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Inputting ties, articulations, and accidentals

Inputting ties, articulations, and accidentals - Sibelius Tutorial

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Inputting ties, articulations, and accidentals

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- Once you're comfortable with basic note and rest input with your mouse, you can start adding to your note input process by including a few more objects, like ties, articulations, and accidentals. The process of inputting a tie in Sibelius is much the same as if you were writing your music out by hand. I'm going to go ahead and zoom in and center this for you a little bit before we begin. There we go. So, to input a tie, we're going to ESC so that nothing is selected in the score. Select a duration in the keypad. I'm going to go ahead and select, let's say, let's do a quarter note, that's fine. And then, input the note onto the page, so I'll select it here, and click. (single piano note sounds) There we go. Now, to add a tie to the note, you're going to immediately click the Tie button on the keypad panel. So, we're going to go to the keypad, remember that this big button on the bottom, here, is a tie, not a…

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