Getting some me time...

After a long, exhausting day at the office yesterday, I finally made it home and began really preparing for Saturday. The quintet pointed out a phrase that has been played/sung wrong in the "Alma Mater" for years, and since they are perfectionists, they play it correctly. Anyway, I thought the easiest way to re-learn how to sing it would be to notate out the song (write the music down). So I printed off some blank staff paper from here and grabbed my handy dandy pencil and began jotting notes down. I did eventually have to pull out my flute (since I don't have a piano) to work out a section or two. Once I had everything jotted down, I thought about driving to Rachel's to borrow her Finale program. Unfortunately, Rachel only has Finale at school, so I was out of luck anyway. I didn't let that stop me. I just used my Microsoft Publisher to create this: It only took me a little under an hour to do. But once I had everything set up, it was really easy. And then I got to work this morning, and looked up Finale online. Why I didn't do this last night still baffles me, but they have a free download of their NotePad. It does everything that I need it to do, and it was free. I didn't have to pay $600 for the software. So, if you need something to jot down music with, go here and download the program.