Bicycle Built for Two





Noteflight is a website and tool that I am very familiar with. For my elementary students I arrange a lot of popular music and songs for use on recorder and xylophone. This website allows me to very easily input the music and make changes as I see fit. I love the fact that I can work on it at school and then go home and continue to work on it on my home computer. I also use this program a lot when I am assisting our marching band to rewrite certain parts. Again, the fact that I can jump on any computer and work on something is a huge advantage to using this website compared to others like MuseScore where you have to have the application downloaded to use. I am very comfortable with the input method on Noteflight and I think the shortcuts are easy to follow. I still struggle with the programming with input first and second endings and Coda's. I noticed that MuseScore's input for those were very simple to understand the first time, where in Noteflight I am still working on it. I also love the sharing aspect of Noteflight. I could definitely see integrating this into a classroom where we can all share our files and projects.

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