote my own stuff, I might appreciate the NWC format more. Maybe someday. :-)

I don't actually put lyrics in, since I have them in the hymnal already. The only thing I do right now is put in the notes, so that it will play back and teach me the tune of the hymn. I also like to put the harmony lines in so I can learn alto - I silence the soprano line and try to sing along with alto. Typing all 4 parts in sounds awesome, but takes FOREVER! Going note by note it takes a long time, although I know how to use copy/paste when measures are the same and I know how to use the keyboard commands for the notes, which is faster too.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated!

Anna
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General Discussion / New at this - Inserting Choruses?
I feel kind of silly, but I just got NWC and have been trying to enter in some old hymns from hymnals I have. I have two things that are frustrating me...

1) So far I can only get one LONG staff going across the page in the program itself. This is really hard to work with - how can I get the staff to 'wrap', that is, just continue on another line? I'd really like 4 measures, then to be able to put 4 more measures below it, and 4 more below that, etc, but to have them play one after the other, not at the same time.

2) Part of the same issue - how do I insert a chorus without having to copy/paste the 8 measures over and over? The only thing I've discovered so far is putting a multiple repeat on the end - basically, I have one long staff with the chorus on the end, and put a 4X repeat on it, then it will play all 4 verses of my hymn.

There has to be a better way... help?

Thanks!

Anna