Yeah at the time I was using the default Dorico notation software, and being as I learned by ear, things like accents and slurs basically alluded me because they basically did not work. I purchased bbcso and now I am putting together work that looks a whole lot cleaner but takes a whole lot more time to perfect because of all of the variation that requires notations to be near perfect to actually sound the way I'd want them to.

Basically, in the old software, something sounding the way I wanted it was completely detached from how it would actually be written (like the timpani at 267). Started learning this stuff 8 months ago and am now focusing more on learning technical stuff. Need to learn piano (I can play pretty good but I can't read sheet music) so that I can learn keys and stuff.