 Alright, in today's video we are going to set up a NoteFlight account which is the music notation software that we're going to be using in this lesson and we're going to talk about some basic ways for you to create your musical examples. So the first thing you'll want to do is to go to noteflight.com and you should see a screen that looks like this in the top right hand corner. You're going to want to choose sign up and you'll get the sign up menu that asks for your email address and then for a password that you create. Once you've done this you'll need to check the email that you used and you'll get a verification code for your new account. Once you've done this you'll come back to the same screen and instead of sign up we're going to choose login and I will just log into my account here quickly and choose login and you should see a screen that looks similar to this except you won't have all these pieces that I have in my account because I've been creating music there. Yours will be blank here basically but up in the top left hand corner you want to choose new score and when you choose new score you're going to get a new screen and we want to choose start from a blank score if that's not already chosen and then look for treble clef. So you can make sure that's highlighted. Mine's already highlighted because that's the last thing I did. It could be that piano's highlighted or some other choice probably piano because it's at the top but really for this lesson we just want to use treble clef. So choose that click OK and a treble clef comes up. Before we even get started one thing that's really important in this lesson so that you can share your work with your teacher is to look up in the right hand corner here just next to your photo if you've uploaded one in your account and choose connect and you will want to choose change right now it says only you have access to this score so even if you share the link with someone they'll they'll not be able to open it so we're going to choose change select everyone and we just want them to be able to view which is fine and you can leave everything else the way it is click save that goes away but still in the same window we now want to choose the share icon like you see in so many social media sites now that's here and that will give you a link that you can copy and paste in an email or upload depending on how your teacher would like for you to share that information with them once they have this link they will be able to look at your musical masterpiece using this link so once you've done that you should be set to go okay couple of things about getting around in note flight it's very user friendly as you'll notice across the top of the screen we have duration of notes so if you have any background in music at all you know whole notes half notes quarter notes eighth notes sixteenth notes you actually can go further for this exercise I probably would would not use anything smaller than an eighth note you certainly can do that but particularly for a first time out of trying this probably using half notes quarter notes and eighth notes are going to be your best bet you can change the pitch using the sharps flats or natural signs again for for this lesson I probably would not do that but keep it simple so what we're going to do is in the first measure here at the beginning of the music right now we see all rests you click on the first rest it changes colors and is now orange if you move over to the left of that you'll notice that we start to see a note head and really as you move the the mouse up or down it will determine where you're going to put the the note for this exercise again we would choose middle C or third space C it just make doing the exercise easier for everyone and it'll keep us for those of you that are musicians it'll basically keep us in the key of C so if you take a look at this the note head the note is now there but the note head is orange you can continue to add notes just by using your mouse if you would like and you can change durations just by coming back up to the top left let's say we want to change this second note to eighth notes you could do that and then come back in to create different notes so you can do all that with your mouse the nice thing about this program is much like the word processing programs that you use control Z or command Z on the Mac will undo things that you've done so really we can come right back to starting that first note also control C will copy control V will paste and control X will cut and paste so you can also do those things a shortcut that I like to use is once I've created my first note you can just hit the R key and when you do that it will repeat whatever you already have if you want to change that note the the name of that note or the pitch of that note you can use your up and down errors on your keyboard to move the note up or down it's easy enough to do that if you want to change the duration of the note you still can do that again I like to use the R key now I have another eighth note and I can move the note again with my up and down arrows let's say I go to the next I hit R again but I don't really want another eighth note now I want a half note so I get that here and now I have a complete measure if I wanted to do something similar to this measure in the next measure I can click in the measure but not on a specific note and the entire measure is highlighted now if I hit the R key it's going to repeat the entire measure so I get the same thing again and while the entire measure is highlighted I can actually move all of the notes up or down with the arrow key so let's say I want exactly the same thing but just a little lower here it is now you may or may not want to do that to get out of this you would use the escape key on your keyboard or just click out of the measure let's say I want to keep that rhythm but I want to change up the the actual pitches just a bit something like this you know you can you can manipulate it any way you want to what I encourage you to do is now click away again and so nothing's highlighted but now you can go back up to the top of the screen and listen to the couple of measures that you've created if you like that great you can keep it if you want to change something you can go back in maybe I want that note to be one note higher and this note to be one of higher so if you want to move anything you just click it it's highlighted you move it up or down change the rhythm whatever you want to do and then we can go back and play it again just sounds a little more final in that case but again the whole idea is for you to explore and create a two measure melody that you like and then basically what we're going to do is manipulate it in different ways if you follow the instructions in the in the handout to actually take these two measures and change them either across the y-axis or across the x-axis so I hope you have fun and good luck