About the Projects

These tutorials are made up of five projects, which will take you roughly eight hours to work through from start to finish. You are rec-
ommended to work through at least the first three projects, as these explain all of the key concepts and features that you will use every
day in Sibelius. The fourth and fifth projects are more tightly focused on specific features, but you should work through them as well
if you can make the time.

Project 1 (2 hours)
This project shows you how to open a score, introduces the ribbon, explains how to navigate around a score using both the Navigator
panel and various keyboard and mouse shortcuts, making selections, and copying and pasting. Using an arrangement of the folk song
Scarborough Fair, you will learn how to edit and input notes using your mouse, computer keyboard and MIDI keyboard, and how to
input lyrics. You will be introduced to playback, and to marking up your score with text and dynamics.

Project 2 (2 hours)
In this project, you will learn to recreate an excerpt from Elgar’s String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83 by scanning the four instrumental
parts using PhotoScore Lite, then copying and pasting them into a newly-created score. You will learn how to create clef and key sig-
nature changes, more advanced note input including tuplets, and explore the different kinds of objects—including articulations, lines,
ties, slurs and text—commonly used to mark up scores. You will also be introduced to dynamic parts, and exporting graphics from Si-
belius.

Project 3 (2 hours)
This project teaches you the basics of writing for keyboard, guitar and drums, together with an introduction to creating chord symbols
and repeat structures (including 1st and 2nd ending lines, and D.S. al Coda). You will also explore adjusting playback using the Mixer
panel, and learn how to use Ideas panel to store and re-use snippets of music.

Project 4 (1 hour)
(Sibelius Ultimate Only)

This project is especially useful if you are planning to produce learning materials for students or teach with Sibelius | Ultimate in the
classroom, but it should also be of interest if you want to learn some of the more advanced techniques for laying out and formatting mu-
sic. In this project you will create a worksheet of scales, and learn how to indent staves, hide empty staves, change text fonts, and more.

Project 5 (1 hour)
(Sibelius Ultimate Only)

This project introduces the Video window, and explores techniques for writing to picture, including working with timecode, hit points,
and a plug-in for adjusting the duration of a section of music. Using a video from the animated series Mr. Bean, you will also learn how
to export an audio track from Sibelius | Ultimate in order to add it as a soundtrack to a video in an editing package such as Avid Media
Composer®.

Tutorial Projects and Sibelius | First

The tutorial projects in this guide presume that you are running Sibelius or Sibelius | Ultimate. If you are running Sibelius | First, many
tasks and features covered in this Tutorial will not be available with Sibelius | First. Nonetheless, reviewing this tutorial will help you
get oriented with Sibelius | First quickly. If you encounter a task or feature that is not available with Sibelius | First, simply skip over it.
Also, since Sibelius | First supports a maximum of four staves, and project score with more than four staves, such as Project 1: Scar-
borough Fair, cannot be edited. Scores with more than four staves can be opened in Sibelius | First, but they will be read only. The score
for Project 2 is a string quartet (four staves only), so you may want to try working through this tutorial using this score (or create your
own score from scratch). For complete information about Sibelius | First functionality, refer to the Sibelius Reference Guide or visit
www.avid.com/sibelius-first/. If you require a more advanced version of Sibelius for your music notation needs, you can easily upgrade
at any time.

Introduction