MuseScore Step-by-Step Guide: Make Piano Sheet Music FAST

MuseScore is a FREE and easy music notation tool that is my GO-TO when writing music, technique exercises, and theory worksheets. It's possible to make a professional-looking piano score FAST; you just have to know how to use it (hint: shortcuts are your friend)!

I'll show you the basics of note input, plus articulations, dynamics, fingering, accidentals, formatting, adding lyrics, playback, and transposition. This is the exact method I use to get my piano music on the page FAST. All you need is a computer and something to take notes with.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:44 Downloading & Opening
2:35 Preparing the Score
4:50 Note Input
8:45 Dynamics & Articulation
10:21 Fingering
11:23 Cres/Dim
12:07 Accidentals
13:26 Formatting
15:40 Deleting, Adding, Making Invisible
16:52 Lyrics
17:29 Playback, Transposition, & other helpful tools
19:29 Final Thoughts

[scottcheese]

An amazing and helpful tutorial. Thank you so much!

[ilhan.ozalay__TR]

The most explanatory and understandable tutorial video I have ever watched. Thank you very much.

[abramson]

This was a great tutorial. Thank you!

[nihalmobasher]

This is very useful! Thank you so much for making my life easier:)

[SacerKtracho]

I'm 45 and starting to learn piano your lessons are easy to understand and your beauty makes me continue to watch your videos. 😂🎉.

[shermiesdad]

Great tutorial Susan! Filled in a lot of holes in my Musescore knowledge. Thanks!

[ritalargman]

Great tutorial. Clear and organizied. Thank you so much

[mahnameme]

Thank God! It’s so helpful. Very clear explanation! Thanks! 🎉❤

[bassman]

Very helpful and well put together video. Thanks!

[SeaDrive]

That was great, Susan; thank you! I've been using MuseScore for a while now, so I knew how to do most of what you showed, but I learned a few shortcuts I didn't know existed that will be very helpful, so again, thank you! 🙂

[joesauvage]

Super helpful! I had been on the fence with MuseScore and this tutorial made it a no-brainer. Deepest thanks Susan!

[TomGlander]

Brilliantly done. Thank you, this has made life so much easier! Clear, concise, to the point. Muse has proven to be my go-to choice for so much music!

[maxfurtado]

Musescore 4 is really surprising, good sound library, good FX, very usable, worth using! Thanks for sharing this video!

[AdoptableDogVideos]

Thank you! I was just looking for a tool that I could use to customize a daily scale finger exercise I got from someone else. I am exited about being able to transpose and have sheet music for all major and minor scales.

[Choughzev]

You can double-click the tempo text until your hand falls off. When you try to type the text (for example, "ballad"), it adds notes.

[krasko]

As a MuseScore user myself, I must say this tutorial does an impressive job at introducing the viewer to MuseScore. Thank you, Susan! May I ask you how do you record your videos? What equipment do you use? Your room does not seem brightly lit yet the video quality is superb. :)

[biakasailo]

How to make a video of our music sheet to upload to YouTube

[kaikawamura]

Wait can you make the grand staff like connected if that makes sense? Like middle C is in between bass cleff and treble cleff instead of going up in the bass cleff indefinitely with ledger lines

[michelassamba-ckdb]

thank You so Much.i have some question... if i have a youtube song how to make it in a sheet using Musecore? thanks You again

[la.nenaotaka]

Why aren't more staves added? I can't continue with my score