Introduction
Sibelius is a highly intuitive program, and you should find that you can get started writing music almost as soon as you have installed it. The User Guide in your Sibelius box contains a Quick tour section that takes about an hour and a half to work through, and you should follow this through before you do anything else with the program – it introduces the functions that are central to working with Sibelius, and will give you a sound working knowledge of the software.
You should also keep your keyboard shortcuts tower handy; nearly every operation in Sibelius can be carried out without using the mouse at all, so familiarising yourself with the most important key combinations will save a lot of time.
If you have a copy of the demo CD-ROM (which is included with our brochure), this also contains a 40-minute video walkthrough of Sibelius’s most important features. If you’re not sure how to do something, try one of the Reference sections of the User Guide, or look it up in the index.
Don’t worry if you can’t remember all the hints in this booklet! You’ll find the menu at the top of the screen called Create contains pretty much everything you need to write music in Sibelius.
