What I usually do is write the stuff down by hand in my own very strange little
music shorthand that has developed over 30 years of trying to avoid sheet
music, and then I go to staff paper and write the whole thing out there. Slow,
and not automated (I have a Mont Blanc pencil that was a gift - I call it my
magic pencil) but I'm gradually learning how to write things down.
I'm on a Macintosh - the last "so-called" scoring program I bought either
didn't do treble and bass at the same time, or I was so poor at reading the
manual I never got beyond writing out a simple melody line. (Now, that's even
more embarrassing, because I write manuals!)
I need a scoring program for dummies - anyone got any good suggestions?
Debra Knodel