(note plays) Now, a guitar is a transposing instrument, so it sounds middle C even though it's written up above. So, as usual I'm going to come up here, I'm going to click on a rest, and then you need to select a duration in the keypad, so I'm going to press number four for recorder note, and then just press a key on the Keyboard panel using your mouse. To input notes with the Keyboard panel, we need to of course tell Sibelius where we want to begin. When I size it up, the scroll bar goes away. There we go, I've sized it down, and now I have a scroll bar. ![]() Let me see if I can show that to you real quick. ![]() On the Keyboard panel, middle C is labeled C4 and if its size is not maximized, you can use the bottom scroll bar to scroll through the keyboard to access additional octaves. So I'm going to come over here, I'm going to get that arrow pointer, click and drag. You can also resize the panel if it's undocked, like mine is, by dragging its right or left side to the left or right. So I'm going to click it once, and again, so there's its smallest size, that's medium, and large. The Keyboard panel has three sizes that you can toggle between using its Change Size button, which is this button right here. You can click on the Keyboard's title bar and drag it out of its docked position if you'd like to, you can also click on its Maximize and Minimize buttons, but those generally don't work all the time, so I typically like to just drag its title bar around. If any of your panels buttons down here in this area are blue, go ahead and toggle them off for now. Now, usually when you open the Keyboard panel, it will be docked to the main Score window by default at the bottom of the screen and all of its buttons will not be engaged or highlighted blue. It works wonderfully on overhead projectors in classrooms. ![]() Now, one thing I'd like to mention about the Keyboard panel is that because of its visual display of the notes on the staff and on the keys of the piano keyboard, the Keyboard panel is a great teaching tool, as well as a good note input tool. You can also use the shortcut Control + Alt + B on Windows or Command + Option + B on Mac to toggle the Keyboard panel on and off. And I'm going to move my keypad a little bit out of the way. To see the Keyboard panel, go to the View tab, to the Panels group, and choose Keyboard. The Keyboard panel is a virtual piano keyboard that you can open on your screen as a tool for note input.
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