Sometimes you will enter and edit notes by hand (or rather using the mouse and computer keyboard) and at other times you will record them from a MIDI keyboard. Most of the time, you will do a combination of both. In “Transcribing MIDI Recordings” you will find out how to make a recorded score as legible as possible without performing any permanent changes to the MIDI data. “Entering and Editing Notes using the Mouse” shows how to enter and edit notes using the mouse. In real life, even if you have recorded the piece perfectly, you will often have to do some permanent editing to your recording before printing. Which leads to this conclusion:
P You will have to read both chapters in order to understand how to produce legible scores! • How to click in a simple melody and add some lyrics.