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Case Study: Music arranging and production of "What I Love About America" for vocal, choir, and rhythm section.

Case study: From solo vocal track demos to master recordings, we arranged and produced a project for Imagesong Presents.

Begin by recreating your Finale session in Logic Pro X - then mix in a much more robust production environment with plugins and live recording.

We're pleased to announce the publication of our new site, Finale Classes Online, using Web Conferencing Technology with Screen Share.

Connecting MainStage 3 to Finale adds a DAW extension to Finale, giving access to a huge palette of sounds widely used on stage and in Musical Theater

We wrote an article about tempo editing issues in Finale software. It's been published on the Scoring Notes Blog, with solutions, techinques and workarounds.

We did an arrangement for a TV theme, starting with a transcription of a demo track, arranged in Finale, and finished in Pro Tools.

Good Markup is essential to the revision process in music arranging. This article presents examples, potential problems and best practices in musical markup.

Some of our work is available now on Sheet Music Plus - Score and Parts pdfs with "Look inside," Video links, Score previews, and full-length audio previews.

We did a how-to article, using MakeMusic's Aria Player with Finale's Human Playback as a multi bank in Logic Pro X

Need a score and parts from a Logic session? We’ll transcribe, edit and arrange as needed to create professional parts and score for live performance and recording.

“Beyond The Sunrise” , an original composition by Jon Burr, is a ballad written for jazz Tentet featuring piano, woodwinds, and muted brass

The new Peter Drew release features an arrangement by Jon Burr of Arrangerforhire.com, sung by Sachal Vasandani

The MCoE Band at Ft Benning, GA commissioned 3 arrangements for their holiday show by Arranger For Hire chief arranger Jon Burr

We wrote a guest post for the "Of Note" blog  - "Restore Finale Customizations After Upgrade" Having upgraded from Finale 25 to 26 to take advantage of many improvements in application stability, speed, graphics performance, and articulation handling, we had to go through the moving process, dragging over all the

Pianist Kim Andersson commissioned this arrangement of selections from the underscore to Pirates of the Caribbean in the style of a piano concerto with orchestra.

Klezmer versions of three selections from Tchaikovsky's beloved "Nutcracker Suite", commissioned by the New York Pops, is available for rental !

Our first guest post on the Finale Blog is published, describing techniques and issues in using Finale's Human Playback data in Digital Audio Workstations

This video has over a million views on Facebook after just a few days! Congratulations to pianist Kim Andersson and arranger Jon Burr for their success!