Asheville Music Lessons

I ran across this newsletter from Tempo Music while looking for a how-to for getting the music stems for voices on the same staff to be seperated. (Many times, in SATB/keyboard notation such as a church hymnal the different voice parts will be indicated by the stems up for soprano (and tenor) and stems [...]

I finally broke down and purchased Finale Allegro over the weekend. It will be a few days before it arrives of course. I’ve been making do with the free Finale Notepad for a little while. Previously I had used Midisoft Desktop Sheet Music. But, I run the software in a virtual [...]

I just found out in the last few days that Dunham’s Music house is having a huge sale. They’ve been owned in recent years by McFayden Music (and they in turn bought by Brook Mays Music) and that company has declared bankrupcy and everything is being liquidated (10-30%). The only exception to this [...]

Of course, many people call staff paper by other names. One of the most common is Manuscript paper. For that reason I’ve added the category to those staff paper pdf download posts. Hopefully as the content here grows that will help people find what they’re looking for.

In the first staff paper post I mentioned that I had made several sizes of staff paper in OpenOffice a few years back for the Asheville Music School site (and for internal copying.) It’s fairly easy to coble together some suitable 5 line staff paper in a word processor. All of the downloads [...]

This is the smallest of all the staff paper spacings… This free download fits 12 staves per page download here (pdf format.)

This free staff paper download is a slightly smaller staff, fitting 10 per page. PDF download here.

This staff paper download is a little larger than average and fits 8 lines on a page. Again, this is a pdf download Click here to download

Some time back, I made some staff paper in OpenOffice which I labeled with the Asheville Music School web address and phone number, well, I’ve re-branded it for this site and this is the first of those downloads. You should find the “Huge” 6 staff per page connected with this post. It’s in [...]

This site may turn out to cover much more than I had originally expected. So far, I’ve got two posts about me. That’s NOT what I plan to do, but I wanted to go ahead and give a general picture of who I am and what my interests are and another that was [...]