Product The February Newsletter is here! This month on Flat: bulk actions for your assignments, enhanced Google assignment attachments integration, new login process & guest mode for the iOS app
Product Hide instruments where they are not playing Hi everyone. I am pleased to announce that we have finally released a feature many of you have been asking for: the possibility of hiding instruments on systems where they are not playing.
Success Stories Life without music is not worth living! "Performing in environments of great need is a natural evolution of the role classical music should fill in modern society". Read this inspiring story about Julie Leven, Founder & Artistic Director of Shelter Music Boston.
Music theory How to bring harmonic variety to your composition: 7 magic formulas Learn these formulas to bring different colors to your songs, enriching them and making them more appealing.
Success Stories Music, a tool to break mental health taboos Music has a very strong power to denounce realities and change perspectives. It targets our emotions, generating empathy towards situations we are unaware of or unfamiliar with.
Product The January Newsletter is Here! This month on Flat: enhanced assignments (cover images, new filters and lists for students), export your grades as excel files, "view as student" feature, new settings for scores sharing & new keyboard options for iOS.
Product View as Student Try your Flat for Education assignments, worksheets, and customized editors in 1-click with our new testing student accounts.
Success Stories The future of music education The use of technology and the future of music education. Brendan Finucaneand -cellist & music educator- addressed these topics during our interview.
Music theory How to choose the instrumentation for your composition The experience of listening to the same song can be very different due to instrumentation. With this guide, you will learn how to make the best choice.
Product Flat, a must-have tool for a songwriter How intuitive it is, features that help you save time, get feedback from other musicians, among other things, make Flat a must-have tool for a songwriter.
Guest Posts Tips for Beginner Songwriters Are you considering starting your career as a songwriter? In this article you will find some tips that will help you get off on the right foot.
Product Generate auto-graded music theory worksheets Flat for Education features a new time saver system for teachers to create interactive auto-graded worksheets to teach and assert student knowledge about basic music theory.
Music theory 8 Awesome Beginner Drum Fills A drum fill is a short musical transition that signifies to a listener that the music is shifting towards a new passage, such as a chorus. In this article, learn 8 awesome beginner drum fills that should be reasonably easy to get to grips with behind the drum set.
Success Stories The 10 Best Musical Instruments for Beginners Mastering the art of using a musical instrument to bring a beautiful sound to life is rewarding in so many ways. This article will take you through the 10 best musical instruments that are beginner-friendly to help you choose an instrument that will inspire you to play.
Music theory Learn to read and write music with Flat.io If you are a guitarist or other similar string instrument player, chances are that you learned to play your instrument with tablatures. If want to learn how to read and write music, this article is for you.
Product Assignments Grading and Reviews Grade your assignments directly from our Flat for Education pages, sync automatically your grades with your LMS and Google Classroom, and discover our improved review pages.
Music theory Four ways to use Flat.io to study and improve performance Flat is more than a music notation software. Today I'm going to share with you four ways you can use this tool to study and improve your performance.
Music theory How to project emotions through music: modulation Modulation has a huge emotional power. Learn how to modulate to trigger the desired emotions in your audience.
Music theory How to project emotions through music: chord progression The way we build a chord progression has a strong emotional and narrative power. Learn some tools and formulas to assertively create a cadence.
Product Back to school updates Discover the product updates we released for back to school: Improvements for TABs, Solfege display mode, Audio track upload, Improved LMS support, Playback Limitation options and option to Assign individual students.
Product Solfege mode for noteheads It is now possible to use solfege names inside note-heads. To do so, you need to go inside the layout settings, Notes heads, Shape, and finally select either the "Solfege (with Ti)" or the "Solfege (with Si)".
Guest Posts Mindfulness Techniques for Music Educators and Ensemble Leaders Learn how to apply the transformative practice of mindfulness to enable both our students and ourselves to become more attuned to the present moment.
Flat's story Five years of Flat Today we celebrate the fifth birthday of the company. That's an important milestone and we are grateful for the crazy journey. Today, we support more than 2,500,000 composers around and we can't wait to grow even more.
Success Stories Teaching with purpose: music dictation Teaching with purpose, learning with purpose. Learn some ideas for creating appealing dictation exercises.
Product Adding support of Flat for Education Assignments for all your LMS You can now do much more with Flat for Education and your LMS, including Canvas, Schoology and Moodle.
