Author: ericdano

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Sheet Of The Week – Snowman (Sia)

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Holiday one by Sia.

  Snowman by Sia for Eb Instruments (64.7 KiB, 16 hits)
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  Snowman by Sia for Bb Instruments (64.4 KiB, 1 hits)
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Sheet Of The Week – Good Luck (Chappell Roan)

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Been hearing this on the radio quite a bit.

  Good Luck by Chappell Roan for Eb Instruments (82.2 KiB, 2 hits)
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Bolling Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio No. 2

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A while ago, I had redone the Claude Bolling Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio. Mainly for Oboe, but since you just have to transpose up a 1/2 step, Soprano is easy enough to make.

You know what, there are more of these that Claude Bolling did. Here is Suite No. 2.

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  Affectueuse (77.0 KiB, 6 hits)
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  Vagabonde (95.2 KiB, 2 hits)
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  Intime (iPad version) (104.8 KiB, 0 hits)
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Sheet Of The Week – Human Nature (Michael Jackson)

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One by MJ!

  Human Nature by Michael Jackson for Eb Instruments (89.8 KiB, 4 hits)
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Sheet Of The Week – Please, Please, Please (Sabrina Carpenter)

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Another one.

  Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter for Eb Instruments (67.4 KiB, 9 hits)
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Zinn Practice Regimen – 2025

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The Zinn Practice regimen start way way back. In the 90s. I had a version way back then, but it seems to be lost in time. The various versions are here.

With the untimely death of Finale, my notation program since……forever…..as a learning exercise I decided to convert the Regimen to Dorico.

And the results are quite good actually.

  Zinn Regimen for Saxophone 2025 (951.1 KiB, 10 hits)
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Lenny Pickett Is A Sax Machine

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Great article on Lenny Pickett. I think he doesn’t get enough press for how awesome he is.

https://www.vulture.com/article/lenny-pickett-snl-saxophone-tower-of-power.html

If you’re making an annual pie chart to determine which Saturday Night Live cast members receive the most screen time each season, you may as well add Lenny Pickett to the mix. Nearly 40 years into his tenure, Pickett’s sounds have become as synonymous with Studio 8H as a “Weekend Update” segment. There he is, hovering over the host’s shoulders as the musical director and saxophonist of the SNL Band, patiently waiting for the monologue wrap so he can go wild on the reeds again. “I’ve always enjoyed playing in front of an audience and the spontaneity that comes when you know you have to get it right,” he explains. “In the studio, you can do multiple takes. But on live television, it just happens.”

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Sheet Of The Week – Taste (Sabrina Carpenter)

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Another by Sabrina.

  Taste by Sabrina Carpenter for Bb Instruments (62.1 KiB, 2 hits)
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Sheet Of The Week – Die With A Smile (Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars)

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Nice song. These two sound great together.

  Die With A Smile by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars for Eb Instruments (76.2 KiB, 12 hits)
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Sheet Of The Week – Feather (Sabrina Carpenter)

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First lead sheet using Dorico. A good tune by Sabrina.

  Feather by Sabrina Carpenter for Eb Instruments (71.9 KiB, 1 hits)
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Your Favorite Musician’s Favorite App Is About to Disappear

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Last month, nothing short of an earthquake-level upheaval struck the professional music industry. On Aug. 26, the president of the Colorado-based tech company MakeMusic announced that the firm would be making “no further updates” to Finale, the pioneering and popular music-notation app that the firm had been selling and updating for 35 years. “Technology stacks change, Mac and Windows operating systems evolve, and Finale’s millions of lines of code add up,” MakeMusic’s Greg Dell’Era wrote in his first (and likely last) contribution to the company’s Finale-centric blog. “Instead of releasing new versions of Finale that would offer only marginal value to our users, we’ve made the decision to end its development.”

https://slate.com/technology/2024/09/finale-music-notation-software-shutting-down-how-the-program-became-so-widely-used.html

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Michael Brecker’s Funky Cha-Cha Solo

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So, seems like my decades run with Finale is coming to an end. So I’ve been dabbling in Dorico to do some notation. Here is a Finale version of Brecker’s Funky Cha-Cha solo on Finale and Dorico.

While I consider myself an extreme Finale power user (like, I know that program in and out), Dorico has some potential. I think the BIGGEST issue is there is a lack of a plugin ecosystem. And Scripting is pretty much non-existent on it. I do rely on some Finale Scripts to do things.

  Funky Cha-Cha Michael Brecker Finale Version (186.1 KiB, 5 hits)
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End of Finale, Start of….?

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If you haven’t heard, the LONG TIME notation software (which I use), Finale, is going to be sunset. I think it is a terrible business decision. It would have been like Apple deciding to stop doing the Mac when it was in it’s iPod phase. Or it’s iPhone phase. Finale has been a stable, reliable platform to do music on. I have 24 years invested in this program. Thousands of Finale Files. I think MakeMusic’s pivot to “MakeMusic Cloud” is myopic.

There has been talk of perhaps one of the other software packages being able to open FinaleFiles natively. That would be nice. The current “solution” of exporting stuff out from Finale into MusicXML format is less than ideal.

So, what notation packages are remaining then? There is Sibelius. I’ve NEVER gotten into the Sibelius workflow. Ever. I have bought it a couple of times, and just never liked it.

There is the free Musescore. Honestly, it has come a LONG WAY. But it still has a long way to go. While simple leadsheets it can tackle, anything more looks like it would be rough.

So that leaves us with Dorico, the software started by ex-Sibelius developers after Avid gutted the original team. I tried it, and it has a lot of Sibelius like things about it. BUT……it does seem more Finale like than the other options. How it does linked parts is sorta how I think Finale would have eventually done it……if they ever got around to it.

Finale was really frustrating as it would introduce a feature……but it would have issues. They would wait a release or two, and then “fix it” and tout it as a new feature.

Anyhow, I tried, and I exported the “Zinn Practice regimen” to it. Looks pretty good. I need to get more of my “style” set up in it, but generally, it’s not bad.

  Zinn Practice Regimen 2024 (913.0 KiB, 3 hits)
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