Noteflight Assignment Review

Link to Noteflight Composition


This week's assignment was to take a vocal/piano score and re-write it into Noteflight so I can experience Noteflight firsthand and how I can use it with my students.   As I have been familiar with this online program before, writing this score has probably been the most extensive task that I have yet to do with the program.  By using the basic program, this tool offers a variety of items a student may be able to use to create his/her own composition vocally and/or instrumentally,  and share it online with others.  While this offers many composition tools that the costly composition programs and the freewares have, the one feature that I find that the two other programs don't have is the online use itself which I believe can become an interactive learning tool.   While the other programs save to a file on a computer, any score written in Noteflight is saved online which can be retrieved at school or at home on any computer or mobile device.   This can allow the students to be able to work on their composition anywhere but also I feel this could be a great collaboration tool with students to do group compositions.  While there are many great features, I did run into some challenges during my composition.  The one major challenge I want to share is adding instruments to the score as vocals can not be selected (this maybe only with the basic edition).  However, there are ways around this to create a vocal part.  Overall, this is a beneficial tool for learning that could get students into creatively writing music anywhere, share it with others, or view others music (which they could use for fun practice).  This is a tool I'd like to see my band students use to not only create music but to find music that interests them.  At the elementary level, I'd like to see my students using this tool to write their own music individually and as a group.  We have had a few composition competitions in our state geared for elementary students so this tool could be a way to help motivate the students to get involved in those competitions.