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1. appears next to the D Note that when you c selected the Half Step Down Tool the Flat Tool automatically deselected You can only have one o accidental tool selected at one time Lets try a m sharp now e Click on the Sharp Tool In measure 4 top staff third beat click on the C A sharp appears next to the half note Because this melody probably wouldnt sound too great we ll remove the sharp e Click on the Eraser Tool Click on the sharp The sharp disappears CHORDS Building chords is a snap with Simple Entry Just select the same duration icon as the note already entered then click on the staff above or below the note Lets try adding a note to the left hand Tutorial la Simple Entry e Double click on the Quarter Note Tool In 4 measure 5 center the cursor on the first beat A in the left hand Now move the cursor down a whole step to the G space and click A G is added to the chord Note that Finale automatically places the A oo notehead as an interval of a second to the right of the stem TUPLETS Tuplets are any irregular grouping including triplets quintuplets and so on We ll cover tuplets briefly here see TuPLETS in Tutorial 1b for a more in depth lesson Let s add a triplet to the third be
2. 9 3 pae remm ib s m p g 9 pa zi o ba 9 3 t 2 3 3 2 3 6 33 3 In addition to changing the lowest fret while copying you can also change the low est fret for any region of tablature with the M ass Edit Tool To do this click the M ass Edit Tool and highlight a region of the tablature staff Then from the M ass Edit Menu choose Utilities gt gt Lowest Fret Enter the new Lowest F ret and click OK to apply your changes and return to the score 161 8 Tip To enter tablaturefor lute or another instrument with alternate tuning either usethe Setup Wizard or apply a Staff Style You will find information on entering a Staff Style in chapter 5 of this tutorial manual Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments CHANGING THE STRING AND FRET NUMBER You can edit tab numbers and move them between strings manually with the Sim ple Entry Tool This method gives more control over the movement of single and non contiguous fingerings If you look at measure five in the tablature staff you ll see that the fourth note is played at the fifth fret of the fourth string It might be easier to finger this passage if that note was fingered at the tenth fret of the fifth string Simple Entry makes this task easy Click the Simple Entry Tool While pressing the Mac oprion key on the fifth measure click
3. To erase changes made with this tool Select this item in Items to Erase Beam Width Tool Stem and Beam Alterations Beam Stem Adjust Tool Stem and Beam Alterations Tie Tool Dot and Tie Alterations Dot Tool Dot and Tie Alterations You can remove changes you ve made with the Stem Direction Double Split Stem and Reverse Stem tools using a slightly different method Select the desired region with the Mass Edit Tool From the Mass Edit Menu choose Utili ties then Remove Stem Changes THE NOTE MOVER TooL CROSS STAFF NOTES The Note Mover Tool moves notes one by one or a measure at a time horizon tally or vertically to other measures in the score It s particularly useful for Hyper Scribe users because it can be used to correct split point errors as you ll seein this tutorial It can also be used for cross staff beaming where notes with the same beam are in two different staves This example assumes that you still have the Tutorial 8 document open scroll so that you can see measure 4 Before moving on you can choose to hide the Special Tools Palette by deselecting it in the Win dow Menu Otherwise feel free to leave it on the screen Click the Note Mover Tool gt Click measure 4 of the middle staff Every note in the measure now has a handle Notethe rhythmic figurein this staff four sets of sixteenth notes Suppose that you want the last three notes of each four note grouping to be cross staff no
4. Selecting music with the MIDI Tool is exactly like selecting music with the Mass Edit Tool with Partial M easure Selection off Select a single measure by clicking it once several onscreen measures by drag enclosing any part of them a long region by clicking the first measure scrolling to the last measure and st clicking the last measure and an entire staff by clicking to the left of the staff You can also select the entire piece by choosing Select All from the Edit Menu If you take a look at the commands in the MIDI Tool M enu you ll notice that there appear to be three different elements you can edit Key Velocities how hard the keys were struck which usually determines their volume Note Durations how long they were held down and Continuous Data pedaling pitch bend patch changes and the like Be sure that Edit Key Velocities is selected To show you the power of the MIDI Tool you ll create a decrescendo over the first two measures even though theres now a crescendo when they play back From the MIDI Tool Menu choose Scale The Scale dialog box appears The Scale command lets you program a gradual change from one dynamic level or duration or MIDI controller setting to another For this reason it s ideal for creating a smooth crescendo or decrescendo MIDI key velocity is measured on a scale from 0 to 127 127 is the hardest loudest attack Type 120 in the first box Press Tab and type 30 in the
5. 175 205 Index D Dat s ais ues eee dx ene ot 102 Default Document Default Tuplet Visual Definition dialog DUX cc aoc acea de wane Rees 29 Delete Staff Systems 100 Deleting Measures 33 Document Setup Wizard 1 DOU MOO pawa ikea USER 176 Double Split Stem Tool 173 Dynamics san arc ct Miles PAA 74 Edit Learned Chords 64 Edit Lyrics o er vea 56 58 60 Edit MAUS 1v eoe ere es 97 Edit Menu Automatic Music Spacing 92 Partial Measure Selection 34 Select All ss ziii up na 57 Select Partial Measure 114 Select Region is css a haa 34 Special Part Extraction 124 Undo puba Naa 24 UpdateLayout 91 93 Edit Staff Attributes 46 111 Edit Word Extensions 108 EDU S rr 49 140 EPS file air v a ee 105 Eraser aeo ekanna N p a 9 Erasing MUSIC Lea Ee o IRR 34 Erasing MUSIC iu dixic me s Ee NG 9 Expression Libraries 87 EXDressionS 1 5 ex Ga 13 Copying and Pasting 86 Creating Expressions 81 Defining Playback 146 206 Executable Shapes 151 Multimeasure Rests 84 Tempo Marking 150 Extract Parts 123 Fermatas xxix PA Abad 73 File Menu 1088555 Le oet ER 4 45 Gl seAll a e hinaan 18 EXIGE ces eere rh Red m 18 Extract Parts 123 New Default Document 40 45 Document fro
6. Double click the first measure within the staff lines to the right of the time signature The measure highlights and a dialog box appears Finale displays a dialog box when it s requesting some information from you In this particular dialog box you usethe scroll bar to select a new key Click the up arrow to add sharps to the key signature or subtract flats Click the down arrow to add flats or subtract sharps Key Signature x Cano x a rerum Cancel SED B Flat Major Help m Measure Region C Measure Through Measure fi Through End of Piece C Measure 1 To Next Key Change Transposition Options Transpose Notes up C Hold Notes to Original Pitches Enharmonically z Hold Notes to Same Staff Lines Modally Transpose All Keys Proportionally 53 Tutorial 2 Adding Details Click the up arrow on the scroll bar twice so that no sharps or flats appears Now look at the bottom of the dialog box Finale lets you specify whether or not you want to transpose the notes when you change the key signature Leave the settings as they are you re transposing the song up a whole step to C Now specify what region of measures you want to be affected by the new key Click the radio button for Measure 1 Through End of Piece e Click OK or press me The dialog box goes away and your piece is instantly transposed to the
7. 81 Automatic Music Spacing 92 Backups oos be e bane en RIA 18 Barlines e cues Ker A 46 Beam Angle Tool 175 Beam Extension Tool 175 Beam Stem Adjust Tool 175 Beam Width Tool 175 Beaming ood AA 48 171 6 8 meter oss Badi Rx eod 48 Joining or breaking beams 35 Beat Charts 93 Beat Source 41 43 49 168 Bend Hat 164 Block rest oerte e eb 123 Brackets soto E T6 Check for Extra Notes T Chord Meu 2 0 64 EditLearned Chords 64 Manual Input 64 67 MIDI Apt i m iE 64 OneStaff Analysis 64 Position Fretboards 67 Show Fretboards 67 Two Staff Analysis 64 Type Into Score 64 Chord Symbols a ode Yr 64 Chord Tool 64 Chordsz vci Ve rkeieses 13 24 Clear Items 57 176 Clefes nn oed paras bigs 47 111 Click and Countoff 41 Click Assignment 58 Coda siis vex eae Ate mete AG 62 Composer credits 102 Compound meter 48 Continuous Data 143 Copy and Replace 86 Copying MUSIC sus Kaw eR es 33 Copying MUSIC s oce meas 9 COD WONG van acoso ene eto eee 1 102 GrescendoS nl Lee DeEREYXPY 76 Cross Staff 177 Cuenot s PAPA 101 C estalf oce KE AGA 101 Custom Stem Tool
8. Click Drums in the first column Double click Drum Set in the second col umn Click Next twice then Finish to select the default settings and create a blank drum score Click the Simple Entry tool Click the Quarter Note Tool on the Simple Entry Palette Click in the first space of the staff Note that you hear a bass drum sound as you click If you dont make sure Playback is checked in the Simple M enu Because different drum instruments will often appear on the same staff but with different rhythms you ll need to use layers for each instrument appearing at the same time For example you d normally notate the bass drum rhythms on the same staff as the snare drum Nextclick in the space above the staff Not only do you hear the closed high hat sound the notehead appears as an X as well Sometimes two different sounds appear on the same line or space in the staff For example click in the third space of the staff to enter a snare drum hit Instead of the snare you probably heard a side stick sound instead of a snare drum Simple solution double click the Half Step Up Tool 3 Click on the note in question You should now hear a snare drum sound As an exercise let s enter the following passage First use the Eraser Tool to erase our earlier experiment Enter the Hi Hat and Crash notes above the staff Enter the snare drum notes in the 3rd space of the staff
9. into cut time Finale defaults to displaying the cut time symbol for 3 If you d prefer 3 see the User Manual under Cur TIME ENTERING LYRICS TYPE INTO SCORE One of Finales greatest powers is its ability to handle lyrics intelligently If you pro videthelyrics complete with hyphens between syllables Finale can automatically distribute them to the melody line neatly avoiding tied over notes and rests and centering every syllable under its note Each syllable is attached to its note if the note moves horizontally the syllable moves with it There are two ways to create lyrics within Finale You can typethe lyrics directly into the score so that you know at all times where you are in the music a feature called Type Into Score Or you may prefer the faster Click Assignment method where you type the lyrics in Finales text processor and then paste them into the score all at once The Click Assignment method also offers you the option of past ing your lyrics in from another program such as a word processor In this tutorial you ll try both techniques From the View Menu choose Scale View then select 7596 From the View Menu choose Scroll View e Click the Lyrics Tool Z A new menu called Lyrics appears and a row of four positioning triangles appears to the left of the staff From theLyrics Menu choose Type Into Score if its not already selected Click on the staff above the first melody note You
10. systems Each text box has a checkbox so Help you can make changes to only the checked Select All values For example you could change the distance between systems throughout the entire piece without changing the indentation from the first system by checking only Distance Between Systems Space for Additional System 0 97 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing You ll probably notice that unless you have a very steady hand you didn t indent the left margin of the first system by exactly one inch Try this Double click in the text box marked Left and type 1 Double click in the text box marked Top and type 1 again Uncheck all of the checkboxes except Left and Top In the Change text boxes enter 1 through 1 Click Apply then Close Sure enough Finale adjusts the left margin indent and top margin of the first system to exactly one inch Using this dialog box you can adjust the margins for only one staff system all Systems or a particular range of systems A similar dialog box exists for control ling page margins it can be found in the Page Margins submenu of the Page Layout M enu The changes you make with the Page Layout Tool normally affect only the indi vidual page or system you re adjusting For example under normal circum stances you can simply dragthe first system of the piece downward on the page to make room for a title But if you wanted your dragging to affect more than one system y
11. 1 ban jo on my knee It ban jo on my knee You ll find that F inale has no problem transcribing the G7 in measure 5 You can play seventh chords ninths augmented diminished and even more complex chords and Finale will have no problem understanding you As a matter of fact you can even teach Finale to understand new chords See the U ser M anual under EDIT LEARNED CHORDS If you make a mistake choose Undo from the Edit M enu click the note and play the chord again Heres how you tell Finale that you re finished entering chords Click any blank part of the screen Go ahead play it back Click Play on the Playback Controls You ll discover that Finale plays the chord symbols 66 Tutorial 2 Adding Details wherever they occur You can also disable the playback function of chords if you like see the User Manual under CHORD SYMBOLS To move a chord symbol be sure the Chord Tool is selected Choose M anual Input from the Chord Menu You ll see square handles appear which you can then drag to move chord symbols If you click a handle and press delete you ll delete the chord if you double click a handle you ll enter the Chord Definition dialog box see the User Manual under CHORD DEFINITION DIALOG BOX for more complete information Now suppose you re just about ready to print when you find out that this Oh Susannah is going to be a piece of popular sheet music with guitar fretboard diagrams above t
12. Ci CS Channel 4 Patch Program Change Bank Select Bank Select 32 Program Change p p 47 General MIDI 47 Orchestral Harp j Cancel Help Notice that the Piano and Piano LH staves are already assigned to an instrument called Grand Piano on channel 1 You can leave these two staves alone You don t have to create new Instrument names of course if you find it easier you can just edit one of the existing names provided by Finale e From the Instrument drop down list across from the Bass staff choose Acoustic Bass Your final setup should look like this 129 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics Ue Instrument List olx R Staff Name pod Instrument Chan B Prog GM Strings X String Ense w B Harp Harp 47 Orchestral H e x Staff 3 P Grand Piano 1 Acoustic Gr xli H C 4 1 rj Staff 4 P Grand Piano 1 1 Acoustic Gr 2 zl Bass Acoustic Ba 8 i 33 Acoustic Bass View by Staves Play All Solo All C View by Instruments Play None No Solos Edit Instrument IV Send Patches Before Play Auto create Instrument If necessary drag the Instrument List box so that you can see the first measure While pressing the Space bar click the first measure Macintosh just press the Spacebar If your MIDI keyboard is correctly configured you ll hear this arrangement in all its four part multitimbr
13. Position the cursor between the first two top handles Double click A new handle appears W hen you double click between two upper handles you create a handle that controls the halfway point between those two handles In this case you ve just created a handle that controls the second eighth note of the beat Keep the power of these beat charts in mind In general let the Music Spacing command handle your spacing for you But when you need to force some extra room into a measure to make room for a caesura railroad track marking for example or to create a measure of recitative beat charts will do the trick You ll usually want to adjust the music on the score so that the systems are evenly spaced on the page from top to bottom instead of being tightly spaced in the middle of the page Also you may decide to indent the first system You can make these formatting changes using the Page Layout Tool THE PAGE LAYOUT TOOL Theunits of measurement Finale normally uses are inches You can work in what ever units you feel most comfortable with 94 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing From the Options Menu choose Measurement Options Units from the submenu choose Inches if Measurement Units EVPUs it s not already selected You are familiar with Enharmonic Spelling v ER inches and centimeters points spaces and Movable Items were picas are typographical units 72 poi nts 1 Program Dptions E inch 12 sp
14. Scroll to measure 6 Click and hold in measure 6 just above and before the third beat Drag down and to the right until you ve selected the first two eighth notes in measure 7 When you release the mouse button the region is highlighted 6 a m 3 rb m em p Sca i o oo From the Mass Edit Menu choose Transpose The Transposition dialog box appears 114 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores Choose the radio buttons for Up and Diatonically From the Interval drop down list choose Third Click OK You return to the score and the selected region is now up a third When you use Partial M easure Selection clicking a measure doesnt select the whole measure it only marks the beginning of a region that you re about to drag across Therefore if you do want to select a whole measure when Partial M easure Selection is on double click the measure If you double click a sec ond time and your score has more than one staff you extend the selection ver tically to include that single measure in every staff Thetechnique you just learned selecting a region then applying a command from the M ass Edit M enu is extremely powerful Select some music and then take a glance at the commands in this Menu In addition to Transpose they include Rebar useful when you ve written out a piece in and you suddenly realize it works better in 4 Rebeam whic
15. the Edit Lyrics window No matter which method you prefer Type Into Score is always handy for making quick changes to lyrics already in the score In the next section you ll learn about the Click Assignment method To restore your melody to its wordless form you ll use Finales Clear Items command which you can use to selectively remove lyrics or other items from the score without touching the notes Click OK The Edit Lyrics dialog box closes e Click the Mass Edit Tool 3 The Mass Edit Menu appears Fromthe Edit Menu choose Select All Finale highlights all of your music We want to remove all of the lyrics we assigned through Type into Score Lyrics in Finale are made up of two parts the word or syllable itself and its footprint or assignment to a particular note When you Type into Score you re entering the word into the Edit Lyrics box and assigning it to a particular note at the same time W hen we usethe M ass Edit Tool to clear the lyrics we re only clearing the assignments The words remain in the Edit Lyrics box available for the next time we want to assign them to notes with Click Assignment You can even assign the same word to multiple notes A handy feature when you dont want to type Alleluia twenty different times From the Mass Edit Menu choose Clear Items The Clear Items dialog box appears Click Only Selected Items then Entries The Entry Items dialog box appears This dialog box lists the many p
16. ADDING MEASURES Although every new Finale document contains twenty one empty measures which is sufficient for this tutorial there will undoubtedly come a time when you need to add more This can bedonein several ways the simplest is to use the M easure Tool To add a single blank measure to the end of the score double click the M easure Tool To add multiple measures ct click the M easure Tool M ac foption click the Measure Tool In the Add Measures dialog box that appears type in the num ber of measures to be added and click OK Add Measures Ed How many measures fi Cancel Help SPEEDY ENTRY 20 Click the Speedy Entry Tool Another menu appears the Speedy M enu whose commands govern the behavior of this tool Just to check hold the mouse button down on the word Speedy so that the menu drops down and make sure that theres a check mark beside Use MIDI Keyboard for Input If you re ever stranded without a MIDI keyboard there are two ways in which you can enter music with the Speedy Entry Tool when the Use MIDI Keyboard for Input option is turned off See the User Manual under SPEEDY ENTRY for details If Auto Launch is turned on the measure sprouts a rectangular frame If not click on the first measure In the frame you ll see a thin vertical cursor at the left side of it called the insertion bar There also a short horizontal cursor called the pitch cr
17. Click Listen Finale asks you to play the key you want to use as a split point 49 50 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play Play the B just below middle C Finale enters the key number into the text box Click OK At this point you re ready to go But you should be aware that Finale has several more sophisticated options available which you might make use of as you become more familiar with the program From the Options Menu choose Quantization Settings click More Settings TheMore Quantization dialog box appears listing a few additional options Note that Retain Key Velocities and Retain Note Durations are both selected If you have a velocity sensitive MIDI keyboard if it plays back louder the harder you strike a key then Finale will be ableto play back your HyperScribed piece with every nuance of your dynamics intact Also with Retain Note Durations selected Finale will remember and play back any rolled chords swing rushing or dragging you created when you first played your piece For more information on this dialog box look up the MORE QUANTIZATION DIALOG BOX in the User Manual Click Cancel twice You ve now told Finale all it needs to know about the upcoming performance You ve told it that you ll be tapping on the pedal that your taps represent dotted quarter notes that it should quantize your playing to the nearest eighth note that it should split your music into right and left hand parts at middle
18. Finale also has a Scroll View where the music is displayed as a continuous horizon tal band Most of Finale s tools work equally well in either view although you ll find that the computer redraws the screen faster in Scroll View From the View Menu choose Scroll View Finale redraws the screen to show you the music laid out in a horizontal band As you can see the name of the piece has disappeared N ames page numbers and other page oriented text are visible only in Page View You ll also notice that the Page counter you saw in Page View has been replaced by the M easure counter indicating the number of the leftmost measure currently visible Click the scroll box the small square box in the horizontal scroll bar and hold the mouse button down Watch the M easure counter in the lower left corner of the window As you slide the scroll box left or right this counter changes telling you the number of the measure you ll see if you let go of the mouse button e Drag the mouse all the way to the left until the Measure counter says 1 Release the mouse button You re back at the beginning of the score Note that the scroll box in the horizontal scroll bar represents your position a 7596 view reduction hit control 7 M ac 39 7 Tip To switch quickly to Tutorial la Simple Entry 16 IL eH The scroll box tells you whether you are at the beginning SST the middle
19. G aps Lock p WihOpion race Voice 1 2 WISH hands free decrease Untreeze F MIDI input b stem Up a staff J N J With 5 Continue accidental hift 1 enter through measure With Opt and number Insert note or rest w MIDI 0 With 9 Enter rest ng a strai ing Flip enharmonic Constrain dragging through measure amp Add note to chord gt Change option bag d t Exit measure and rest Previous Next Up Down o Add dot to note note note astep astep uim on o eenter measure X IN J With a number 1 8 s Begin tuplet With Option 128th note Sincethe MIDI keyboard is providing Finale with the pitch information all you have to do to provide the rhythmic information is press the proper number key If you re holding down a MIDI keyboard key when you press a number key you get a note If no MIDI keyboard key is being held down when you press a num ber key you get a rest Hold down the D key on your MIDI keyboard and press the 5 key again then E and press 5 then F and press 5 You ve just built the first four notes of a C scale Before you could really see what you d done however Finale advanced the editing frame to the next measure ready for you to play more notes You can turn off this auto advance feature which advances to the next measure as soon as the first one is rhythmically full Press the ze
20. Here s an example Click the main handle of the triplet in measure 3 and press delete This is how you turn tuplet defined notes back into normal notes Now let5 define a Tuplet M etatool You can create thirty six predefined tuplets complete with brackets and temporal information Start by programming a basic straight bracket half note triplet While pressing shit press the 1 key on the keys above the letters not the numeric keypad The Tuplet Definition dialog box appears First you need to describe the temporal value of thetriplet you want this M etatool to produce Type 3 in the first text box Tab to the second text box and type 2 Choose Half s from both duration drop down lists Click OK You ve just specified that this M etatool will create a tuplet that fits three half notes in the time of two While pressing the 1 key click the first note in measure 3 Finale pops the fully formed tuplet bracket into the score Now you can move quickly through a score inserting tuplet definitions on any notes that need them without having to enter a dialog box confident that they ll look right on the first try Tutorial lo Speedy Entry Finally if you re creating a piece with many tuplets you ll want to predefine their visual definition With this shortcut you ll never have to define visual appearance again when you create a new tuplet whether with HyperScribe or the Speedy Entry Tool you can specify a default tuplet appear
21. If you re running in OSX first re boot in OS9 Insert your Finale 2003 CD ROM Double click on the Finale CD icon then the folder FreeMIDI then Install FreeMIDI Follow theinstructions on the screen Double click on your hard drive then the FreeMIDI Applications folder then FreeMIDI Setup If this is the first time you ve launched FreeM DI the FreeMIDI Preferences dialog box appears Otherwise click on the File Menu and choose FreeMIDI Preferences In the Software C ompatibility section make sure Allow Other Applications is checked In the MIDI Configuration section make sure Inter application MIDI is checked Make any other adjustments as desired then click OK If you dont have a FreeMIDI setup FreeMIDI will begin searching for MIDI Interfaces M ake sure your MIDI Interface is turned on if needed If you have a standard dumb interface click OK when prompted The Quick Setup dialog box appears If your interface does not show up in the Current Configuration column please contact the manufacturer of the interface Choose the Manufacturer and Model of your keyboard under New Device If you have more than one device choose the device connected to In Out A on the inter face The Studio Location is your interface and if the deviceis connected to In Out A choose Cable 1 For In Out B choose Cable 2 Click Add Your device appears in the Current Configuration column Repeat the Steps to add any additional devices Click Done
22. Let s add some blues to our melody line to illustrate how to add accidentals You can add accidentals as you enter the notes by clicking on a duration tool and an accidental tool You can also add accidentals to notes that have already been ene tered The Sharp Tool and the Flat Tool will add a sharp or flat to the note if needed by the key signature If you use the Half Step Up Tool 3 or the Half Step Down Tool 2 you ll raise or lower the note If the note is already sharp raising the note will add a double sharp e Double click on the Flat Tool Only the Flat Tool is selected 12 Tutorial la Simple Entry Scroll to measure 5 In the top staff on the third beat click on the A A flat appears next to the quarter note pe eye 3 o s e pi In measure 5 on the first beat click on the C A ice flat appears next to the eighth note and a natural rf el appears on the second C in the measure Finale assumes you only want to affect the note you clicked so a natural is needed to reverse the flat e Since we actually want the flat through the entire measure click on the second beat C as well But what if you wanted to add a double flat e Click on the Half Step Down Tool 3 In T measure 5 click twice on the D A double flat
23. On the second to last fret number 3 hold down the zz Mac fma key fte 8 tab staff For and double click You should now see a curved line with an arrow pointing up mple hold down and a 1 4 figure indicating a bend of a quarter step Note that you can also enter guitar bends in a tab staff by simply double clicking the first of two fret numbers Finale will even attach the appropriate text based on the pitch differ entce of the fret numbers Now you may want to add a bend indication in the standard staff on the second to last note e Click the Slur Tool N in the Smart Shape palette Doubleclick the second to last note C in the standard notation staff Click and dragthe handles to edit the slur You can usethe slur handles to cre ate a small curveto the right of the note For compete information on entering all Smart Shapes see the User M anual under the SMART SHAPE TOOL Ss 8 Tip the B key and click a fret number to enter a bend curve N for a bend hat or hold down E click and drag for a tremolo HAMMER ONS PULL OFFS AND OTHER MARKINGS Well continue to use the Blues Scale document to demonstrate how to enter hammer ons and pull offs This method can be used to enter a variety of other markings as well The Smart Shape Tool should still be selected e Click the Slur Tool N in the Smart Shape Palette nthetab staff dou
24. Remember to get a snare drum sound you ll need a sharped note Try using the Sharp Tool in conjunction with the sixteenth note If you need a refresher on how to enter notes with Simple Entry see Tutorial 1a SIMPLE ENTRY From the View Menu choose Select Layers Layer 2 Enter the notes for the bass drum on the first space 191 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics Play it back by hitting Play gt on the Playback Controls You should hear a simple drum pattern with the appropriate percussion sounds For more information see the User Manual under PERCUSSION WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE If you worked through all of theFinaletutorials congratulations You ve seen all of Finales major features at work Now begin a project of your own Read the last chapter of this book for some tips and remember that the User M anual and Quick Start Video Tips are always available FoR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just Covered See for example BEAM ANGLES SCANNING BEAMING SELECTING MUSIC BEAMING SECONDARY BEAMS SHAPE DESIGNER BEAMING ACROSS BARLINES SPLIT POINTS CROSS STAFF NOTES STEMS NOTE SHAPES TIES PERCUSSION TABLATURE QUANTIZATION 192 Making the Most of Finale If you ve followed the step by step procedures to this point you ve seen most of Finales tools at work You re not expected to remember all this material of course you ca
25. Splitinto Two Staves 49 HyperScribe Tool 4 ke exi 39 Inner Voices 36 180 Inset mode 29 Insert Page Break 99 Insert Staff Systems 99 Inserting Notes or Rests 29 Installing Finale Macintosh sss xiii MEBOONS 23G actin dut eec vii Instrument Definition dialog box 128 Instrument List uo Lorie o n teas 127 Internal Speaker Playback 36 J Jump to Next Measure 22 Key Changing the Key Signature 53 SettingtheKey Signature 3 Key Signature Tool 53 Key Velocities 136 Keyboard Shortcuts 196 Layer Options sce s xd 67 Layers c E CO 36 Libtalleo sc prose to ERR e 87 Expressions oss ous x lie as 87 Staff Styles 119 Lyrics Click Assignment 57 Typeinto Score 55 Lyrics Menu Click Assignment 58 EditLyrics 56 58 60 EditWord Extensions 108 Shift LyriCS ovi trei fe png 60 Typeinto Score 55 Lyrics TOO a a aan AA S XS 55 MATOS daa BREN a are i 197 207 Index Maestro Font Default 40 193 Main Tool Palette 6 Mass Edit Menu Clear ltems 57 176 Copy and Replace 86 FIEMUSIC mura ere nes 90 Music Spacing uox vu sae 92 Apply NoteSpacing 92 Transpose 114 Unlock Systems 91
26. These instructions cover the basic preparations for printing from Finale or any program If you can print successfully from other programs already skip to the next section Before you print for the first time you must tell the Macintosh which printer it should send its printing information to especially if you have more than one printer In the Apple Menu at the upper left corner of your screen you should see an item called Chooser Select it A dialog box appears where you ll see an icon representing your printer driver in the left part of the window The printer driver you select will depend upon what printer you have if your printer is a StyleWriter Il for example you ll choose the StyleWriter II printer driver Click on the appropriate driver If you ve connected your cables correctly and if your printer is on you should see your printer s name appear at the top of the box on the right Click it then close the Chooser You should be ready to print some printers may require additional setup If you arent able to select your printer or the printer driver in the chooser you wont be able to print in any program you ll want to consult the manual that came with your computer and or printer For further details on printing in Finale see PRINTING in the User Manual or consult TUTORIAL 4 in this volume SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface It s the language spoken by computers and el
27. This syllable is simply a blank character sometimes called a hard space By pressing and hold ing down the key typing 0160 on the numeric keypad and then releasing the key Mac spacebar you produce an invisible character that Finalethinks of as a syllable even though it s invisible on the screen Remember that Finale looks for a space or a hyphen to indicate the end of a syl lable whether invisible or not To convinceFinale that this character is a sylla ble you need to follow each invisible syllable with a space 60 Tutorial 2 Adding Details Click in the text box and type the second verse exactly as you see it here Create an invisible syllable zt 0160 or spacebar where indicated below Dont forget to type a regular space before and after each one It invisible syllable rained all night the day I left the wea ther it was dry The invisible syllable sun so hot froze to death Su san nah dont you cry Oh Su san nah now dont you cry for me invisible syllable come from Al a ba ma with a ban jo on my knee Click OK Scroll to the beginning of the music Choose Click Assignment from the Lyrics Menu ct click option click in the staff above the first note If you ve typed the lyr ics correctly Finale should enter the second verse without a hitch The invisible syllables you added should make all syllables align with their notes If you need to adjust the positioning of the second lyric
28. e From the Plug ins Menu choose Lyrics then Word Extensions Finale cal culates the notes that need word extensions and places them in the score If there had been word extensions that wrapped around a system break Finale would have automatically created a dummy syllable to launch the extra word extension Keep in mind that Finale bases its calculations on lyrics in the same verse If you ve changed to a Chorus in the middle of the piece you must run the Plug in on each section separately PRINTING BASICS There are essentially two kinds of printers that work with Finale PostScript equipped printers suitable for professional publishing and non PostScript print ers including inkjet and bubblejet printers Finales output truly shines when you print on a PostScript printer PostScript is a page description language spoken by computers and printers just as MIDI is a lan guage spoken by computers and MIDI keyboards If you want truly typeset quality printing you can take your Finale files on a disk to an output shop something like a copy shop and have it printed on a Linotronic imagesetter a very expensive PostScript machine that creates published quality printouts Just as A B and C are characters in a standard text font notes and musical symbols are characters in Finales music font called Maestro Maestro and the other fonts that come with Finale is provided as a Postscript and TrueType font All text and musical sy
29. offscreen measure select the measures with the M ass Edit Tool then etri J shift click Mac This music gets copied here z ption shift _ You ve already selected the source measures so proceed as follows click on the target While pressing ci7 and shirt simultaneously click measure 14 Mac option and shirt click measure 14 That s a very useful trick to remember cti shift clicking fpption shift clicking the target measure is the same as dragging the image of the source measures onto the target measures A dialog box appears asking how many times you want the material copied Once the default is enough e Click OK or press enter That s all there is to it You ve entered all the music for your first lead sheet DELETING MEASURES This version of Oh Susannah is seventeen measures long However you will remember that Finale provided you with twenty one empty measures when you began this tutorial Therefore you now need to delete measures 18 through 21 using the M easure Tool and the Select Region command mentioned a moment ago 33 Tutorial lb Speedy Entry Click the Measure Tool Now adjust your view so that measure 18 is visible Click measure 18 From the Edit Menu choose Select Region The Select Region dialog box appears You can now specify any region in the scorethat you want to select even if none
30. too just hold down MIDI key board keys for the notes in the chord before you press the rhythmic value key You can drag any note of a chord up or down to change its pitch just as you did with a single note earlier in the tutorial If you double click and on the second click hold the button down you can drag an entire chord up and down the staff instead of dragging one note at a time And dont forget that you can also drag any note or chord horizontally If you want to drag a note only vertically or only horizontally press while you drag your cursor will be constrained to perfectly vertical or horizontal movements Take another look at the Speedy Entry Keyboard Commands diagrams that appear earlier in this tutorial and you ll learn about some other features of Speedy Entry For example if you position the insertion bar on the second of two notes that are beamed together pressing the slash key will break the beam pressing it again will rejoin the beam Theres also a key that turns any note into a grace note and back again the semicolon Pressing the equal key ties a note to the next note c equal M ac eption equal ties a noteto the previous note You can tie all notes of a chord at once by positioning the crossbar on the chord stem and not on any notehead And if you re working on a score with several staves pressing shift down arrow Mac return moves the editing frame down to the next lower staf
31. unless you ve upgraded from an earlier version Finale CD ROM ABOUT THIS BOOK The Windows and Macintosh versions of Finale are similar enough that we have incorporated instructions for both into this one book You will notice however that there are two separate versions of the Installation instructions one for Win dows users and one for Macintosh users These chapters provide platform specific installation and setup instructions Beyond these initial chapters the book applies to both platforms any differences will be indicated by separate instructions for each platform given in parentheses The majority of these differences will involve keystrokes e g for Windows or for Macintosh Throughout this book you ll find references or links to other topics MOST LINKS LOOK LIKE THIS If you are viewing this book with the Acrobat Reader you can click on the link to go to that section of the book or the User Manual If you re reading this book in printed form simply turn to the referred section Along the outside edge of the page you ll find tip boxes like the one here These tip boxes contain helpful hints and tips that relate to the text where they re found TI D Learning Finale wont be difficult Although the program offers hundreds of fea tures and options theres absolutely nothing wrong with ignoring the ones you ll never use Dont have a MIDI instrument Then skip those sections of the book Dont plan to use guitar fretb
32. 1 Voice 2 mechanism you should understand First Voice 1 isn t usually higher and it s not usually stems up in contrast with the Layer mechanism where one layers music will usually be on top The definition of Voice 1 isthe voice you entered first regardless of register The second concept is that of domain As you start to experiment you may wonder why note stems don t always seem to flip in the correct directions The answer is that Finale correctly flips Voice 2 stems launched within the domain of a Voice 1 note as shown here 180 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics bo Gig Lad m In this example two half notes were entered in Voice 1 top The second voice was launched from the first half note but because all four Voice 2 notes were launched from the first Voice 1 half note the stem of the second Voice 1 half note didn t flip upward Had thethird Voice 2 note been launched from the second Voice 1 half note instead all stems would have been appropriately flipped In this example the half notes in Voice 2 were launched properly one from the first quar ter note of Voice 1 and one from the third quarter note However because the longer val ues half notes weren t entered first every other stem in Voice 1 failed to flip up You can solve both of these stemming problems by pressing the L k
33. As You Play Tap C Standard Sustain Pedal C Nonstandard Sustain Pedal MIDI Note 48 Channel fi C Other Select Beat Tap equals sea o JA 5 3 4 1024 EDUs m 1 LEA AAA Tap States Select OK Cancel Help Click OK You return to the score Click the first measure You dont need to erase your C scale a new Hyper Scribe pass overwrites whatever was there before e Play Ode to Joy as shown here Remember to tap steady quarter notes with your left hand on C below middle C 8 Tip W hen entering music with H yperScribe and a Tap makesure you play the first note at the same time or after the first tap fe When you re finished click the mouse Scroll back to the first measure Scan your piece and see how you did Feel free to try it again anything new you record will simply overwrite whatever music is there now When you feel confident with playing asingle line melody you might like to try the next experiment playing with two hands while tapping with your foot Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play BUILDING A GRAND STAFF OPTIONAL SECTION If you want you can skip this section which shows you how to build a score includ ing adding staves and brackets You can avoid these steps if you use the Setup Wiz ard If you decide to skip ahead open the tutorial file called Tutorial 1c and skip to the section called SETTING THE TIME
34. B and that you want it to record your dynamics and rhythmic feel If you takethis much care to set up HyperScribe every time you play you should get excellent results Click the first measure of the upper staff Play a simple arrangement of C hopsticks one possibility is shown below Play as slowly as you like but be sure you re giving the sustain pedal a little tap every beat that is every dot ted quarter note as indicated by the arrows below Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play lt tap RR 3353s ifii ji O8 x i pama 133333 EE EE AE a When you re finished click the mouse Scroll back to the first measure If all went well you should have a fairly clean correctly beamed Chopsticks tran scription If the dotted line rectangle never budged from the first measure there may be something wrong with your MIDI setup It5 possible that your pedal isnt send ing a signal check your connections and try again Or try a non standard pedal for the Tap If you got something but it doesnt look accurate check the settings you made in the HyperScribe M enu Also be sure your foot taps were synchronized wi
35. Consult your inter faces instruction manual for information on assigning strings to MIDI channels or viewing the currently selected MIDI channel for each string Click the MIDI menu and choose MIDI Setup then if you are using Win dows click the Advanced button to extend the lower portion In the bottom left of the dialog box you will see a MIDI In Latency setting There tends to be a small but consistent delay between the time a guitar string is plucked and when the MIDI information reaches Finale Finale can compensate for this delay by anticipating the beat during a HyperScribe session 167 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments After MIDI In Latency enter 25 This is just a good first guess You will prob ably need to make further adjustments depending on the guitar to M IDI inter face you are using and your own performance habits Try anywhere from 25 to 150ms or so Click OK Createa new document containing a standard and tab staff with the Setup wizard Follow the instructions at the beginning of this chapter to do this We ll use this document to demonstrate entry with a MIDI guitar From the Options Menu choose Click and Countoff The Click and Countoff dialog box appears For Countoff and Click choose While Recording For Source choose MIDI Note For Measures choose 2 Click OK You have just instructed Finale that a 2 measure countoff is to be used before recording and that a cl
36. Controls are a floating palette shown below rE b li Click the Play button gt If your M IDI system m hooked UD properly hear Finale play the song To stop playback click either Pause n or Stop If you dont hear anything consult SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM in the INSTALLATION CHAPTERS earlier in this manual If during playback you want to hear a certain passage again click and hold down the button for a moment The number in the M easure text box decreases showing you the measure you ll hear when playback resumes The Tip If you wish to use the internal speaker on a Macintosh select the Options Menu then Internal Speaker Playback 36 Tutorial lb Speedy Entry far left button m enters 1 in the Measure text box so that playback resumes with the beginning of the score The button quickly increases the M easure so that you can skip ahead during playback and the far right button jumps you to the last measure of the score Hidethe Playback Controls by clicking on the Window Menu then select Playback Controls so that the check mark disappears As you re about to find out you dont have to use the Playback Controls to play back your score While pressing the Space bar click any measure Once again Finale plays back your score this time beginning with the measure you clicked Click any 9 TI D where on the screen Mac press the Space Bar to stop Of course th
37. DOCUMENT FROM A TEMPLATE Finale comes with over 30 different kinds of templates piano vocal scores choral setups chamber orchestra scores and so on to help you get started Not sure how to set up your score for a shape note hymnal Just usethe template we ve provided Not sure what size to make your concert band score so all of the instruments fit vertically on a page Use the template Occasionally write a pop lead sheet that doesnt use classical formatting Usethe Lead Sheet template If you find you usea particular template every single time you may wish to make it your default file the template the Setup Wizard uses We ll start this tutorial with the Lead Sheet template and create an arrangement of the folk song Oh Susannah If you havent already started Finale do so now Close any documents that may be open or cancel out of the Wizard Tip You dont need MIDI to use Speedy Entry You can enter music with the computer keyboard without the mouse dragging of Simple Entry 8 Tip If you re not using a MIDI keyboard make sure Use MIDI K eyboard is unchecked in the Speedy M enu Tutorial lb Speedy Entry From the File Menu choose New then select Document from Template In the Templates folder double click on General Templates then scroll down and select Lead Sheet Click Open Finale will open a new Untitled file with one staff and twenty one empty measures
38. Finale text boxes using the M easure ment Units submenu of the Options Menu e Click Cancel As you have just seen the two previous tools have dialog boxes associated with them in which you can control the positioning of the specified elements very precisely However you can also simply drag any handle that appears as you would with all of the other Special Tools If you dont like what you ve done click the handle of the affected element to select it and press or bacispace You can also erase Special Tools modifica tions on a global basis Select the desired region with the Mass Edit Tool From the Mass Edit Menu choose Clear Items Click Only Selected Items then Entries Now specify the Special Tools alterations you want erased according to the following table To erase changes made with this tool Select this item in Items to Erase Notehead and Percentage Alterations Notehead and Percentage Alterations Notehead and Percentage Alterations Notehead Position Tool Note Shape Tool Accidental Tool 176 Broken Beam Tool Stem and Beam Alterations Stem Length Tool Stem and Beam Alterations Custom Stem Tool Stem and Beam Alterations Beam Angle Tool Stem and Beam Alterations Secondary Beam Break Tool Secondary Beam Breaks Beam Extension Tool Beam Extensions Secondary Beam Angle Tool Stem and Beam Alterations Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics
39. For a further discussion of keyboard shortcuts and the Text Tool in general see the User Manual topics relating to the TEXT TOOL If you re satisfied with your work save it by choosing Save from the File Menu 104 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing From the File Menu choose Print and click OK in the dialog box that appears In a moment your printer should begin to print your score Read the last section of this tutorial for some hints on printing THE GRAPHICS TOOL In addition to adding text to your document you may also wish to includea graphic element a company logo for example which has been created in a graph ics program Or in atotally different vein you may wish to export a Finale gener ated musical example into a word processing application Both the importing and exporting of graphics is performed with the Graphics Tool Let s start by exporting an example of our piece From the View Menu choose Home Position From the View Menu choose Scale View and specify 100 ForWindows click on the Window Menu and choose Advanced Tools Pal ette Another palette appears docked to the top of the window Select the Graphics tool e Double click and drag enclose the pickup measure of Oh Susannah Placethe mouse pointer up and to the left of the first measure Double click the mouse keeping the button pressed down after the second click then drag the mouse down and to the right until a diagonal rectan
40. Hands free MIDI input 1 2 3 4 5 6 F T m Flip Exit o lol enharmonic Reenter measure Leith Cor With Ctrl With Ctrl Ties to previous note Num Lock off psa Y Es H BackSpace ff Slash Tie untie Remove note Grace to next note flag note amp With Ctrl Begin Tuplet Flip enharmonic ff Num Brwakrcin Showhide from chord Tock j Continue p through measure accidental beam to D pad Change note accidental R o P Clinics Add or angg Hide show remove Previous note to note or rest accidental measure rest hs U O With Ctrl DefineTuplet With Ctrl Freeze unfreeze Half step decrease through measure 7 S 9 p a step Flip g Next Flat 7 ic Half step measure Beam With Shirt enharmonie j m Up a staff I amp 8 Tip To use Speedy Entry without a MIDI keyboard use the arrow keys to place the insertion bar on the pitch then press the duration number key Tip You ll find the complete Speedy Entry Keypad Commands on your Quick Reference Card 6 Next note With Shift Ent 4 mee Previous Add note to chord note With Shift Change rest Previous to note measure With Ctrl Flip enharmonic through measure k Freeze previous fi to rest f c m Bp is ane Voice 1 2 Jin CAL note With Shift Unfreeze P ster Next lay
41. IGAN AVA ah er Enclose Expression Set to Value Numbe Controller Number Do Not Print Text In amp ngle Brackets C E Nime Break Multimeasure Rest Always Place Outside Staff Cancel Help e Type the words Con Sordino Click the Set Font button and click Italic click OK twice click Note Expression click Select click OK As you proceed through the dialog boxes by clicking either OK or Select you may notice that 81 Tip Mac users when the Playback Controls are visible simply pressing the Space bar will start playback Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions Con Sordino has been added to the list of expressions You wont have to create it again the next time you need it in this score When you return to the score you ll see that the Con Sordino markings posi tion was determined by your original click F eel free to adjust its positioning by dragging its handle Scroll to measure 10 and double click above the first note of the Trombone 2 part Create the Senza Sordino expression the same way you created the Con Sordino marking and drag the marking into place While dragging markings is good for general repositioning you may sometimes need to make finer position adjustments with the nudge keys THE NUDGE KEYs ARROW KEYS e Click the Con Sordino mark s handle and press the left arrow key The Con Sordino marking moves just a pixel screen
42. SIGNATURE AND BEAMING PATTERNS From the File Menu choose Close Click No or Don t Save unless you want to save it From the File Menu choose New then Default Document Based on the configuration of Maestro Font Default file Finale presents you with a new blank document Click the Staff Tool amp You use the Staff Tool to create move or delete staves among other things From the Staff Menu choose New Staves In the dialog box that appears click OK or press erer You want to create one new staff which is the default You ll notice however that at the moment the barlines dont continue through from one staff to another That s because these staves havent been grouped Starting in the blank space above and to the left of the upper staff drag the mouse creating a bounding box Drag enclose both staves handles and release the mouse button This is one way to select several staves at once drag enclose their handles 71 j yore Ses __ TE From the Staff Menu choose Add Group and Bracket The Group Attributes dialog box appears Finale provides some fairly sophisticated options in this dialog box most of which you will ignore for the purposes of this tutorial F eel free to consult the User Manual for more information on the GROUP ATTRIBUTES DIALOG BOX e 45 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play For now notice that Finale ha
43. Smart Shapes Expressions Articulations Repeats Lyrics Chords Text Blocks Tuplets Time Signatures Key Signatures Clefs Ossias Graphics Staff and Group Names For more details see the User M anual under SELECTION TOOL 77 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions METATOOLS PUTTING IN MANY ARTICULATIONS Lets learn some more about articulations The system you learned earlier for putting in articulations is fine for the occasional accent or staccato marking But what if you have a series of accented eighth notes Do you haveto go through the Articulation Selection dialog box for every single note Fortunately no You can select a region of notes and tell Finaleto apply the same symbol to every one Or you can assign any articulation to a single key on your keyboard and bypass the dialog boxes altogether These keyboard assignments are called M etatools You can assign a metatool to each of the alphabet keys a z as well as the number keys 0 9 the Articulation Tool has one set of thirty six and the Expression Tool has another set of thirty six The basic formula for working with M etatools is always the same Press shift J number or letter key to program the keystroke use the number or letter key alone to enter the marking into the score Some M etatools have already been pro grammed for you let5 take a closer look Click the Articulation Tool While pressing shift press the S key The Articulation Selection di
44. Stem Direction Tool 173 Stem Length Tool 173 ROTTS eSB a na Dac plated 68 171 Changing Length 173 175 CUSEOITE 1o eris cese d Pac es 175 FIIPDING aa akda hx kaaa 173 LEVERS 4 i os RR dS 67 Reversed aaa 178 MOICBS paan Can Aaral Na Ab a 180 Subtitles PAP PAA 102 Swing Playback s es s 150 Systems Indenting iuda drei xeu si 97 Insertingor Deleting 99 Tab Slides x eda hanapan nd 163 Tablature is det x px Pus 169 NG Co Boss S aan RE 43 49 Technical support vi Templates 19 193 Tempo sso osx e es 37 150 Tempo Marking 150 Text Menu FONE d evt eie AG 103 Frame Attributes 104 Inserts Page Number 104 Placement cxx R3 103 Center Horizontally 103 RIOD ngagawa eeu repe 104 SIZE AN naaa cron litt OAR DUE nand 103 TANOD aan bcr UP sre 102 Ties Simple Entry 2 am Aa oo e Yn KA 8 Special Tools 175 Speedy Entry 35 Dl lm m 106 190 Time Changing the Time Signature 54 Setting the Time Signature 3 48 Time Signature Tool 48 54 Time Signatures 48 THES 5a cs NANA PAGA NA 102 TranscribingaMelody 43 Transcribing a Scale 41 Transposing 2 vt hag aera 114 Transposing Instruments 117 Triplets seeTuplets 14 Puplet Tool oru ee ey 14 26 WUDIGS ANA 26 Default Tuplet Visual Defin
45. This one displays any raw shapes you ve created in the document shapes that havent yet been turned into Executable Shapes For now ignore this box Click Create You arrive at Finales Shape Designer In this mini graphics environment you can design lines shapes and symbols to add to your score glissando marks harp pedal diagrams and electronic music symbols for example The Shape Designer works almost exactly like any other drawing program you ll find out more about it in Tutorial 8 153 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics 154 Edi ShapeDesigner DANE SAN Ae e rm Position H 1 5208 V 1 1 4271 Cancel Help Your goal is to draw a simple line governing the tempo change of the ritard To help you draw the line turn on the alignment grid From the Shape Designer Menu choose Rulers and Grid The Rulers and Grid dialog box appears in which you can specify the kind of grid you want to display This grid resembling a piece of graph paper doesnt print out or show up in the score Nor is there a snap to grid option it s only for visual reference Click Eighth Notes type 1 and click OK From the Show submenu of the Shape Designer Menu choose Grid Each horizontal grid point represents an eighth notes duration Thisisthe key to designing an Executable Shape that affects the right amount of music If you want your ritard to last only for a quarter note it would betwo grid points long If it s t
46. Tie Placement Controls allow you to affect the vertical and horizontal To flip a tie with the points at which the tie starts and ends The Tie Control Points offer you control Tie Tool select the over the shape of the tie Note that under Tie Direction Automatic is the default 5 handle and hit setting This means that Finale decides which direction the tie should appear E F Mac based on your settings in the Tie Options dialog box For more details see Tie t ALTERATIONS DIALOG BOX in the User Manual 175 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics Click Cancel Click the Dot Tool amp Double click the first dotted note s handle The Dot Off sets dialog box appears where you can specify the precise positioning of this dot This tool is best for making changes to specific dotted notes You can set the hor izontal dot positioning globally too see DOTTED NOTES in the User Manual TheH offset is the horizontal distance between the dot and its default place ment a higher value means farther to the right the V offset sets the vertical location of the dot relative to its default placement a higher value means upward the Inter Dot Spacing sets the distance between the dots of a note with several dots For example if you decide that a dot should be moved down to the next space on the staff add 083 inches to the V offset You can determine which measurement units are used in most
47. Tool 173 Tie T00l 4 v rto o YU 175 Special Tools Menu Show Handles 172 Speed Desc eo er meer 195 Speedy Entry aa aa eius ho sca s 20 Acddentals llle 25 Chords uv Re EE RE Res 24 Editi conics dee aout P ee tnos 23 TUDIetS cea as Besta tee ss 26 Speedy Entry Keypad Commands Macintosh llle 22 Windows 21 Speedy Menu LEY d MUN na A Naan Aa E se 29 Jump to Next Measure 22 Playback During Drag 23 Use MIDI Keyboard 20 Split into Two Staves 49 Split Point Plug in vos cris 180 Split POINTS ier Lx apan sman 179 SE CCOEOS 1a weal dich a tae 73 Staff EISE rd Der SUE a 83 Staff Menu Add Group and Bracket 45 Apply Staff Style 119 Edit Staff Attributes 46 111 New Staves 45 111 New Staves with Wizard 48 116 Set Default NamePositions 112 Abbreviated Staff Names 114 Full Staff Names 114 Show Staff Styles 119 Staff Names go mag ou Katayan ses 111 Staff Sets Programming 115 Sel cL Fit uva Yide cr erp Lee 116 Staff Styles 03 See XE xS 118 Staff Tool 45 111 115 117 118 124 Start and Stop Times 138 Starting Finale Macintosh ss xix MINIONS 36 cert Y RR im ix Status Bar s oss ace EE xn 6 Staves AGING A e ems the 45 Hiding yaa eo Seb xe s 115 119 Sertilig e sace tol ird 4 a 116 New c eer ERE m 45
48. Tool functions in Tutorial 5 under STAFF STYLES From the Staff Menu choose Edit Staff Attributes The Staff Attributes dialog box appears 46 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play Shall Attributes Staki Arines Stat A Ful Siu Hai Ed E Position Abbr Staff Hare Ed Feii Firat Chet ra Almae Hodaton Tanapi Select _ 3 Select ka Seelen Sawi Brardand Sira 7 phon Mama bo Display Allow Opinan Py Augmentation ots Break Faine Belewan Shaves F Bakes Biak Figura ar Baie Shanes Fr Chit 6 Digna Bash in Emplp Hemi R Endim and Test FHepeatz Fin Beans be Ei pai Hide Stall Pe Heriet Esperin igoe Kay Signatures f Heras Numbers F Repas Bor Independent Elements F Reus Paa be Sisi Nama 7 d ELE Tang Signatue be Tues Heiebesd Font Saleci F Tina sireh Hotaia ple Staricaad Hnd UE Cancel Hel In this dialog box you can give the staff an instrument name you can specify an automatic transposition if it s a trumpet or clarinet staff for example you can turn off the whole rests that automatically fill any empty measure and you can tell Finale not to draw certain elements for this staff measure numbers for example Your task for the moment however is to put a bass clef in this second staff Below the words First Clef click Select Finale displays a graphic palette con taining a selection of clefs Double click the bass clef fourth clef on the top ro
49. Tool or importing a MIDI file You can also import Encore and scanned files 3 Editthe music with the Speedy Entry Tool Get familiar with the numeric keypad commands including the asterisk to hide or show accidentals the slash to break or connect the beam from the previous note and the plus and minus keys and to alter a note by a half step Drag notes up or down to change their pitches Remember that the zero key can be used either to exit or reenter a measure for Speedy Entry editing Using the Playback Controls listen to your piece to check for mistakes Put in the lyrics using either Type into Score or Click Assignment Use the Repeat Tool or one of the Repeat Plug ins to place any repeats Add chord symbols and fretboards Put in all the expression markings articulation dynamics slurs and so on Assign your most frequently used markings to M etatools 9 Verify that the music is spaced correctly if necessary use the Music Spacing commands in the Mass Edit M enu 10 Usethe Resize Tool to specify the overall size of the music by clicking the upper left corner of the page 11 Look the piece over in Page View Fix bad page turns or system breaks using the Mass Edit Tool s Fit Music command 12 Create word extensions for lyric syllables that are sustained through additional notes 13 Optimize systems if necessary by choosing Optimize Staff Systems from the Page Layout M enu 14 Add rehearsal note
50. You can build nested repeats infinite loops even purely graphic repeat barlines that have no playback functions at all In your Oh Susannah lead sheet you ll actually need several repeat barlines one at the beginning of the score plus a first and second ending To make these endings work properly you need to amend the beginnings and endings of the music itself adjusting the lyrics and inserting the first ending measure so that the lead sheet looks like this Beginning 1 Oh I come from AI a rained all night the End ban jo on my knee It ban jo on my knee You re welcome to perform these modifications yourself if you want you ll have to delete the first syllable in the second verse type it at the end of the first verse in the Edit Lyrics window and then click it into the end of the score with the Click Assignment option Lyrics M enu You ll also need the Speedy Entry Tool gt to change the music in the first and second endings and the Measure Tool to cre ate the extra measure If you d rather not bother open the document called Tutorial 2a in which these changes have already been made In either case scroll back to the beginning of the piece now you re ready to proceed You re about to delve into one of Finale s most powerful features Plug ins Takea look at some of the items in the Plug ins Menu In general Plug ins automate certain multi step functions in Finale allowing you
51. as lyrics Click to create articulations an articulation expressions or chord symbols M etatool assignments Click to delete a selected articulation from the list and from the score a selected articulation up down the list 73 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions Incidentally some symbols such as have been defined to flip upside down automatically when a notes stem direction changes as a result of a transposi tion for example Articulations with an associated upside down symbol appear side by side in their selection square Double click the accent mark top row third from left Double clicking an Articulation in this dialog box is the same as clicking once then clicking Select When you return to the score you can see that Finale not only centered the accent on the notehead but it also knew which side of the note top or bottom to use You can override Finales placement decision of course to move the mark drag its handle You can also delete a mark by clicking its handle and pressing delete So that you understand what s happening behind the scenes try this experiment e Click the Speedy Entry Tool gt and click measure 3 The editing frame appears Click squarely on the notehead of the dotted quarter note with the mouse button down drag the note carefully downward until the stem direction changes Finale doesnt simply flip the stem it also relocates the acce
52. dialog box appears Click Playback Options Macintosh Show Playback Options The Text Expression Designer dialog box expands to show the MIDI playback choices for this marking Text Expression Designer x fi Set Font IV Replace tt With Maestro 24 plain Set to Value Number Enclose saunas Controller Number Do Not UN Test In amp ngle Brackets C Pass Number Break Multimeasure Rest Always Place Outside Staff OK Cancel Help Playback Options Type Key Velocity Effect Setto Value 36 C Execute Shape l Select Play Only on Pass ES Look at the playback definition of the pp marking Key Velocity is selected in the Type drop down list and the number 36 appears in the Set to Value text box In other words the creator of this marking decided that the pp marking should give the notes it affects a Key Velocity of 36 Thescale of MIDI velocity goes from 0 silence to 127 very loud When Finale reaches the pp mark ing it will play all notes assigned to that instrument MIDI channel at veloc ity volume 36 at least until it encounters a new dynamic marking Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics Some of the other MIDI variables you can attach to a score marking are also extremely useful For example by selecting Patch from the Type drop down list you could make the phrase To Clarinet switch the playback of its staff to a clarinet sound from an existing sax
53. didnt try entering a slower tempo in the Playback and or Click dialog box Now let try a real melody instead of a scale Only this time well provide the Tap or tempo instead of Finale TRANSCRIBING A MELODY WITH A TAP Before we start recording our melody we need to change a few settings such as the countoff measures Click the HyperScribe Tool X From HyperScribe Menu choose Beat Source then Tap even if its already checked You haveto tell Finale which key or pedal or other MIDI controller you ll be tapping to provide the tempo reference The Tap Source dialog box offers several choices the standard sustain pedal a nonstandard sustain pedal whose on off polarity is reversed as with some Yamaha pedals a key on your instrument or another MIDI controller For this test you ll usea key If you know the MIDI key number of the note you want to tap you can enter it into the MIDI Note text box middle C 60 Oth erwise you can enter the note information just by playing it Click Listen then play C below middle C You can of course use any key on your MIDI keyboard If your MIDI equipment is set up properly the Finaleis listening dialog box disappears and Finale types the number of the key you played into the text box In the Beat section of the dialog box make sure the quarter note icon is selected In other words one tap equals one quarter note 43 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate
54. dont haveto click the note head Instead click anywhere within the staff lines above it A small blinking cursor the insertion point appears beneath the first note Type Oh I come from Al a ba ma with a ban jo on my knee Each time you type a space or a hyphen Finale automatically moves the insertion point to the next note in preparation for entering the next syllable Finale automatically scrolls the music as you enter the lyrics so you always know where you are As you type thereare a few things you should know If you make a mistake just backspace over it by pressing the key Mac aelete If you backspace to the previous syllable Finale highlights the whole syllable for you so that you can replace it all at once with anything you type If you want to change a word you ve already typed click in the staff above the syllable in question so that it s highlighted then type in your correction 35 Tutorial 2 Adding Details As you type the rest of these lyrics you ll encounter some syllables that are sup posed to be held through two melody notes AA i e e oe o knee Tm goin to Lou si In such cases just skip past the sustained note by pressing the space bar Use the space bar to skip past rests too Finish typing the first verse l m space goin to Lou si a na my space true love for to see space Oh Su san nah now dont you cry for
55. dot to the left You may have to look very closely to see it move at all You can continue to reposition any mark ing whose handle is selected by pressing the up down left and right arrows These four arrow keys the directional arrows will cause tiny positioning changes on almost any Finale object whose handle is selected including staves chord symbols lyrics parts of triplet brackets Expressions and Articulations MARKINGS THAT PLAY BACK Now that you ve put a few staccatos and dynamics in your score try this While pressing the Space bar click the first measure the shortcut for a quick playback You ll notice that your staccatos and breathmarks actually affect the articulation of the notes in playback You ll soon discover that all of the dynamic markings in the Expression Tool and some of the Articulations have been defined for playback as soon as you place them into your score they affect the playback in a musical way Furthermore you can create your own expressions and markings and define them for playback too Any word or shape can affect any MIDI variable when you play your score key velocity volume tempo transposition patch MIDI channel pitch bend pedal and so on In Tutorial 6 you ll learn how to program your own intelligent score markings 82 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions STAFF LISTS SPECIFYING T ARGET STAVES In the previous sections you learned how to create a measure exp
56. four quarter notes it actually gets much less For more information about Finales three music spacing types see the User Manual under Music SPACING highlighted with the Mass Edit Tool is a shortcut to Apply Note Spacing Tip Use Time Signature Spacing in the M ass Edit M enu Music Spacing submenu to restore default spacing 92 Tutorial 4 Layout and Printing There is one more critical behind the scenes function in action here Update Layout Again Finale is configured to perform this function automatically it can be disabled by deselecting Automatic Update Layout from the Edit menu When you use the Music Spacing command you correct the spacing of the notes lyrics and accidentals of your piece Finale still must calculate the effects of your respacing on the layout of the measures If you ever notice that mea sures seem too wide or too narrow select Update Layout from the Edit M enu or press c U Mac 3 3 backslash BEAT CHARTS You just learned how to usethe M usic Spacing command to neatly space music lyrics and accidentals You ll recall that the procedure was to select the region whose spacing you want to fix then choose Music Spacing from the M ass Edit Menu Remember that Finale is configured to do this automatically In using the Music Spacing command you unlocked a special feature of every mea sure affected by it you gave each measure a beat chart A beat chart is a se
57. igo Mim Em Main M roca uu Tool aal rag User Manual d Palette omm a Navigation Palette Ls Playback Controls Simple Entry Palette docked Horizontal Status Bar Page Counter Page Scroll Window Scroll sims ee cum LARES RA UR BG Ci uET GER aa Macintosh View Simple Entry Palette Document Menu Bar e Main Tool i Palette Cr Title Bar moves window Frim Jacq Zoom Box System Lock icon expands to full size Vertical Window scroll Horizontal Window scroll Page Counter Page Scroll Tutorial la Simple Entry Take a look around the screen Across the top you ll find the standard menu bar The right side of the screen has a vertical scroll bar which you ll use to move the music you re viewing up or down and across the bottom of the screen is a horizon tal scroll bar which you ll use to move left or right through your piece You ll also see the Page counter this number identifies the current page on the screen To jump to any pagein the score highlight the current page number then type a new number into the box and press enter This piece has only one page At the bottom of the window you ll see the Status Bar On Macintosh you ll find the M essage Bar at the top of the window W hen you feel comfortable with Finale you can hide the Status or M essage Bar so that you ll have more window space for displaying music Simply select Status Bar from t
58. j z on an accidental tuplet tie or dot to remove it 2 One nice thing about Finale is that you never have to enter the same music mistake click on the twice For example we know that the second measure of Fr re Jacques has Edit Menu and exactly the same melody as the first Instead of reentering these four notes you choose Undo can just copy the first measure into the second You ll always use the Mass Edit Tool for copying moving and erasing music Click the Mass Edit Tool Tip If you makea Le Tutorial la Simple Entry 10 Click the first measure of the top staff The measure is now highlighted You ve just selected it or told Finale that this is the measure you intend to manipulate Drag the first measure to the right until its image is superimposed directly on the second measure A dotted outline of the selected measure moves with the cursor showing exactly where Finale will copy the music You ve just dragged the image of measure 1 onto measure 2 bm 0 ba E 4 Je o E 1 o Release the mouse button The program asks you how many times you d like measure 1 copied Since you re only copying it to measure 2 the default How many
59. key of C CHANGING THE TIME SIGNATURE If you usethe Setup Wizard you should start off with the correct time signature too But lets say you decide your folk song would work better in cut time e Click the Time Signature Tool 1 and double click the first measure M ake sure you click the middle of the measure within the staff lines Therearetwo scroll bars in the Time Signature dialog box the upper bar controls the top number of the time signature and the bottom bar controls the bottom number Ontheupper scroll bar click the left scroll bar arrow twice to change the upper number from 4 to 2 You want the meter to be 3 two half notes per measure so you decrease the upper number which governs beats per measure Now click the right scroll bar arrow twice on the lower scroll bar The lower scroll bar sets the rhythmic pulse the lower number in the time signature You increase the value from a quarter note to a half note by changing the lower number from 4 to 2 The Time Signature dialog box looks like this Time Signature x Composite Options Number of Beats a IF gt Beat Duration a v Rebar Music m Measure Region C Measure Through Measure fo Through End of Piece C Measure dm To Next Time Change j Cancel Help Uncheck Rebar Music 54 Tutorial 2 Adding Details e Click OK or press erter That s it You ve now put Oh Susannah
60. last beat of the second measure You should now see a bend hat extending from the B flat back to the A Click the Trill Extension Tool m We ll use this tool to add a tremolo on the last note Abovethe last note double click and drag to create a tremolo marking Your standard notation staff should now look like this eo Click the Mass Edit Tool Click to the left of the standard notation staff to highlight the entire staff e Drag the highlighted area down into the tab staff In the Lowest Fret dialog box type 0 Click OK The notes will convert to tab numbers and the markings will trans late properly for tab notation The bend hats have converted to bend and release curves 3 164 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments You will notice the last note is translated to the open A string Now let s move this down to the E string for the tremolo Click the Simple Entry Tool While pressing the cz Mac orrion key click the last note so it is selected e Press the down arrow i j key to move it to the sixth string Now the tremolo is possible without a whammy bar Now lets say we want to add a 1 4 bend on the second to last note se pre se Click the Smart Shape Tool N metatools to quickly e Click the Guitar Bend Tool enter Smart Shapes
61. measure in one quick easy step While pressing the S key drag through all four notes of measure 2 The stac catos are now entered for every note in the measure EXPRESSIONS CREATING YOUR OWN EXPRESSIONS Let s suppose that the Trombone 1 is sometimes playing with a mute con sordino and other times without a mute senza sordino You wont find these terms in the standard Finale expressions libraries so you ll need to create them yourself Fur thermore each of these markings should appear only in one part so you ll be creat ing note expressions e Click the Expression Tool and double click on the dotted quarter note in measure 1 of the Trombone 2 staff Since you want to create a note expres sion you must be sure to double click on or below or above a note or rest If ITi p you don t double click a specific note the Note option will be grayed out as in the previous example The Expression Selection dialog box appears Attach markings to You ll find that the Text Expressions you re seeking Con Sordino and Senza Sor the closest note in dino dont appear in this list Heres how to create them Click Create The Text Expression Designer dialog box appears the score If you later respace the music the marking will Text Expression Designer x retain its position relative to the note Set Font Playback Options gt gt Replace With Times New Roman 12 plain
62. of it is visible on the screen at the moment The Beat drop down lists even let you specify parts of a measure you want to include in the selection but can only be used when Partial M easure Selection is selected in the Edit Menu Because you ve already selected the first measure of the region you want to delete Finale has filled in the From M easure text box and adjusted the Staff drop down lists correctly for you In fact the only number you have to change is the Through M easure text box the last measure of your selected region Tab to the Through Measure text box Type 21 If you added more measures while experimenting with the Measure Tool enter the last measure Click OK Finale automatically highlights the measures you specified even though you might not be ableto see the end of the highlighted region From the Measure Menu select Delete Finale computes for a moment as it deletes the extraneous measures No doubt you created the lead sheet melody with grace and aplomb Nonethe less there may be times when you need to erase some of your music Heres the quick way to do it To return to the first measure of the piece you could usethe scroll bars Instead try this command From the View Menu choose Home Position This command returns you to the top of the page ERASING MUSIC 34 Click the Mass Edit Tool 1 Select the first two measures of the song You can use any of the selection methods you
63. or the end of the score If you click to the right of the scroll box Finale moves your view of the music to the right by one screenful if you click to the left your view shifts to the left You can also advance one measure at a time by clicking the right and left arrows Depending on your monitor you might not be able to see very much of the music right now It might help if you zoomed out by selecting a smaller view size Drag the mouse down the View Menu to the Scale View to command Dont release the mouse button yet When you position the cursor on Scale View to a submenu pops out to the right Slide the cursor onto the submenu until 75 is highlighted Release the mouse button The screen picture redraws at 75 of its original size You havent actually reduced the printed size of the music You ve sim ply changed the way it s displayed on the screen The music will still print at full size LL Terol kara w Page Vien kana Postion Binan Sore Select Groin Colors EE IET prira Curirniom Pales ipid n ide Opine Shog Grid han pale Show Payers haa Fisegee Shows Paga Leet koro Select Liners Show fires Laser Dinky Shoe Hinks Pages Shove Preto Pee BHE Cle 400 a LI Trk Triar e ID CM BDO Hi Zr Cist Qe drag Las Sew Pi nma Now you have a good overview of your piece In certain cases you ll need the music to be large enough for you to maneuver with precision Finale lets
64. sound just type the number of your MIDI keyboards clarinet patch into the Program Change text box when you create the expression To Clarinet Text X UDIETI Dery To Cisis si Ford Flashback O plored lt x Replace E Wih Tara Nga Roman 12 plar E Erch Epson c Dipi On Ses Orly De Mot Pani pa OX tres Hap Pigs Option Tyee Patch Bach Ern ee SC Bank Saent Bank Select A Program Change Elect iF Set loki Dp B p U Epeus Shape Fip Onyon Pam By selecting Patch and entering a patch number in the Program Change text box you can create a playback definition for the Text Expression To Clarinet Similarly if you re creating an gee marking you could define it to transpose the affected music up an octave In this dialog box you d choose Transposition from the Type drop down list and type 12 in the Set to Value text box up 12 half steps Notice that the written notes dont get transposed only their play back Note too that Finale will continue to play the music up an octave until it encounters another expression such as loco that you ve defined to return the playback to its normal register by choosing Transposition and entering zero in the Set to Value text box Click Cancel to return to the score To make sure you understand the concept let s create a new expression a Presto tempo indication 149 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics CREATING AN INTELLIGENT TEMPO MARKING
65. staff The first measure of the tab staff should be highlighted ma bf sd 162 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments Press the Backspace ii Mac ciear key to remove the existing tab notation in the first measure You should now see standard notation above an empty tab staff for the first measure Click the Simple Entry Tool We are now ready to begin entering into the tab staff manually For now well enter tab for the existing notes in the standard notation staff In the future you could usethis procedure to enter into a score containing a tab staff only Click the Simple Entry Menu and check Select Tablature Notes on Entry Now any note you click into thetab staff will be selected automatically and ready for editing Click the Eighth Note Tool in the Simple Entry Palette You will need to choose the rhythmic value of the entry first so Finale knows its duration and how to properly space each fret number Click the tab staff on the third G string directly below the first note in the piece A 0 appears When you click directly into a tab staff you will see a 0 first It should already be selected Press the 2 key The 0 changes to 2 Click the tab staff on the third string directly below the second note in the piece Press the 3 key The second fret number changes to 3 Now finish the measure using the same method clicking each subsequent fret number directly below its correspo
66. the fifth fret fingering on the fourth string and drag it down to the fifth string You will see that this fingering has moved to the new string and fret and the number has changed accordingly You can also use the up arrow and down arrow ij to move selected tab numbers between strings or the left arrow zj and right arrow to move selection between fret numbers horizontally You can also easily change the fret number The Simple Entry Tool should still be selected While pressing the cz Mac oprion key click a fret number in the tab staff Thetab number changes color to indicate it is selected Type the new number You can now use your QW ERTY keyboard or Number Keypad to enter any one or two digit number Hit the 4 or key to raise or lower the fret number by one Remember that when you change the fret number you are effectively changing its pitch To ensure the standard notation accurately represents the tablature drag the tabla ture up to the standard notation staff with M ass Edit Tool ENTRY DiRECTLY INTO A TAB STAFF In addition to copying from a standard notation staff you can also enter tab directly into atab staff This comes in handy if you are working with atab staff only or already know the tablature and not the standard notation Again we ll continue to use the same file we ve been working on to describe how to do this Click the Mass Edit Tool and then click the first measure of the tab
67. the note from which a V2 note was most recently launched Press the L key Pressing L flips any stem up or down Press the right arrow key to advance to the final quarter note Press L Now you ve corrected both stems in V1 You dont have to edit the V2 stems since they were launched within the domain of a V1 note they all flipped downward automatically Press the zero key to exit the editing frame As long as you keep an eyeon the V1 V2 indicator in the editing frame you ll always know which voice you re editing Knowing which voice you re editing is especially important when you re trying to delete a note from one voice If you accidentally delete a note immediately press cg j Z Mac 3 Z which is the same as choosing Undo from the Edit M enu The note reappears Once you ve become familiar with the V1 V2 mechanism remember that Voice 1 and Voice 2 are present in each of the four transparent layers on each staff By combining the two mechanisms you can produce up to eight independent voices 4 M MEASURE NUMBERS In the real world measures are sometimes numbered A B C and D Sometimes people cut sections out of music resulting in a measure numbering sequence like 52 53 70 Other times music is inserted and the bars are called 33a 33b 33c For 183 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics these situations Finale can create several different numbering systems one for eac
68. the third note in the measure is highlighted As long as you hold the button down you can move the endpoint of the slur Release the mouse button You ve just created a note attached slur Take a look Isthe slur exactly where you wanted it Does it arc too high or too low A Smart Shape is easy to edit When a Smart Shape has multiple handles it5 currently selected Each slur will have six handles Here is a description of how to use these handles to edit the slur Drag this handle to move Drag this handle to Drag this handle to move the arc asymmetrically change the arc the y asymmetrically Drag this ace Drag this handle to Drag this handisito move move the left endpoint move the entire shape the right endpoint 76 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions Hold down the key while editing the slur to constrain your cursor to perfect horizontal or vertical movements Further if you drag the upper right or upper left handle of a slur while pressing Mac prton you can create asymmetrical arcs instead of perfect arcs Position the cursor at the top of the arc Click and drag downward to decrease the arc of the slur Now create another slur Scroll to the beginning of measure 3 Position the cursor on the first note in measure 3 top staff Double click and drag to the last note in the measure Release the mouse button The new phrase marking displays its reshaping handles letting you k
69. times il proposed value of 1 in the Copy Measures dialog box is what you want Cancel Help Click the OK button Instead of clicking OK you could press the key in Finale pressing is the same as click ing the OK button Voila You ve just copied the music from measure 1 into measure 2 Now finish entering the melody Click the Simple Entry Tool again Enter the first two notes of the third measure by clicking the staff The next note in this measure is a half note so you ll have to change rhythmic o o values Click the Half Note Tool or hit the number 6 Click the C space in the third measure A half note appears Note that the cursor changed to a half noteto show you that you were entering a half note instead of a quarter note To complete the fourth mea e sure you can once again use the Mass Edit Tool _ to copy it from the third measure just as you copied the Tutorial la Simple Entry second measure from the first But if you d rather you can simply repeat the procedure you used in constructing the third measure note by note Complete the fourth measure Click the Eighth Note Tool and enter the music for measures 5 and 6 as shown below switching to the Quarter Note Tool when necessary You ll notice that Finale automatically beams the eight
70. times when you need more than four voices per staff We ll cover the voices system in Tutorial 8 From theOptions Menu choose Document O ptions then select Layers You will see the Layer Options on the right side of the Document Options dialog box Here is where you control the behavior of each voice 67 Tutorial 2 Adding Details Gagana lan layon sevo GN Pk Pasma Sterne ard Tam Feo Glan juz Freue Tar in the Saree erection an Steen Hala Laga aan irai F dpat Mating Manta bp i Shep E ipii kaman Drdy Hota ain bha Layee w jarla Lonag rdg Heddon Moder 7o dprere Redden Lagerr FF Pughack Fe Pacis lear Bir Hde losdlism Seti Un Ced For Layer 1 select Freeze Stems and Ties and then choose Up from the drop down list Next select Freeze Ties in the Same Direction as Stems and Apply Adjustment Only if Notes are in Other Layers Now choose Layer 2 from the Settings for drop down list For Layer 2 select Freeze Stems and Ties and then choose Down from the drop down list Next select Freeze Ties in the Same Direction as Stems and Apply Adjustments Only if Notes are in Other Layers Also click Adjust Floating Rests by and type 6 into the text box Dont panic You ve simply told Finalethat when ever there are two independent voices Layer 15 stems should automatically flip up and Layer 25 stems should flip down In such cases ties should flip the wrong way to avoid collision
71. to Key Signature click on None to open a menu of choices Select Bb U p M2 Add 2 sharps Click OK twice Your staff should now look like a clarinet staff complete with transposition All of the other non transposing staves have two flats in the key signature while the top staff has no flats in a Bb transposition avs 117 8 Tip Transposition Staff Styles must be applied to a full measure Tutorial 5 Working with Scores STAFF STYLES Let5 say you wanted your woodwind player to switch between flute and clarinet in the middle of the piece not uncommon for a jazz band piece The Staff Attributes sets the default transposition for the staff through the entire piece but Staff Styles add the abil ity to shape your staff on a measure by measure basis Staff Styles can do alot morethan just transpositions for more information see STAFF STYLES in the User Manual For this experiment we ll switch to flute for measure 5 through 8 e Click the Staff Tool From the Edit Menu choose Select Partial measures to turn it off From the View Menu choose Page View Scroll to the second page by clicking on the right arrow next to Page at the bottom of the window Click on the first measure of the top system then shift click on the last measure of the system Make sure you dont click to the left of the staff or you may accidentally select every measurein the staff The Sta
72. to perform routinetasks with a 62 Tutorial 2 Adding Details mouse click or two Add Cue Notes for example allows you to select several mea sures in the Flute staff and turn them into small cue notes in the Clarinet staff If you were to do this on your own it would involve selecting the music copying the music and manually changing the note sizes Canonic Utilities provides you with a quick and easy way to create inversions retrograde diatonic or chromatic trans positions and so on We re going to be using a Plug in called First Ending Repeats Before we begin we need to select the measures to be repeated using the M ass Edit Tool Click the Mass Edit Tool Measure 1 is a pickup measure so you want the first repeat barline to appear at the beginning of measure 2 you want the first ending to appear at measure 17 Select measures 2 through 17 You can use any of the techniques discussed thus far shift J clicking drag enclosing or the Select Region command in the Edit Menu From the Plug ins Menu choose Repeats then select First Ending Repeats The default selections are fine we want the music to play two times Total Passes and the first ending is only one measure long Click OK or press me Now both repeats are in your score If you want to adjust the bracket heights click the Repeat Tool i then click measure 17 so that the handles appear and drag t
73. value the new meter suddenly makes sense two dotted quarter notes do in fact make a meter TheTime Signature setting does more than set the meter it also determines the beaming patterns for the music you re about to input You could have increased the top number to 6 and decreased the bottom number to eighth notes like this But then you d wind up with no eighth notes automatically beamed together By specifying a8 meter formed by two dotted quarter notes instead of six eighth notes you ve instructed Finale to beam the eighth notes together in dotted quarter note groups that is in groups of three Select Measure 1 through End of Piece if it s not already selected Click OK Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play TWO HANDED HYPERSCRIBING e Click the HyperScribe Tool The HyperScribe M enu appears From theHyperScribe Menu choose Beat Source then Tap even though it may already have a check mark next to it Since you re playing a piece you have to tell Finalethat you ll be tapping every dotted quarter note Click the dotted quarter note icon You d click the same button for a piece in 3 8 9 8 or 12 8 meter Click Standard Sustain Pedal then click OK You retelling Finalethat you ll be tapping on the pedal rather than on a MIDI keyboard key From theOptions Menu select Quantization Settings The Quantization Set tings dialog box appears e Under Smallest Note Value click the e
74. ve tried so far clicking one measure and then sit clicking the second or drag enclosing both at once Press bactspace M ac clear The measures are now empty For the purposes of this tutorial however you really didnt want to erase the first two measures of the song Fortunately you can always recover from any Mass Edit Tool action likethis one as follows From the Edit Menu choose Undo Finale restores the music Le Tutorial lo Speedy Entry MORE ON SPEEDY ENTRY Combining the speed of Speedy Entry with the convenience of M ass Edit copying as you ve just done is a quick accurate method of entering music especially with practice Eventually you ll discover even more shortcuts for example to enter several repeated notes just hold the MIDI keyboard key down continuously while you repeatedly press the rhythmic value keys you dont have to restrike the MIDI key board key each time You can do the opposite too You can tell Finalethat all the notes you re about to play are sixteenth notes and then simply play them as slowly as you wish on your MIDI instrument Finale will enter them into the score For instructions see the User Manual under SPEEDY ENTRY TO ENTER MANY NOTES OF THE SAME VALUE Music only gets entered when you press a rhythmic value key so feel free to play your MIDI keyboard as much as you like without fear that you ll inadvertently throw notes onto the screen Chords are a breeze
75. want Mono another common option Internal Speaker which allows only one note to sound at a time Playback are e Close any documents you have open and open the document called Tutorial usus 6 This document is a short arrangement for piano bass strings and harp If you are having difficulty seeing all of the staves on your monitor select a different view percentage from the Scale View to submenu of the View Menu From the Window Menu choose Instrument List The Instrument List appears a staff by staff listing of your score Each staff name has several columns Make sure that the Send Patches Before Play checkbox found in the lower left corner of the Instrument List window is checked Finale can play music through up to 64 virtual channels at once depending on the number of MIDI cards installed on your computer You must specify this configuration with the MIDI Setup command in the MIDI Menu Using the Instrument List you can assign a MIDI channel to each staff indeed to each layer of a staff You can read more about the Layer feature in Tutorial 2 127 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics Click to Solo a staff silences all other staves Click to silence a staff the Click again to resume normal playback black square disappears Click again to un mute the staff Click and type to change the MIDI channel for the instrument Click the lBTIGTE T TENES arrow to R Giai Hse P x lin
76. with the Document Setup Wizard 1 Entering Music with a Mouse Simple Entry a 7 Adding Measul ess e motore ed NENA NGA haha nG ERES 15 Changing VIS danna scm Dre Lan dace iE aperi a Dra a 15 SAVING vour WO oaks eatery fetes M Re eee aa eee tetas 17 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry naaa 19 Creating a New Document from aTemplate 19 Adairid MeasHrb5 PAPA PAPA 20 Speedy Ent Voss oranda bha ANTI Pin 1G wi ba ha E aT Pb xa 20 Editing with Speedy Entry apak KAG d xe e Rar ere YR x 25 Copying Music to Offscreen Targets eee 33 D eredtguM Gas E OS ceric kan wna tone adea KAKO De aie AA 33 Erasing MUSIC e oos rm pex eed e Ra PESO a RR o ate PA na aS SOR ERE 34 Table of Contents AGILA Pad aeq Pici tard 36 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play 39 Introduction to HyperScribe s fe ng Sacer na n E ROM EROR ENSE ey 39 Creating a New Default Document 0 0 cece ees 40 Click and COUNMO eosa us LE au ert odd MAPS RY v heu rt e a 41 Transcribing a Scale with a Click soir eet at aces XR oe 41 Transcribing a Melody with aTap sse 43 Building a Grand Staff Optional Section 45 Setting the Time Signature and Beaming Patterns 48 Two handed HyperScribing a 49 Tutorial 2 Adding Details aaa 53 Changing the Key iss oP bene rd LUE EE dd KANAN aides 53 Changing the Time Signature 3 inca ik
77. you have your cake and eat it too you can actually open up a second window that displays the same document In this second window you can zoom in zoom out switch from Page View to Scroll View and so on without disturbing your view in the original window Try this From the Window Menu choose New Window A new window appears also containing your Fr re Jacques document To switch between the two windows hit Control Tab Win only or select the desired window from the Window Menu It s easy but it would be nice to see the contents of both windows at once Tutorial la Simple Entry e From the Window Menu choose Tile Horizontally Mac Tile Windows Finale places the new window above the first one and resizes both to fit your screen Remember these arent two different copies of your masterpiece they re two independent views of the same piece Thetitle bar in the upper window is highlighted indicating that it isthe active window Using the commands in the View Menu you can zoom in zoom out change from Page View to Scroll View and so on but all of these view changes will only affect the active window You can even use the Zoom Tool R to zoom in on a particular spot e From the View Menu choose Scale View then choose 200 Now you have two windows one at double size and the other window at a reduced view Suppose you decide that the active window contains the view you really want to work on and you d
78. you want from the Tempo drop down list Click the Play button Finale plays your song back at a more sprightly tempo 37 Tutorial lb Speedy Entry e When you re through listening click on the File Menu and choose Save Its always a good idea to save your work at the end of a session If you wish open the file Tutorial 1b and compare your results to our version WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE If you ve had enough for one session choose Exit Mac Quit from the File M enu If you want to continue to the next tutorial close the file saving changes if you wish The next tutorial will introduce you to the HyperScribe method of entry where Finale will notate as you play in real time FoR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just Covered See for example ACCIDENTALS ERASING CHORDS M EASURES COPYING MUSIC PLAYBACK COURTESY ACCIDENTALS SPEEDY ENTRY DOTTED NOTES 38 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play So far you ve explored ways of entering music into Finale note by note Simple Entry is useful for working without a MIDI keyboard and Speedy Entry makes good use of the MIDI keyboard with the computer keyboard for extra speed One of Finales most useful features however is its ability to transcribe a live per formance in real time To do this you ll be using the HyperScribe Tool which notates your performance almost as fast as you can play it By the
79. 003 Werecommend that you install all of the Finale files into this new folder For the most part you can press Return to confirm the defaults Click Restart You need to restart your computer for some parts of the installation to take effect before continuing If you re running OSX you may now reboot into OSX At this point you should put your Finale installer disc in a safe place If any ITi p thing happens to your hard disk you can reinstall Finale from your original disc When you open an older Finale file choose File then Open and navigate to your Finale 2003 will not older file Finale 2003 takes a moment to convert it into the new format then disturb an older opens it as an Untitled file If you save the file in Finale 2003 using thesame Finalefolder You name as before you will not be able to reopen that file using an earlier version of Can copy any custom Finale It is suggested therefore that you save the file with a slightly different files and song files name for instance My Score could become My Score 2 unless you are sure into the new Finale that you wont need to reopen the file in an earlier version of Finale folders then delete the previous Finale folder if you want to free up disk space Tip The Installer sets up a folder called Finale 2003 for the Finale application and its xiii Installation for Macintosh PREPARING FOR PRINTING
80. 3 CD ROM Double click on the Finale CD icon then the folder OMS then Install OMS Follow the instructions on the screen e Double click on your hard drive then the O pcode folder then the OMS Applica tions folder then OMS Setup The Create a New Device dialog box appears If it doesnt click on the File Menu and choose N ew Studio Setup Click OK TheOMS Driver Search dialog box appears If you re using a USB port leave the Printer and Modem ports unchecked and click Search If you re using a serial port check the appropriate box and click Search The OMS Driver Setup dia log box appears You should now havethefollowing items listed IAC Driver Studio patches QuickTime and your interface If the search does not find your MIDI inter face either by brand name or generic name call the manufacturer of the interface for help Click OK TheOMS MIDI Device Setup dialog box appears next If OMS has detected keyboards or devices with question marks put a checkmark by the icon for the port where your device is connected A Port 1 B Port 2 Click OK Givethe setup a unique name and click Save With your new setup open you should see a representation of your MIDI connections xviii Installation for Macintosh Double click on any keyboard devices with question marks In the MIDI Device Info box choosethe Manufacturer and M odel of your keyboard or sound module If your model isnt listed choose Other and type in the model in t
81. 5 Now we need to make sure the settings are correct for our experiment 40 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play CLICK AND COUNTOFF From the Options Menu choose Click and Countoff The Click and Countoff dialog box appears which allows you to control a variety of settings related to Finales click and countoff features For example you could instruct Finale to provide a metronome click during playback of your score or you could instruct Finaleto wait for or provide a 2 measure countoff before recording so that you have a chance to settle into your tempo The default settings should be correct but we ll double check Click and Countoff x Countoff While Recording Measures 2 Click While Recording hd Source MIDI Note Metronome Sound Channel Note Velocity Duration of the beat Down Beats 10 37 127 50 Listen Other Beats fio m i00 25 x Listen i Cancel Help From the Countoff popup Menu select While Recording In the Measures text box type the number of countoff measures you want to hear before recording begins The default setting is 2 From theClick popup Menu select While Recording e Click OK You have just instructed Finale that a 2 measure countoff is to be used before recording and that a click is to be used during recording Now we ll instruct Finale that it will be providing the tempo information not you 8 Tip TRANSCRIBING A SC
82. A small window appears containing the lyrics you just typed If the window obscures your view of the music you can drag it by its title bar to move it to a new location Usethetitle bar to move Click the close box the window out of the way when you re done of the music if necessary click assigning Use the side scroll bar to switch from one Verse to another Select Auto i Verse 1 Click Assignment X Update if you re SE AW click assigning 77 Auto Update one syllableata Soo BrFnvesesnsnssseteannvssennnet timeand want Oh T come from Al a ba ma with aba Finale to widen the measure accordingly after A Click the right or left arrows to scroll the lyrics one syllable in either f 4 each click direction Drag the scroll box to Click in the grey area move quickly to another to scroll the lyrics by spot in the lyrics one window full The four triangles are again at the left edge of the screen Remember that these control the baseline of the lyrics Drag the leftmost triangle up or down to move the lyric line closer to or farther from the staff Position the cursor on the staff at the location of the first melody note Click in the staff once The first syllable Oh jumps out of the Click Assignment window and attaches itself to the first note 58 Tutorial 2 Adding Details Ng kg ky Oh I come from Al a ba ma with a ban a Hu pm Move the cursor to the second note and click
83. ALE WITH A CLICK If you wish to usethe internal speaker on a Click the HyperScribe Tool A new menu appears on the menu bar called H Scrib h iN pak t ipti tti Macintosh select the yperScribe where you ll make your transcription settings Options M enu then From the HyperScribe Menu choose Beat Source then Playback and or C lick Internal Speaker In the Playback and or Click dialog box you specify a start signal set atempo Playback for recording and tell Finale whether or not you want to hear the other existing staves in your piece played back while you record Your default settings should 41 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play be Beat equals a quarter and Tempo is 96 Click the drop down Macintosh popup menu to the right of Start Signal for Recording and choose Any MIDI Data This setting tells Finaleto use any MIDI signal as a cue to start the countoff for a H yperScribe session Notethat you can access the Click and Countoff dialog box from here For more details see the User Manual under CLICK AND COUNTOFF DIALOG BOX Playback and or Click x Beat equals LIEIEI FJEIEJRI 1024 EDUs or 0 4 4 j Tempo 5 Listen V Play Staves While Recording Start Signal for Recording Any MIDI Data z Click and Countoff Cancel Help e Click OK That it Finale is now ready to provide you with a metronome click From theHyperScribe Menu choose Record Mode Make sure R
84. E STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE LIMITA TION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU 203 License Agreement EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED ABOVE CODA MUSIC TECHNOLOGY MAKES NO WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION MATERIALS OR MEDIA EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDED BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESSFOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE No oral or written information or advice provided by CODA its dealers distributors agents or employees shall create any other war ranty or increase in any way the scope of this warranty and you may NOT rely on such information or advice THIS LIMITED WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE 204 Index NUMERICS 6 8 meter os oo Gute KAN a Maa RE 48 8va markings maan 2S ak Ee 76 ACCENT a 5 Ret kA c LEA 73 Accidental Mover Tool 173 Accidentals Simple Entry 29 2 S24 36a ex I2 Speedy Entry iui kha ovis Yn 25 Add Group and Bracket 45 Adding Measures 20 Advanced Tools 105 132 171 ANAGTUSIS a ba fuste aaa YAY 91 Apply Note Spacing 92 Apply Staff Style ess nn 119 Arrow KeyS ma es UO etas 82 Articulation Tool 73 Articulations PAPET PANA 73 Adding a single articulation 74 Adding multiple 78 Deleting asinglearticulation 74 Deleting multiple
85. E97 eus IV Include Notes That Start a Tie OK Include Notes That Continue or End a Tie Cancel Additional Positioning H fo y o Help Click Select and double click the staccato mark You return to the Apply Articulation dialog box Take a glance at the other options for example Finale can place this marking only on quarter notes and eighth notes if you so specify For now however leave All Notes selected Click OK You return to the score the remaining notes now have staccato marks Finale offers yet another method for entering several articulations at once and this one is the fastest of them all It combines the power of M etatools with Finales ability to select a region of notes From the Edit Menu choose Undo The staccato marks you just added are removed While pressing the A key drag through the four notes of measure 2 When Use lenral Z Mac you release the mouse button a breath mark is added to each note you selected Gx Z asa since that s the symbol currently assigned to M etatool A shortcut for Undo But let s suppose you really intended to put staccato marks on those notes and held down the wrong M etatool key by mistake No problem 8 Tip 80 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions While pressing the delete key drag through the notes in measure 2 The breath marks disappear Now use this technique to enter staccato marks for the entire
86. Finale chapter for more detailed steps after you ve learned some important Finale concepts Howto Learn Finale yourself with your operating system making sure that you understand important concepts such as pointing clicking double clicking dragging and opening and closing windows This Finale book assumes that you know how to choose a command from a menu and how to navigate through a dialog box In addition be sure you re familiar with the parts of a window including the scroll bars the title bar the close button and the sizable frame In many applications including this one you re sometimes asked to cr click Mac 3 click something on the screen That simply means that while pressing the or amp 3 key you click the mouse button then release both Once you ve mastered that principle the meanings of shit click and even cri shift click should be clear Because Finale does some things that music programs have never done before you ll also be running into terms we re certain will be new to you You ll be intro duced to these terms as you go through the tutorials But keep in mind that if you encounter an unfamiliar term while using the program you can learn about it in the User Manual just look up the dialog box or menu in which it appears SIMPLIFIED ORDER OF ENTRY In general you can make the most of your time by creating your documents in the following order You may wish to refer back to
87. Here s how to create tab from existing music in standard notation Click the Mass Edit Tool Click the Mass Edit Menu and check Copy and Replace This is usually selected by default Click the first measure so it is highlighted Hold down the Shift s key and click measure 4 Now measures one through four should be highlighted Dragthe highlighted region down to the tab staff You should now seethe Lowest Fret dialog box We ll talk more about this dialog box soon Click OK Thefirst four measures of music will now translate into tablature notation You should now have tab of the melody line like the example below b emma Ee miga o e y 9 R ml V ge Si i 23 3 4 T3 6 273727 B In this case the fret numbers represent the pitch as played on the lowest possi ble fret in standard guitar tuning Now let s say you want the tab positioned farther up the neck Here s how to specify the lowest fret for any music copied from a regular notation staff into a tab staff The Mass Edit Tool should still be selected Click measure 5 so itis highlighted Hold down the Shift s key and click measure 8 Now measures five through eight should be highlighted 160 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments e Drag the highlighted region down to the tab staff You should now see the Lowest Fret
88. INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just Covered See for example CHORD SYMBOLS LYRICS FIRST ENDINGS MELISMA FONTS PLUG INS 70 MULTIPLE VOICES LEAD SHEETS Tutorial 2 Adding Details REPEATS WORD EXTENSIONS 71 Tutorial 2 Adding Details 72 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions Now that you know the basics of entering music quickly and editing it efficiently its time to learn how to add the markings that make music such a rich language articulations dynamics slurs and more Open the Document called Tutorial 3 in the Tutorials folder we ll use this arrangement of Oh Susannah to explore Finale s fluency in the language of music By the end of this tutorial you should be able to create a score with all the necessary markings BASIC ARTICULATIONS AND EXPRESSIONS We ll start with an introduction to articulations staccatos accents fermatas and expressions Moderato m f solo e Click the Articulation Tool 5 Using this tool you can click on above or below a note it doesnt matter Finale s articulations are smart they jump into place centered on the notehead automatically Click the dotted quarter note in the top staff in measure 3 The Articulation Selection dialog box appears Tip You must be in the same layer as your Click to edit notes to attach a selected anything to them articulation such
89. INKS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD Finale is the most well connected program you can imagine It can share its images with graphics programs its lyrics and text blocks with word processing programs and its music with sequencers other notation programs Use the Save as Web Page command to create a copy of your music ready for the World Wide Web With the Finale Showcase you can even post your files on the Coda Website and share with friends across the globe One of the most useful examples of Finales cooperation with other software is its ability to handle standard MIDI sequencer files These special files contain MIDI playback data M ost sequencer programs Performer Vision Cakewalk M aster Tracks and so on can generate and read them and so can Finale That means that you can create your music in your favorite sequencer when it s polished and ready to be notated save it on your disk asa MIDI file and open it with Finale it will turn into standard notation When you attempt this process you ll discover that Finale offers literally dozens of options for separating and recombining the music on the various tracks of the sequencer file If you want Finale will even retain the velocity rhythmic feel and controller information from the original sequence See MIDI FiLES in the User Manual for more details Note too that Finale 2003 can read files created in other music notation programs from Coda Music Technology including PrintM usic All
90. INSTALLATION AND TUTORIALS FOR WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH FILE THE ARTOF Music NOTATION FINALE 2003 FOR WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH 2002 MakeM usic Inc Coda Music Technology First printing May 2002 U S Patent Numbers 4 945 804 and 4 960 031 and 5 396 828 Project M anager Mark Maronde Product M anager Tom Johnson Software Development Randall Stokes Chris Cianflone Beth Sorensen Joe Lenarz Tim Fischer Kay Thiede Tom Tarras Tom Weber Graphic Enhancements KV Graphics lt www kvgraphics com gt Development amp Technical Support Scott Yoho Michael Johnson Allen Fisher Trey ZehrGrimm Curby Rule Ryan Demlow Shawn McClain Bruce Holbrook Nathan Carlton Thierry Boudet Kami Miller Tyler Turner Dan Cavanagh Tutorial Documentation Mark Johnson Carla Hennes Finale Finale Allegro Coda and The Art of Music Notation are registered trademarks PrintM usic and HyperScribe are trademarks of MakeM usic Inc Coda Music Technology ENIGMA Music Publishing Toolkit 1987 2002 M akeM usic Inc Coda Music Technology All rights reserved The program used to install Finale Installer Vise 5 5 2 1993 1998 MindVision Inc All rights reserved M etroWorks CodeWarrior 1993 1998 MetroWorks Corporation All Rights Reserved Portions 1984 1997 FairCom Corporation All rights reserved Open Music System OM S is a registered trademark of Opcode Systems Inc SmartScore and MIDISCAN are registered trademarks of M usitek Musi
91. MIDI Interface or adapter In addition the devices that work with the USB ports will require either Open Music System OMS or FreeMIDI as the MIDI helper software Serial Port Macs can use Finales MIDI driver Both FreeMIDI and OMS are included with the Finale 2003 CD Heres a quick list of some M acintosh MIDI hardware and the necessary helper software A Mark of the Unicorn USB MIDI Interface such as the USB FastLane can use either FreeMIDI or OMS A MIDIMan USB MIDI Interface such as the MIDISport or an Opcode USB MIDI Interface such as the MIDIPort requires OMS Other MIDI Interfaces can probably use either FreeMIDI or OMS but check with the devices manufacturer to be sure A Serial Interface through the use of a USB to Serial Adapter such as Keyspan or Serial Card such as GeeThree or Griffin Check with the manufacturer of the device to make sure it supports MIDI and which MIDI helper software FreeMIDI or OMS is preferred for that device A Soundblaster for Mac PCI card will require OMS For now well just set up the hardware and deal with the helper software setup in CONFIGURING YOUR MIDI SOFTWARE later in this chapter Placethe computer keyboard and MIDI interface where you want them Go ahead and plug in any power cords but dont turn anything on yet Plugone end of the MIDI interface cable into the interface if applicable Plug the other end into the USB or serial port on the back of your Macintosh Seri
92. NAMES STAFF STYLES STAVES TRANSPOSING BY INTERVAL TRANSPOSING INSTRUMENTS 126 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics It may be that you re more interested in using Finale as a notation based pseudo sequencer than as a notation program If so this tutorial will introduce you to some of Finale s special MIDI capabilities If you dont plan to playback with Finale skip ahead to Tutorial 7 ASSIGNING MIDI CHANNELS AND INSTRUMENTS Up to this point you ve been listening to all of Finales playback over a single MIDI channel the default channel 1 Not only can every staff play back on a different channel but you can even have separate voices within a single staff send their music to different channels Furthermore you can put channel and patch changes in any staff at any time If you re new to MIDI just a reminder to have each staff play its own sound you must have a multitimbral MIDI keyboard it must be capable of playing morethan a single sound or patch at once Or you could use more than one monotimbral MIDI keyboard each tuned in to a different channel Most MIDI keyboards have multitimbral capabilities 8 Ti For this tutorial you need to be sure your MIDI keyboard is in its multitimbral p mode check its manual Often this means setting the MIDI keyboard to Poly Windowssoundcards mode Omni which is sometimes the default will play all incoming MIDI signals 2nd Macintosh on a single patch You definitely dont
93. OUR MIDI SYSTEM If you are not using MIDI skip this section If you re just getting started with MIDI this section provides basic instructions for connecting your equipment MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface It s the language spoken by computers and electronic musical instruments We ll assume that you re connect ing a MIDI keyboard although you can use any MIDI instrument In this book MIDI keyboard refers to whatever type of MIDI device you are using We will assume that your computer is equipped with a sound card which is designed to also act as a MIDI interface and has the appropriate driver software installed If you are using a dedicated MIDI interface you will need to consult its documentation for instructions on setting up your MIDI system At the very least in addition to the sound card you will need the following equipment for an opera tional MIDI system not including your computer A MIDI keyboard Amplifier speaker or headphones A MIDI cable the sound card accessory which connects to the card s game joystick port on one end and has two MIDI cables on the other end Thelast item a MIDI cable is an optional accessory which may have been included when you purchased your sound card If you do not have this accessory cable con tact a local music store or the manufacturer of your sound card Install your sound card and its drivers See its documentation for instructions Place the computer ke
94. Open button Since you chose Place Graphic rather than double clicking where you wanted the graphic to appear Finale is awaiting instruction for placement of the graphic e Place the cursor where you want the upper left hand corner of the graphic to appear and click the mouse Your graphic will appear You can click on the graphic to drag it elsewhere or drag one of the handles to scale it horizontally or vertically For more information see the GRAPHICS TOOL in the User M anual 107 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing WORD EXTENSIONS When asinglelyric syllable is sustained through more than one note it s customary to add a word extension or underline after it to indicate that it s held beyond the first note Word extensions are not needed if the syllable is followed by a hyphen 5 knee Im gon to Lou si Because word extensions don t expand or contract with the measure like Smart Shapes we ve waited until after the layout was near complete to add our word extensions If you dont think you ll be needing to use word extensions skip to the next section You ll want to edit your word extensions in Page View so you can see system breaks and how far apart your notes are on the printed page Our lyrics are attached to the lead which is in layer 2 To edit those lyrics we have to be in the same layer as the notes For a review on layers see Tutorial 2 Make sure Layer 2 is selected in the bottom left corner of the sc
95. P This key board shortcut instructs Finale to place a Page number insert at the current cur sor position You could also select Page Number from the Inserts submenu of the Text Menu The number 1 appears surrounded by a box The box indicates that this number is not ordinary text but a dynamic insert meaning that if you created this insert on the second page of your score it would display the num ber 2 instead of the number 1 See TEXT TOOL in the User Manual for a further discussion of inserts Press fct Mac 3 8 shift right bracket This keyboard shortcut instructs Finaleto align thetext block with the right margin of the page You could also select Right from the Placement submenu of the Text M enu You have now successfully entered a page number for your score We can quickly instruct Finale to display your page number on every subsequent page without having to manually enter a different page number every time e From the Text Menu choose Frame Attributes In the Frame Attributes box you can determine many aspects of how to display your text block You could display the page number on the outer corner of left and right pages We ll leave the position where it is but attach the page number to every page in the score In the Attach to area click on the word Single Page to drop down a list of choices Select All Pages then click OK Scroll through the pages to see that the correct page number appears on each page
96. Pang dang e oc Ios det pace e Es 105 WOofd Extellsiofisz e iion ood e d tx ERE d hel ER s 108 Printing Basi So sos uv an ere ie ad ANTAY GARA KALI AURIS 109 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores reesse 111 Setting Clefs and Staff Names aa 111 Hiding Staves Staff SAS vs a na ie c Rer ode oc x oe 115 Inserting Staves nata Khan Last Ses ERIS aos Ay co at s 116 Transposing Instruments 2a PG beads wien AABANG fees 117 Staff ONES pA KARA KAIN AA KANE by Raw Bere AN ipd eet Tre KG 118 Optimizing SVStelTis u osse DAAN ANONG Ahh RNB es 119 Part Extraction 1 Splitting into Separate Documents 123 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics eere 127 Assigning MIDI Channels and Instruments a esses 127 The MIDI TOOL iscritti e bra dale BA OR ka ANg oh 130 Creating a Decrescendo icd Sec ENTA Kh GA baks px TES 132 Expressions Defining playback 146 Creating an Intelligent Tempo Marking 0 cece eee 150 Creating Swing PlAVDACK s Liu pex GANA rate seed E LEA 150 Executable Shapes Building a Ritard eee esses 151 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments 159 Creating Guitar Pablatures ais vpa rex E RE RE AVE T ba by AASA 159 Copying Music To and From atab staff 160 Changing the String and Fre Number 0 aaa 162 Entry Directly Into a Tab Staff 3 ari escudo donent cer qnte are wie anaes 162 Entering Slides Bends and Tremolos ccc cee
97. RE ON MIDI appendix in the User Manual STARTING FINALE From the Start Menu click Programs Finale 2003 then Finale 2003 When you launch Finale for the first time you will be asked to provide and con firm your registration information The serial number required for Finale can be found on the CD ROM jacket on the inside cover of this tutorial as well as on your registration card Typein your registration information click OK and click OK to confirm Installation for Windows Finale will ask if you would like to register your copy of Finale with Coda at our website For now click Remind Me Later If you re connected to the Internet you ll want to click Register Now the next time you start Finale THE MIDI SETUP DIALOG Box The first time you launch Finale the MIDI Setup dialog box will appear subse quently it5 found in Finales MIDI Menu Thisis where you instruct Finale which MIDI drivers you d liketo use Finale begins by scanning your system and finding the MIDI drivers that are already installed On the left side of the dialog box under MIDI In the program will select the MIDI In Device that is present on your computer for example Sound Blaster MIDI Input In theright hand box the program will select the Default MIDI Out Device on your computer You can easily choose a different device to enter or play back your music If you d like to hear the music on your computer s speakers which are connected t
98. S If you ve painstakingly put staccato accent and tenuto marks into your Trombone 1 part you certainly dont want to have to reenter them into the other parts Fortu nately Finale allows you to copy them onto any other music in the score even if the notes are different e Click the Mass Edit Tool Scroll to measure 2 so that it s the first measure on the screen Make sure that Copy and Replace is selected in the Mass Edit Menu Choose Copy Entry Items from the Mass Edit Menu An entry item isa note a rest or anything attached to one as opposed to measure items like key signa tures Smart Shapes or barlines The Entry Items dialog box appears displaying which elements of the music you can copy You can choose any combination of these elements Select Articulations Click OK Now that you ve specified beforehand which items you want copied all that remains is for you to specify where you want them copied from and to Click measure 2 in the top staff That is highlight the music whose articula tions you want to copy Dragthe highlighted measure so that it s superimposed on measure 3 of the same staff Release the mouse button The Copy M easures dialog box appears 86 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions Click OK You only want to copy the articulations once Finale copies the articulations from measure 2 onto the notes of measure 3 If the rhythmic values of the notes in the sour
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100. Selecting music Select Region 34 Shift click 32 Selection TOOL s s a at tir oen 77 Serial number osos the vi 1X Set Default Name Positions 112 Setup Wizard 24e e sarees 1 159 Shape Designer 153 186 SIE EY ICS eua godes serra mkaka e 60 SHOFLCGUIS 5 wear oras are EIN ON oe 196 Show Staff Styles 119 Simple Entry v ae estates 7 163 Accidentals 00005 12 Chords 5 0 winks Hana ess 13 Eraser Mts AB NW Neda Senos 9 TUBES 1 ete ve et ext 14 Simple Entry Palette Jd Simple Entry Rests Palette 7 Simple Menu Check for Extra Notes 7 Fill with Rests 7 Playback occ Bw we HRS 7 Select Noteson Entry J SIUS aco oa at Scores ae 76 Smart Shape Tool 76 SmartScorelite 189 Space Systems Evenly 99 Special Tools au ssc ted 171 Accidental Mover 173 Beam Angle Tool 175 Beam Extension Tool 175 Beam Stem Adjust Tool 175 Beam Width Tool 175 Custom Stem Tool 175 210 DotTool sseess 176 Double Split Stem Tool 173 Note Position Tool 172 NoteShapeTool 172 Notehead Position Tool 172 Reverse Stem Tool 179 Secondary Beam AngleTool 175 Secondary Beam Break Tool 175 Stem Direction Tool 173 Stem Length
101. Start Time value pushes the playback attack of a note later relative to its notated value Randomize alters the selected notes Start and Stop Times by a random amount giving the music a less quantized more human feeling You might type an EDU value of x or less of the predominant rhythmic values in the music for example to subtly soften the rhythmic precision of a passage of eighth notes 512 EDUs each you might type 32 into the Start and Stop Times boxes 141 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics MORE USES FOR KEY VELOCITY AND NOTE DURATION COMMANDS You might also find the MIDI Tool useful for correcting characteristics in some of your MIDI keyboards sounds For example suppose you have a string patch with a very slow attack upon playback it sounds as though each noteis entering late You could solve the problem with the MIDI Tool Select the entire staff Then making surethat N ote Durations is selected in the MIDI Tool Menu choose Add To In this instance you d add a negative number to both Start and Stop Times thus forcing the strings to enter and release slightly early on playback If you ve entered an appropriate EDU value which you can calculate for yourself remembering that 512 would be a full eighth note early the strings will seem to play right in time with the other instruments You can use the same technique to shift all notes slightly later in playback time If you alter one of two duplicate staves this way you c
102. Utilities a a Laan ni 177 Remove Stem Changes 177 Mass Edit Tool 9 57 86 90 92 114 Measure Layout 89 MeasureNumbers 183 Measure Tool 15 20 34 89 93 184 Measurement Units 95 176 Measures AGING 59 cis LR nakaka 15 20 Deletinig ossis Ie 33 Selecting Severa Measures 32 Message Bar asaan 6 Metatool aa Dee emeret 78 Articulations a 78 Expressions llssss 79 T plets isis teste see Ress 28 MetronomeClick 42 168 MicNotator MEET EP CERE 40 MIDI Channels 127 MIDI Guitar PRIEPR PRESA 166 MIDI Setup Dialog Box Macintosh aa XX Windows a X MIDI software configuring xvi MIDI System basics Macintosh llus xiv Windows 04 Vili MIDI Tool Kapa says mh 130 Copying MIDI Tool data 146 Removing MIDI Tool data 146 208 MIDI Tool Menu 133 MIDISCAN sapa ne PAPA ANY 189 Moving MUSIC oos Nad ce 9 Multimeasure rest 123 Multimeasure Rests Expressions Loud cose NAA Khan 84 Multiple Voices 36 180 Music Spacing oco ep Rx Na 92 Music Spacing Options TO Musica ficta oio na paaa ha 173 New Staves 45 111 New Staves with Wizard 48 116 Note Durations szs oesvesrrtexx 138 Note Mover Menu Cross Staff Aa 177 Delete After Merge 180 NoteMoverTool 177 Note Positio
103. Wizard asks you what parts or instruments you want in your new score In the first column is a list of instrument categories the second contains a list of specific instruments in the category currently selected in column one The third column is empty but will eventually contain a list of instruments you will be using for your score e In the first column click on the word Keyboard A list of common keyboards appears in the second column Inthe second column click on the word Piano click Add Now the third column contains the piano you intend to use in this score You should be aware that the order in which the instruments appear in the third column isthe order in which they will appear from top to bottom in your score If you are creating a multi instrument score and the Document Setup Wizard incorrectly orders your instruments you can use the small up and down arrows to movethe instruments around in the list until they are cor rect You can also select a standard score order from the drop down menu Custom Orchestral Choral Concert Band or Jazz Band Your Wizard should now look likethis Document Setup Wizard Choose Parts Page 2 of 4 wo Hn Stall Hara Pitched Percussion i Percussion Drums Plucked Stings Fretted Inztument Score Qader Dechestral cies Te _ cove Tutorial la Simple Entry Click Next The Wizard asks for the time signature and key signature Several common time signatures are o
104. You should now see a representation of your MIDI connections From the File Menu choose Save Give the file a name and click Save N ext well test the FreeMIDI configuration From the MIDI menu choose C heck Connections Your cursor will turn into a keyboard icon xvii Installation for Macintosh Place the cursor over the icon representing your MIDI keyboard and any other output devices and click the device If the volume on the device is turned up it should play a chord You ve confirmed your MIDI output works While watching the interface icon in your FreeMIDI Configuration window play a note on your keyboard The icon should change briefly to atiny little 8th note You ve confirmed your MIDI input works If you try this test and don t get the cor rect results then for some reason FreeM IDI is not set up correctly Please start again or contact M OTU for further assistance FromtheFile Menu chooseQuit Your FreeMIDI software should now be properly configured If you do not need the OMS software skip ahead to STARTING FINALE If you re running OSX you may now reboot into OSX INSTALLATION AND SETUP OF OPCODE s OMS SOFTWARE First thoroughly read the instructions that accompanied your interface before beginning this setup You may wish to check the Opcode website at WWW OPCODE COM as OM S updates may have been posted after Finale shipped f you re running in OSX first re boot in OS9 Insert your Finale 200
105. a musical Click on the system handle for the first system then shift click on the system handle for the second system Both systems are now selected and should havea filled square From the Page Layout Menu choose Delete Staff Systems THE RESIZE TOOL You ve already experimented with the Scale View to command in the View M enu This command and the options on its submenu allow you to zoom in to and zoom out from your document magnifying or reducing your view of it During the entire process however the actual size of the music the printed image remains precisely the same The Resize Tool however can resize the music itself For this example use the document called Tutorial 4 that you ve been working on to this point and scroll to page 1 e Click the Resize Tool The amount of music to be resized depends on where you click on the screen Click a notehead The Resize Notehead dialog box appears The limits of the Resize Tool are 10 to 999 Resize Notehead Ed Resize Noteheadto t Cancel Help e Type 200 and click OK You ve just doubled the size of the notehead or madeit 200 of its original size To restore it you must click precisely at the spot where the normal size notehead was The Resize N otehead dialog box reap pears type 100 and click OK Or select Undo from the Edit M enu 100 Tutorial 4 Layout and Printing The reduction and enlargement effect
106. aces 1 inch and 12 points 21 Hee tonos pnr Spaces pica An EVPU is an ENIGMA Virtual Page Document Settings 1 Unit a very small measurement that s evenly divisible by inches points spaces and picas there are 288 EVPUs per inch Remember during the following example that you can choose a different view percentage from the Scale View to submenu of the View Menu in order to see more of the music on the page e Click the Page Layout Tool G Your page of sheet music is instantly covered 8 TI D with a series of horizontal and vertical lines with handles attached Although this may appear confusing at first the function of the handles will become clear as we examine the page in depth To view your entire page click on the View M enu select Page magn em o System Lock icons Scale View to then Fit in Window Bottom and right system margins 95 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing The handles and their associated lines control two distinct sets of margins Page margins which allow you to determine how much of the page from side to side and from top to bottom you will use for the music and staff system margins which allow you to indent staff systems increase the space allotted to Systems and so on A staff system or system for short is oneline of music no matter how many i
107. ackward id the Ga a play a single note below middle C horizontally for e Play three more single notes above middle C You ve just moved the ear cursor 1 the entire piece to the next downbeat where theres another chord this staff this staff this C system only 9 hext chord O 3 T n e e e bd s eo Oh I come from Al a ba ma with rained all night the day I left Play another C chord this time in first inversion E on the bottom j This time Finale writes C E a C triad with an E in the bass e Continue adding the chords this way advance to the next spot by playing a single key above middle C and then play the chord If you dont play the chord in root position Finale notates the chord symbol as a triad over a bass note separated by a slash You can add any chord symbols you want one example is shown here 65 Tutorial 2 Adding Details C C E Oh I come from AI a ba ma with a rained all night the day I left the C G G7 C ban jo on my knee Im goin to Lou si wea ther it was dry The sun so hot C G G7 C C7 gt a na my true love for to see froze to death Su san nah don t you cry Oh Su san nah now don t you cry for Oh Su san nah now don t you cry for G7 C C E me Oh I come from A la ba ma with a me I come from A la ba ma with a C G G7 C
108. again just click the Text radio button Click on the swing shape two eighth notes equals a triplet quarter and eighth It should be the last shape in the selection box e Click Edit The Shape Expression Designer dialog box appears waiting for you to make changes for your marking Note however that you don t have to have any text or shape at all its perfectly legal to attach a playback definition to an invisible marking You ll see its handle in the score Click on the Playback Options Macintosh Show Playback Options button Finale expands the box to display the Playback Options From the Type list in the Playback Options group box choose Swing In the Set To Value text box type 100 or select Standard from the menu This num ber indicates a percent of swing If you wanted to you could choose a heavier swing by increasing the number or a lighter swing by decreasing the number Click OK or Select in each dialog box until you return to the score To move the Swing marking drag its handle anywhere you want You can delete any marking by clicking its handle and pressing dekete Click Play gt on the Playback Controls You should hear genuine swing Finale plays the second of every eighth note pair slightly later just as a jazz player might EXECUTABLE SHAPES BUILDING A RITARD In the previous sections you created expression markings that affected the play back of the music All the express
109. al glory Click the score to stop play back Macintosh Press the Spacebar again Now suppose you decideto play the piano part on a different channel channel 11 for example Edit the Chan column for one Piano staff Since both Piano staves are assigned to the Piano Instrument Finale changes the channel assign ment of both staves to channel 11 automatically W hen you do this the general MIDI instrument will also change for both staves since there is another instru ment definition using channel 11 in this case Bassoon Click the drop down Macintosh popup menu under the GM column and choose the Piano sound for one of the piano staves They will both changeto the piano sound Before you continue close the Instrument List window by clicking its close button Choose Save from the File Menu so that this piece will be ready to play the next time you open it THE MIDI TooL The powerful MIDI Tool lets you edit the raw MIDI data of your score from a sin gle note to an entire staff You can visually edit pitch bends velocity patch changes and other parameters 130 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics Oneimportant note before you begin however All of the changes you ll be making with the MIDI Tool are changes to the captured MIDI data Captured MIDI infor mation isnt really part of the notation itself Instead it consists of variables that a musician creates in a performance of the music specifically when recording with H ype
110. al port users If you prefer you can usethe printer port instead of the modem port Most people however use the modem port for their MIDI connections and Finales default configuration assumes you re using the modem port The modem and printer ports are marked by icons on the back of XV Installation for Macintosh the computer the modem port icon looks like a telephone handset and the printer port icon looks like a printer If you decide to use the printer port you ll want to make sure AppleTalk is turned off in the Chooser The Chooser is found in the Apple Menu located in the upper left hand corner of your screen Keep in mind that with AppleTalk off you ll be unable to print to PostScript Printers or access AppleTalk networks Connecting to the printer port would also require you to reconfigure Finales MIDI Setup dialog box see MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX in the User Manual for details Plugoneend of aMIDI cable into the MIDI keyboard port marked MIDI In Plug the other end into the MIDI interface port marked MIDI Out Plug the second MIDI cable into the interface port marked MIDI In and the MIDI keyboard port marked MIDI Out The most common problem encountered by a new MIDI user is improperly connected cables Thetrick isto think of the routethe music data is taking The notes you play will leave your MIDI keyboard from the port marked Out and enter the interface through the port marked In then on to the computer Similarly when t
111. alog box appears Every articulation in this dialog box has a number or letter assigned to it thin number appears in the upper left corner of each slot Some also have a second number this number or letter appears in parentheses and indicates the M etatool currently assigned to that articulation M etatool S is assigned to the staccato mark M etatool A is assigned to the accent mark and so on Remember you pressed shirt S to access this dialog box telling Finale you wanted to program M etatool S For now lets assume you are satisfied with using M etatool S for the staccato mark Click Cancel Position the cursor on the first not in measure 2 top staff While pressing the S key click Finale pops a staccato mark into the score The square handle is larger than the dot itself so all you seeis a handle To see the dot select a differ ent tool Then reselect the Articulation Tool While pressing the S key click the second note As you can see using a M eta tool saves you the trouble of selecting this mark from a dialog box each time you want it Just click a note while pressing the appropriate number or letter Ov 78 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions key and your marking appears W hat s more you can reprogram the other keys with symbols other than the ones currently defined While pressing shift press the A key As you can see Metatool A is currently assigned to the accent mark Let
112. an create some interesting echo effects a note on the unaffected staff sounds first followed a fraction of a second later by the same note on the shifted staff You might also consider using the M IDI Tool to accent the melody in a series of chords to bring out an inner voice Once you ve selected the region to be affected double click the highlighted area to enter the MIDI Tool split window By clicking and shift clicking or by drag enclosing and shirt drag enclosing you can highlight only the handles of the individual notes you want to change even if they re buried in chords In the Silent Night example below only the handles of the melody the middle voice were highlighted 142 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics 112 0 1 2 3 cuu 2 ASD Fe He sls a ba ondbth d Once the correct notes are selected choose Percent Alter from the MIDI Tool Menu Set all Key Velocity values to 15096 for example of their current values instantly you ve brought out the melody from the close voicings In the example above you can see the effect on the velocity graphs for the selected melody notes they are indeed 5096 greater than the harmony notes EDITING MIDI CONTINUOUS DATA Continuous data is displayed in a slightly different format when you look at it in the MIDI Tool split window Instead of thin vertical or horizontal lines you see a graph of solid black In this example you can exper
113. ance before you ever enter the tuplets themselves N ote that the following shortcut is not the same as creating a M etatool which turns normal notes into tuplets after they ve been entered into the score By using the following technique you can specify what the tuplets will look like when they first appear c click Mac double click the Tuplet Tool The Default Tuplet Visual Definition dialog box appears It is similar to the Tuplet Definition dialog box If you prefer a slur to a bracket or a ratio to a number choose different options from the drop down lists Click OK Thats all there is to it From now on any new tuplet you create will pop into the score with your predefined settings Try it Remember to enter a triplet with the Speedy Entry Tool press c7 3 Mac oprion 3 just before you enter the notes themselves INSERTING NOTES OR RESTS e Click the Speedy Entry Tool gt Click on the first measure and position the insertion bar on the two note chord Remove boo it by pressing delete Movetheinsertion bar back to the middle C note again While holding down shift press the 6 key located above the main keyboard not on the number keypad When you press shift you tell Finale you want to insert a note or rest just before the insertion bar You pressed the 6 key to add a half rest 6 is the keyboard equivalent of the half note value If you had held down a key on your MIDI keyboard whi
114. and Parts When you click in the Score column across from a staff name an X appears You ve just told Finale to put the expression into this staff If you click again the X is replaced by an F This indicates that Finale will force the expression to appear in this staff even if you ve elected to hide Expressions for this staff in the Staff Attributes dialog box See STAFF ATTRIBUTES in the User M anual for further Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions information You may check as many or as few staves as you like In fact you can put a mark in all staves or remove marks from all staves by clicking the Set Score button or Clear Score button Take special note however of the column called Parts If you click here the expression in question will appear in this staff s extracted part You can put marks independently in the Score and Part columns to create say a tempo marking that appears only once at the top of the page in the full score and yet appears in every extracted part For more information see PART EXTRACTION in Tutorial 5 Just for practice put the rehearsal letter on the Trombone 1 and 4 parts Click the words Trombone 1 and Trombone 4 Each click puts an X in both the score and the extracted parts for these instruments If this were a real project you d also put check marks in the Parts column for the remaining instru ments because you d want these rehearsal letters to appear in every instru ment par
115. at of measure 5 and then a triplet on the last beat e Click on the Eraser Tool then click on the last beat of the top measure of measure 5 e Click on the Eighth Note Tool Click on the X Tuplet Tool on the Simple Entry Palette hae CN Click on the quarter note Ab The quarter note changes into an eighth note starting an eighth note triplet Finale automatically fills out the triplet with rests Finale will simply ignore a attempts to create a nested tuplet with the Simple Tuplet Tool If you want nested tuplets ratios or other fancy tuplets see the TUPLET TOOL in the User Manual Click on the first eighth rest to add an eighth note B Since we know well want to continuethe Ab through the measure welll add it at the same time we add the note Click the Flat Tool Click on the remaining eighth rest to add an Ab at the end of the measure The Ab is entered without the flat symbol which is held from the previous Ab in the measure Notice that the bracket disappeared leav ing only the number 3 Finale automatically follows standard notation practice to remove the bracket from a beamed tuplet Let s keep going for the triplet on the last beat The Simple Tuplet Tool should still be selected e Click to deselect the Flat Tool Add an F to the end of the measure Finale creates the eighth note starting an eighth triplet filling out the triplet with rests Click on the eighth rests to add a G and an F to compl
116. ble click on mf The M easure Expression Assignment dialog box immedi ately appears you ll explore its options later 75 8 Tip Shortcuts for the Smart Shape Tool Hold down S for a slur for a crescendo or gt for a decrescendo Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions Click OK The mf marking is now in all staves If you want to adjust its position drag its handle it moves in all staves at once To delete any expression click its handle and press dette ADDING A SLUR As a quick exercise lets add some slurs to the score Click the Smart Shape Tool The Smart Shape Palette appears as a toolbar on thetop of the screen or as a palette on the M acintosh containing icons for slurs crescendos 8va markings and several kinds of brackets and lines This palette is just like the others you ve encountered you can hide it or move it around RES 11 17 17171 11717 Ha The curves and lines this palette offers are called Smart Shapes because they behave intelligently if the measure widens so does the Smart Shape attached to it If a Smart Shape begins at the end of one line of music and continues onto the next it automatically breaks in two The Slur Tool N should already be selected if not select it now Place your cursor on the first note in measure five top staff Double click the mouse hold the button down after the second click and drag the mouse to the right until
117. ble click the 1 on the last beat of the first measure You should see a slur from the last beat of the first measure to the first beat of the second measure 165 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments While pressing the Mac option key click the Custom Line Tool Scroll down until you find the H custom shape and click it so it is high lighted Click Select Doubleclick the 1 on the last beat of the first measure and drag across the barline to the first beat of the next measure The H should appear abovethe slur ni nA B 9 3 Now you can use the arrow keys to make fine adjustments To enter a pull off follow the same steps only choose the P custom shape in the Custom Shape dialog box Use the above method to enter a variety of performance indications used regu larly for fretted instruments In the Smart Line Style Selection window you will find figures for bends B releases R palm mutes P M harmonics A H and PH picking and others If you like you can also enter many of these items as articulations For information on how to create a custom articulation see the User Manual under DESIGNING AN ARTICULATION ENTRY USING A MIDI GUITAR OPTIONAL SECTION You can usea MIDI guitar to enter music into your score much like you can with a MIDI keyboard using the HyperScribe Tool Finale can even record the string you use for eac
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119. ce and target measures aren t iden tical Finale does its best to place your articulations on any notes that do occur on the same beats Thetechnique you just used to copy the articulations from one place to another is an important one and you can use it any time you need to copy one element of the music to another spot A common example is chord symbols In a verse chorus verse song you need only enter the chord symbols for the first verse Then with the Move Entry Items method you just used you can copy just the chord symbols from the first verseto the last verse even if the melody is differ ent each time Also if the last verse is in a different key Finale intelligently and automatically transposes the copied chord symbols to the new key UsiNG TEXT EXPRESSION LIBRARIES Suppose you re finished with your brass quartet Along the way you ve created a number of textual expressions Con Sordino Senza Sordino and rehearsal letters among others It might save you time later if you put them into a document of their own ready to usein any other piece that might require them As mentioned earlier in this tutorial these sets of symbols are stored in separate files called libraries FromtheFileMenu choose Save Library The Save Library dialog box appears asking which element of this Finale file you want to store separately Click Text Expressions then click OK You ve told Finale that you want to save the new text expressions a
120. cece eens 163 Hammer ons Pull offs and Other Markings 165 Entry Using a MIDI Guitar Optional Section 166 iii Table of Contents Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics se 171 The Special Tools Tool Fancy Beaming and Stemming 171 The Note Mover Tool Cross staff Notes 177 Correcting Split Point EFTO S ws race ceri En Eso wate are d teda 179 Working with Inner Voices Voice 1 Voice2 sees 180 Measure Numbers aa iita ADEN E XC p ok aos 183 The Shape Designer oo heeds a rec E ERA Vut c a dees 186 ScantitTd MUSIC zu acuden set S e dcn e tw ect cR ES EDD 189 Percussion MANS oe eet AN Da Saar DARAAN EG 190 Making the Most of Finale eene 193 License Agreement e een nnn nn n nnn 201 INDEX AA eS Gate AE WSOP EIDQEES P ERE das 205 Before You Begin THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING FINALE Finale is a powerful integrated program for music transcription notation play back and publishing It incorporates elements of a word processor a graphics designer a sequencer and a page layout program all available to you at the click of a mouse This program has the potential to help you produce more music both printed and played faster and better than ever before Take a moment to look over the contents of your Finale package It should include Installation amp Tutorials Book Quick Reference Card Registration Card
121. cians When Finale extracts parts it lumps together many empty measures into one standard block rest or multimeasure rest with a number over it likethis Finale offers three methods for extracting parts If you want Finale can simply create a new document for each instrument in your score With this method you can format and edit each part without affecting the layout of the full score Lets try extracting the parts from the Tutorial 5 document you ve been using From the File Menu choose Extract Parts Finale will extract parts from the active window in this case Tutorial 5 The Extract Parts dialog box appears asking you for some information about how you want the new documents han dled For full explanations of these options see the EXTRACT PARTS DIALOG BOX in the User Manual If you wanted to extract for example only the string parts you could de select the clarinet by conra clicking M ac 3 s clicking on the Clarinet in the staves window To add instruments to the selection shift click on them Keyboard staves need to be extracted as a group you dont want each individual staff extracted into a right hand part and a left hand part Unless you want a grumpy pianist Click in the Generate Names From text box Finale will automatically save each part as a new document and replace the 96s with a staff or group name and Yen with a staff or group number Make a note of where Finale will save the new fi
122. crossbar is on a chord s stem and not on a notehead pressing the 9 key cycles a chord through various enharmonic spellings For the moment cycle through until the lower noteis an Ab In the next step you ll hide the accidental 25 Tutorial lb Speedy Entry Position the crossbar on the Ab Press the asterisk key You ll usually want to usethe asterisk key on the numeric keypad If you prefer however you can press shift 8 the main keyboard asterisk instead Pressing the asterisk key hides an accidental or if none is there it causes an accidental to appear The note retains its identity the note that now looks like an A will still play back as an Ab To restore the accidental press the asterisk key again Finale can even put an accidental in parentheses simply press the letter p key See the User Manual under COURTESY ACCIDENTALS TUPLETS You havent explored Finales tuplet triplets quintuplets and so on features in Speedy Entry yet Scroll to measure 2 which is empty and try the Tuplet Tool Click the Speedy Entry Tool gt and click measure 2 While playing any MIDI keyboard key press the 5 key four times You ve just entered four quarter notes on the same pitch If Finale doesnt automatically advance the editing frame to the next measure press the right bracket key Press cti 3 Mac option 3 You do this before entering a triplet F
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124. d noteheads See STEM CONNECTIONS DIALOG BOX in the User Manual 172 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics Let s try some other experiments Choose Show Handles in the Special Tools Menu again The handles reappear Click the Accidental Mover Tool 4j Every accidental in the measure now has a handle Experiment with dragging these handles you can slide any accidental horizontally This would be useful if you wanted to rearrange the accidentals on a cluster chord for example To drag the accidental vertically double click on the handle In the Accidental Settings dialog box check Allow Vertical Position ing You might use this feature for creating musica ficta where the accidental appears above the note Click Cancel to return to the score Click the Stem Length Tool G Any note with an unbeamed stem sprouts two handles which you can drag up or down to change the stems length In this example the handles below the notes control the stem for the note if it were to be flipped in the opposite direction Try lengthening the stem of the second quarter note in the measure Remember that in order to constrain the cursor to perfectly vertical or horizontal movement press while dragging The next tool the Broken Beam Tool is what you use to change the direction of a sixteenth note or smaller beam stub as shown here Before After gN lt Sg FF LI sal sul Click the Stem Direction Tool A handle appears above a
125. d run therisk of losing some of your changes in the event of a power or system failure consider using Finales automatic backup feature See the User Manual under PROGRAM OPTIONS SAVE WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE From theFile Menu choose Closeto closethe active document and all open windows on that document Or choose Close All Mac ppton Close to close all open docu ments If you havent saved your work Finale lets you know and gives you the option of saving the changes or leaving the document as it was when it was last saved The Simple Entry Rests Palette works just like the Simple Entry Palette simply select the desired rest value and click it into your score A diagram showing which keys correspond to which rhythmic values or commands appears on your Quick Reference Card If you want to take time out for some experi mentation before proceeding to Tutorial 1b choose Default Document from the N ew submenu of the File Menu Finale will open a new Untitled document If you re ready to move on go right ahead to the next tutorial If you ve had enough for one lesson choose Exit Mac Quit from the File Menu FoR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just Covered See for example ACCIDENTALS SELECTING MUSIC COPYING MUSIC SIMPLE ENTRY PAGE VIEW TUPLET TOOL SAVE FILE MENU ZOOM TOOL SCROLL VIEW 18 Tutorial lo Speedy Entry While Simple Entry is useful for
126. dialog box For Specify Lowest Fret enter 5 We ll say you want to place all the numbers on the 5th fret or above Click OK Thetab staff will now have all notes fingered no lower than the 5th 9 TI D fret This ability to copy music from standard notation into tab and specify a lowes fret can be applied to smaller areas of the score by selecting part of the measure Pa ai To do this click the Edit M enu and enable Select Partial M easures staff click the Sta Tool double click the In addition to translating standard notation directly to tablature you can also ftab staff then click copy tablature directly into a standard notation staff We will usethesecond fthe Select button at half of Spanish Dance No 2 to demonstrate this For this example the tabla ture is entered for you already t To set the lowest fret for an entire tab the bottom Enter a value for Default With the Mass Edit Tool selected click measure 9 of the tab staff Lowest Fret then Hold down the Shift zi key and click measure 16 of the tab staff Now click OK back to measures nine through sixteen of the tab staff should be highlighted POUT SOOKE e Drag the highlighted region up to the standard staff M easures nine through sixteen translate directly into standard notation You should now have notation of the melody line like the following example starting with measure 9
127. dow This option is in the View Menu under Redraw Options The Redraw Only the Active Window option affects situations where you have several windows open displaying the same docu ment or multiple documents Redraw Only the Active Window prevents Finale from taking the time to update other views when you make a change in the frontmost one Hide whatever you can Another way to cut down on the amount of image processing Finale must do isto hidethe elements of the music you re not work ing on These options too arein the View Menus Redraw Options dialog box Deselect any items Music Lyrics Chord Symbols etc you can do without for the time being If you re editing notes for example it may be OK for Finaleto hide the lyrics The less Finale has to draw the faster you can work SPEED TiPS 2 MACINTOSH RAM Disks When you re working on a piece the Macintosh has to fetch information from the hard disk every now and then For example each time you scroll Finale gets the 195 Making the Most of Finale information it needs to draw the screen by reading your document which resides on the hard disk To be perfectly accurate Finale doesnt read this data from your document Instead it creates a set of temporary data files so that your original document is safe in the event of a system failure If a system failure occurs and you turn the M acintosh back on you might see these extra files on your disk They ha
128. drag it back to its original position then release the mouse button For additional toolbars right click on the grey toolbar area The tool palettes can even be rearranged or configured to hide certain tools See the User Manual under WINDOW MENU For now leave the toolbars in their original positions Tutorial la Simple Entry Click the mouse pointer across the tools on the Main Tool Palette As the pointer touches or selects each tool the Status or M essage Bar identifies it by name and gives you the first instruction for how to use it L3 zd Bl ES 23 dl gdz an Ed ua EJ da d ado If you look at your score you may notice that Finale automatically fills any empty measure with a whole rest hereafter called a default whole rest That s just to save you time and it s a feature you can turn off if you want You ll also notice that the music is displayed as a page of sheet music This is Finales startup view called Page View If you re new to computers take a moment to click and drag while holding down the mouse button across the menu titles at the top of the screen notic ing how the lists of commands drop down as you pass over each title e Click the Mass Edit Tool icon on the Main Tool Palette Not only does the icon highlight but there is now an additional menu on the menu bar the M ass Edit Menu Some Finale menus appear only when you select certain tools so they re out of your way until you need them Now t
129. dulation wheel can provide the tap H yperScribe as this recording mode is called can be extremely accurate First however Finale needs you to answer some questions concerning what you re about to play eW hats the rhythmic value of your tap Quarter notes Eighth notes Will there be inner voices or triplets 39 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play In this tutorial we ll explore how these settings affect your transcription Hyper Scribe by the way isnt just for keyboard virtuosos No matter how slowly you go HyperScribe is still an excellent means of entering music single line or simple music in particular into a score Even non keyboardists often come to prefer HyperScribe for quick accurate note entry With the MicN otator feature you can even play your favorite instrument like clarinet or saxophone to enter notes See MICNOTATOR in the User Manual for more details In thefollowing sections you ll give HyperScribe a try For a more complete discus sion of various settings and how you might use them see the User Manual under H YPERSCRIBE TOOL or the QUANTIZATION GUIDE in the Appendix CREATING A NEW DEFAULT DOCUMENT There are hundreds of variables in published music notation thickness of the staff lines size of the notes distance between accidentals in a key signature and so on Finale will let you change settings for almost every variable you can think of However you probably wont want to set up
130. during this session Therefore if you ve already loaded the existing library file and you also have new text expressions that you want to add to the library simply follow the steps outlined above but instead of typing anew file name typethe name of the existing library file Finale will ask you to confirm that you want to replace the existing file Click Replace Note that if you havent already loaded the expressions from the existing library file and you choose to overwrite it you will lose those expressions It follows then that if there are expressions that you no longer use you can deletethem from the list in the Expression Selection dialog box and then overwrite the existing library file For further information consult the User Manual under LIBRARIES Also see PROGRAM OPTIONS FOLDERS in the User Manual for instructions on how to tell Finale whereto look for your music and library files WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE Choose Save from the File M enu if you havent already done so If you think you ve done enough for one session choose Exit Mac Quit from the File Menu and you ll return to the desktop If you want to go on close this document and turn to the next tutorial FoR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just Covered See for example ARTICULATIONS REHEARSAL LETTERS EXPRESSIONS SLURS METATOOLS STACCATO MARKS 88 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing One of F
131. e gt Select al Dashed Invisible Tick Custom Left ze Select Barline HE E E E E Dashed Invisible Custom Change Width fi 5139 Key Signature Show if Needed Add to width Time Signature Show if Needed Position Notes According to Time Signature Options Hide Cautionary Clefs Key and Time Signatures Break a Multimeasure Rest T Position Notes Evenly Across Measure T Allow Horizontal Split Points Begin a New Staff System Override Group Barlines Cancel Help 89 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing 90 Select Begin a New Staff System Click OK Now measure 10 will always begin a new line even if you add or subtract music L that comes before it Note the icon that appears beside the system it s showing you this measure cant be moved to the middle of the system The only way to restore it to its floating position mode so that Finale will move it to other systems as necessary is to deselect the Begin a N ew Staff System checkbox The second method of arranging measures is to have Finale place a specific number of measures per line Click the Mass Edit Tool 3 Click measure 1 then shirt click measure 5 All five measures should now be highlighted If not make sure Partial M easure Selection isnt selected in the Edit Menu From the Mass Edit Menu choose Fit Music The Fit Music dialog box appears C Lock Layout with E Mea
132. e select the entire text block using the Selection Tool and choose Select Font from the Shape Designer M enu While pressing Mac 3 click OK In the Measure Expression Assignment dialog box choose Show on This Staff Only and click OK You return to the score where your special diagram appears near the measure you clicked Drag its handle to adjust its position You may not have much everyday need for the vertical flute shape you just drew But the Shape Designer will come in handy for creating doits glissandi harp diagrams enclosures system separator marks and other special notational cases For more information on using the Shape Designer see SHAPE DESIGNER in the User Manual SCANNING MUSIC Finale offers a variety of ways for you to scan sheet music and bring the results into Finale You can bring your scanned files into Musitek s MIDISCAN or SmartScore software then import the resulting files into Finale Or you could directly open the scanned files in Finale using the built in SmartScore technology The SmartScore Lite feature in Finale like many music scanning products doesnt recognize articu lation marks hairpins double or repeat barlines or text It will recognize 3 acci dental types 3 clefs 1 voice per staff 16 staves per page smallest note value is a 32nd note maximum of 1 augmentation dot and a maximum of 1 scanned page at atime Because scanning is not a perfect science you will need to clean up an
133. e 4 key You ve turned the last quarter note into an eighth note the pickup measure is complete ENTERING MUSIC SPEEDY ENTRY You ve now learned the basics of using the Speedy Entry Tool with the MIDI key board You ve learned how to enter notes rapidly change their values change their pitches add rests insert notes add dots and move around the score using the right and left bracket keys The measure you ve been working on now contains the pickup notes for Oh Sus annah Using your knowledge of the Speedy Entry Tool enter the next twelve measures as shown For the moment however dont enter any music past measure 13 Remember the Speedy Entry keyboard commands you ve learned Key Effect period Add a dot 4 Eighth note 5 Quarter note 6 Half note right bracket Go to next measure left bracket Go to previous measure Remove a note rest or chord 31 Tutorial lb Speedy Entry When you reach measure 14 you may realize that the last four bars of Oh Susan nah are exactly the same as measures 6 through 9 To save time you can usethe Mass Edit Tools copying function to complete the melody In the first tutorial you copied a measure of Fr re Jacques by dragging one measure so that its image was superimposed on another In some cases however you wont be able to drag measures to copy them because the dragging technique only works when you can see both source and
134. e Click the Expression Tool and double click just above the beginning of measure 4 The Expression Selection dialog box appears If you scroll through the list you ll see that Presto the expression you want to create doesnt appear in the list Click Create The Text Expression Designer dialog box appears waiting for you to type in thetext for your new marking Note however that you dont have to have any text at all it s perfectly legal to attach a playback definition to an invisible marking You ll see its handle in the score e Type Presto If you want you can change the font and size of your text expres sion by clicking Set Font From the drop down list in the Playback Options group box choose Tempo In the Set To Value text box type 180 The number you type here indicates quarter notes per minute If you wanted to you could change this base rhyth mic unit using the drop down list that appears beside the word Tempo Click OK or Select in each dialog box until you return to the score To move the Presto marking drag its handle anywhere you want You can delete any marking by clicking its handle and pressing delete Now the fun part listen to your sudden tempo change From the Window Menu choose Playback Controls if they re not already showing Click Play to hear the score playback as you defined it CREATING SWING PLAYBACK M aking your score play back with eighth notes in swing style
135. e expression will be a note expression if you click a measure it will be a measure expression When you save your document all your M etatool assignments are saved too so that you can continue placing expressions using M etatools the next time you open the document You can redefine your M etatools at any time however as you just learned above Programmed M etatools are specific to the document that you are currently working on therefore you can have different sets of M etatools for different pieces If you find that you usethe same M etatools over and over again you can change the Maestro Font Default document to include your own M etatool assignments That way they are available for you every time you start a new piece See the User Manual under METATOOLS for details 79 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions Of course you can continue this way clicking staccato marks into the tutorial score that s now on the screen But dont bother if you want to apply a marking to a whole group of notes there s an even faster way With the Articulation Tool selected drag across the remaining note stems of measure 2 A bold black box will show you which notes you ve drag selected When you release the mouse button the Apply Articulation dialog box appears Apply Articulation x Articulation fi Apply Articulation To All Notes C Notes Within the Range of Durations 9 p pdoppi JE ee Through Wee Jpop ap
136. e file or just insert a page break to start the next song at the top of a new page First we ll need to add some measures to the end of the piece Click on the Measure Tool From the Measure Menu choose Add Type 25 into the dialog box Click OK Scroll to page 2 Now we have some extra systems for experimenting e Click the Page Layout Tool G Handles appear on the page and system margins Click on system 7 The handle should appear filled in You ve just selected the system From the Page Layout Menu choose Insert Page Break Finale places the System at the top of a new page You ll also see a Page Break icon by the system INSERTING OR DELETING SYSTEMS Let s say we just discovered the arranger inserted an introduction to our folk song after all of our careful layout No problem Scroll back to page 1 Click on a handle to select system 1 From the Page Layout Menu choose Insert Staff Systems Finale opensthe Insert Staff Sys tems dialog box Here you can specify how many systems to insert how many 99 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing measures where to insert the system and whether to recalculate the even spac ing of the systems Click in the Insert Systems text box and enter 2 Uncheck Space Systems Evenly then click OK Finale adds an 8 measure introduction of two systems to the piece Finale makes it just as easy to remove systems such as a deleted scene in
137. e syllables to be shifted The default to the right is what you want e Click OK or press erter You re going to click within the staff lines above the first syllable you want shifted Click in the staff above the syllable goin Finale shifts the goin syllable and all subse quent syllables to the right Now scroll until you can see the word true where the lyrics rm gom to Low si are again misaligned Click the note above the word true You ve successfully aligned the lyrics to the notes ADDING A SECOND VERSE OPTIONAL SECTION As it happens Oh Susannah has two verses If you dont work with lyrics much feel free to skip this section If you plan to be working with vocal music though this section will show you how to add multiple verses e From the Lyrics Menu choose Edit Lyrics Your lyrics appear in the text win dow Note that at the bottom of the dialog box you see a drop down list cur rently set to Verse and atext box currently set to 1 indicating that you are viewing the lyrics for verse 1 e Click the up arrow next to the text box The text box now says 2 indicating that Finales ready for you to type verse 2 This time as an experiment you ll anticipate the passages where one syllable is sustained through more than one note so that you wont have to usethe Shift Lyrics command after placing the lyrics To do this you ll create an invisible syllable within the lyrics
138. e you will be going through the basics of Finale in these tutorials you can skip this feature for now If you do not wish this dialog box to appear every time you launch Finale click Don t show this again e In any case click Not Yet Remember you can access these Video Tips from the Help Menu at any time Finale will ask if you would like to register Finale with Coda at our website For now click Remind Me Later If you re connected to the Internet you ll want to click Register Now the next time you start Finale xix Installation for Macintosh The Tip of the Day appears next These Tips are available from the Help Menu Click Close Finally the Document Setup Wizard begins to run Well cover the Wizard in the first tutorial For now we want to setup the MIDI configuration within Finale so just click Cancel From the MIDI Menu choose MIDI Setup THE MIDI SETUP DIALOG Box TheMIDI Setup dialog box is where you instruct Finale which devices you d liketo use for MIDI functions On the left side of the dialog box you ll choosethe MIDI input device On the right side you ll choose the desired output device What you choose here will determine on which deviceFinale will play back your music If you re using a serial port interface Finale should have selected Modem In and Modem Out for you so you re all set up If you re using FreeMIDI or OMS see the instructions below For more information consult the User M a
139. ea See PN IECUR Me ER 54 Entering Lyrics Type into cole cios epe a dace bl bhala 55 Entering Lyrics Click Assignment 0 00 a 57 Adding a Second Verse Optional Section 60 The Repeat Tool and Plug ins Optional Section 62 Chord Symbols Optional Section 4 wa ca te oa ee eae dares ees 64 Working with Inner Voices Layers 0 cece nn nn 67 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions 73 Basic Articulations and EXpressiors ede v D heed R EUER Nau 13 Addinga NAG AA 16 Metatools Putting in Many Articulations Aa 78 Expressions Creating your own Expressio0ns 81 Markings that Play Back 42 924 Less eR Reese ate 82 Staff Lists Specifying Target StaVes scis abaka EREYREV RR EEEEER 83 Copying and Pasting Expressions een 86 Using Text Expression Libraries 0 0 0 ccc cece eee ee eens 87 Tutorial 4 Layout and Printing i i 89 Measure LAVOUL Are kes Su one Iis oL bore Soa Reg Last ib bts 89 Pick p Measures cvs as es ears aa ean eee eed Ur ads pact dare eco ERROR 91 Table of Contents Spacing the MUSIC aka naka d E DRA BELA GALERA baba E 92 Beat Ghants a NC a AA Mie anh ZEN 93 dhe PageLayouE Tool o2 5 tos eka Aaa nox Potest es wei GN ADAN 94 The Resize TOOL cus cus a ace de aba der peso dte ences acre c e TANG 100 THE Text TOO cua dern PAG Ph APR ate tales pa a ttn PER TR 102 The Graphics Tool e aa Peete Gee
140. ecord into One Staff is selected For this test we only need one staff Click the first measure A dotted frame surrounds the measure you clicked indicating that Finale is ready for you to begin It doesn t matter whether you play staccato or legato short or connected notes HyperScribe expands any note you play to the beginning of the next note or beat so that you wont find scattered sixteenth rests cluttering your music when you re finished Finale is waiting for you to send a signal that you re ready Because we set the Start Signal to Any MIDI data it doesnt matter which key or pedal you hit Play a note on the keyboard Finale begins to click giving you two measures for nothing to get a feel for the tempo If you dont get a click you may wish to review the section called SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM in the INSTALLATION CHAPTERS earlier in this book You may also wish to consult the User Manual under MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX When the two measures are up play a two octave C scale in quarter notes starting on middle C as shown below 42 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play As you play each measure it fills up with notehead like dots only when you ve completely filled a measure and moved on to the next does the full fledged notation appear When you re finished click the mouse button anywhere on the screen The editing frame goes away Take a look at what Finale did did you get your C scale If you
141. ectronic musical instruments We ll assume that you re connecting a MIDI keyboard although you can use any MIDI instrument In this manual MIDI keyboard refers to whatever type of MIDI device you are using At the very least you ll need the following equipment for an operational MIDI system not including your computer A MIDI keyboard Amplifier speaker or headphones Two MIDI cables A MIDI interface with appropriate Macintosh cable Thelast item a MIDI interface is a box that translates the signals arriving from the MIDI keyboard into signals the computer understands and vice versa Interfaces xiv Installation for Macintosh can be very simple or very elaborate The most basic ones require no external power and have ports jacks for a single MIDI keyboard more expensive models have ports for multiple MIDI devices or other features Older Macintosh models have what are called Serial Ports and are usually signified by phone modem and printer icons on the back of your computer If you have such a port on your computer you ll need a Serial Port MIDI interface New Macintosh models dont have traditional Serial Ports Instead they have USB Universal Serial Bus ports a new standard that allows users to connect devices to their computers without needing to restart for the devices to become active If you have a Blue and White G3 1999 or later Powerbook G3 G4 iMac or iBook you ve got USB ports and will need the appropriate USB
142. egro NotePad and M usicProse Files created in earlier versions of Finale as well as any of Coda s nota tion programs can be opened directly in the opposite platform For example files created in Finale 98 for Windows can be opened in Finale 2003 for Macintosh You can also read older cross platform files including those from Allegro PrintM usic NotePad and MusicProse IMPORTANT None of Coda s older products can read Finale 2003 files including those saved as ENIGMA Transportable Files ETFs See IMPORTING in the User Manual for more details You re not even limited to using Finales music font Maestro for displaying and printing your music A wide variety of music fonts are now commercially available and can be used with Finale See FONTS in the User Manual THE NEXT FINALE Your response to Finale is extremely important to us the version of Finale you re now using reflects the comments and suggestions of thousands of users Please send us your ideas and wish lists as you get to know the program We ll read and consider everything we receive Finale will continue to become better faster and 198 Making the Most of Finale easier to use M ake sure you ve sent us your registration card so that you ll be notified when the next version becomes available In the meantime you have at your disposal a musical tool of tremendous power and flexibility You ve seen some of what Finale can do and you ll discover other useful feature
143. en it s finished you will hear your version of Chopsticks again and you should see the sheet music transcription of it scrolling by WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE Feel free to experiment with H yperScribe For further information on quantization consult the User Manual under QUANTIZATION GUIDE in the Appendix Close your file saving it if you want In the next tutorial we ll add more details to our score with key and time signa tures lyrics repeats and guitar chords FoR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just Covered See for example BEAMING PLAYBACK BRACKETS STAVES QUANTIZATION CLEFS HYPERSCRIBE TOOL EDUS STAFF ATTRIBUTES GROUPS STAVES MICNOTATOR TIME SIGNATURES 52 Tutorial 2 Adding Details Theres a lot more to music than just notes In this tutorial we ll cover how to add details key and time signatures lyrics repeats chords and more Open the Docu ment called Tutorial 2 in the Tutorials folder we ll usethis version of Oh Susan nah to explore Finale s prowess in creating a lead sheet By the end of this tutorial you should be able to create a simple lead sheet CHANGING THE KEY If you usethe Setup Wizard you should start off with the correct key signature for your piece every time But let5 say you change your mind after entering in the music We ll change the key for our folk song Oh Susannah e Click the Key Signature Tool
144. end of this tuto rial you should be able to get notes on the page by playing on your MIDI key board a method Finale calls HyperScribe If you dont have a MIDI keyboard or microphone skip ahead to Tutorial 2 INTRODUCTION TO HYPERSCRIBE Each time you play a note on your MIDI keyboard the computer receives certain information via the MIDI cable which key you struck how hard you hit it and how long you held it down Butto convert your performance to standard notation the computer needs to know how each note duration relates to the beat and the measure In the past music programs solved the where does the note fall relative to the beat question by producing a metronome click while you play In other words the computer itself provided a point of reference forcing you to align your playing with the computers beat Finale offers this option but also introduces a novel concept let the musician pro videthe click The computer gets what it needs to transcribe the music a refer ence point for each beat and the musician gets what he or she wants the freedom to speed up or slow down while playing What s more Finale doesnt even care what you re tapping to provide this tempo reference if you re playing a single line melody you might tap along on a very high or low key on your MIDI keyboard For two handed performances you ll probably choose to tap your foot on a pedal But any MIDI controller from breath controller to mo
145. er note Add Flat With Ctrl Shift Restores A 7 Shift ffi Break join With a number 1 8 Add dot beam to Insert note or rest w MIDI a number 1 8 With Ctrl Flip Tie tie to automatic setting previous note f you turn Num Lock on you can use the Enter rest numbers on the keypad for note durations instead I U Down a step With Shift With Ctrl Start End of measure Constrain dragging Add note to chord Down a staff I Change rest to note Cul 0 N Makapag and With Shift Insert mode Add dot SIGN Remove note rest or chord J Del 21 Tutorial lb Speedy Entry 22 Macintosh Speedy Entry Keypad Commands SPEEDY ENTRY KEYBOARD COMMANDS Remove note With Option from chord Tie untie With Option Change single previous note Freeze unfreeze note to rest accidental NN delete clear z N 7 backspace Tie untie Break join shownid Remove note rest to next beam to or chord note previous JD note JN gt P 3 o pa Add or Flip Half step remove Previous Next Flat enharmonic increase accidental measure measure beam O s N V le accidental ff N 0 Change Hide show note to rest note or rest d t 5 t return 3 With 4 f ip stem x Down a staff Caps Lock Half stey
146. ere are other instruments whose spacing will be similar to the first per form Special Part Extraction on them and print Chances are you wont have to respace Flute 2 if you ve already done Flute 1 6 Choose Revert from the File Menu to restore the document to its original condition with the original measure spacing 7 Repeat the process with the next part There are two advantages to using Special Part Extraction First you dont con sume the disk space needed for individual part documents as you do when you use Extract Parts which is discussed in the next section Second when you edit the full score you don t have to worry that your changes wont appear in all the parts because the extracted parts are the full score The disadvantage is of course that each time you proceed to a new staff to extract the formatting and page layout for the ones you ve already done are gone forever Thats why in some cases you may prefer the first method of part extraction WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE Close your string quartet document saving it if you want In the next tutorial we ll cover some techniques to make your score sound as good as it looks If you wont be playing back your scores with MIDI feel freeto skip ahead to Tutorial 7 FoR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just Covered See for example CLEFS OPTIMIZING SYSTEMS EXTRACTING PARTS HIDING STAVES STAFF
147. ered up when we space the systems later we ll make the top system margin bigger to include the title Click on the top left system handle of the first system and drag it up so that it overlaps the top page margin as shown 96 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing 1 h Ch 1 com om Al o in m wb o bo j Loc to 1 imod di agb ie dyp 1 Idi db wa n wa an The Next let s indent the first system Click on the top left system handle of the first system again and drag it to the right about an inch as shown 1 Ye 1 ma fico Al o bw mb o bo jo ine io i X c M melo dm don a dm eae ia icm 4 You can see that by dragging the handles you can quickly and easily arrange the staff systems on the page But if you want to manipulate more than one system at atime or if you prefer entering exact numbers instead of dragging Finale provides two specialized dialog boxes for just such an eventuality From the Page Layout Menu choose Systems then Edit Margins The Edit System Margins Egi dialog box appears If you can t see your iog 1 3054 cu pda music feel free to move this dialog box to a convenient location on the screen by Kei 00946 00139 Fina dragging its title bar The four text boxes 0 1145 fv Bottom correspond to the four margins of the staff IV Distance Between Systems fo system top left right and bottom You also case have a text box for the distance between the sysemf Thu p
148. es Playback Files Wait for MIDI Sync Send Patch Changes During MIDI Syne fa end lonthuaus D Use MIDI Configuration from Active Document Dynamics and Markings Chase from First Measure Cancel Help e Select all four Play checkboxes in the upper left corner of the dialog box Now listen to the difference when Finale uses the captured performance data Click OK then spacebar click the first measure Finale plays back the score with a much less mechanical touch For example you should hear a natural crescendo in the first two measures that is if your keyboard is touch sensi tive Finaleis using the performance data captured from an actual perfor mance Click the mouse if you want to interrupt the playback CREATING A DECRESCENDO Now that you have some understanding of captured MIDI data lets try manipulat ing this data On Windows click on the Window Menu and choose Advanced Tools Palette e Click the MIDI Tool A new menu appears called MIDI Tool e Drag enclose the first two measures in both staves to highlight them Remember that drag enclosing entails clicking and dragging from a point above and to the left of the first measure to a point below the second measure so that both are partially enclosed by the dotted line rectangle and releasing the mouse button 132 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics
149. es Because the MIDI Tool split window differs significantly between M acintosh and Windows we ve pictured each below Windows ei 11 Drag through the graph area to BA select a region of music to edit Drag the dividing line to increase or decrease the view of the music Use the vertical scroll bar to view and edit different staves in the score Click Shift Click or drag enclose Use the horizontal scroll bar to view and handles to select individual notes edit different measures in the score 134 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics Macintosh Click these icons as a shortcut for choosing menu commands 25 Drag through this graph area to select a region of music to edit 2 2 8 C E P 15 EL Lugi Click these buttons to Click Shift click or drag enclose view other measures handles to select individual notes and staves in the score At the bottom of the window you ll see the notes in the measures you double clicked Above them is a graph Each bar of the graph corresponds to the key velocity volume of the note directly below it Along the left side of the win dow you can see a legend of velocity values scaled from 0 to 127 You can immediately see the effects of your Scale command the bars repre senting the key velocities grow steadily shorter over the first two measures As an experiment let s now make the second half of the phrase crescendo You may need to move the di
150. es C Move the extra notes to the next measure C Keep moving the extra notes until all measures contain the correct number of beats You re offered four methods of solving the problem You could leave the extra beats in the measure by selecting the top option You could tell Finaleto elim inate any extra beats by removing them from the end of the measure by click ing the second radio button You could tell Finaleto insert any extra notes that it removes from the end of this measure into the beginning of the following measure by clicking the third radio button Finally you could tell Finaleto rebar the music by redistributing notes through out the staff until no measure contains more beats than are allowed by the time signature see the User Manual under REBARRING MUSIC Click Delete the extra notes and then click OK Finale eliminates the extra beat the last E quarter note and you exit the editing frame Tutorial lo Speedy Entry In the next section you ll create a lead sheet that begins with a pickup To com plete the first measures transformation into the pickup measure the only task remaining is to create a dotted rhythm Press the zero key You reenter the measure Position the insertion bar on the C and press the period key Finale adds a dot to the note If you were to continue typing periods you could add several dots to a note or rest Press the right arrow key and then press th
151. est into a note Tutorial lo Speedy Entry F Try moving the crossbar up and down the notes of this chord If you hold down the up arrow key long enough Finale will add so many ledger lines that the measure you re working on scrolls downward or upward if you re pressing the down arrow key Double click the second space A of the same chord Double clicking is another way to add a note to a chord Usethe up arrow key to position the crossbar squarely on the top notehead F of the chord Press ics Mac cea The pear key is the oppo site of enter it removes a note from a chord If theres only one note in the chord this keystroke turns it into a rest 8 Tip For Mac ACCIDENTALS PowerBooks without a key use it ea Position the crossbar on the C of this chord Press the plus key on the number keypad The note sprouts a sharp The plus key raises the note by a half step Position the crossbar on the A and press the minus key You guessed it the minus key lowers the note by a half step V a But what if you decide that a note has been spelled wrong enharmonically You can always flip a note to its enharmonic equivalent by using the 9 key Leave the crossbar on the Ab and press the 9 key The spelling of the note changes to Gf Movethecrossbar down away from the two notes Press the 9 key several times If the
152. et Cen 8 Png GM expand the im sus om Gard E 1 1 Aui m staff listing el Hap Brand I Aimi E Use this so that you E Stef 3 m Grard 5 1 i Amn E column can view the E Bii m Grad E 1 i Armoni x to enter individual layer EF Bazr z Grad x 1 1 Aroni X a bank assignments Click to set this staff as the recording staff irj Mises by Bleed Pea sue C en US Vies by jaburana Pag Hone Hg Sols 2 Send Patches Before Play Apoca iniia Click the arrow to With Send Patches Before Click the arrow to choose a General MIDI instrument Finale will fill in the program number choose an instrument for the staff from a list Play onaFinale wil use this program number or patch when you play back your score Finale offers even more flexibility by letting you create Instruments An Instrument contains the information needed to access a specific sound via MIDI This contains a name for identification of the Instrument a MIDI channel number to send the information on and Patch information consisting of Program change and optional bank change data An Instrument can be assigned to several staves if you write a piano part for example you ll certainly want both staves to play over the same MIDI channel and the same piano sound so you d designate the two staves using the same Instrument An Instrument can also be used for just one layer of a staff If you wrote a flute and a clarinet part both on a single s
153. ete the triplet If you d clicked in the notes first then created the triplet you would have run out of room TW we one 14 Tutorial la Simple Entry in the measure An eighth note triplet takes up less room than three eighth notes Remember create the tuplet first then add the notes ADDING MEASURES Although this tutorial has the right number of measures there will undoubtedly come a time when you need to add more This can be done in several ways the simplest is to use the M easure Tool Click the Measure Tool and from the M ea 8 TI D sure Menu that appears select Add In the Add M easures dialog box that appears type in the number of measures to be added and click OK You could also ct J To delete measures click Mac eption click the M easure Tool click on the M easure Note that as you add measures the final barline will moveto the last measure of the score For more information see BARLINES in the User Manual Tool select the measures then chose Delete from the Measure M enu CHANGING VIEWS Before going on you should get accustomed to moving around your score Finale offers you the choice of two views of your music So far you ve been work ing in Page View where you see the music laid out like a page of sheet music
154. ew Staves dialog box appears asking how many staves you d like to add and how much distance you want between them The negative number in this box isthe distance from the top of one staff to the top of the next Here a positive number measures upward a negative number measures downward Type3 and click OK Finale has added three evenly spaced staves giving you a total of four let s imagine that you re going to create a string quartet You can reposition a staff by grabbing its handle and dragging it up or down To TI D remove a staff click it and then press delete To see more staves select a smaller view SETTING CLEFS AND STAFF NAMES Percentage tion tie If you use the Setup Wizard you ll have all of the clefs and staff names setup for View Menu Scale you If you decide you dont like what the Wizard chose you can always edit them View submenu using the techniques below We ll edit the new staves to match the appropriate clefs and names for a string quartet Click the top staff When you click anywhere on the staff to the right of the time signature you select the staff You can also use the Staff Tool to select measures such as for applying a Staff Style We ll cover Staff Styles later in this tutorial From the Staff Menu select Edit Staff Attributes The Staff Attributes dialog box appears You can also double click the staff The full name of the instrument will appear next to the sta
155. ey to flip a stem This domain system means that a second voice can materialize at any point dur ing the measure not just at the beginning By launching the second voice from the third beat of a Voice 1 melody for example the second voice only appears half way through a measure You launch a second voice from a Voice 1 note by pressing the apostrophe key while in the Speedy Entry editing frame You have two options for ensuring proper stem directions First when entering or editing notes in V1 V2 as Voice 1 and Voice 2 are called in the Speedy Entry Tool you can always take care to launch V2 from within the domain of aV1 note This may involve some backtracking as shown in the following sequence 181 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics Ce ope s To ensure that all stems automatically flip in the correct direction launch each V2 note from the domain of a V1 note as shown here First enter the notes with the longer values as V1 then press the apostrophe to shift to V2 and enter the V2 notes for the first beat Now press the apostrophe twice onceto flip to the second quarter note of V1 and again to launch V2 from it Enter the second pair of V2 notes Press the apostrophe twice Enter the third beat Thesimpler solution however is to u
156. f pressing shift up arrow Mac shift rewun moves it back up 35 Tutorial lb Speedy Entry Finally if you ever want to hide an entry a note or rest just position the insertion bar on it and press the letter o key the entry vanishes And when you begin work ing with Finales four transparent staff layers called Layer 1 through 4 you can flip through the layers by pressing apostrophe Mac shift down arrow or shift up arrow Within each layer you can have two independently stemmed voices called Voice 1 and Voice 2 The apostrophe key switches between one voice and the other See Tutorials 2 and 8 for more information on working with inner voices and layers Theres no need to learn these key commands now But it might be useful for you to keep the Speedy Entry Keyboard Commands diagram handy it also appears on the Quick Reference Card Tip If you ever add too many augmentation IPLAYBACK dots press the i appropriate number You re about to discover that your folk song masterpiece Oh Susannah not only key to return the looks good it sounds good too note to the original It doesnt matter which tool is currently selected duration From the Window Menu choose Playback C ontrols if they re not already on the screen The Playback Controls appear On Windows the Playback Con trols are docked at the top of the screen On the Macintosh the Playback
157. f staff As you move the cursor above and below the staff Finale draws temporary ledger lines to help you place new notes The cursor also changes to show you where you are and what will happen if you click the mouse You should have a ghostly quarter note floating above your music waiting for your click to place it into Tip the score Be careful that the ledger lines attach to the correct staff Click the A space anywhere in the first measure A quarter note appears and the default whole rest disappears If Playback was selected Finale briefly sounds an A We didnt actually want to add an A so well move it down to the F space Hit the left arrow key once Notice that the note is now a different color from the other b 4 z notes This indicates that the note is selected You can also control click M ac aption click a note to select it Hit the down arrow i key twice Thenote 354 moves down two steps to the F space You could also click and drag the selected note down to the F space Click the G line to the right of the first note Another quarter note appears Both notes are adjusted for proper spacing The F note changed to black to show that it is no longer selected Add the A and the F in the same way 1 If you ever make a mistake there s an Eraser bi 4 o a in this toolbar Click with the Eraser on a notehead to remove the note Click above or below a chord to remove the whole chord Click D
158. f its position in the measure While we dont recommend it you can even drag a note completely out of its rhythmic position or even beyond the measure bound ary Finale will still play it back correctly If you want to drag a note only horizontally so that you cant drag it off of its pitch or only vertically so that you cant drag it left or right press the shift key while you re dragging Move the insertion bar to the third note in the measure the E Remember you move the insertion bar by pressing the arrow keys or by clicking a note Press dere Pressing the delete key removes a note rest or chord from the score But what if you delete a note by accident Any time you re working with the Speedy Entry Tool remember that you can undo your last action by choosing Undo from the Edit Menu From the Edit Menu choose U ndo or press ci Z Mac 3 Z The note you deleted reappears To prepare for the next exercise change all four notes back to quarter notes Move the insertion bar back to the middle C and press the 5 key four times WORKING WITH CHORDS 24 Position the insertion bar on the F and use the up down arrows to move the crossbar to the third space C Press enter There are now two notes in the chord Using the four directional arrows you can maneuver anywhere in a measure and using the key you can add a noteto an existing note or chord If the insertion bar is on a rest turns the r
159. f the dialog boxes for these commands however you ll encounter the words Start Time and Stop Time These terms seem clear enough Start Time refers to the attack of a note and Stop Time refers to the release W hat makes their usage trickier is that they dont refer to the notated durations of the notes Instead they relate those notated values to the captured MIDI information generated by your original performance before your performance was quantized and transcribed into notation 139 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics In fact Start Time measures the Start and Stop Times difference between the notated Start Time Stop Time quantized values starting point and the moment you actually struck the note in your performance In the figure 1 on the right the Start Time is a positive a b number for the first note because it was played slightly after the beat and the Stop Time is a negative number because the note was released slightly 2 before the next beat The Start Time is the difference between the actual performed attack point and the notated quantized attack point TheStop Timeis the difference between 3 J J the performed and quantized rel ease These bars represent the durations of points These differences can be either the notes you played positive or negative Stop Time a 2 Finalequantizes or rounds the durations above is a negative number but Stop to the nearest beat Time b is positive 3 Fi
160. ff Style we ll apply will affect only the measures we ve selected without changing the clarinet transposi tion for the rest of the piece 118 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores From the Staff Menu choose Apply Staff Style The Apply Staff Style dia log box appears with a selection of pre defined Staff Styles Keep in mind you can create your own Staff Styles to suit your own needs You can even create a library of Staff Styles you can load into any document Double click on Flute Transposition Your clarinet staff now has a flute staff name and a C instrument transposi tion Note that Finale adds a blue bar above the measures These non print ing bars show you where Staff Styles have been applied and can be turned off in the Staff Menu uncheck Show Staff Styles If you scroll back to page 1 you ll see that your earlier mea sures are still in a clarinet transposi tion and dont have marker bars Apply Staff Style EI Select Style To Apply To Selected Region 01 Slash Notation 5 02 Rhythmic Notation A 03 Blank Notation Layer 1 B 04 Blank Notation Layer 4 K 05 Blank Notation All Layers 8 06 Normal Notation M 07 One Bar Repeat 0 D8 Two Bar Repeat T D3 Standard 5 line Staff F 10 1 line Staff Full Barline L 11 1 line Staff Short Barline N 12 Hide Staff H 13 Percussion 1 line Staff P 14 Percussion 5 line Staff E 15 Note Shapes X 16 Flute Transposit
161. ff in the first system line of the piece The abbreviated name will appear next to subsequent systems 111 Tip Don t use return to exit the Edit Text dialog box Finale will think you want to add a new line Tutorial 5 Working with Scores 112 Click the Edit button across from Full Name The Edit Text window appears Edit Text x Edit Text Violin I Editing Staff Name Full ID 17 Font Times New Roman 12 plain A Cancel Help Type Violin click OK Click the Edit button across from Abbr Name Type Vin 1 click OK Incidentally you establish the global position of staff names using the com mands in the Set Default Name Positions submenu of the Staff Menu and you establish the default font for staff names using the Fonts section of the Docu ment Options dialog box under the Options menu This will affect all staff names which have not yet been created it will not change existing staff names Once you ve created a staff name you can edit its font by using the Font com mand in the Text Menu which appears in the Edit Text window The global positioning setting can be overridden by clicking the Position buttons in the Staff Attributes dialog box For example by clicking the Position checkbox and button right now you can nudge the abbreviated name VIn I closer to the staff Theclef for the first violin is the treble clef since that s the default you do
162. ffered and a button allows you to create more unusual time signatures In the lower half of the box you use the scroll bar to select a key Click the up arrow to add sharps to the key signature or subtract flats Click the down arrow to add flats or subtract sharps You can also specify whether the key is minor or major from the drop down menu Click the Cut Time button Click the down arrow once to set the key signature to F Major Your Wizard should now look like the picture below Document Setup Wizard Key amp Time Signatures Page 3 of 4 Select a Time Signature 8jes 2 4c 3 8 8 v2 Select a Key Signature Maior Key lt Back Cancel e Click Next The Wizard next allows you to set up a tempo marking a pickup measure and choose between setting your piece in the M aestro font for an engraved look or the Jazz font for a handwritten look ITi e Check the box next to Specify Initial Tempo Marking We ll set the tempo to the p default 120 beats per quarter note We dont need a pickup measure for this If the Jazz option is piece so we ll leave Specify Pickup Measure unchecked We want the new score 9rayed out in the to bein the Maestro font so make sure Maestro is selected under Default Music Setup Wizard make Font The picture to the right will show a sample of what the font looks like sure the Jazz Font Click on Jazz to see a sample of this font but re select Maestro before contin
163. g Drag 23 Playback Options 131 PIU wi miser kaan 62 108 180 Print Parts Cd AA wi mes 124 PEIHIEITIG ow GAN Aces eI IIR aes 109 Program Options 224 een 196 Program Staff Set 116 PULBOS ed ee ey Re 165 Q Quantization Settings 49 QuickStart Video Tips xix xxiii RAM DisSkS naasa maa c t aee 195 Read Mefile vi Record Mode 42 49 168 Redraw Options 195 Redraw Screen 23 Rehearsal letters 83 Remove Stem Changes 177 Repeat Barlines 62 Repeat Tool quss t ovens 62 Resize NG keke 2s Sind AR 101 Notehead 0 000 eee 100 Paesi ln Rave ok Nain ota gang 102 Staff ciate aig es APA 101 Staff System 101 RESIZE Tool sess Bird chka bha a 100 Reverse Stem Tool 179 Reversed stems 178 AA AA NAP PAGI 126 Plan sie nied PAA AA YA 151 Save as Web Page 198 Save Library aie 1l ce d erect 87 SAVING napa tacta hyve wlohe 17 Scale View 16 40 55 Scanning Music 189 Scroll View S ceu tul 15 111 Scrubbing playback 37 Second Ending Repeats 62 209 Index Second Verse a4 Nana ele Saad 60 Secondary Beam AngleTool 175 Secondary Beam Break Tool 175 Sel ct ATTI eet acd rte ei s Rr bes 57 Select N otes on Entry 7 Select Staff Set Lc cue a a 116
164. g to the left hand part Let s restore them to the left hand staff Select the Note Mover Tool Click measure 6 of the middle staff Every note in the measure now has a handle 179 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics From the Note Mover Menu choose Delete After Merge n other words you want Finale to delete the notes from the right hand part after merging them with the left hand part Select the handles of the left hand notes above middle C by drag enclosing We want the two eighth notes on beats 2 and 4 Drag any highlighted handle directly downward onto the bottom staff When you release the mouse button Finale redraws the music so that the notes you moved are seamlessly integrated with the left hand part If you only have a few notes to correct the dragging method will work fine but what if you have 20 measures of split point errors Instead of tediously dragging individual notes you can usethe Split Point Plug in For more details see SPLIT POINTS or NOTE MOVER MENU in the User Manual WORKING WITH INNER VOICES VOICE 1 VOICE 2 You can have two voices within each layer as you ll see when you use HyperScribe if you ve specified Include Voice Two Understand though that the Voice 1 Voice 2 mechanism is much more complex than the layer system you should only use this method when you absolutely need more than four independent musical voices per staff There are two important aspects of the Voice
165. gle has enclosed the pickup mea sure on the screen now release the mouse button the dotted outline should remain on the screen W hen you selected the Graphics Tool a Graphics M enu appeared towards the right side of the menu bar at the top of your screen From the Graphics Menu select Export Selection Note if Export Selection is grayed out you haven t successfully drag enclosed The Export Selection dialog box allows you to determine what graphics file for mat you wish to export The decision of which format you choose will be based on what kind of printer you have an EPS file will work properly ONLY with Post Script printers as well as what file formats are accepted by the word processing or desktop publishing application you wish to bring the Finale example into 105 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing Export Selection x Type TIFF Pages C All From Through n m File Names C Generate Names From C Finale 2001 Tutorials T utortt TIF Prompt For Each Name m PostScript Options jv Include Tre REE fa Inolude Font TIFF Resolution EN Cancel Help Next to Type choose TIFF from the drop down list This file type will work with any printer and is generally cross platform The next item in the dialog box refers to which pages you wish to export Since we chose Export Selection from the Graphics M enu and not Export pages this is not applicable to our example but
166. h affects how notes are beamed together after you ve already entered the music Fit Music which in Page View forces a group of selected measures into one system and many other con venient features With a combination of Partial M easure Selection and the M ass Edit Menu you should be ableto transform any music in your scorein any way you can imagine For a blow by blow description of the other M ass Edit commands see M ass EDIT MENU in the User Manual HIDING STAVES STAFF SETS If you plan to work on larger orchestral scores you may become impatient with the time it takes the computer to redraw the screen after each change you make Fortunately Finale can greatly speed your work up by hiding the staves in Scroll View that you re not currently editing If you want to permanently hide staves see OPTIMIZING SYSTEMS later in this tutorial Let s say for example that you want to work just on the Violin and Viola lines you want to hide the blank staves so Finale wont waste time redrawing them From the View Menu choose Scroll View Click the Staff Tool amp First you ll use the Staff Tool to tell Finale which staves you want to see 115 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores Click the handle of the Violin staff Then while pressing shift J click the handle of the Viola staff shirt clicking allows you to select several staves one at a time even if they re not adjacent in the score Now that you ve s
167. h note chord Deselect Show Handles in the Special Tools Menu to hide the handles for a moment You can see that you ve made the sixteenth notes appear to be stemmed separately Select Show Handles again to restore the handles You may not use the next two tools as frequently but its a good idea to keep their functions in mind feel free to experiment as you read The Reverse Stem Tool amp simply flips the stem from one side of its notehead to the other a function that may be useful in conjunction with cross staff notes see THE NOTE MOVER TOOL CROSS STAFF NOTES later in this tutorial Ge op f be lo 174 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics The Custom Stem Tool La provides great flexibility in special beaming cases for example splayed beaming where three mini stems connect a Cb Ch C chord cluster That s only one function of the Custom Stem Tool If you double click a notes handle you ll enter the Shape Selection dialog box from ITI D which you can select a different shape or create a new shape with the Shape Designer covered later in this tutorial to use as a stem See STEMS in the User For a single stemless Manual for full instructions in the use of these tools note change the e Click the first measure of the top staff then click the Beam Angle Tool g Stem to a blank Any notes that are beamed together sprout two handles one at each end of the Shape with the beam The
168. h notes together You can change the beaming pattern at any time see TIME SIGNATURE DIALOG BOX in the User Manual You probably noticed that the measure width changed when you entered the eighth notes This is a function of Finale s Automatic Music Spacing feature which widens or narrows a measure to professional publishing standards depending on the notes present in that measure This feature will be discussed in detail in TUTORIAL 4 For now we can ignore it z o 5 T4 Complete the melody by scrolling to the last two bars and clicking the notes in 7 If you re getting tired of switching tools in the Simple Entry palette you can use shortcuts to change tools For example hit the number 4 The eighth note tool is now selected If you click on the staff you ll enter an eighth note To remove the eighth note hit then click on the note For more shortcuts see your Quick Reference Card or KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS in the User M anual Congratulations You ve completed your first Finale melody Tutorial la Simple Entry 931 j E Gi 5 2 2 8 n5 J 9 8 5 J DI o j H 7 ACCIDENTALS
169. h pitch while entering directly into a tab staff Heres how to usea MIDI guitar for entry First setup a guitar to MIDI interface with your computer In order to com municate pitches from your guitar to Finale you will need an interface between the guitar and computer This interface is used to convert the pitches you play into MIDI information It connects to your computer likea MIDI keyboard A Roland GR 33 was referenced in the preparation of this tutorial though any interface in this genre should work Refer to the interfaces instruction manual for specific setup instructions 166 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments Coordinate MIDI channels for your guitar strings From the MIDI menu choose Tablature MIDI Channels The MIDI Channelsfor Tablature dialog box appears as seen below MIDI Channels For Tablature E Hap MIDI Channels To Tablsture Sia Strings Erbe the input BILD channel bo wee f r each R shing when recording bo tablature saves mede Sting Channel Sing Channel Siting Chanrel Sing Channel mn NEN Aa Bana 2 BE fc Ew x 3 3 5 IT a n XXL wm w h z z m NEU T Aao E mz he ie fis xm fa The MIDI data for each string on a MIDI guitar reaches Finale on its own MIDI channel In order to properly organize this information you need to tell Finale the MIDI channel assigned to each string In this dialog box enter the channel for each string as defined on your guitar to MIDI interface
170. h region of a piece In this example however you ll simply number every measure sequentially You ll be using the M easure Tool Click the Measure Tool From the Measure Menu choose Measure Num bers then select Edit Regions The Measure Number dialog box appears Measure Number x Add Region O Includes Measure fi Through 933 sm m Measure Numbering First Measure in Region Enclosures Prefix Suffix Shape ER E E Show On Jr set Fan Helvetca 10 plait rs SEU ER syef o y Bracket range using Left m Right ies r jeeje amp Display E ow measure Numbers at Ear Stat System tian e Ef Measures Beginning with Measure M Hide Measure Numbern Hegtor Always Show on Multimeasure Best Always Show on lop Staff Always Show on Bottom Stat A Cancel Help The text box at the top of this dialog box is currently empty indicating that no measure number regions have been defined for this document Click Add Finale creates a measure number region Region 1 encompassing measures 1 through 999 There aren t anywhere near 999 measures in this doc ument but we ve entered a very high number to make sure that all the measures you do have are included in this region Click Set Font and choose Arial 9 point Click OK to exit the Font dialog box You can set the font and size independently for each region Click Position The Position Measure Number dialog b
171. hat you ve had alook around let s get to work on our masterpiece If measure 1 of the piece isnt visible click the horizontal and vertical scroll bar arrows until it is ENTERING MUSIC WITH A MOUSE SIMPLE ENTRY Finale offers many different methods for entering music Let5 start however with Simple Entry which is easy to learn and doesnt require a MIDI keyboard e Click the Simple Entry Tool The Simple Entry palette becomes active 8 TI D From the Window menu choose Simple Entry Rests Palette to show the Simple Entry Rests palette The tools in these palettes are pictured on the following When you start page Another menu has appeared on the menu bar the Simple Menu This entering music you menu contains several items such as Check for Extra Notes Playback Fill may want to use with Rests and Select Notes on Entry When Check for Extra Notes is selected Scroll View as the a check mark appears next to it this command is selected by default Finale computer can more will consult the time signature and not allow you to inadvertently enter extra quickly redraw the notes in a given measure If you have a MIDI keyboard or soundcard you ll screen hear a brief note upon entering notes when Playback is selected Fill with Rests will add enough rests to fill the measure if you leave the measure and start entering notes in another measure W hen Select N otes on Entry is checked Tut
172. he Name field Check Is Controller and Is MultiTimbral All 16 channels should be checked to receive and the six boxes on the right side need to be unchecked Make any other changes as needed to match the capabilities of your keyboard Click OK From theFile Menu choose Save From the Studio Menu choose Test Studio Your cursor will turn into an 8th note Clickontheicon for your keyboard or MIDI sounding device You should hear a sound from your keyboard or module You ve confirmed your MIDI Output works Play a note on your keyboard If your Macintosh has its volume turned up you should hear MIDI received in a woman s voice You ve confirmed your MIDI input works If you try this test and don t get the correct results then for some rea son OMS is not set up correctly Please start again or contact the manufacturer of the interface for further assistance From the File Menu choose Quit If you re running OSX you may reboot into OSX STARTING FINALE Double click on the Start Finale 2003 icon on your Desktop When you launch Finale for the first time you will be asked to provide and con firm your registration information The serial number required for Finale can be found on the CD ROM jacket on the inside cover of the tutorial as well as on your registration card Typein your registration information click OK Next Finale asks if you would liketo view the QuickStart Video Tips right away Sinc
173. he Staff Tool double click the tab staff and click the Stem Settings button in the Staff attributes dialog box 3 To customize the smallest note value for a H yperScribe session first configure your Quantization Settings From the Options menu choose Quantization Set tings For more information see QUANTIZATION in the User Manual 169 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments 4 Ifyou are using a non standard tuning or other fretted instrument lute banjo etc you can manually customize your string tuning in the Staff Attributes Click the Staff Tool double click the tab staff click the Select button at the bot tom then click the Edit Instruments button 5 To use fret letters instead of numbers click the Staff Tool double click the tab staff click the Select button at the bottom and check Use L etters FoR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just covered See for example ARTICULATION DESIGNER SELECTING MUSIC COPYING MUSIC SIMPLE ENTRY H YPERSCRIBE STAFF STYLES SMART SHAPE TOOL STAFF ATTRIBUTES MIDI SETUP 170 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics In this section you l learn to use some of Finales most powerful scoring and notation tools THE SPECIAL TooLs TooL FANCY BEAMING AND STEMMING The Special Tools Tool provides you with fine tuning control over spacing beam ing ties dots and stems Open thetutorial document called Tutorial 8 A
174. he Window Menu so that the check mark disappears selecting the item again will causethe Bar to reappear On M acintosh click on the View Menu and choose Hide M essage Bar selecting Show M essage Bar will cause the M essage Bar to reappear Below the menu bar is the Main Tool Palette You ll also seethe Simple Entry Palettes on Windows running vertically along the left edge of the screen on Mac to the right of the Main Tool Palette Each square tile on these toolbars contains a symbol representing its function All of these toolbars can be hidden providing you with more space to view your music or they can be viewed as palettes that float in front of the music Note Depending on your monitor s video resolution the toolbars may first appear as palettes on your screen To hide any toolbar simply select it from the Window Menu to remove the checkmark Selecting it again will cause it to reappear This also applies to the Smart Shape and Special Tools Palettes both of which will be discussed later in this book On Windows the palettes are initially attached or docked to the edge of the win dow To turn a toolbar into a floating palette click on the edge of the toolbar and drag it out into the center of the screen until you see a dotted line representation of a smaller palette Release the mouse button The palette can then be moved to any position on the screen To restore a palette to toolbar status click the edge of the palette and
175. he bracket handles up or down If you want to adjust the new bracket so that its open ended to the left drag the handle at the bottom of the hook carefully upward until it s flush with the top of the bracket Now all you have to do is to create the second ending Select the Repeat Tool 3 Click measure 18 The Repeat Selection dialog box appears Double click the Multiple Ending Repeat the rightmost icon The Ending Repeat Bar Assignment dialog box comes up all you need to do now isto create a purely graphic bracket for the second ending In the Ending Text text box type 2 and a period if you wish You can leave all the other elements of the Ending Repeat Bar Assignment dialog box alone since this bracket will have no playback capabilities Click OK or press erter Adjust the bracket height if you wish Thats all there is to it You now have an elegant and functional set of first and second endings Dont forget to test it by listening click the Play button on the Playback Controls 63 Tutorial 2 Adding Details To remove a repeat barline or bracket click the Repeat Tool then click the mea sure Click the square handle at the bottom of the barline and press delete Dont be concerned if your lead sheet ends with a single measure stretched over an entire staff system Such layout issues will be discussed in Tutorial 4 WhiletheFirst Ending Repeats Plug in is certainly a time save
176. he computer plays back your music the notes go out from the computer to the interface leavethe interface through the port marked Out and enter your MIDI keyboard through the port marked In So although it may seem contrary to common sense plug the In to the Out and vice versa Your connections should resemble those in this figure AMPLIFIER SPEAKER OOODODDDODDODO OOODDODODOOD MAC q rom serial INTERFACE KEYBOARD Turn on all your equipment If you re using a serial modem port your MIDI connections should be set to go and you can skip ahead to STARTING FINALE If you re using a USB port you ll need to configure the FreeM IDI or OMS software in the following section CONFIGURING YOUR MIDI SOFTWARE MIDI devices on a USB port M acintosh require that you set up special MIDI helper software To determine which helper software you need review the list found in xvi Installation for Macintosh SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM You ll need to configure the helper software BEFORE you start Finale If Finale is currently running select the File Menu and choose Quit then follow the appropriate instructions below INSTALLATION AND SETUP OF MOTU s FREEMIDI SOFTWARE First thoroughly read the instructions that accompanied your interface before beginning this setup You may wish to check the MOTU website at WWW MOTU COM as FreeM IDI updates may have been posted after Finale shipped
177. he left column click the Fretted Instruments category A list of stringed instruments appears in the second column In the second column click Guitar and then click the Add button Guitar appears in the third column In the second column click Guitar Tab and then click the Add button Now both Guitar and Guitar Tab appear in thethird column Click Next The Wizard asks for the time signature and the key signature Well leave these settings alone for now Click Next The Wizard asks you to specify a tempo pickup measure and default music font Again we can leave these settings alone Click Finish The document opens with a standard notation staff above a tabla ture staff You are now ready to begin entering your music The document you just created is already set up to take into account the standard guitar transposition which sounds an octave lower than written Now lets learn the best way to enter music into a guitar score 159 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments COPYING MUSIC TO AND FROM A TAB STAFF There are a few ways to enter into a tab staff We ll start with the most basic copy ing music directly from a standard staff into tablature To demonstrate this well start with a document that already contains music in standard notation Open the tutorial document called Tutorial 7 A score titled Spanish Dance No 2 appears The first eight measures contain standard notation but no tab
178. he next section How TO LEARN FINALE xi Installation for Windows Installation for Macintosh INSTALLING FINALE Windows users see the previous chapter INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS or skip over this chapter Installing Finale onto your hard disk is easy whether you re upgrading from a pre 8 vious version or working with Finalefor the first time Before you begin installing Finale make sure theres enough room on your hard disk to hold the program and its associated files For a full installation you ll need about seventy megabytes 70 000K of free space on your hard disk You should also bear in mind that like many other software programs Finale creates and makes use of temporary files during its normal operations which it then deletes from your hard disk when you exit the program We recommend having an addi aceb tstad fies and tional ten megabytes 10 000K of free disk space for these files folders Dio not alter If you re running in OSX first re boot in OS9 this setup Insert the Finale disc into your CD ROM drive Its icon appears on your desktop and its window opens e Double click the Installer icon In a moment the Finale Installer screen appears Follow the instructions on the screen until the installation is complete The Finale Installer lets you select which files you want installed and where you want them placed on your hard disk The Installer offers to create a folder called Finale 2
179. he score Instead of clicking six OK but tons though wouldnt it be nice if you could just tell Finale I m finished here and jump all the way back to the score You can While pressing Mac 3 3 click OK The dialog boxes close in rapid succession fc clicking OK Mac G 8 clicking works in any Finale dia log box it means just OK everything and so does ctv J clicking Mac clicking any Cancel button which means Cancel everything Theres one dialog box that requires attention Just click OK You return to the score where the ritard marking appears Listen to the ritard and see if you like how it sounds e Scroll to measure 11 or 12 Mac close the Playback Controls Spacebar click the measure If the music doesnt slow down enough you could increase the Level Scale of the ritard If the ritard effect lasts too long you could decrease the Time Scale The effect of the ritard varies according to the current tempo WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE You can save your ritard expression in a library of its own if you want click on the File Menu choose SaveLibrary Click Text Expressions click OK givethe library aname such as Ritard Library and click Save If you want to add this expression to the library you already created follow the procedures outlined at the end of Tutorial 3 Close your document saving it if you want FoR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual con
180. he staff No problem From the Chord Menu choose Show Fretboards Finale instantly places full blown fretboard diagrams underneath the regular chord symbols They ll even transpose if you change the key To adjust the distance between the fretboard diagrams and the staff choose Position Fretboards from the Chord M enu and drag the leftmost triangle up or down See the User Manual under FRETBOARD DIAGRAMS for full instructions WORKING WITH INNER VOICES LAYERS In this example let s suppose that you ve decided to add a few harmony notes Finale lets you have up to eight voices independent lines of music each with its own stem per staff Within each of the eight voices a chord can have up to twelve notes a total of 96 notes per staff on any given beat Most of the time you ll probably need only two voices stems up and stems down You ll find such music especially easy to notate in Finale because every staff can have four com pletely independent layers of music You can think of them as clear plastic overlays because each layer is utterly independent each can even have its own MIDI chan nel for playback You can flip easily from one layer to the other and even hide the ones you re not working on If you do need more voices you ll discover that each layer can have two voices of its own Voice 1 and Voice 2 giving you atotal of eight to work with The Voice 1 Voice 2 mechanism is more complex however save it for the
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182. ick is to be used during recording Now we ll instruct Finale that it will be providing the tempo information not you Click the HyperScribe Tool A new menu appears on the menu bar called H yperScribe where you ll make your transcription settings FromtheHyperScribe Menu choose Beat Source then Playback and or Click Your default settings should be Beat equals a quarter Tempo is 96 For Start Signal for Recording click the drop down Mac popup menu and choose Any MIDI Data This setting tells Finale to use any type of MIDI data as a cue to start the countoff Note also that you can access the Click and Countoff dialog box from here For more details see the User Manual under CLICK AND COUNTOFF DIALOG BOX e Click OK Finale is now ready to provide you with a metronome click From theHyperScribe Menu choose Record Mode Make sure Record into One Staff is selected For this example we will record into the tab staff only Click the first measure of the tab staff A frame surrounds the measure you clicked indicating that F inale is ready for you to begin Finale is waiting for you to send a signal that you re ready because we set the Start Signal to Any MIDI data it doesnt matter which note or you hit Play anote on your MIDI guitar Finale begins to click and will give you two full measures to get a feel for the tempo before it begins recording If you dont 168 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted I
183. ieces that make up your music You could erase all of the chord symbols in your score or every articulation in a selected region For now we just want to remove the lyrics e Click the Lyrics checkbox and click OK twice You return to your score where your lyrics have disappeared but your notes remain ENTERING LYRICS CLICK ASSIGNMENT With this method you ll enter the complete set of lyrics beforehand in Finales text processor Because the computer doesnt have to redraw the music to keep up with you asit did with the Type Into Score method you ll find that you can type much faster in this mode Click the Lyrics Tool A The Lyrics menu appears 57 Tutorial 2 Adding Details From the Lyrics Menu choose Edit Lyrics The Edit Lyrics window appears with your complete set of lyrics You can edit your lyrics in the Edit Lyrics window just as you would text in any word processor For example you can correct mistakes by backspacing over them with the Mac delete key You can copy and paste text as you ve just done using cr C Mac amp ag C to copy selected text and e V Mac 3 V to paste it You can also cut selected text so that it s removed from the Edit Lyrics window but placed on the Clipboard ready for pasting in another place the Cut command is gg j X Mac amp 39 X Click OK You return to the score ASSIGNING LYRICS From theLyrics Menu choose Click Assignment
184. ighth note Finales sense of rhythm is much finer than ours in fact it perceives subdivisions of rhythm down to 1024ths of a quarter note These very small rhythmic increments are called ENIGMA Durational Units or EDUs Because Finales perception of time is so precise the program must round off or quantize each note in your perfor mance to the nearest eighth note or whatever rhythmic value you specify in order to produce readable notation Since the smallest rhythmic value in a meter is often an eighth note that is the value you selected e Click OK You ve told Finale that you ll be tapping the sustain pedal that each tap is to represent a dotted quarter note and you ve specified a quantization value One other parameter has changed since your first HyperScribe efforts You re using two staves now HyperScribe can split your performance onto two staves to be played by right and left hands but it needs you to specify a split point a key on the MIDI keyboard below which all notes will be transcribed onto the lower staff the note you play and all higher notes will be placed on the upper staff From the HyperScribe Menu choose Record Mode then Split into Two Staves If m you re familiar with MIDI key numbers uini SE usen middle C 260 you can type a key number into the text box in the Fixed Split Point dia pee log box that appears It s easier however to define a split point simply by playing the key
185. il the H number is 4 and the V number is 4 Release the mouse button i Shape Designer x Edit ShapeDesigner KPA SIN 8 cs vex ur z r Position Tip Thearrow keys can nudge a selection OK aaa Cancel Heb Help In this example the width the H measurement is 4 meaning four eighth notes duration this ritard will last for a half note The lines height 4 represents the number of beats per minute the tempo will be slowed by this 155 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics ritard at the moment that s not much of a tempo change You ll have a chance to adjust both of these effects Click OK In the Shape Selection dialog box that appears click Select You return to the Executable Shape Designer dialog box where you can tell Finale how to interpret your shape For example remember that the shape you just drew only dropped by four grid points Unless you tell Finale otherwise it assumes you therefore intend to decrease the playback tempo by four beats per minute over the course of the Executable Shape from 120 to 116 beats per minute for example during a measure of 1 You probably wouldnt even be ableto perceive such a ritard Fortunately the Executable Shape Designer dialog box lets you vastly increase the amount of rallentando by entering new numbers in the Level Scale text boxes e Type30 in the first Level Scale text box Finale multiplie
186. iment with adding pedaling to a passage We ll assume that you re viewing the first two measures of the Tutorial 6a document in the MIDI Tool split window e From the MIDI Tool Menu choose Edit Continuous Data The View Continu ous Data dialog box appears in which you can select the controller whose data you want to edit The sustain pedal controller 64 is selected by default You could select any other controller from the drop down list e Click OK You return to the MIDI Tool split window where the display has changed On the left side is a scale of controller values in this case sustain pedal values from 0 pedal up to 127 pedal down 143 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics The sustain pedal s value cant change smoothly over time like pitch wheel data can You ve either pressed the pedal value 127 or released it value 0 At the moment the window is empty because the pedal has not yet been used its value throughout the piece is zero Pedaling will appear in this window in bar graph form In the example at right the pedal was depressed just after the second beat and released after the fourth beat 64 Note too that the notes in the display no 2 longer have handles That s because controller o i y i information is independent of the actual notes being played you can press the pedal even during a measure of rests if you want Therefore you specify where you want to insert a pedal down message or a
187. in Menu to place word extensions If you ve had enough for this session choose Exit Mac Quit from the FileMenu If you want to go on close the document you have open FoR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just Covered See for example 110 AUTOMATIC UPDATE LAYOUT PAGE LAYOUT BARLINES POSTSCRIPT EVPUS PRINTING FONTS SYSTEMS GRAPHICS TOOL TEXT INSERTS Mass EDIT MENU RESIZE MEASURE NUMBERS SPACE SYSTEMS EVENLY MEASURE LAYOUT TITLES MUSIC SPACING WORD EXTENSIONS Tutorial 5 Working with Scores It s time to learn about Finales more powerful score oriented features If you plan to work mainly on lead sheets you may just want to skim this section But if you intend to create multi staff scores particularly orchestral scores you will want to go through this whole tutorial By the end of this tutorial you should be able to create from scratch a conductor5 score and parts If you have a document currently open close it Open the document called Tutorial 5 This document currently consists of a single staff filled with music From theView Menu select Scroll View You may find that it is easier to do all of your editing work in Scroll View wherethe music is laid out in a continuous hor izontal band especially when working with scores that contain several staves Click the Staff Tool From the Staff Menu choose New Staves The N
188. in the staff The next syllable is now attached to its note This click by click assignment of lyrics to notes is all very well and good but it takes time when you have lots of lyrics to assign If you use the ce Mac eption key you can distribute all the lyrics with a single click While pressing the cz Mac mio key click the third note Finale now rips through your entire set of lyrics and distributes them to the notes of the song automatically Click the close button in the upper right Mac upper left corner of the Click Assignment window Take a moment to scroll through the lead sheet and check Finales work You ll probably notice a problem right away Starting at measure 5 the lyric I m goin to Lou si a na the lyrics havent been assigned to the proper melody notes They re off by a syllable kop a ed ban jo knee Im goin to Lou si a Thats because you werent able to skip the extra melody notes by pressing the Space bar as you did when you used Type Into Score so Finale didnt know when to skip over anote You can correct this problem in a flash At each spot where a syllable is held through more than one note you need to tell Finale to push all the syllables to the right by one note 59 Tutorial 2 Adding Details From the Lyrics Menu choose Shift Lyrics The Shift Lyrics dialog box appears letting you specify the direction you want th
189. inale puts a tiny 3 in the upper right of the editing frame letting you know it s expecting the next three notes to constitute a triplet While playing any MIDI keyboard key press the 6 key three times As soon as the third note appears Finale centers the 3 over the triplet You ve just created a half note triplet Press the 0 zero key to exit the editing frame n measure 2 you have four quarter notes in measure 3 you have a half note triplet You can modify each with the Tuplet Tool Click the Tuplet Tool in the Main Tool Palette Click the first quarter note in measure 2 The Tuplet Definition dialog box appears 26 Tutorial lo Speedy Entry Tuplet Definition x 5 Quarter s in the space of p Quarter s Display Position Number Number ANO vw 0125 Shape Bracket z Shape H po V 10 055 Placement Beam Side iss Batan Nate Left Hook fo 0417 v Break Slur or Bracket Right Hook 0 0417 T Ignore Format Offset Left Extension fo Iv Allow Horizontal Drag Right Extension D v Match Length of Hooks 5 v Auto Bracket ape o Cancel Reset Help At the top of the screen there are various options for defining the temporal time definition of the triplet Using these drop down lists and text boxes you ll answer the question How many of what value are to be played in the time of how many of what value Look at the two text b
190. inales strengths is its spacing and layout capabilities Using the Mass Edit Tool and Page Layout tools among others you can create scores that look like they were aligned and laid out by a professional engraver In this tutorial you ll look at some of the steps you can take to ensure beautiful and precise layouts of your scores To prepare for this lesson open the document called Tutorial 4 which consists of a barbershop arrangement of Oh Susannah MEASURE LAYOUT There are three ways to dictate the arrangement of measures within systems for example when you re rearranging measures to avoid awkward page turns Thefirst method which employs the M easure Tool is to force a specific measure to always to appear at the beginning of a system If measure 33 begins anew chorus in a new key for example you might want it to appear at the beginning of a new line of music Try this using the Tutorial 4 document you ve just opened M ake sure you re in Page View so you can see the effects you re creating If you have a small monitor you may want to scale your view To do so go to the View Menu select Scale View to and specify 75 e Click the Measure Tool Handles appear on every barline Locate measure 10 its where the chorus begins e Double click measure 10 The Measure Attributes dialog box appears Measure Attributes x Measure Attributes for Measure 1 po 4 SS B Barlin
191. ing for entries notes or rests in other words if it finds nothing in a given system but the default whole rests the staff gets hidden All you need to do therefore to force the display of a staff is to enter a real whole rest in any one of the measures Click a measure with the Speedy Entry Tool and press the 7 key Finale con siders this real whole rest an entry because you put it there as opposed to the default whole rests Finale puts in every empty measure so that it wont suppress the staff when optimizing You could also double click the staff with the Staff Tool and deselect Allow Optimization For more details seethe User M anual under the STAFF ATTRIBUTES DIALOG BOX There may even betimes when you ll want to optimize your staves even if all the staves are full of music since optimized staves can be moved independently within systems with the Staff Tool see STAFF HANDLES in the User Manual When you do this staves in other systems are not effected Furthermore with optimization on you can create new staff groups and rebracket them accord ingly see BRACKETS STAVES in the User Manual Keep this fact in mind when you have a piece in which the distance between staves or the bracketing config uration must vary from system to system 122 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores PART EXTRACTION 1 SPLITTING INTO SEPARATE DOCUMENTS Now were ready to turn our conductors score into parts for the 8 individual musi
192. ion 1 zi Define Cancel Help OPTIMIZING SYSTEMS This section is critical for people who plan to work with orchestral scores When a publisher assembles an orchestral score its customary to remove any staff within a given system that consists entirely of rests If for example you have a score for a 24 piece orchestra that begins with a 16 measure flute solo you proba bly dont want that flute solo to consume four full score pages with 23 blank instrumental staves on each page Instead you d want the flute line to appear by itself for the first few lines of music 119 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores Page Layout Insert Blank Pages Delete Blank Pages Insert Page B Delete Page Break Insert Staff Systems Delete Star Systen Redefine Pages b Optimize Staff Systems S Fit Music Ctrl M Finale can perform this suppression of blank staves for you either one staff system at a time or for the whole piece at once in aprocess called optimizing systems It s very important that you understand how this process works Let s return to the flute example When you optimize the first system of music Finale memorizes the status of all 24 staves it stores the fact that only the flute part has notes in it and that all the others are empty Finale will steadfastly hold onto its conception of the staff arrangement however even if you later add music to currently bla
193. ions you ve examined so far however have had 151 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics fixed playback parameters A sudden tempo change a change in dynamic or a transposition to a new octave all of these examples involve one instantaneous change that once made has no further effect on playback Some expression markings however affect music over time A crescendo for example makes the music get steadily louder as the beats go by An accelerando changes the tempo bit by bit A pitch bend involves a MIDI controller generating dozens of new values every second Whilethe Set To Value button is ideal for creating one time changes in tempo vol ume or MIDI channel it doesnt work for creating playback effects that change over time What you need is a different method for defining playback effects pref erably onethat lets you govern not only how much the variable changes over time but also at what rate To address this problem Finale offers a second method of defining a markings playback Executable Shapes An Executable Shape is a line or curve you create in Finales Shape Designer whose contours Finale reads to determine the level of change in playback For example here are some typical Executable Shapes Cresc Rall Volume d Tempo mad Time Time You can find a mini tutorial for creating each of these expressions in the User Man ual For now let s create a ritard where the tempo is governed at all times by an Executab
194. is is only the tip of the playback iceberg Try this fun but useful feature Mac users when the While pressing zz Mac ppion and the Space bar drag the cursor back eyback Controls and forth across the notes in the score This scrubbing playback feature lets you spot check any part of the score a useful feature when for example you re entering lyrics and want to confirm your place in the music You can play any Finale document using either this Space bar click method or the Playback Controls Feel free to listen to any of the tutorial documents even if you re not specifically instructed to do so are visible simply pressing the spacebar will start playback SETTING THE INITIAL TEMPO Finale offers a number of ways to set the tempo for a piece For example in Tuto rial 6 you ll learn how to make tempo markings such as Allegro Presto and ritard actually control the playback tempo For now though we ll set the tempo the quick way Onceagain choose Playback Controls from the Window Menu The Playback Controls reappear On the Macintosh click the right arrow button The dialog box expands to reveal more options Double click the Tempo text box and type 200 You can also click the small up and down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number in the Tempo text box If you want the tempo to be measured in half notes per minute or any other rhythmic unit choose the value
195. is quick work with the Playback Controls but what if you want more control over when and how to swing In a pure triplet swing feel the second eighth note of every pair 3 the backbeat is played as though it s the last note of a triplet as JJ J J shown here In other words it s delayed and the first eighth note is held longer Delaying or rushing the playback of notes with respect to their written rhythms is precisely the function of the Swing command in the Expression Tool 150 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics You can use the Swing command to delay the attack of every eighth note backbeat All you need to do is decide how much to delay them If you type 100 into the Set to Swing text box you will hear true triplet swing in your playback N eedless to say you can change this number depending on the amount of swing you want at a fast tempo you d probably want to decrease this number so the notes sound more like even eighths At a slow tempo you might want to increase the number for an even more pronounced swing effect e Click the Expression Tool and double click just above the beginning of measure 4 The Expression Selection dialog box appears The Swing indication of two eighth notes equals a triplet quarter and eighth is a shape expression Click Shape Finale displays any shapes that are loaded into the document your default file comes with a selection of pre made shapes To select from the text expressions
196. ition 29 Simple Entry issue ed eue 14 Speedy Entry 26 Two handed HyperScribing 49 Type Into Score 24 ev een ES 35 UNO paaa oe duas ex deett NG 24 Unlock Systems 91 Upbeat AA NP REED 91 211 Index Update Layout 91 93 UseMIDI Keyboard for Input 20 User Manual xxiii Utilities 45r un e RUE 177 Verses eee eee 56 60 View Menu aa 116 HomePosition 34 101 103 Page VIEW 5g ed Saou ih Lida 118 Program Staff Set 116 Redraw Options 195 Redraw Screen 23 Scale View 16 40 55 Scroll View 15 111 VOICES ou ote GA Naya KA 36 180 W Window Menu Advanced Tools 105 132 171 Cascade Stack 17 Instrument List 127 New Window 16 ai dd A sek alien eta E 17 Word Extension Plug ins 108 Word Extensions 108 Zoom TOO 2 eee eee eee 17 212
197. keep in mind that you could export entire pages without needing to drag enclose the page Under File Names select Prompt for each name if its not already selected This instructs Finale to ask us what we ll want to name our file You d choose Generate N ames if you wanted Finale to generate a file name automatically Postscript Options are only applicable to EPS files so these items are grayed out because we chose TIFF as our file type In most cases you d want to include fonts and provide a preview when exporting EPS files so they will be selected by default Next to Resolution choose 300 from the drop down list You typically would want to choose a resolution which matches the resolution of your printer for example if you have a 600 dpi printer you d want to choose 600 If you re not sure of your printer s resolution 300 is a good guess If you choose a resolution higher than your printers capabilities the resulting file will be larger than nec 106 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing essary and this could cause complications when printing A resolution less than that of your printer s capabilities will simply result in a more jagged print out Note that this option is not available if you chose EPS as your file type Click OK TheSaveTIFF dialog box will appear allowing you to name your file and determine where it will be located You ll want to remember where you ve saved this file for future reference Make sure yo
198. l 102 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing First you ll change the dummy title to Oh Susannah then you ll add a subtitle From the View Menu choose Home Position In Page View Home Position shifts the view to the upper left corner of the page you re working on In Scroll View it returns you to measure 1 Click the Text Tool A The Text Menu appears and the dummy title Title sprouts a small square handle e Double click the dummy title s handle An editing frame appears around the text and a blinking cursor appears within the frame Click and drag across the word Title You have selected this text and what ever you type next will replace this selection Type Oh Susannah If you want to change the typeface highlight the new text and choose a new typeface from the Font submenu of the Text Menu The dummy title is in Times New Roman 24 point bold If you want to change the size or style e 9 bold of thetext you can make your selection from the appro priate submenu of the Text Menu Now add a subtitle beneath the main title Double click just below the existing title An editing frame appears with a blinking cursor Type American Folk Song Now set the font size Select thetext you just typed and make a size selection from the Size sub menu of the Text Menu For a subtitle a 12 or 14 point size should work well You can also set the typeface by selecting the text and choosing a
199. le Shape We ll assume that the Tutorial 6a document is still open Scroll to measure 15 e Click the Expression Tool Double click below the bottom staff of mea sure 15 In the Expression Selection dialog box click Text The ritard expres sion doesnt appear here so you ll have to create it yourself Click Create The Text Expression Designer dialog box appears e TypeRitard in the text box If you want to set the font for your new expres sion click Set Font You might choose Times N ew Roman italic for example e Click Playback Options to expand this dialog box if it s not already expanded e From the Type drop down list choose Tempo Make sure Quarter Note is selected in the box to the right of Tempo You ve just told Finale that the 152 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics expression you re designing is going to govern the playback tempo and the quarter note gets the beat in this tempo However the Set to Value option wont work in this case because a ritard changes the tempo over time Therefore you ll need to create an Executable Shape Playback Dptions Type Tempo Quarter Note Effect Setto Value p Play Only on Pass Click Execute Shape then click Select The Executable Shape Selection dialog box appears Click Create The Executable Shape Designer dialog box appears you ll return to this dialog box in a moment Click Shape ID The Shape Selection dialog box appears
200. le through the layers in the score For Windows press it onceto move from Layer 1 to Layer 2 again to move to Layer 3 again to move to Layer 4 and again to return to Layer 1 For Macintosh use the shift J up arrow or down arrows to move up or down a layer Press 0 zero to exit the frame The screen is redrawn You can see that the stems are properly flipped There are two special cases you should be aware of when working with layers First there are times often found in keyboard music when the second voice doesnt begin until the middle of a measure below right The solution isto fill up the beginning part of the measure with rests below left bpi denen To create the appearance of a Layer 2 voicethat begins in mid measure right first create placeholder rests left Use the letter o key to hide the rests 69 Tip To enter notes in Speedy Entry without a MIDI instrument use the arrow keys to place the crossbar on the correct pitch then press a duration number M ake sure Use MIDI keyboard is unchecked in the Speedy M enu Tutorial 2 Adding Details In Speedy Entry position the insertion bar on each rest and press the letter o key The rest instantly vanishes now its merely a placeholder to align the notes of the second voice The o technique works on both notes and rests it makes either i
201. le you pressed shift 6 you would have inserted a note instead of a rest Again to insert a note or rest you must use the number keys located above the main keyboard not on the numeric keypad If you re inserting a lot of notes you can switch to the Insert mode From the Speedy M enu choose Insert Notes or Rests When you re done select Insert Notes or Rests again to deselect it Uu 29 8 Tip Changes to the Default Tuplet Visual Definition dialog box only affect future tuplets not existing tuplets in that document Tip To insert rests in Speedy Entry without a MIDI keyboard hold down shift f the number key while in Insert mode M ac option the number key Tutorial lb Speedy Entry 30 Your example should now look like this The problem is that there are five beats in the Vi measure the half rest and three quarter 6 C E notes even though you might not seethe o third note With Finales rhythmic watchdog feature Jump to N ext M easure turned off Finale wont notify you until you exitthe editing frame Press the zero key to exit the editing frame F inale displays a dialog box that tells you that there are too many beats in the measure There Are Too Many Beats In This Measure xi Do you want to Leave the measure alone C Delete the extra not
202. les for Windows in the Document Options dialog box choose folders and see the folder for Music For Macintosh Finale will save the files in the same folder as Finale Check Open Extracted Parts With this option checked Finale will open all parts after extraction Click OK Finale begins creating parts Keep in mind that the process is automatic if you have a large score with lots of instruments you can set it to work and then get a cup of coffee but it requires enough hard disk space to store all the resulting documents When Finale is finished saving parts it will automatically open the them for you Finale opens all the parts with the Cello on top complete with multimeasure rests 123 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores PART EXTRACTION 2 PRINT PARTS COMMAND The second method for extracting parts is the simplest choose Print Parts from the File Menu This option gives you very limited formatting powers and the measure widths in the score are the measure widths you ll get in every extracted part There are two cases where you might prefer this method over the others The first case is when your measures are all about the same width anyway and wont need to be individually formatted and wont need your sensitive eye for arranging page turns Second suppose its midnight on the night before the performance of your piece and you just don t have time to spend on part by part formatting With this command the computer wi
203. like itto fill your screen but you still want access to the other window e From the Window Menu choose C ascade Mac Stack Windows Finale arranges the windows so that the active window dominates the screen but you can still see the back window around the edges a click will bring it to the front Incidentally you re not limited to two windows You can open as many win dows as you want In fact they dont have to be windows on the same docu ment you can open multiple documents too each in its own window and with its own independent degree of magnification SAVING YOUR WORK When you opened this document the computer transferred the song from the disk into its memory at this moment all the changes you ve made to Fr re Jacques exist only on the screen If someone trips on the computer s power cord at this moment all of your work will be lost and you ll be left with the original incom plete Tutorial 1a document For this reason it s a good idea to save your work back onto the disk at regular intervals perhaps every 15 minutes or so To save your work on the disk Tutorial la Simple Entry e From the File Menu choose Save or press Fis ci S Mac G 48 5 Your changes have Hews now been saved on the hard disk You still Open Cie have a fresh untouched copy of this docu ment however it5 on your original Finale 7 disc Save Bs If you re afraid you might forget to save your work an
204. line drag the leftmost of the four positioning handles up or down Click the close button of the Click Assignment window A WORD ABOUT WORD EXTENSIONS When asingle syllable is sustained through morethan one note its customary to adda 3 7G word extension or underline after it to so indicate that it s held beyond the first note ka gon to Low While this might seem a logical time to add them we ll explore word extensions in detail in Tutorial 4 While it5 easy enough to add word extensions at any time word extensions dont grow longer or shorter if the music expands or contracts Therefore if you have long word extensions to add it s a good idea to create them only after you ve adjusted the page layout of your piece to your satisfaction In the next section you will be introduced to Finale s Plug ins It is worth noting that there is a Plug in for Word Extensions feel free to experiment with any of the Plug ins that were installed with Finale 2003 61 Tutorial 2 Adding Details THE REPEAT TOOL AND PLUG INS OPTIONAL SECTION To be truly complete your lead sheet needs a first and second ending requiring the use of the Repeat Tool In Finale a repeat barline is simply a signpost that directs the flow of music play back to another measure A repeat barline doesnt necessarily direct music back ward it could make the music jump to a later measure as it does if you re using a coda sign
205. ll simply churn out parts unattended one after another When you choose the Print Parts command from the File Menu you re presented with the Print Parts dialog box Click Format Parts to define the overall appearance of the pages then click OK PART EXTRACTION 3 SPECIAL PART EXTRACTION Thethird method called Special Part Extraction extracts one part at a time In this mode Finale uses Page View to display the complete extracted part In other words you can flip back and forth between the full score Scroll View and any individual part Therefore you must be in Scroll View before you begin this exper iment From the View Menu select Scroll View Click the Staff Tool and click the top Clarinet staff You specify the part you want to extract by selecting it so that its handle is highlighted To extract a piano part for example you would highlight the handles of both staves Fromthe Edit Menu choose Special Part Extraction The Multimeasure Rest dialog box appears In this dialog box you can define the various parameters that determine how Finale displays and positions its multimeasure rests For now the default settings are fine e Click OK If you look in the Edit menu again you ll see that the Special Part Extraction in the Edit Menu now has a check mark That s your signal that Page View now contains the extracted part If you change your mind about the mul timeasure rest parameters you just specified y
206. lso choose Edit Learned Chords in which you can teach Finaleto recognize unusual or especially complex chords e From the Chord Menu choose MIDI Input If you dont have a MIDI keyboard don t despair it s almost as easy to put chord symbols into your score without MIDI See the User Manual under CHORD SymBOLS for instructions Click the first note of the second measure A little ear appears above the staff It indicates that Finale is ready for you to play the chord e Play aC triad root position on the MIDI keyboard It doesnt matter how the chord is voiced or what octave it s in just make sure that the bottom noteis aC MIDI keyboard dick on the Chord 64 Tutorial 2 Adding Details C N e e e e e Oh I come from AI a ba ma rained all night the day I Finale puts the chord symbol C abovethe staff 1f the chord symbols appear too low or too high in your score remember that just like lyrics you can drag the leftmost positioning triangle up or down to movethe baseline of the chords So far so good now you need to advance the cursor to the right in prepara TI p tion to enter the next chord symbol To signal Finale that you want to move on to the next chord you play any MIDI keyboard key above middle C Thefour triangles from left to right Playa single note any note above middle C f you want to move b
207. m Template 20 193 Document with Setup Wizard 1 Document Without Libraries 40 Open naan vii 4 64 193 Open Library wana reta 87 PostatFinaleShowcase 198 PEDE cere em ot Act sg 105 Print Parts 000 124 QUID E hee ve pi EE 18 Revert iu es eX cuida ee eee 126 GAVE stesse Vett veste eee 18 38 Save Library 0000 00 87 Save Special Save As Web Page 198 Fill with Rests 7 Finale Showcase 198 First Ending Repeats 62 Fit MUSIC 0000 0 90 Frame Attributes 104 FreeMIDI 000 xvii Fret Number x2 gi maha oae 162 Grace notes 35 Index Graphics Menu Export Selection 105 Place Graphic 107 Graphics Tool ss er ree RA 105 Guitar Bends x see esl tah 163 Guitar Tablature 159 Hammer ons Ls 165 Hand Grabber Tool 195 Helpo deraa a axo O ag uto d vi Hiding Notes or Rests 36 Staves permanently 119 Staves temporarily 115 Home Position 34 101 103 HyperScribe igs ood ere Rara 39 Record Mode 49 Transcribing a Melody 43 Transcribing a Scale 41 Two handed HyperScribing 49 HyperScribe Menu Beat Source 41 43 49 168 Playback and Click 41 168 Tap aha gay acere teda 43 49 Record Mode 42 168
208. mbols should look outstanding at any size However when you print at reduced sizes a non PostScript printer produces unevenly spaced staff lines slightly stairstepped eighth note beams or somewhat jagged slurs because these lines and shapes are actually graphics and not font items From theFile Menu choose Print and click OK in the dialog box that appears n a moment your printer should begin to print your score 109 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE You ve learned some very important concepts in this tutorial In fact these tech niques and principles constitute much of the editing work you ll need to do in Finale Heres a quick review of what you ve covered in order l 2 3 aus 7 Use the M easure Tool and Mass Edit to arrange measures Use the Music Spacing command to space and align notes avoid collisions of lyrics and accidentals and set ideal measure widths Especially after using the Music Spacing command it s important to choose Update Layout from the Edit M enu so you can see what the final layout will be You should get in the habit of updating the layout just before printing so that you never get unexpected results when you print Use the Page Layout Tool to adjust the spacing of all systems on the page Usethe Text Tool to add titles composer credits copyright notices and so on Usethe Graphics Tool to Import Export Graphics Use the Lyric Tool or the Plug
209. me Oh come from Al a ba ma with a ban jo on my knee The four small triangles at the left edge of the screen control the baseline of the lyrics the imaginary line upon which the bottom edges of the words sit If you drag the leftmost triangle you ll find that you can move the baseline and all the Tip Thefour triangles attached lyrics up and down from left to right As you typed Finale stored each syllable in a built in text processor the Edit move the baseline Lyrics window Let s take a look horizontally for foll the entire piece From the Lyrics Menu choose Edit Lyrics Sure enough there are your lyrics in this staff their raw text form It s important to understand that the Edit Lyrics window and this staff this the lyrics in the score are dynamically linked If you change a syllablein the Edit system only Lyrics window that syllable automatically changes in the score and vice versa next syllable LLL kpa Edit Text Oh I come from Al a ba ma with a ban jo on my 4 z e o e Oh I come Al a ba While the Type Into Score process is handy its not the fastest possible method for entering lyrics W hen you re working with very large scores or when you want to import lyrics from another program such as a word processor you might want to usethe Click Assignment method whereby you enter the lyrics directly into 56 Tutorial 2 Adding Details
210. menu of the Shape Designer Menu Grid points now appear in the Shape Designer drawing area From the View drop down list choose 200 Everything on the screen now appears twice the size it will bein the score Click the Rectangle Tool You re about to draw a tall thin rectangle that will represent the flute itself Startingon the origin click and drag straight up and to the right until H is about 4 and V is about 36 Release the mouse button The origin is the small white circle at the center of the screen You drew a rectangle all right but it s too thick to look like a flute That s easily remedied 187 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics e Click the Selection Tool and then click ShapeDesigner the flute rectangle From the Shape zamn Ng Designer Menu choose Line Thickness puc then choose Hairline Hairline thickness Group Is 25 points Ungroup In the next step you ll create a curved arrow Select Font to indicate that you want a rotation 25 e Click the Curve Tool Starting to the Arrowheads right of the rectangle click and drag down x and to the right to create a curve A shallow downward arcing curve appears If you had dragged to the left you would have created an upward arc Click the Selection Tool Click on the curve that was just created Three handles appear that govern the positions of the curve s endpoin
211. mpty staves through the rest of the score Staff System Optimization x ptimization can remove empty staves from page view AND OR make staves in specified systems independently adjustable This post optimization adjusting is done with the Staff Tool Optimize Staff System s v Remove Empty Staves v Keep At Least One Staff C Remove Staff System Optimization Change Whole Document C System Through Cancel Help Click OK and move back to page one Take a look at the score instead of five staves only one is visible Because the other four were blank they were removed from the display Finale lets you know the systems have been opti mized by displaying a non printing optimization icon as shown below If you wanted to restore the staves you d repeat this example but in the Staff System Optimization dialog box you d select Remove Staff System Optimization 121 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores D r l Spanish Dance No 2 Optimization icons Moritz MoszkAwskil t2 If theres a certain staff even an empty one that you want to retain even though the display of the other blank staves is suppressed for instance the empty left hand of a piano part thereS a quick way to ensure that it doesnt get hidden Finale decides whether or not a staff is empty by look
212. n Tool 172 Note Shape Tool 172 Notehead Position Tool 172 Notes Hiding 235 5 a sae so eos 36 NudgeKeys 82 OMS omnis oem yc maha tes xviii Open Library So vow bc nd 87 Optimizing Systems 119 Options Menu Click and Countoff 41 168 Document Settings Layer Options 67 Music Spacing Options TO Internal Speaker Playback 36 Measurement Units 95 176 Playback Options 131 Index Program Options 196 Quantization Settings 49 More Settings 50 Order of Entry Kh 22404404 194 Simplified AAP XXIV Page Breaks S and FEES 99 Page Layout M enu Delete Staff Systems 100 BEMUSIC sanan bea KA Gal end 91 Insert Page Break 99 Insert Staff Systems 99 Optimize Staff Systems 120 Space Systems Evenly 99 Systems EditMargins 97 Page Layout Tool 94 PageNumbers 102 104 Page View 15 118 Part Extraction PrintParts g iraa a ee 124 Special Part Extraction 124 Splitting into Separate Documents 123 Partial Measures 34 114 Piano music cross staff notes 177 Pickup Measures 91 Playback a maam ban 36 51 66 Scrubbing 0000 cee 37 Playback and Click 41 168 Playback Controls 36 Playback Durin
213. n always re read the in depth discussions presented in this volume and con sult the User Manual and QuickStart Video Tips at any time But knowing which tools are at your disposal is only half the learning process Now you need to learn how to maximize the program s speed and power to produce the most music with the fewest false steps and in the shortest time WORKING FROM TEMPLATES If you worked through the optional section called Building a Grand Staff you know how much time it can take to construct the proper instrumental setup before you begin working Its a good idea never to build any score configuration more than once save any such template with no music in it so that you can open it the next time you need a similar system setup When you open a template document Finale reads the template and brings an untitled copy to the screen so you dont accidentally change the original For starters you can look at the ready made staff configurations in the Templates folder on your hard disk You ll find more than 30 different kinds of blank scores piano vocal scores choral setups chamber orchestra scores and so on There are several ways to preserve a blank original template while still having a duplicate to work on The first method is to open the template by choosing O pen from the File Menu in the usual way Immediately after opening however choose Save As from the File M enu and giveit thetitle of the piece you re about to c
214. n bar by clicking a note with the mouse EDITING WITH SPEEDY ENTRY Position the insertion bar on the first note middle C and press the 4 key In Finale 4 means an eighth note so your middle C quarter note has just changed duration rhythmic value In Finale if you enter a rhythm incorrectly theres no need to delete the note and reenter it simply line up the insertion bar with the note and press the desired duration key Whenever you change a notes duration or enter a new note the insertion bar moves to the right ready for you to enter a new note or rest or to change the rhythmic value of an existing note Press the 4 key three more times V You ve now changed all four notes in Ge E this measure to eighth notes They re J e automatically beamed Position the mouse pointer squarely on the last note notehead C lick and drag this F to the F line an octave higher In Speedy Entry you can move notes to other pitches by dragging them in this way If your MIDI keyboard is con nected properly Finale plays the note each time it changes pitch This feature can be disabled by deselecting Playback During Drag from the Speedy M enu 23 Tutorial lb Speedy Entry Click squarely on the high F s notehead With the button down drag it slightly to you complete control not only of a notes the right or left The Speedy Entry Tool gives d c pitch but also o
215. n or zoom out These H horizontal and lt V vertical measurements specify the distance of a point or your cursor from the origin This small circle is the origin It doesn t print out it just anchors your shape At the top of the window are twelve drawing tools 186 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics The Text Tool creates The Multiline Tool creates text objects multiple segment lines The Selection Tool The Curve Tool makes The Bracket Tool creates smooth arcs with no taper a bracket or brace Se Sai The Graphics Tool allows you to import selects stretches and moves objects graphics The Hand Grabber Using the Rectangle The Polygon Tool moves the entire or Ellipse tools drag creates enclosed drawing within the diagonally to create a straight sided shapes window rectangle or ellipse Using the Line Tool drag The Slur Tool draws curves to create a straight line with tapered ends Let s say that you want a special effect you want the flute rotated 90 degrees and played vertically In the steps below the units shown in the H horizontal coordinate and V vertical coordinate text boxes are measured in points 72 per inch From the Shape Designer Menu choose Rulers and Grid The Rulers and Grid dialog box appears Click Points then click OK You ve just set the measurement units to Points If no grid points appear in the drawing area choose Grid from the Show sub
216. nale produces notation In fact had you played precisely on the beat with accuracy to 1024ths of a quarter note the Start and Stop Times would both be zero There would be no difference between the quantized and the actual attack point of the note The Start and Stop Times are measured in Finales own very small durational units called EDUs ENIGMA Durational Units 1024ths of a quarter note Thefollowing table has some common EDU equivalents a full table appears under EQUIVALENTS in the Appendix of the User Manual as well as on the Quick Reference Card Value EDU Equivalent Whole 4096 Half 2048 Dotted Quarter 1536 Quarter 1024 Dotted Eighth 768 Eighth 512 Sixteenth 256 140 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics Keeping this chart handy take a look at some of the MIDI Tool s Note Duration menu commands Set to gives every note in the selected region exactly the same Start and Stop Times measured in EDUs If for example you want every note in a certain region to sound a fraction of a beat early you might set the Start Times of the notes in the region to 300 Set the Start and Stop Times to zero if you want to quantize every note squarely to its strict notated duration Scale produces a gradual change from one Start or Stop Time value to another across the selected region You can enter EDU values in the text boxes thus specifying that the attacks or releases of the notes move steadily closer to
217. nd below every note in the measure A click on any handle flips the stem in its direction and freezes the stem that way hence the snowflake icon even if the piece gets transposed Click the handle again to restore the note to floating status Of course it s easier to flip stems with the Speedy Entry Tool Position the insertion bar on a note and press the L key to freeze its stem in the opposite direction or cz L Mac pior L to restore the stem to its floating status Click the Double Split Stem Tool zi When you click this tool a handle appears on every notehead in the measure another appears above the staff and another below Click the lower handle of a note or chord to create double stemming 173 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics Eg k TAA EBH o O ooo0o000 B L c El i Try it now Click thelower handle of each of the sixteenth notes in the piano part The new second stem always points in the opposite direction from the original stem no matter which handle top or bottom you clicked The note handles provide an additional feature They can produce split stemming within a chord giving the effect of a separate inner voice like this There are two steps to creating this effect First click the bottom stem to let Finale know you want to create split stemming Then click the handle of each note you want to be a part of the upper stem only Click the upper notehead handle of each sixteent
218. ndary beams ot Tool moves a dot up down left or right Beam Stem Adjust Tool da changes the length of a beamed stem ud sa pd da a el FI FE Using the Special Tools tool you can edit one measure of music at a time To edit any of the above listed musical elements click the appropriate tool on the palette then click the measure you want to edit Finale will normally display a small square handle on each note stem accidental beam tie or dot depending 171 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics on which tool you re using to hide these handles deselect Show Handles in the Special Tools M enu Select the handle or handles of the elements you want to manipulate and perform the desired action You select multiple handles by drag enclosing or shift clicking For a complete discussion of all Special Tools functions consult the U ser M an ual under SPECIAL TOOLS For now lets try some experiments Click the Note Position Tool i if it s not already selected Click the first measure of the middle staff Dragany note s handle left or right You can move any note chord or rest hor izontally with this tool without affecting its playback Of course it s easier to simply drag notes left or right using the Speedy Entry Tool Click the Notehead Position Tool 4j Every notehead in the measure sprouts a handle Once you have selected a measure with a Special Tool Finale assumes you are continuing to work on
219. nding note in the regular staff Click the second B string and press 3 click the second string and press 1 click the third string and press 3 and click the third string and press 2 Now you have entered tab for the first measure Of course copying the music down from a standard staff is much easier so this method is best used when entering into a document without an accompanying standard notation staff ENTERING SLIDES BENDS AND TREMOLOS You can enter these common elements of tab notation into your score using the Smart Shape Tool Since these items often appear in both the standard and tab staff well start by entering them into the standard staff and then copy them down to the tab staff To prepare for this section open Tutorial 7a Blues Scale Click the Smart Shape Tool N 163 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments Click theTab Slide Tool L lt in the Smart Shape palette Double click the first note of the scale A line extends automatically from the A to the C Click the handles to manually edit the end points of the line if necessary ka Click the Bend Hat Tool in the Smart Shape palette N ow we ll enter a bend and release from third beat of the second measure to the first beat in the third measure Doubleclick the A on the third beat of the second measure You should now see a bend hat extending from the A to the B flat Doubleclick the B flat on the
220. ning of the new instrument names choose Full Staff N ames or Abbreviated Staff N ames from the Set Default Name Positions submenu of the Staff M enu You ll see a dialog box that lets you drag the staff name wherever you want relative to the staff itself SELECTING PARTIAL MEASURES TRANSPOSING A REGION Up to this point you ve done all your manipulation of music in one measure incre ments Using the M ass Edit Tool you ve clicked a measure to select it drag enclosed several whole measures clicked the first measure and shift J clicked the last measure or clicked in the left margin to select an entire staff But selecting a measure at a time is like selecting a word at a timein a word proces sor it s a nice shortcut but sometimes you need to select in smaller units What if you want to select half a measure or only one note Click the Mass Edit Tool then choose Edit Select Partial Measures from the Edit Unde Mais Capry Ane Paplacs Chl Menu uso Fe anion hear Chl Lireses ose Lista She Cul 2 W hen Select Partial M easures is on you T can select any slice of a measure from a Sa ks single note to a motif that crosses several pont barlines Pugs Entries Chri In the musical example you have on the mao mules screen for example suppose you decide ag that a certain passage in the Violin part rm m rupem al would sound better if it were up athird Select Regina
221. nk staves For example if you decide that the clarinet should double the flute solo and you write the music into its part Finale will still print only the flute part because that s the only staff that had music at the time you optimized systems In this instance you would have to unoptimize and then reoptimize all those staff systems Therefore it s best to optimize systems only after your music is exactly as you want it This example assumes you re in Page View with the Tutorial 5 document open e Click the Page Layout Tool G The Page Layout Menu appears From the Page Layout Menu choose Optimize Staff Systems The Staff System Optimization dialog box appears You have two primary options You can either optimize the specified systems or unoptimize them If you optimize you have a few choices on how Finale handles the optimization You ll want to Remove Empty Staves and Keep At Least One Staff but turn off Ask Before Removing Staves This option allows you more fine tuned control over optimizing but 120 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores Finale works faster without it If you unoptimize you ll restore the suppressed staves to the printed image If you leave the Whole Document radio button selected in the Change area the command affects the entire piece In a full orchestra score you d want to optimize system 2 through the end The first sys tem will display the full forces of the piece but suppress e
222. nother on off controller or a patch change by dragging through a sliver of the graph area e Drag through a small horizontal slice at the beginning of the graph area as shown below Keep in mind that the actual pedal usage will occur at the begin ning of the region you select as indicated by the arrow in the figure below It really doesnt matter therefore how much of the window you highlight the pedaling message will be inserted at the far left edge of your highlighted region 0 L 1 1 e From the MIDI Tool Menu choose Set To The Set To dialog box appears Remember that to create the pedal down message you need to set the pedal S value to 127 e Type 127 Click OK Suddenly the entire graph area is gray Thats because you ve just inserted a pedal down message without any corresponding pedal up message Therefore your MIDI keyboard will believe that the pedal was pressed during the entire piece Theres a small gap in the gray area at each 144 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics barline This doesn t mean that the pedal is released at that point it is just to help you identify the juncture of consecutive measures Now insert a pedal up message e Drag through a small region in the middle of measure 2 as shown below Remember that the pedal up message will fall at the beginning of your selected region 127 96 64 32 equ From the MIDI Tool Menu choose Set To Click OK You did
223. now that it s selected The first one you drew meanwhile is no longer selected Instead it displays a single handle To select a Smart Shape that doesnt display its reshap ing handles click its handle Feel free to experiment with these Smart Shapes Click and drag each reshaping handle to see what it does Try adding a crescendo or decrescendo When the Smart Shape Tool is selected every Smart Shape in the score displays a small square handle on the screen unless it s already been selected in which case it has reshaping handles To delete a Smart Shape click the handle to select the shape and press the key For more information see the U ser Manual under SMART SHAPE TOOL Before moving on you can choose to hide the Smart Shape Palette by deselect ing it in the Window Menu Otherwise feel free to leave it on the screen SELECTION TOOL If you re flying along in the editing process and dont want to bother switching tools the Selection Tool can help speed you along Click on the Selection Tool and click on any marking Now you can move it delete it or right click M ac conrol click on it for a list of other editing commands If you decide you need to do advanced editing double click on the marking to switch to the appropriate editing tool You can return to the Selection Tool at any time by clicking conro shift A Mac 3 38 shift A The Selection Tool works on M easures M easure Tool Notes Simple Entry
224. nstruments get a click you may wish to review the section called SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM in the INSTALLATION CHAPTERS earlier in this book You may also wish to consult the User M anual under MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX At the conclusion of the second countoff measure play a two octave C scale in quarter notes starting on middle C as shown below As you play each measure the numbers appear compressed together only when you ve completely filled a measure and moved on to the next does the full fledged notation appear e When you re finished click the mouse button anywhere on the screen The editing frame goes away Take a look at what Finale did there should bea C scale in the tab staff with the fret numbers the same as the ones you played If not try entering a slower tempo in the Playback and or Click dialog box or change the MIDI In Latency value in the MIDI Setup dialog box Now well copy the tab you just entered into the standard notation staff Click the Mass Edit Tool Highlight the measures containing fret numbers and drag the region into the notation staff Your document should now look like the figure at the top of this page HINTS AND TIPS FOR TABLATURE For complete information see TABLATURE in the User Manual 1 Upand down pick markings can be entered with the Articulation Tool 2 You can add stems and beaming to tablature by configuring the Staff Attributes of your tab staff Click t
225. nstruments staves are in it As you ve no doubt already guessed the lines that run to the edges of the page are the currently defined page margins The rectangles that enclose the three Systems of music are the staff system margins Each system has two handles one at the upper left corner and oneat the lower right corner To manipulate any margin simply drag its handle You can even drag enclose margin handles or select all margin handles with control A Mac 3 3 A To move the entire System creating more space between systems for a choreographer note or a title simply click on the system and drag it into place For the purposes of this tutorial we have prepared this document with undesir able system spacing First well make room for our title Because this change affects only one system we can simply click on the system and drag it down Click in the middle of the first system on the staff lines and drag it down about an inch as shown 8 Tip Siete emm me m Um a eee E e m E m mm M mm m Und ee MN ola mre elas AASA AE control click M ac click and drag to move Systems independently The following systems slide down accordingly Finale can automatically space the systems evenly down the page with the Space Systems Evenly command To space the systems Finale adjusts the Distance Between Systems without changing the system margins Because we want to make sure our title doesnt get cov
226. nt have to change it Tutorial 5 Working with Scores You could click OK at this point you d return to the score where the first staff s namewould now appear However as long as you re at it you may as well set up the other staves From the staff drop down list at the top of the Staff Attributes dialog box choose Staff 2 The contents of the dialog box change to reflect the staff attributes of the second staff in the score Name this staff Violin Il and enter Vin II as its abbreviated name Once again you can move directly to the attributes box for the next staff without hav ing to go back to the score From the staff drop down list choose Staff 3 You re now looking at the attributes for the third or viola staff Type Viola as the full staff name and Vla as the abbreviation Near the clef display click Select The Clef Selection dialog box appears Finale allows you to use up to sixteen different clefs in a particular document You can even design your own clefs in the Clef Designer For now we want the alto clef Double click the alto clef the second clef in the top row Clef Selection From the staff drop down list choose Staff 4 Enter the full name Cello and the abbreviation Vc Click OK To the left of the clef display click Select and double click on the bass clef the fourth clef in the top row 113 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores Click OK If you want to adjust the overall positio
227. nt have to enter a number because the default value was already zero When you return to the window click anywhere in the MIDI Tool window except the graph area to remove the selection highlighting You ll see that the bar representing the pedal is now quite short lalakihan 127 96 64 32 0 hadadadahdadad e From the MIDI Tool Menu choose Play You hear Finale applying the pedal to the region you specified 145 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics e Select the MIDI Tool from the Main Tool Palette Mac click the Close button Clicking on the MIDI Tool or any other tool in the M ain Tool Palette closes the MIDI Tool split window Mac you must click on the Close button to close the MIDI window Once you ve created one complete usage of the pedal as you ve just done you don t have to create it again in other measures that should contain a similar pedaling pattern You can simply copy the pedaling from measure 1 into other measures You ll find out about copying MIDI Tool data in the next section REMOVING AND COPYING MIDI TooL DATA To delete any modifications you ve made with the MIDI Tool select the desired measures in the score and then press bactspace M ac deee This procedure deletes only the currently selected data type In other words if you ve changed both Key Velocities and Note Durations you can delete only one at a time depending on which one is currentl
228. nt mark to the other side of the note In fact Finaleis even smart enough to usethe upside down version of certain symbols when the stem direction changes If you place a fermata e below a note when the stem direction changes Finale will flip the symbol 41 Now let s add a dynamic marking e Click the Expression Tool Expressions are attached either to the measure you double click or to a specific note in that measure For the moment let s put in a mf marking Position the cursor below the first note of the top staff just to the left of the note Double click where you want the marking to appear The Expression Selection dialog box appears If you re ever trying to put in an Expression and this window comes up empty it5 because no libraries were loaded into the doc ument We ll cover libraries in more detail later in this tutorial Note incidentally the buttons on the lower right side of this window Text and Shape These buttons access two different libraries the one you re currently viewing Text contains only words Even the dynamic markings such as p or mf are simply characters in the Maestro music font If you click the Shape but ton however you ll see a new set of symbols containing only shapes slurs cre scendos and the like We ll discuss the Shape expressions later in Tutorial 8 74 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions Note also the buttons at the bottom of the window M ea
229. nual under MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX SETTING UP FINALE WITH FREEMIDI From the MIDI Menu choose MIDI Setup From the MIDI System pull down menu choose F reeMIDI Select your keyboard or sound device for the Output device and your keyboard or controller for the Input Device Only one item should be selected for each device and its name should not be italicized MIDI Setup MIDI System FreeMIDI T Finale Channel Input Device Output Device 1 16 KO Y QuickTime Built In Y 17 32 None x None x 47 64 None x None x C sena mpi syne Receive MIDI Sync From MIDI In Latency fo ms Edit FreeMIDI Configuration J Interface Sett ings Cancel Co XX Installation for Macintosh e Click OK You re all set to explore Finale on your own SETTING UP FINALE WITH OMS From the MIDI Menu choose MIDI Setup From the MIDI System pull down menu choose Open Music System Select your keyboard or sound device for the Output device and your keyboard or controller for the Input Device Only one item should be selected for each device and its name should not be italicized If you dont see your keyboard listed on the popup menu but ports are listed and not italicized try selecting the port your MIDI device is connected to MIDI System l Open Music 5ystem lt Finale Channel Input Device Output Device 1 16 P5R 282
230. nvisible Press o again to make the entry reappear The second problem you may encounter is when the notes in each layer are an interval of a second apart like this be You need to offset one of them to avoid the collision One solution is simply to drag either note to one side when you re editing with the Speedy Entry Tool You can drag notes both vertically and horizontally when you re editing If you want to make sure you dont inadvertently move the note sideways when you want to drag it up or down or vice versa press the key as you drag Finale will constrain the cursor to perfectly horizontal or vertical movements Another solution is to let Finale s Automatic Music Spacing feature work for you From the Options Menu choose Document Options then select Music Spacing Options make sure that Seconds and Unisons are selected in the Avoid Collision of section of the dialog box See Music SPACING in the User M anual for more information WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE This tutorial has covered a lot of ground if you ve made it to the end congratula tions Finale offers alot of power and you can harness it Choose Save from the File Menu if you havent already done so If you think you ve done enough for one ses sion choose Exit Mac Quit from the File Menu and you ll return to the desktop If you want to go on close this document and turn to the next tutorial FoR MORE
231. o affect a half note it would stretch across four imagi nary grid points In this example you re creating a ritard that lasts for a full measure Therefore your shape should be eight grid points across Each grid point your shape crosses as it travels vertically represents one unit And whats a unit It depends on the playback parameter this shape is to gov Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics ern For example if this Executable Shape affects the transposition of the affected notes a unit is a half step If the shape affects key velocity a unit is one degree of MIDI key velocity where zero is silence and 127 is very loud And in the case of your ritard one unit is one beat per minute You may already realize that you wont be able to draw a very perceptible tempo drop if your shape has to cross a gridline for each one beat per minute drop in tempo F ear not in a moment you ll learn how to multiply the value of these lines so that each represents a much greater drop in tempo e Click the Line Tool if it s not already selected You re about to draw a graph of the ritard s effect on playback To use the Line Tool click and drag across the drawing area As you drag watch the numbers change in the H and V coordinate text boxes as indicated Position the cursor on the small white circle called the origin so that the H number is 0 and the V number is 0 Click and dragto create a line that slopes downward and to the right unt
232. o your sound card you d typically choose a driver with the term Synth or Synthesizer in it If on theother hand you d likeFinaleto play back on an external MIDI device which would require its own speaker and ampli fier choose a driver which has MIDI Out in its name This diagram shows the MIDI Setup dialog box properly configured to play back through the computers speakers via a sound card MIDI In MIDI Qut Device Device Advanced LM A Cancel Help This diagram shows the MIDI Setup dialog box properly configured to play back through an external MIDI device Keep in mind that the specific driver names will change depending on what sound card or MIDI device you have Installation for Windows MIDI In MIDI Qut Device Device OK Cancel Help For more information consult the User Manual under MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX Click OK Finale asks if you would like to view the QuickStart Video Tips right away Since you will be going through the basics of Finale in these tutorials you can skip this feature for now If you do not wish this dialog box to appear every time you launch Finale click Don t Show This M essage Again Click Not Yet in the QuickStart dialog box Remember you can access these Video Tips from the Help Menu at any time The Document Setup Wizard begins to run next We ll cover the Wizard in the first tutorial You re all set to explore Finale Skip to t
233. oards Then dont bother learning that feature You may need some of the other options another day or never depending on the kind of music you want to create that s perfectly OK To help you get a jump start we ve divided Tutorial 1 into separate entry methods If you dont have a MIDI keyboard When you seethe 8 symbol throughout this manual you ll find tips and hints Before You Begin you can skip Tutorial 1c If you hate dragging a mouse around you can skip Simple Entry in Tutorial la Be sure to look at the Read Me file which the Finale Installer copies to your hard disk and installs in the Finale 2003 folder This document contains important information about Finale that wasn t available when this book went to press REGISTRATION CARD GETTING HELP To receive all the benefits of being a Finale owner be sure to complete and mail the enclosed registration card immediately If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Finale you are already a registered owner your registration number serial number has not changed If you have Internet access you may choose to register via our online registration website Simply choose Register Finale from the Help Menu As a registered owner you may contact Coda for technical support whenever you i need help with Finale and cant find the answer in this book or the USER MANUAL ITi p There is no charge for this help Our technical support representatives will a
234. on Downbeats Other Beats or Backbeats For definitions see BACKBEATS in the User Manual As an example suppose you have a rockabilly tune and you want to boost the backbeats to give your playback more drive In this case you d select the entire score with the MIDI Tool choose Key Velocities and Alter Feel from the MIDI Tool Menu select Percent of Original and type 150 into the Backbeats text box The result would be 5096 more volume on the backbeats Randomize alters the selected music s velocity by a random amount This can be a useful option if you want to give your playback a more imperfect human feeling Typea fairly small number into the text box between 10 and 20 for example unless you really want some unpredictable madcap accents NOTE Finale stores the velocity value for each note as the difference in velocity from the default velocity value the Base Key Velocity You set the Base K ey Velocity in the Playback Controls Suppose for example that this value is 60 If a note dis played in the MIDI Tool window has a velocity of 90 Finale simply remembers that its velocity is 30 more than the Base K ey Velocity value Why does Finale store velocity values this way Because with this system you can quickly and easily adjust the overall velocity volume level of your piece by changing the Base Key Velocity value The dynamic nuances of your piece will be preserved but the overall volume level will increase o
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236. or further from the beats Add increases or decreases the Start or Stop Time of every note in the selected region by an equivalent amount Note that this command preserves the relative existing differences in Start and Stop Times Enter a positive EDU valueto increase the Start Time a later attack or Stop Time a later release of all selected notes and a negative number to decrease these times Percent Alter is a unique command in Note Durations mode because it s the only command that directly affects the total durations of the selected notes instead of their Start and Stop Times This command lets you increase or decrease the selected notes playback durations by a percentage of their current values This command doesnt of course affect the notated values of the notes it just affects the way they play back To create a staccato passage in which every note plays back with only half its notated value you could choose Percent Alter and type 50 percent Limit lets you set a minimum and maximum Start and Stop Time value for the selected notes in other words it can serve to pull the attack and release of each note closer to its notated value You can think of Limit as a pseudo quantizer because it decreases the difference between the notated durations and your humanly imperfect performance Alter Feel changes the Start and Stop Times of Downbeats Other Beats and Backbeats as defined in the section EDITING KEY VELOCITIES A positive
237. orial 6a Note that the SmartScore Lite engine makes some mistakes such as measure 8 with inner voices You can see the extra notes from the inner voices pushed into measure 9 From the File Menu choose Import and then SmartScore Double click on the Tutorial 6a FIN file Finale transcribes the SmartScore file and opens the new file Note that the SmartScore engine also recognized the articulations such as staccatos and accents Creating FIN files for import into Finale will require the full version of SmartScore which is created by Musitek For more informa tion visit www musitek com For both the converted TIFF and SmartScore file you may wish to copy and paste the music into a new Wizard created document for a fast improvement in layout For more information see SCANNING in the User Manual PERCUSSION MAPS One of the more powerful aspects of Finale is Percussion Mapping In General MIDI each percussion sound is assigned to a MIDI pitch i e MIDI Note 36 is a bass drum sound Percussion Mapping allows you to map any MIDI note to any staff position Suppose you wish to create a score for your drum set player and you are interested in both how the score looks and plays back 190 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics Click on File and choose New then Document With Setup Wizard Enter a title or composer if desired then click Next The second page of the Setup Wizard appears where you can select your percussion instruments
238. orial la Simple Entry you can immediately use keyboard shortcuts to change the note you just entered Eraser Whole Note Quarter Note Sixteenth Note 64th Note Dot Flat Half Step Up Tie Grace Note Xd EEBBEEBEREEEEEERBEBRE Double whole Note Half Note Eighth Note Double W hole Rest 32nd Note Half Rest 128th Note Eighth Rest Sharp 32nd Rest Natural 128th Rest Half Step Down Tuplet EBEnzzzEHEL Whole Rest Quarter Rest Sixteenth Rest 64th Rest Thetools on the Simple Entry palette are divided into different groups There are duration tools like quarters eighth notes etc You can also choose an acci dental tool like a sharp or flat tool Keep in mind that you ll haveto click on the tool to de select it if you dont want to use it anymore To select a tool and clear all the other tools double click on it You can mix and match the tools to build exactly the note you want to add whether it s a quarter note or a sharped tied dotted notethat starts a triplet For now we ll use only the duration tools to add some simple quarter notes Tutorial la Simple Entry Click the Quarter Note Tool on the Simple Entry palette or type the number 5 The Quarter Note icon is highlighted You can use the keyboard shortcuts to switch between the different tools See the Simple Entry Keypad on your Quick Reference Card Move the cursor to the first measure of the top treble cle
239. ossbar which indicates pitch In the upper left corner of the frame you ll see a tiny V1 telling you that Finales ready for you to enter Voice 1 If you needed to create multiple voices stems up and stems down Finale would call them Voice 1 and Voice 2 It is more likely however that you Tutorial lo Speedy Entry would use Finale four transparent layers a full discussion of layers and voices can be found respectively in Tutorial 2 and Tutorial 8 Voice 1 Voice 2 indicator Pitch Crossbar Editing Frame Insertion bar Usethe up down arrow keys to move the pitch crossbar and the left right arrow keys to move the insertion bar Play middle C on your MIDI keyboard While holding down the key press the 5 key on your computer keyboard If your MIDI system is hooked up correctly amiddle C quarter note appears If your MIDI keyboard is not sending correctly to the computer you ll see a quarter rest in which case see SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM in the INSTALLATION CHAPTERS earlier in this book To removethe rest click it and press delete Why did you press 5 The number keys both on the numeric keypad and on the top row of the alphabet keyboard have special meanings to Finale Be sure to press the Num Lock key if you re using the numeric keypad In Finale 5 means a quarter note Take a look at these diagrams Windows Speedy Entry Keypad Commands With Caps Lock With Ctrl a E 128th note
240. ou can do that too You could click on the Page Layout M enu choose Systems then Select System Range but well show you a quicker way You may have noticed that the notes are overlapping from system to system Now were ready to address this spacing issue Click on any bottom system handle found in the bottom right of the system From the Edit Menu choose Select All Now any change you make to one sys tem will affect all of the systems Click on any selected bottom system handle and drag it down so that the bot tom margin is below the stem of the low bass note mar fim Al 10 o bo wib o boo wood di agb dx dop 7 Idi de wen dbes n When you release the mouse button you can see that you ve allotted more space for the bottom margin in every system You ve told Finale how far the sys tem extends beyond the staff lines 98 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing You could individually drag all of your systems into an evenly spaced layout but Finale can do it for you From the Page Layout Menu choose Space Systems Evenly In the Space Systems Evenly dialog box you can tell Finale which pages to space and when to skip pages such as pages only two systems full The default settings are fine so just click OK Voila All of your systems are spaced evenly between the top and bottom margins of the page PAGE BREAKS What if we were creating a medley of barbershop arrangements You could create each song as a separat
241. ou have to choose Special Part Extraction again to turn it off then repeat the entire process From the View Menu choose Page View Sure enough theres the extracted part 124 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores You should be aware that when you look at the extracted part in Page View the measures are defined as they were in the score not necessarily as befits the extracted part alone Here s an example In the full score that follows the measures are wide to accommodate the sixteenth notes in the strings a When the flute part is extracted into Page View it still has very wide measure widths b AA a a Flute Violin 1 Violin 2 b c FI Its a simple matter to restore the extracted part s measures to more appropriate widths c use the Music Spacing and Update Layout commands just as you would normally But if you make this change in Page View you also change the measure spacing in the full score in Scroll View If you want to use Special Part Extraction to extract several parts then consider these steps 1 Save your work 2 Extract the first instruments part into Page View 3 In Page View correct the music and measure spacing using the Music Spacing and Update Layout commands Mass Edit and Edit menus respectively 4 Choose Print from the File Menu to print the extracted part from within Page View 125 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores 5 f th
242. ox appears letting you set the position of the number relative to the beginning of the measure 184 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics Position Measure Number x Alignment Let Distance from Staff ol H 0 0213 _ ass gh 1 1 v 0 5521 Cancel Help Drag the number into place just below and to the right of the barline You don t have to drag the 0 itself You can drag anywhere within the display Click OK All that remains is to tell Finale how often you want the numbers to appear If you select Show M easure Numbers at Start of Staff System the default numbers will only appear on measures that begin new systems To make our changes easier to see though we ll number every measure Click the radio button for Show Every Measures Beginning with Measure Make sure 1 is entered into both text boxes Click OK You ve now numbered all the measures but they appear under every staff In a piano and solo score like the one in this tutorial the score might look best if they only appeared once below the solo staff Click the Staff Tool double click the middle staff The Staff Attributes dia log box for this staff appears In the Items to Display section click Measure Numbers to deselect the check box From the Staff drop down list at the top of the Staff Attributes dialog box choose Staff 3 to advance to the bottom staff and click Measure Num bers again Click OK You ve just
243. oxes at the top of the Tuplet Definition dia log box As you see Finale has guessed that you want to fit three quarter notesin the time of two precisely the definition of a quarter note triplet In the Display section there are drop down lists where you can specify how the triplet should look in the score Should it have a slur or a bracket Should it be expressed as a ratio For now the default settings are fine Click OK You vejust turned ordinary quarter notes into atriplet by clickingthe first of them with the Tuplet Tool You can edit the tuplet to look any way you d like Noticethe six handles that appear These handles control the various ele ments of the bracket 27 Tutorial lb Speedy Entry 28 Drag this handle to independently Drag this handle to change move the Lon from the number the Pp of the bracket Drag this handle up or Drag imr handleto move the down to change the length number relative to the bracket of the hook Drag this Da move the entire bracket and number You can modify the triplet you madein M easure 3 too Click the first note of the triplet in measure 3 The tuplet handles appear Drag the handles until the triplet appears the way you want it to You can create tuplets within tuplets too It doesn t matter whether you begin by creating the inner or outer tuplet If you find yourself defining the same kind of tuplet over and over again in a piece define it as a Tuplet Tool M etatool
244. pecified the staves it s time to program one of the Staff Sets While pressing and holding Mac option select the View Menu then choose Program Staff Set choose Staff Set 1 from the submenu that pops out You ve just programmed Staff Set 1 to display only the first and third staves In Finale pressing Mac foption often means I m programming something In the View Menu Finale actually displays different commands depending on whether or not you were holding down the ct gpton key when you opened the menu As soon as you program Staff Set 1 the two blank staves vanish They re still part of the piece they re just hidden for the moment Furthermore you can rearrange staves in each Staff Set dragging them up or down as much as you want without disturbing the staff order in the full score view INSERTING STAVES Let5 say we add a flute to our string quartet We could use the same technique for add ing staves as before but this time well save some work and let the Wizard create them From the View Menu choose Select Staff Set then All Staves If at any time you wish to return to the full score view of your piece select All Staves Click the Staff Tool amp The Staff Menu appears We want to insert our flute staff above the Violin staff Click on the handle of the Violin I staff The staff handle is a small box on the top staff line near the clef From the Staff Menu choose New Staves with Setup Wiza
245. piece for flute and piano appears on the screen Since you ll be jumping around quite a bit in this tutorial you may prefer to work in Scroll View From the View Menu select Scroll View Scroll to measure 1 On Windows click on the Window Menu and choose Advanced Tools Palette Click the Special Tools Tool T The Special Tools palette appears as a toolbar on the right side of the screen containing 18 tool icons each of which controls some aspect of the music This palette is just like the others you ve encoun tered You can hide it or turn it into a floating palette Notehead Position Tool moves a notehead horizontally Accidental Tool moves an accidental Broken Beam Tool flips a beam stub to other side of stem Double Split Stem Tool adds a second stem splits a chord s stem Custom Stem Tool lets you create a stem of any shape Note Position Tool moves a note horizontally Note Shape Tool changes a notehead shape Stem Length Tool lengthens or shortens a stem Stem Direction Tool freezes a stem up or down Reverse Stem Tool moves a stem to wrong side of note Beam Angle Tool changes the beam height and angle Beam Extension Tool extends a beam even across barlines Tie Tool changes a tie length and arc Beam Width Tool changes the width of a beam kk Secondary Beam Break Tool breaks 16th note and other beams Secondary Beam Angle Tool changes the angle of seco
246. quick editing and working without a MIDI key board a far faster and more efficient method of music entry is Finales Speedy Entry Tool particularly when used in conjunction with a MIDI keyboard With this tool you can enter music very quickly with one hand on the MIDI keyboard and the other on the numeric keypad You can edit existing music with equal ease In this tutorial you ll explore the Speedy Entry Tool in depth and you ll get to know some of Finales MIDI input and playback capabilities We assume you ve already read about basic navigation of the Finale screen in Tutorial 1a Simple Entry By the end of this tutorial you should know how to get your notes on the page quickly with the Speedy Entry method A WORD ABOUT MIDI MIDI for Musical Instrument Digital Interface is an electronic language spoken by computers and MIDI keyboards Most MIDI devices are keyboards but there are also guitar string wind percussion and even voice MIDI controllers As men tioned earlier the term MIDI keyboard will be used to refer to whatever MIDI device you re using If you need help hooking up your MIDI keyboard look at the section called SET TING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM in the INSTALLATION CHAPTERS earlier in this book If you begin this tutorial and find that your MIDI keyboard isnt operating correctly you may want to consult the User Manual under MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX Remember a MIDI keyboard isnt required for Speedy Entry CREATING A NEW
247. r you may encounter instances when the music does not appear to be spaced correctly usually the automatic spacing hasn t been ITi p triggered yet Here then are the steps to follow to perform music spacing it has not yet been performed in this score so you can see the effects Pressing 4 when e Click the Mass Edit Tool L measure are Click justto the left of the tenor staff in any staff system This is a quick way to select an entire staff with one click You ll noticethat the whole lineis high lighted Because we dont want to overlook the bass staff while making spacing decisions we ll need to select the bass staff too Hold down the s key and click just to the left of the bass staff in any staff system Now both staves should be highlighted through the entire piece From the Mass Edit Menu choose Music Spacing then Apply Note Spacing Finale displays its Mass Edit cursor which tells you that the computer is doing some heavy calculating You ll have to wait until the normal cursor returns before you can resume your work When Finales finished you might notice that the spacing of music and barlines is much more professional looking Every measureis exactly as wide as it needs to be and every note is allotted exactly the right amount of horizontal space Music spaced in this way is said to have nonlinear spacing as in published music a whole note doesnt get as much horizontal space as
248. r you might want a more in depth discussion of the Repeat Tool and its various capabilities Con sult the User Manual under REPEAT TOOL CHORD SYMBOLS OPTIONAL SECTION No true lead sheet would be complete without chord symbols With a little help from your MIDI keyboard the process of adding chords can be extremely quick ITi p You can also apply similar techniques with the Type into Score feature which doesnt require a keyboard If most of your work wont require chord symbols you To enter chord can skip this section symbols withouta This section assumes that you ve completed the Oh Susannah lead sheet up through the last section If not choose Open from the File M enu open the docu ment called Tutorial 2b which is complete to this point Tool then choose Type into Score from Scroll to the first measure of the piece if necessary the Chord M enu e Click the Chord Tool e The Chord Menu appears The top five commands in the menu are chord input options Manual Input you type letters and numbers into a dialog box to create a chord symbol Type Into Score functions in the same way as the corresponding Lyric option MIDI Input which has you play the chord on the MIDI keyboard One Staff Analysis in which Finale examines the notes of each chord you click in the staff and Two Staff Analysis in which Finale examines a complete chord even if it spans two staves as with a piano voicing You can a
249. r decrease accordingly EDITING NOTE DURATIONS START AND STOP TIMES For the next experiment restore all the velocity information to a uniform level If the graph area above measures 3 and 4 isnt already highlighted drag through it now Press the Mac cear key The bactspacel ciear key removes all MIDI data alterations in the selected region even if you re not in the MIDI Tool split window It doesnt erase all MIDI data however only the kind that s currently selected in the MIDI Tool Menu Key Velocities Note Durations and so on If necessary use the left horizontal scroll bar arrow to move back so that you can see measures 1 and 2 Restore these notes velocities to 64 as well Now you l try using the MIDI Tool to edit the playback durations of the notes in your score From the MIDI Tool Menu choose Edit Note Durations 138 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics You ll notice that the graph in the MIDI Tool split window has changed Now you re seeing each note represented by a thin horizontal line the longer the line the longer the notes duration You ll also see several thin gray vertical gridlines these gridlines represent the strict quantized locations of the notated notes The piano keyboard helps cs EA you identify the pitches of the notes in the graph You can drag this keyboard up or down The menu commands you explored while editing Key Velocities also work on Note Durations In some o
250. rScribe Stress and accents rushing the beat all of these human elements constitute captured MIDI data In Tutorial 1c you experimented with the bouncing ball playback option at the end of the tutorial you listened to the original performance of a piece while look ing at the notated version Finale always lets you choose which way you d like to hear your music as strict perfectly even sheet music or as the original unquan tized MIDI performance with a human feel and all captured MIDI data intact As an experiment try listening to the same piecetwice once with and once with out the captured MIDI data e Close the open document if you want Open the document called Tutorial 6a The document a passage from Ellmenreich s Spinning Song appears While pressing the Space bar click the first measure The piece plays back technically perfect but without any expression For comparison listen to it now asit was originally performed To tell Finaleto use the captured MIDI data you have to change some settings in the Playback Options dialog box To prepare for the MIDI Tool lesson do the following e From the Options Menu choose Playback Options The Playback Options dialog box appears 131 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics Playback Options x Options Play Recorded Key Velocities Play Recorded Note Durations Ignore Repeats Play Recorded Continuous Data v Reset Repeats Play Recorded Tempo Chang
251. ram and its associated files For a full installation you ll need about twenty five megabytes 25 000K of free space on your hard disk You should also bear in mind that like many other software programs Finale creates and makes use of temporary files during its normal operations which it then deletes from your hard disk when you exit the program We recommend having an additional ten megabytes 10 000K of free disk space for these files Because some virus detection programs can prevent certain files from installing properly we recommend you temporarily disable anti virus programs Rest assured your Finale CD does not contain any viruses If you are installing on Windows NT Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional make sure you arelogged in asthe System Administrator and reboot after installation Insert the Install disc into your CD ROM drive Ifthe Setup Program doesn t start click the Start Menu and choose Run Type d setup where D represents the CD ROM drive on your machine and click OK TheFinale Setup program starts the installation process Follow the instructions on the screen until the installation is complete The Finale Installer lets you select which files you want installed and where you want them placed on your hard disk The Installer offers to create a folder called Finale 2003 We recommend that you install all of theFinalefiles into this new folder For the most part you can press Enter to confirm each
252. rd The Parts page of the Setup Wizard appears Woodwinds should already be selected in the Families window Double click on the Flute in the middle column The Flute instrument appears in the selection window Click on the Finish button The Wizard adds a Flute staff above our selected staff in this case the Violin staff 116 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores TRANSPOSING INSTRUMENTS But what if we made a mistake What if we really wanted to add a clarinet You could delete the flute staff and add a clarinet from the Wizard but let s say you ve already added music and you dont want to lose it We ve already seen how to change the staff name earlier in this Tutorial so we ll just cover how to change the staff from a C instrument to a transposing instrument Click the Staff Tool Double click on the Flute staff to the right of the clef and signatures The Staff Attributes dialog box for the Flute staff appears Using the techniques you learned earlier change the Staff Names to Clarinet and Cl but dont exit the Staff Attributes dialog box Click the Transposition box and click Select The Staff Transpositions dialog box appears You could design your own transposition but you don t need to for common instruments such as a clarinet french horn or saxophone Tranzparition fe Kap Signum o PF Simply Kay Irdarani fa Kay Alber fa bak Sa teil SEPBEESEI 5 ce Hep Next
253. reate The Save As command always leaves a duplicate of the original document open on the screen and closes the original document Heres a quicker way FromtheFile Menu choose New then Document from Template The stan dard list box appears allowing you to choose a document Locate the Tem plates folder and double click it Double click the name of the template you want to open When the docu ment comes to the screen it s called Untitled This technique achieves the same result as the Save As technique it preserves the original template for future use and brings an untitled copy to the screen Actually you ve been using atemplate since you began learning Finale the Maestro Font Default document This special document duplicates itself every time you 193 Making the Most of Finale start Finale or choose the N ew Default Document option from the N ew submenu of the File Menu bringing an untitled copy to the screen ORDER OF ENTRY In general you can make the most of your time by creating your documents in the following order Save your work after each step and even more frequently if you can The list below is just one possibility you may find a different order suits your style better 1 Usethe Setup Wizard or a template to define the instruments and basic layout of your piece If needed add delete or edit staves with the Staff Tool 2 Enter the music using the Simple Entry Tool Speedy Entry Tool HyperScribe
254. reen Click the Lyrics Tool A The Lyrics menu appears From the Lyrics Menu choose Edit Word Extensions Now you must tell Finale which syllable you want to extend Click in the staff above the syllable I m first verse measure 5 A square handle appears at the end of the corresponding syllable in each verse Dragthetop handleto the right until it extends to the next syllable as shown above The farther you drag the longer the underline will be To remove the underline click its handle and press delete According to classical notation practice a word extension should stop at the end of the notehead above it Dragthelower handle of the syllable The to the right too Repeat the pro cess with the word my in measure 7 remember to first click in the staff above the syllable You ll need another word extension on the second verse syllables Its measure 17 and I measure 13 While it s easy enough to add the occasional word extension it would get tedious to add word extensions for alonger melismatic piece Fortunately we ve provided the Word Extension Plug insto do the work for you Click the Mass Edit Tool 108 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing From the Edit Menu choose Select All e From the Plug ins Menu choose Lyrics then Word Extensions Remove We just removed the word extensions we added by hand so we can better see how the Word Extension Plug in works
255. ression that appears in every staff as well as a note expression that appears in only one staff Sometimes however you might need something in between a marking that is to appear for example in every staff of the woodwind section only You re in luck Finales Expression Tool has a built in feature called Staff Lists which lets you establish predefined groups of staves in which a given marking is to appear These staves neednt be adjacent for example you might use a Staff List to place a rehearsal letter over the first staff in every orchestral section e Click the Expression Tool Go to measure 10 and double click just above the left barline The standard palette of expressions appears M ake sure that M easure Expression is selected In this example you ll add a rehearsal letter Click Create Type a capital A and click Enclose Expression W hen you click Enclose Expression the Enclosure Designer dialog box appears asking what shape you want to use as the markings enclosure The default selection Rectangle is fine for our purposes Enclosure Designer x Shape Line Thickness 0 0064 Opaque ad Height 10 125 Center H wid 0 125 v o Options Enforce Minimum Width ha Fixed Enclosure Size Cancel Help If you wanted to you could change the size positioning and line thickness of this enclosure T hese variables may need adjustment since a PostScript printout of enclos
256. right handle changes the beam angle as you move it up and down Custom Stem Tool the left handle remains stationary The left handle changes the beam height as you move it up or down the right handle moves in tandem and the beam angle doesnt change Try it now drag the right and left handles of the beam on the pair of eighth notes at the end of the measure Fivetools provide additional control over beaming For example the Secondary Beam Break Tool m lets you specify places where you d like secondary beams sixteenths 32nds and so on to break The Beam Extension Tool w simply extends any beam past its last note which can be useful for beaming across the barline And theres also a Secondary Beam Angle Tool 5 that lets you give six teenth note and lower beams different slants This tool is useful for creating the modern feathered beaming notation of accelerandi and ritards where sev eral secondary beams converge The Beam Width Tool 7 lets you change the thickness of beams themselves and the Beam Stem Adjust Tool amp allows you to adjust the length of stems within beamed notes For a more complete discussion of these tools see SPECIAL TOOLS in the User Manual Click the second measure of the middle staff Click the Tie Tool then double click the tie s left handle The Tie Alter ations dialog box appears This dialog box allows you to change the appearance TI p and placement of individual ties in the score The
257. ro 0 key to exit the editing frame or click the mouse on any blank part of the screen The editing frame goes away Choose Jump to Next Measure from the Speedy Menu If you look again you ll seethat Jump to Next M easure no longer has a check mark in the Speedy M enu you ve just turned the auto advance feature off Press the zero key again The 0 key also takes you back into the editing frame you were last in Tutorial lo Speedy Entry Now that you ve turned the Jump to N ext M easure feature off how will you move from measure to measure Press the left bracket key on your keyboard Finale moves you back to the first measure The left and right bracket keys move the current editing frame one measure to the left or right respectively By the way dont be alarmed if Finale leaves a blank spot where the second mea sure used to be To speed up the operations of the program Finale doesn t always bother to redraw parts of the screen you re not working on If you want to update the display choose Redraw Screen from the View Menu fee D for Windows or amp 3 D for Mac Then press the zero key again to reenter the Speedy editing frame Keep this in mind anytime something on screen doesnt look right after you ve performed an edit Now press the left arrow and right arrow keys on the keyboard a few times Theinsertion bar moves by one note or rest each time you press the right or left arrow key You can also movethe insertio
258. rst experiment you ll now perform some further transformations to the doc ument you ve been working on If you dont already have the document Tutorial 6a on the screen open it now e Click the Expression Tool Scroll to measure 5 if needed Double click below the first left hand note in measure 5 The Expression Selection dialog box appears filled with Text Expressions Click Note Expression Double click the pp mark In the Note Expression Assignment dialog box click OK You ve placed the pp mark in your score To adjust its position drag its handle pp Double click below the first note bottom staff of measure 7 Once more the Expression Selection dialog box appears Expression Selection Cancel Edit Create Duplicate Delete Move Down ELEERE klik Help Text C Shape Measure Expression C Note Expression Make sure Note Expression is selected Double click the m mark When the Note Expression Assignment dialog box appears click OK Adjust the posi tion of the new expression Now listen to the new dynamics 147 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics 148 If the Playback Controls aren t on the screen choose Playback Controls from the Window Menu Click Play gt Sure enough when Finale reaches measure 5 it obeys your dynamics Now let s see why Click Stop to interrupt playback Double click the pp mark s handle The Text Expression Designer
259. s subtitles and page numbers with the Text Tool 15 Usethe Page Layout Tool to make final adjustments to your piece coc OY Ut 4 194 Making the Most of Finale SPEED TIPS 1 MINIMIZING SCREEN REDRAWS Finale is a vast graphics intensive program like any such program it pushes the computer to its processing limits Completing your scores in the order described in the ORDER OF ENTRY section will help speed Finale along So will using Staff Sets whenever possible to hide the staves you re not working on And you should do every possible bit of editing work in Scroll View There are several built in features that speed Finale along too by minimizing the amount of screen painting image processing the program has to do Sliding the music diagonally You may notice that Finale redraws the screen every time you move around the score using the scroll bars But what about moving diagonally within your score Instead of using the horizontal scroll bar then the vertical scroll bar you can use the Hand Grabber Tool SX on the Main Tool Bar to move diagonally within your score in a single movement Even better instead of changing tools just to adjust your view of the music press the right mouse button M ac amp 3 eption and drag the music Release the button and resume working with whatever tool was selected Eliminating background redraws You can further speed up your work by selecting Redraw Only the Active Win
260. s anticipated your basic intentions and filled in most of the information for you already You are grouping from Staff 1 through Staff 2 and you want the barlines drawn through the staves All that remains for you to do is to select a bracket from the options provided at the bottom of the dialog box Click the piano brace the third bracket option from the right then click OK When you return to the score you ll noticethat Finale has grouped your staves extended the barlines through the staves and set up a piano brace at the left edge of the grouped staves Group Attributes x Group Name Edit Position Abbr Group Name Edit Position Staff Staff 1 Group ID 1 E Through Staff 2 Staff List Global Draw Barlines Through Staves v Show Group Name T Use Alternate j J Group Barline Normal Double Bracket Options Distance from the Left Edge of Staff 0 0833 Vertical Adjust Top of Bracket o Vertical Adjust Bottom of Bracket o Show Bracket If Group Contains Only One Staff Cal Cancel Help Next you ll change the clef of the bottom staff to a bass clef e Click on a blank part of the screen to remove the highlighting if necessary then click in the bottom staff somewhere to the right of the time signature Notice that this staff s handle is now selected Dont worry if the measure is also highlighted we ll cover more advanced Staff
261. s as you become acquainted with it With this volume and the U ser Manual as your guides you should now be ready to work on a project of your own A fascinating experience awaits you Heres hoping that Finale enhances your musical productivity and creativity in ways you ve never imagined possible 199 Making the Most of Finale 200 License Agreement IMPORTANT READ THIS AGREEMENT BEFORE OPENING DISK PACKET BY OPENING THE SEALED PACKET YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMSAND LIMITATIONS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT DO NOT OPEN THE PACKET Promptly return the unopened disk packet along with the entire FINALE package to the place where you obtained them to receive a refund of the purchase price and license fee you paid for the FINALE package MAKEMUSIC Inc CODA MUSIC TECHNOLOGY CODA is licensing the FINALE software programs contained in this disk packet and the FINALE package collectively the SOFTWARE to you on the following terms and conditions 1 GRANT OF LICENSE In consideration of the license fee that is a part of the price you paid for this product CODA grants you as licensee a nonexclusive right to use the SOFTWARE on a single computer CPU under the terms and limita tions of this License Agreement 2 OWNERSHIP As licensee you own the documentation materials and the media on which the SOFTWARE is recorded but CODA retains all ownership and rights in the
262. s of this tool are not cumulative If you make a note half its size 5096 and then decide to reduce it again by half you would type 2596 in the Resize Notehead dialog box the second time not 5096 Scroll to measure 5 Click the stem of the eighth notes in the top staff The Resize Note dialog box appears but this time you re resizing the entire note group in other words a chord or a series of beamed notes W hen you enlarge or reduce an entry group any lyric or dynamic attached to it also grows or shrinks Type50 and click OK You ve just created cue notes These are the only two powers of the Resize Tool in Scroll View From the View Menu choose Home Position Click to the left of the top staff The Resize Staff dialog box appears this time asking how much to resize the staff Type 80 and click OK You ve just created a cue or rehearsal staff at 8096 of the normal staff size Click between the two staves to the left of a system When the Resize Staff System dialog box appears this time there are two additional options Hold TI p M argins and Resize Vertical Space Finale is asking whether or not it should maintain the system margins as it resizes the music If you dont select Hold Margins as you reduce the music for USIng Resize Staff example the system will shrink in both dimensions thus reducing its width If 9Y5tem you must you do select Hold Margins Finale will hold the system at its current margin
263. s opposed to for instance new chord symbol suf fixes which would be stored in a separate library As you become more familiar with Finale you may find yourself wanting to save these other types of libraries the basic procedure is the same You re now asked to name this library Type Brass Expressions and click Save The next time you need these mark ings open the document in which you want to use them From the File Menu choose Open Library and double click Brass Expressions in the list box that appears Thereafter when you use the Expression Tool you ll see the imported markings in the palette ready to use After you quit Finale you may want to move the Brass Expressions library into the Libraries folder so you can find it easily the next time you want it 87 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions It is entirely likely that you will continue to create new text expressions almost every time you use Finale at least for the first few sessions on your own If you were to create a new library each time you created a new expression you could find yourself having to open several library files every time you began a new piece Fortunately this problem can easily be avoided by overwriting your exist ing library file rather than creating a new library file each time With the Save Library command Finale will save every text expression in the piece regardless of whether it was imported from an existing library file or just created
264. s say you usethis particular articulation fairly infrequently and you would rather assign M etatool A to another articulation Double click the breath mark slot 36 When you return to the score it may seem that nothing has happened no new mark appears in the score But something has indeed happened you ve suc cessfully programmed a M etatool Remember that s why you pressed shirt A which is Finales signal that you re teaching it a M etatool Position the cursor on the third note of measure 5 in the top staff While pressing the A key click Finale pops a breath mark into the score Furthermore Expressions can have their own set of thirty six M etatools 1 through 4 might be dynamics you use often 5 and 6 might be cresc and dim and so on You create the M etatools the same way Select the tool press shift and the number or letter the Expression Selection dialog box appears Double Click the desired expression Both text phrases and shapes may be programmed to Metatools When you re ready to put the marking into the score press and hold the number or letter key alone and single click where you want the marking to appear it pops into place Notethat with Expression M etatools you need to predetermine whether they will be note expressions or measure expressions This is done in the Expression M enu simply choose one of the three items in the lower half of the menu Context Sensitive means that if you Click a note th
265. s the playback effect of your shape by the numbers in the Level Scale text boxes Because the Level Scale is now a ratio of 30 1 each grid point crossed by your Executable Shape now represents a drop of 30 beats per minute instead of one Sincethe shape crossed four grid points the tempo will drop by 120 beats per minute a much more satisfying ritard Now specify a different Time Scale which determines how long the executable shape will last When you designed the shape it crossed four grid points eighth notes a duration of one half note e In the first Time Scale box type 2 Finale multiplies your shapes duration a half note by the ratio expressed by the Time Scale text boxes Your new Time Scale of 2 1 will create a ritard lasting twice as long a whole note If you d entered a Time Scale of 1 2 the ritard would last half as long a quarter note and 3 1 would last three times as long Each would still slow the tempo by the same 120 beats per minute amount over the course of the Executable Shape however Executable Shape Designer x Shape ID fi Sample Rate E TimeScale 2 f T Use List Level Scale oh Repeat Count o T Log All Quit at End of Sample List i Cancel Help 156 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics Remember all those dialog boxes and selection boxes you traversed in order to reach the Shape Designer Now that your Shape Designer work is finished you have to work your way back out to t
266. s with the other voice You ve also said that when Layer 2 has arest it should appear four lines or spaces lower 6 than its usual position the middle B line You ll seethe effects of your settings soon You could continue by setting Layers 3 and 4 but two is enough for now e Click OK Now let put in the harmony notes You want to enter them in Layer 2 68 Tutorial 2 Adding Details For Windows click the Layer 2 push button in the lower left corner of the screen For Macintosh choose Layer 2 from the popup menu in the lower left corner of the screen You ve just made Layer 2 the active layer of every Layer 2 Layer staff Layer 4 Scroll to measure 10 Click the Speedy Entry Tool Choose Jump to Next Measure in the Speedy Menu to turn AH I this option off if it s selected Click on mea sure 10 At the moment this measure contains notes with stems up Note that when you click the measure the existing Layer 1 notes become dimmed because you ve switched to Layer 2 While playing A below middle C on your MIDI keyboard press 6 A half note A appears While playing A below middle C press the 6 key Another half note A appears Press shift j apostrophe three times Mac shift j up arrow once to return to Layer 1 The editing frame now displays Layer 1 and Layer 2 is dimmed sit apostrophe Mac shirt up arrow is a keyboard shortcut used to cyc
267. screen s defaults Removethe Installer disc from the drive and store it in a safe place If anything happens to your hard disk you can reinstall Finale from your original disc When you open an older Finale file from the File Menu choose Open then navigate to your older file Finale 2003 takes a moment to convert it into the new format then opens it as an Untitled file If you savethe filein Finale 2003 using the same name as before you will not be able to reopen that file using an earlier version of Finale It is suggested therefore that you savethe file with a slightly different name for instance My Score could become My Vil TIp The Installer sets up a folder called Finale 2003 for the Finale application and its associated files and folders Do not alter this setup ITip If upon trying to install you get the error message Cannot find the file your CD ROM drive may be assigned to a letter other than D Try other letters Installation for Windows Score 2 unless you are absolutely sure that you wont need to reopen it in an earlier version of Finale PREPARING FOR PRINTING Before you can print from Finale you must set up Windows to work with your printer See your Microsoft Windows User Manual for details For information on printing in Finale see PRINTING in the User Manual or consult TUTORIAL 4 in this volume SETTING UP Y
268. se the Speedy Entry Tool s stem flipping key the letter L to correct stem directions as you go Now that you understand the theory let s get some practice Go to measure 16 Click the Speedy Entry Tool E and click measure 16 in any staff In general its best to enter the longer values first While playing CZ an octave above middle C on your MIDI keyboard press 6 5 5 A half note and two quarter notes appear stems down As you can see by the V1 indicator in the editing frame you re creating Voice 1 notes Now return to the beginning of the measure and add the second voice Press the left arrow key until the insertion bar is on the first note Press the apostrophe key The indicator now says V2 and the insertion bar is offset slightly from the first beat to remind you that you re now editing a second voice 182 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics While playing middle C press the 4 key twice Play D press 4 twice Play E press 4 twice Play F press 4 twice You ve just added eighth notes in Voice 2 going up the scale in pairs The measure should look like this EE pa aaa The stems arent correctly flipped the first V1 half note flipped but the remaining quarter notes didnt Lets jump back to V1 mode and flip the stems manually Press the apostrophe key The indicator now says V1 The insertion bar jumps to the first Voice 1 quarter note the first note following
269. second box Click OK You ve just told Finale to decrease its volume over the course of the two selected measures Try it While pressing the Space bar click measure 1 to play back the music You should hear a steady decrescendo that lasts for the first two measures If not be sure you ve made the changes to the Playback Options described in the intro duction to this section 133 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics NOTE Some MIDI keyboards dont respond to key velocity information at all If the volume or timbre of the notes on your keyboard doesnt vary with the force you use to strike them the keyboard is not velocity sensitive Unless you want to take this opportunity to connect a velocity sensitive MIDI keyboard skip ahead to EDITING NOTE DURATIONS START AND STOP TIMES Being ableto scale performance data in this way may be useful but it s not very interactive you can only tell what changes you ve made by listening to the music Fortunately you can also see the changes you ve made Click anywhere on the screen to halt the playback e Drag enclose the first two measures in the top staff only Double click the first highlighted measure The MIDI Tool split window opens In this window you can only edit the captured MIDI information for one staff at a time If you want to edit data on several staves simultaneously therefore dont open the MIDI Tool split window just use the menu com mands after selecting the desired stav
270. sk for your serial number which is found on the inside cover of the Tutorial If you have Internet access you can receive information read answers to frequently asked questions participate in forums and download maintenance updates and demos from Codas website at http www makemusic com You can also send ques tions directly to Coda via e mail at winsupport makemusic com or macsup port makemusic com Coda can be reached by fax at 952 937 9760 via mail at 6210 Bury Drive Eden Prairie MN 55346 1718 or via telephone at 952 937 9703 We ll answer any questions as long as you re the registered owner of the pro gram as named on the registration card and include your serial number In addition to receiving technical support benefits sending in your registration card means you ll automatically receive company and product information from time to time as well as official notification of any future upgrades to your program Remember that extensive help is always at your fingertips from the Help M enu choose User Manual then Table of Contents vi Installation for Windows INSTALLING FINALE Macintosh users skip to the next section INSTALLATION FOR MACINTOSH Installing Finale onto your hard disk is easy whether you re upgrading from a pre vious version or working with Finale for the first time Before you begin installing Finale make sure theres enough room on your hard disk to hold the prog
271. splay so that you can see measures 3 and 4 if so click the arrow buttons on Windows usethe scroll bar at the bottom of your screen If you cannot see measures 3 and 4 click the right horizontal scroll bar arrow until measure 3 is at the left side of the window A measure number appears in the middle of each measure between the notation display and the graph area Click in the graph area at the beginning of measure 3 and drag to the end of measure 4 like this 135 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics 127 96 64 32 ili ers 53 a be Any region you select in the graph area automatically selects the handles of the corresponding notes below it From the MIDI Tool Menu choose Scale Type 30 press Tab and then type 120 You ve just programmed a crescendo for the second half of the phrase Click OK Whenever you re working in the MIDI Tool split window you can always get a quick playback of the displayed music From the MIDI Tool Menu choose Play Tip EDITING KEY VELOCITIES TheMIDI Tool M enu Play command does The remaining experiments in this tutorial delve deeply into some of Finales pow not support Internal erful MIDI capabilities If you dont thrive on technical discussions feel free to skip Speaker Playback on ahead to EXPRESSIONS DEFINING PLAYBACK later in this chapter the M ac Usethe Heres a quick rundown of the remaining MIDI Tool M en
272. sure Expression and Note Expression A M easure Expression can appear in one staff or in several staves and can also appear in an empty measure a Note Expression appears only in the staff in which it was created and is as the title implies attached to a specific note or rest a Click to edit 3 a selected IF These are Metatool assignments expression y a mf Click to create mj an expression r P Click to delete i pn a selected PPP expression from PPEP the list and the JP score M a Click to move i af a selected aft expression affs up down the list Adagio Moderate 3 7 bagna Emin o foa Epin Click to define how Click Text to view text based expressions the expression is attached Click Shape to view shape based expressions You will undoubtedly encounter many instances where it makes no real differ ence which type of expression you choose Here are a few good rules of thumb Use Measure Expressions for such items as rehearsal letters tempo indications dynamics that apply to an entire section or to all instruments and so forth Reserve Note Expressions for dynamics that are specific to one instrument player instructions that are specific to one instrument character names etc The radio button for Note Expression is currently grayed out In the future double click directly on a note to makethis option available Since you double clicked below the measure M easure Expression is the only available option Dou
273. sure s per System v Treat Multi Measure Rests as One Measure Lock Selected Measures into One System C Remove System Locks Change C Whole Document Measure fi Through 5 Cancel Help Click on Lock Selected Measures into One System then click OK You return to the score where the first five measures are all on the first system a little crowded perhaps but Finale did what you asked it to do Using the Fit Music dialog box5 other option M easures Per System you can select any region of measures and instruct Finale to place a certain number of them per line With any of the Fit Music commands however the layout depends on your good judgment Remember Finale automatically lays out your music with as many measures as it can fit on a line you re free to override its placement deci sions but the result may be measures that are too wide or too crowded Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing You ve just created a measure group Finales system of locking measures within a system hence the non printing lock icon Be aware that once a measure has been manipulated in this way the measures are locked into this arrange ment and they wont be affected by future measure rearranging commands like Update Layout or even Begin a New Staff System You can remove locked mea sure groups from the piece by choosing Update Layout from the Edit M enu while pressing shift or by selecting the gro
274. t corner of the page choose Home Position from the View Menu Click the upper left corner of the page The Resize Page dialog box appears Type75 Click OK NOTE If you use the Resize Tool on a system or a page as you ve just done you change the measure widths W henever you perform any operation in Finale that changes the measure widths you must tell Finale to compensate by rearranging the layout of measures As noted previously Finale performs an Automatic U pdate Layout for you if you have decided to turn this fea ture off you ll need to do it manually now From the Edit Menu choose U pdate Layout Only now does Finale redistribute the measures If your purpose in reducing the size of the music was to fit more music on fewer pages you wont seethe results until you choose U pdate Layout THE TExT TooL The Text Tool is used to enter text onto a single page or multiple pages Titles subtitles composer credits page numbers copyright notices and dates are good examples For best results dont use the Text Tool for musical text like Adagio and rehearsal letters Use the Expression Tool for these purposes see Tutorial 3 If you create a document using the Document Setup Wizard you will be prompted for atitle For this tutorial document we have provided you with a dummy title Title The word Title has brackets around it to tell you it s special a text insert We ll talk more about text inserts later in this tutoria
275. t of han dles that lets you reposition any beat and the notes that fall on it in every staff at once e Click the Measure Tool Each barline in the piece sprouts two stacked han dles You can drag the top one right or left to widen or compress the measure When you click the bottom handle however its beat chart springs into view Scroll to measure 5 Click the bottom handle of measure 5 s ending barline A beat chart two rows of square handles appears above the music The top row of handles evenly spaced show you where the beats would fall if the music were spaced linearly The bottom row of handles is yours to play with 93 Tutorial 4 Layout and Printing When you click the bottom handle of a barline 1 B 43 d o a beat chart appears The top row of handles indicates the positions of the beats as they d fall with linear spacing and the bottom row of handles allows you to move beat positions by dragging them Drag the third bottom handle half an inch to the right When you re finished you ll see that you ve actually moved the third beat to the right in every staff Let s say you had a many note glissando for the lead on beat two you can make room using this technique While pressing shift drag the second beat s bottom handle to the left When you press shift while dragging a handle you also affect all handles to its right
276. t without cluttering up the conductors score Click in the text box next to List Name type Rehearsal Letters and then click Add You ve just named this staff list Staff List x Staff List Rehearsal Letters z i i List Name Rehearsal Letters aga Staves Score Parts Set Score Clear Score Set Parts Clear Parts Always Show On T Top Score Staff Top Part Staff Bottom Score Staff Bottom Part Staff OK Cancel Help 85 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions e Click OK The words Rehearsal Letters now appear in the drop down list beside Staff List Finale will remember this configuration in case you want to use it again which in the case of rehearsal letters you probably will When it comes time to put rehearsal letter B into the score you wont need to enter the Staff List dialog box at all just select Rehearsal Letters from the drop down list and click OK Click OK to return to the score The rehearsal letter A appears only in the staves you specified You might ask If put a dynamic into the score but use a Staff List so that it only appears at the top of the conductors score will it affect the playback of all the other staves Actually that s up to you If you want an Expression to affect playback of staves in which it doesnt appear put an X across from those staves in the Parts column of the Staff List dialog box COPYING AND PASTING EXPRESSION
277. taff but in different layers each one could have its own Instrument and thus have its own MIDI channel and patch assignment As you can see from the previous diagram the Instrument List gives you a convenient way to control which staves play back Click in the Play column P to mute a staff or click in the Solo column S to isolate a staff and silence the others e From the Instrument drop down list across from the Strings staff choose New Instrument You ll need to scroll up to see New Instrument The Instru ment Definition dialog box appears 128 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics e Name this Instrument Strings Type 3 in the Channel text box You ll need to set each instrument to a unique channel so we can send MIDI data to each instrument independently e Next to General MIDI you ll see 1 Acoustic Grand Piano Click on the down arrow and choose 49 String Ensemble 1 You ll need to scroll down to see it For further discussion of the Bank Select Program Change and General MIDI options consult the User Manual under INSTRUMENT DEFINITION DIALOG BOX Click OK Thelnstrument List shows the new Instrument name for the first staff From the Instrument drop down list across from the Harp staff choose New Instrument Name the Instrument Harp and assign it to Channel 4 From the General MIDI Menu choose 47 Orchestral Harp Click OK Instrument Definition x Instrument Name Hape s lt
278. tain discussions of topics you ve just Covered See for example CRESCENDO DECRESCENDO MIDI CHANNELS DYNAMICS RALLENTANDO EXPRESSIONS START AND STOP TIMES KEY VELOCITY SWING 157 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics 158 Tutorial 7 Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments Finale 2003 offers a variety of new features for notation of guitar and other fretted instruments In this chapter you will learn how to create a score with tablature edit tab staves enter bends slides hammer ons pull offs and even enter music into your score using a MIDI guitar If you do not plan on notating for guitar or another fretted instrument feel free to skip ahead to the next chapter If you have created tablature notation with Finale in the past you will find that much has changed You will no longer need the Automatic Tablature plug in and Note Mover Tool to create and edit tablature This functionality is now built into the Mass Edit Staff and Simple Entry Tools You will find it is now easier than ever to create and edit tablature notation CREATING GUITAR TABLATURE Lets start by creating a new document containing both standard and tablature notation Well usethe Document Setup Wizard to do this Click theFile Menu choose New then select Document with Setup Wizard You will now see page one of the Setup Wizard Type Guitar with Tab Click in the Composer box and type your name Click Next Pagetwo of the setup Wizard appears In t
279. target measures on the screen at the same time Now you ll use two Finale shortcuts that can be used to copy any amount of music from one place to another even when the source and the target are hundreds of measures apart SELECTING SEVERAL MEASURES BY SHIFT CLICKING It turns out that theres a common technique for selecting large amounts of mate rial in word processors spreadsheets and even music programs It s called shift clicking You can use this technique to select the four measures you want to copy It works like this Click here Scroll to the endpoint and Shift click here Everything between is selected 32 Tutorial lo Speedy Entry r 4 Click the Mass Edit Tool then click measure 6 While pressing shift click measure 9 Measures 6 through 9 are now selected As a matter of fact there s yet another way to select a range of measures that s especially handy for selecting large regions because you dont have to scroll to the endpoint to shift J click It s the Select Region command in the Edit Menu You ll read more about it in a moment COPYING MUSIC TO OFFSCREEN TARGETS Now you have to copy this music to the end of the piece Here s another keyboard shortcut This one used for copying music from one place to another in Finale works like this Select the source and Ctrl Shift Mac O ption Shift measures Scroll click the first of the target measures
280. tes in other words for the noteheads themselves to be written on the bottom staff From the Note Mover Menu choose Cross Staff As always with the Note M over and Mass Edit tools specify the action from the menu before you per form the copy or move Dragthe mouse to enclose the notes you want to move as shown You can also select multiple notes by shirt j clicking them In either case the handles should now be selected 177 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics 178 40 210 m Drag any selected handle straight down onto the bottom staff As you drag any handle all selected handles move with it You dont have to drag the note to any particular pitch on the target staff you just have to give Finale the general idea by dragging it onto the staff When you let go you ll see that Finale has correctly notated these cross staff notes TT There are some interesting properties of cross staff notes that you should know about As far as Finale is concerned these notes still belong to the staff you took them from If you click the source measure with the Speedy Entry Tool for example you can edit them as though they are still on their original staff They play back with the original staffs MIDI channel and patch settings too If you want to restore the notes to their original staff click the original staff to see the handles appear Select the cross staff notes and then press delete You may have to redra
281. th your hands e Play back your performance click Play gt on the Playback Controls Finale plays back your version of Chopsticks complete with your dynamics and rhythmic feel albeit at a fairly sprightly tempo In thisfile we veturned off scrolling playback so Finalesimply plays the music it encounters in your score but the screen display doesnt change If you want you can tell Finale to scroll the music as it plays so you can follow the score as you re listening to the playback This is sometimes called bouncing ball playback NOTE To play a score a large score in particular is already a demanding task for a computer to continuously redraw the screen at the same time requires massive amounts of computational power Therefore when using scrolling playback the Play back Controls help the computer cheat a bit by taking a moment to prepare the audio portion in advance Then when you play back only the visual portions are computed 51 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play On Windows click the Settings ad button On Macintosh click the right arrow button to reveal more options From the Play Mode drop down list select Scrolling On Windows click OK to close the Settings box On Macintosh move the Playback Controls down and to the right so you can see the music Now comes the good part e Click Play gt The Status or M essage Bar keeps you apprised of Finales progress in pre computing the music Wh
282. that measure until you tell it differently You could click another measure to select it Drag any handle left or right Because the N otehead Position Tool lets you move individual noteheads you could for example use it to rearrange the note head configuration of a cluster chord You can also change a notehead s appearance Click the Note Shape Tool 1 and double click a notes handle The Symbol Selection dialog box appears containing every possible symbol in the M aestro font You can double click any shape in this palette and it will replace the normal oval notehead of the note you clicked Using this technique you can create X noteheads diamond noteheads triangle noteheads or any other special notehead Double click the X symbol slot 192 The notehead has been replaced by the X although it s obscured by its handle From the Special Tools Menu choose Show Handles to deselect it By turning off Show Handles you make the handles invisible Now you can seethe new notehead When Show Handles isnt selected you can still use the Special Tools just click where a handle would be if it were visible Note by the way that this technique is best for occasional notehead shape changes If you plan to create a rhythm part in which most of the noteheads are X s or slashes use the Staff Styles feature see STAFF STYLES in the User Manual You can also tell Finale where you want the stem to attach to one of these non standar
283. this list after performing the tutorials l Specify thetitle number of instruments and beginning time and key signa ture See the Setup Wizard in Tutorial 1a 2 Enterthe notes 3 Listen to your pieceto check for mistakes 4 Editthemusic 5 Putin thelyrics 6 Add repeats chord symbols and fretboards 7 Putin all markings dynamics mf articulations and slurs 8 Verify that the music is spaced correctly 9 Look the piece over Resize the page to fit more music on the page if desired 10 Fix bad page turns or system breaks 1l Create word extensions for lyric syllables sustained through additional notes 12 Remove resting instruments to tighten up a full score You may need to make final adjustments to the layout xxiv Tutorial la Simple Entry In this tutorial we ll show you how to get notes on the page There are three basic methods so we ve divided this tutorial into three parts Simple E ntry Speedy Entry and HyperScribe If you re brand new to Finale we recommend you start with the Simple Entry tutorial to get a good introduction to navigating around Finale even if you dont plan to use Simple Entry for note entry Simple Entry is easy to learn and doesnt require a MIDI keyboard just click the notes onto the staff with a mouse By the end of this tutorial you should be ableto enter your notes into Finale using the Simple Entry method CREATING A NEW DOCUMENT WITH THE DOCUMENT SETUP WIZARD Yo
284. to ave more than one margin width but reduce the music in it so that more measures fit on the line Staff otherwise use To resize a system Resize Staff F Hold Hangin Hold Hangina hv Resize Vertical Space Resins Walica Space far GG AA eg rag AG oe ee tn ums abang aaa map herre UGE BAE Ay Fr oroat E Pee tte See AP TD aahit Select Hold Margins if you want the systems on the page to maintain their margin to margin width above left Otherwise Finale reduces the music proportionally in both dimensions right 101 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing Finale also wants to know whether it should maintain the amount of blank space between this system and the next one or whether you re reducing that distance as well Select Resize Vertical Space if you want to tighten up the space between this system and the next e For Resize System Type 75 Select Hold Margins and Resize Vertical Space if they re not already selected C lick on System 1 through 1 Click OK Now for practice try removing an enlargement or reduction Click between two staves to the left of the first system For Resize System enter 10096 and click OK The system is back to its original size So far you ve seen Finale resize a single note a note group a single staff and an entire system Often however you ll want to reduce all the music at once so that you can fit the music on fewer pages If you cant see the upper lef
285. told Finale not to draw the measure numbers under the piano staves They now appear only under the top staff If you want to add another region or if you want to change some aspects of the numbering for this one return to the M easure Number dialog box For more details see MEASURE NUMBERS in the User Manual 185 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics THE SHAPE DESIGNER Every now and then you ll run across a musical situation for which theres no stan dard notation M aybe you ll want to insert a diagram into your score for harp ped aling or musical theatre staging or an unusual instrument posture For those situations as well as for modern alternative notation scores Finale has a built in drawing program called the Shape Designer You visited the Shape Designer in the previous tutorial but this time you ll really find out what it can do If you ve ever worked with a graphics program you ll feel right at home in the Shape Designer To acquaint you with its features in this exercise you ll create a special diagram as part of a note to your flutist Scroll to measure 20 Click the Expression Tool and double click above measure 20 The Expres sion Selection dialog box appears Proceeding through the dialog boxes click as follows Shape C reate Select Create You arrive in the Shape Designer Shape Dengam x ER ZTemeDruges p Use this popup Doaa tC wes menu to zoom i
286. ts and the arc of the curve itself Drag these handles until the curve looks k like this e To change its line thickness click the line once and choose a different thickness from the Line Thickness submenu in the Shape Designer M enu Next you ll add an arrowhead to the curve With the curve still selected click on the Shape Designer menu and choose Arrowheads The Arrowheads dialog box appears We want to add an arrow to the start of our curve Click on the drop down menu next to Start and select Preset Arrowhead In the Preset Arrowhead Selection dialog box click on Select to choose the first arrowhead Click OK If you want to preserve the spatial relationship between the curve and the rectangle you can group them into a single unit With the Selec tion Tool click one object then gy click the other Choose Group from the Shape Designer M enu From now on these two objects will be locked together as though they re a single object until you choose Ungroup from the Shape Designer M enu of course As a final step make a textual notation to the hapless flutist IN 188 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics Click the Text Tool A Click to the left of the flute and type Tilt flute straight up Tilt flute i straight up If you want the text to wrap onto two lines as shown above press after the first two words To change the type styl
287. turn the first measure of Oh Susannah into a proper pickup measure There are several waysto do this but well show you the easiest This method changes the first measure in the document into a pickup measure For more information about creating pickups in the middle of a score see the User Manual under PICKUPS From the Options Menu choose Pickup Measure The Pickup M easure dialog box opens where you can tell Finale how long your pickup lasts Click the note 91 Tutorial 4 Layout and Printing that corresponds to the sum of the pickup notes In our example we have a dot ted quarter note and an eighth note equalling a total of a half note e Click the half note then click OK Finale hides the half note rest and only dis plays our pickup notes Finale even fixes the measures numbers to automati cally skip the pickup measure You may have noticed that the notes are still spaced as though the half note rest were still there Never fear we ll fix the spac ing in the next section SPACING THE MUSIC As noted earlier in Tutorial 1 Finaleis automatically applying professional pub lisher standard note spacing to your music as you go along This feature can be turned off by deselecting Automatic Music Spacing from the Edit M enu Auto matic Music Spacing not only spaces the notes it is designed to avoid the collision of chords lyrics and other score elements n most cases you will never need to worry about this feature Howeve
288. typeface from the Font dialog box or submenu of the Text M enu Now you need to align the subtitle on the page From the Text Menu choose Placement When you choose Placement a sub menu pops out which contains commands allowing you to specify where on the page you want the text to appear Note that Top Header and Position from Page Margin are already selected you only have to tell Finale to center your subtitle horizontally on the page Select Center Horizontally Finale has centered your subtitle on the page You can also manually adjust the position of any text block by dragging its handle Oh Susannah American Folk Song 103 Tutorial 4 Layoutand Printing If the text block shows an editing frame click anywhere on the page to see its handle You might want to adjust the vertical position of your subtitle To delete a text block click its handle and press In addition to entering titles and special instructions to players the Text Tool can also be used to place page numbers into your score as well as the document name current date and current time important features if you plan to update and reprint your score at some future time Finale provides several useful key board shortcuts for many of these features let s explore some of them here Double click in the bottom right corner of the page An editing frame appears Type Page type a space then press cz Mace 3 shift_
289. u are probably familiar with Wizards from other applications such as word pro cessors and spreadsheets This Wizard is designed to help you set up anew Finale document Let s create a simple piano score If you havent already started Finale do so now If Finaleis already started click on the File Menu and choose N ew then Document with Setup Wizard Click in theTitle box and type My Song When the Wizard creates your score your title will be centered at the top Click in the Composer box and type your name Click in the Copyright box and type Alt 0169 Mac Option G to create the extended character for the symbol and then the year and your name Be i Composer OC O O Ca Copyright O OE Page Size Leter 8511 m Portrait Landscape Cancel 8 Tip Thetitle composer and copyright information you type in the Setup Wizard are stored in the File Info dialog box To change the title later select the File M enu then File Info JTip To create special characters on Windows hold down the Alt key and type on the number keypad then release the Alt key Tutorial la Simple Entry Notice that you can select from portrait or landscape orientation and you can choose a page size other than the standard 8 5 by 11 your printer must of course be able to handle whatever size paper you select e Click Next The
290. u commands These Playback Controls descriptions assume you ve first selected the music to be edited Remember that when you re not in the MIDI Tool split window you select measures exactly as you would with the Mass Edit Tool by clicking a single measure drag enclosing sev eral and so on Within the MIDI Tool split window you can edit a single staff and you select notes either by dragging through the graph region or by selecting indi vidual note handles in one of the ways shown here 136 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics a paa 6233 3 es a To select individual notes in the MIDI Tool split window you can drag enclose them or Shift click individual handles or Shift drag enclose additional groups of notes Once you ve selected the music you can choose any of the MIDI Tool M enu trans formation commands from below the line Set To gives every note in the selected region exactly the same velocity volume You type a number between 0 and 127 Scale produces a smooth gradual change from one velocity value to another across the selected region If you select Absolute you can enter values in the text boxes between 0 and 127 If you select Percent of Original Finale scales the selected notes velocities proportional to their current values thus preserving some of the original variations from note to note in this case you can enter
291. uing Suis isin the Inale Tol der Tutorial la Simple Entry Your Wizard should now look like the following picture Document Setup Wizard Final Settings Page 4 of 4 xi Specify Pickup Measure sea o 1B 5 5 4 mofo 2 9 3 3 4 Default Music Font Maestro C Jazz lt Back Cancel e Click Finish Finale now presents you with a new Untitled document display ing your My Song title and containing the piano staves in the correct key and time signature with the tempo marking in the first measure By default Finale creates every new document with twenty one empty measures You could continue with this file but let s close it and open a file where we ve completed the left hand for you e From the File Menu choose Close Save the file if you wish e Choose Open from the File Menu Locate the document named Tutorial 1a in the Tutorials folder and double click it Under Windows document names may appear with or without an extension depending on how your Windows system is configured Finale s music documents use the extension MUS therefore the tutorial document you are looking for may appear as Tutorial 1a M US After a moment you ll see a simple piano arrangement of Frere Jacques come to the screen The left hand part has been prepared for you in this tutorial you ll finish the melody Tutorial la Simple Entry Windows View Menu Bar OS DM B m ipm Hd Ayia Ti
292. uped measures with the Mass Edit Tool and choosing Unlock Systems from the M ass Edit M enu The concept of locked measure groups is especially useful if you want to force Finaleto create a specific number of measures per line W hen you click the Page Layout Tool the Page Layout M enu appears simply chooseF it Music from this menu and enter the number of measures you d liketo fit in each system Finale ignores any measure groupings you ve made and locks the measures into group ings of four per line or any number you ve specified The same Fit Music com mands are available in the M ass Edit Tool to make selecting measures easier Again to restore these measures to floating status choose Update Layout while pressing or use Unlock Systems in the Mass Edit Menu A shift U pdate Layout by the way works exactly like the normal U pdate Lay out command it only affects the pages of your piece from the page you re view ing to the last page If you ve carefully created measure groups on the first page for example you wont disturb them if you perform a shit Update Layout command while viewing page 2 For small fixes to the measure layout you can move a measure or two from sys tem to system using a quick Mass Edit technique Click the Mass Edit Tool Click measure 18 Press the up arrow key on your keyboard Finale movesthe orphan measure you clicked onto the system above PicKUP MEASURES Lets
293. ur Finale 2003 folder is specified For the purpose of this tuto rial we will usethe default Finale directory if you have changed this folder name or are using a different version of Finale please replace references to Finale 2003 throughout this tutorial with the name of your Finale folder Enter tut4picture in the File Name field and click Save This file can now be imported into any desktop publishing or word processing application You will want to look in your specific desktop publishing or word processing manual for the exact steps for importing a graphic typically this is referred to by the terms Place or Insert Now that you ve created a TIFF file we ll import the same file back into Finale Whileimporting Finale examples into Finaleis not necessarily something you d commonly do although you might to create an incipit measure the procedure would be the same if you were importing any other type of graphic like a com pany logo or letterhead Click anywhere on the screen to remove your previous selection From the Graphics Menu choose Place Graphic you could also double click on the document window in Page View where you d likethe graphic to appear The Place Graphic dialog box is where you specify the graphic item you wish to import in this tutorial we ll usethe file you saved moments ago If your Finale 2003 folder is not already chosen select it now Click on tut4picture once to select it then click the
294. ures wont always match their appearance on the screen For more informa tion see REHEARSAL LETTERS in the User Manual Leave it alone for now 83 Tutorial 3 Articulations and Expressions 84 Click OK You return to the Text Expression Designer Since we dont want our Rehearsal Letters to get hidden in a block rest when we create parts check the Break M ultimeasure Rest box Click OK Click on Measure Expression then click Select The M easure Expression Assignment dialog box appears Measure Expression Assignment x Distance from Beginning of Measure H 0 5903 Inches V 0 2222 Show On zi C This Staff Only C Staff List i Es Em Begin Playback at Beginning of M GA TT Allow Individual Positioning CT Position in Measure Cancel Help There are several items of interest in this dialog box One of them Allow Indi vidual Positioning allows you to put this expression into several staves at once and yet reposition each one independently If you dont click this check box the positioning of this marking will change uniformly in all staves at once when you move any one of them At the moment though we re interested in the middle section of this dialog box Click the radio button for Staff List select New Staff List from the drop down list The Staff List dialog box appears You see a list of the staves in your score Note the two columns to the right of the staff names labeled Score
295. ve names like temp text VM EM You can remove them if you like but not while Finale is running The point is that if Finale didnt haveto read data from your disk each time it needed to access other parts of your piece the program would run much faster It so happens that RAM or memory delivers information to the computer brain about 100 times faster than the hard disk can The technique is to store those temp files in memory instead of on the hard disk while you re working To configure a RAM disk go to the Apple M enu choose Control Panels and then specify M emory Turn the RAM disk on and then set the RAM Disk size We rec ommend making the RAM disk at least 10 times the size of the largest file you plan to be working on If for example you ll be working on a 1M b orchestral score you ll want your RAM disk to be at least 10M b Once you ve configured your RAM Disk close the memory Control Panel and restart your Mac the RAM Disk icon will appear on your desktop Next launch Finale From the Options Menu choose Program Options Choose Folders and click the browse box next to Temporary Files Then locate the RAM Disk you just created on the Desktop If you double click on the RAM Disk you should see a large button at the bottom of the screen that says Use RAM Disk click on this then click OK to close the Program Options UsiNG KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Many of the most commonly used Finale commands and functions have ke
296. videos that run on your computer and give you step by step instructions on the use of many of Finale s tools and features The Video Tips which can be accessed through the Help M enu are designed to enhance and support these tutorials Feel free to use these Tips at any time to review any of the procedures outlined in this book The User Manual is the most powerful and comprehensive of the instructional tools available to you Here you will find detailed descriptions of each of Finale s tools dialog boxes and other features as well as step by step instructions on how to perform any task in Finale It is highly recommended that you take a few moments to familiarize yourself with this tool select the Help Menu then choose User Manual then Table of Contents SOME TERMINOLOGY If this is your first encounter with a computer you should take some time to learn the basics from its manual If your computer didnt come with an owner s manual many excellent books are now available on basic computer usage often with insulting names like Macintosh for Complete Morons or Windows for Blither ing Idiots Despite such uninviting names these books can be indispensible if you ve never used a computer before In any case you should certainly familiarize xxili 8 Tip If you dont read any other tutorials do take a look at Tutorial 1a Tip See the Order of Entry in the Making the M ost of
297. virtually any posi tive numbers in the text boxes For example if you entered 100 and 200 in the boxes respectively the first notes would play back with their original velocities and the last notes would play back with twice their original velocities Add simply gives the selected notes greater velocity than they already have If you enter a negative number you subtract velocity Type a number between 127 and 127 keeping in mind that the sum of this number and a notes current velocity has to be between 0 and 127 Percent Alter increases or decreases the selected music s velocity by a percentage of its current value To make a passage twice as loud as it is now choose Percent Alter and type 200 percent Limit lets you set maximum and minimum key velocity levels for the selected music You type in numbers between 0 and 127 If you enter a maximum velocity of 90 for example any existing velocity values between 91 and 127 will be clipped down to 90 Alter Feel lets you accent specific beats in the measure by either a specified amount Absolute or by a percentage of their current velocities Percent of Origi nal If you enter negative numbers when Absolute is selected you ll be giving the specified music less velocity and hence less emphasis In the Alter Feel dialog 137 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics box that appears you ll see that you can provide either an absolute or a percentage change independently for notes that fall
298. w Now you re back in the Staff Attributes dialog box Finale displays a bass clef 47 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe Notate As You Play Click OK You ve just created a piano grand staff While the process you have just learned is a valuable one it is useful to remem ber that the Document Setup Wizard is also at your disposal From the Staff Menu you can choose N ew Staves with Setup Wizard You can then select a piano staff for example from the Keyboards group Finale will add the new staff or staves to your existing score If you re uncertain about what you ve just done or if you want to start fresh you can close this file without saving and open the file called Tutorial Ic SETTING THE TIME SIGNATURE AND BEAMING PATTERNS In the previous experiments you used Finale s default setting of quarter note key taps In the next experiment you ll be trying a piece in 8 time which will require you to change some of HyperScribes settings 48 Da Click the Time Signature Tool Double click the first measure The Time Signature dialog box appears Using the upper scroll bar click the left scroll bar arrow twice This might surprise you We re changing the meter to so you might expect the top num ber to be 6 Why are we subtracting beats so that it is now 2 Read on Using the lower scroll bar click the right scroll bar arrow once W hen you increase the beat duration lower number to a dotted quarter note
299. w the screen er D or amp sg D to clean up the display Let s keep working with this cross staff measure to make the beam in the middle and with reversed stems You ll use the skills you learned in previous section about the Special Tools Tool Click the Special Tools Tool T The Special Tools palette appears Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics Click the Reverse Stem Tool amp then click on the middle staff For notes you want above the beam click on the upper handle For notes you want below the beam click on the lower handle Click the appropriate handles to reverse stems for top staff notes above the beam and the bottom staff notes below the beam as shown 0 0 O 80 0 O80 0 0 80 00 Click the Beam Angle Tool tx Click and drag the left handle of the beam down into the middle of the system Your music should look like this Piano CORRECTING SPLIT POINT ERRORS A related function of the Note M over Tool is its ability to correct occasional split point errors after you ve finished HyperScribing a real time performance It s a rare piano piece in which the right hand never crosses middle C or whatever split point you ve specified heres how you can correct measures where it did e Scroll to measure 6 In this measure you ll see some notes in the right hand staff that obviously belon
300. x PSR 282 x 33 48 None x None x ssa aa rl QO Send MIDI Sync Receive MIDI Sync From MIDI In Latency ms OMS MIDI Setup e Click OK You re all set to explore Finale on your own xxi Installation for Macintosh xxii How to Learn Finale The remainder of this volume contains step by step tutorials You should take them in order because each tutorial is more advanced than the one before it F eel free however to take breaks at any time You may want to work through one tutorial each night for example For some of the tutorials you ll be working on sample documents that are in the Tutorials folder within the Finale 2003 folder on your hard disk In addition to these tutorials Finale itself contains four powerful instructional tools the Status or M essage Bar along the edge of the application window QuickStart Video Tips Help and the USER MANUAL Atthe end of each tutorial you ll find a short section called FOR MORE INFORMATION which directs you to some how to s in the User Manual that relate to the topics you ve just covered The Status Win or Message Mac Bar shows you the name of each tool you click and tells you what your next step should be On Windows it also displays a description of each menu or command Help provides minimal context sensitive help Click the Help button or press F1 in any dialog box to show a discussion of the dialog box QuickStart Video Tips are a series of
301. y file after conversion Depending on the music some users will find it easier to simply re enter the music via one of Finale s traditional note entry methods Simple Entry Speedy Entry or HyperScribe Remember that to take advantage of any of Finale s scanning capabilities you will need to have a properly installed scanner contact the manufacturer of your scan ner if you have questions Because scanners and scanning software varies widely we cannot provide instructions on how to prepare a file for every scanner For some hints on how to prepare a scanned file from some popular scanners see SCANNING in the User Manual 189 Tutorial 8 Other Notation Topics From the File Menu choose SmartScore Lite T he SmartScore Lite dialog box appears Click Add Files to List The Open dialog box appears Navigate to the file called Tutorial 6a TIFF and double click on it The file appears in the file list window Click the filename to highlight it A preview of the file appears in the left win dow Click Begin Recognition Finale will translate the image into a Finale docu ment The time it takes to complete recognition will depend on the complexity of the file as well as the number of files chosen In the future you can translate several files at once by selecting multiple files in the Open dialog box and then highlighting the ones you want to convert from the file list before pressing Begin Recognition Compare the file to Tut
302. y selected with a check mark in the MIDI Tool Menu Simi larly if you ve edited several different controllers pressing the bacispace delete key removes only the data of the currently selected controller type You can also copy MIDI Tool changes to other staves or parts of the score much as you would copy music with the Mass Edit Tool Select the source measures with the MIDI Tool and drag the first selected measures image so that it s superim posed on the first of the target measures The changes you ve made to the captured MIDI information are copied to the target music Once again however this proce dure copies only the currently selected data type A final note about MIDI Tool changes They can greatly increase the size in kilo bytes of your document Because Finale is recording velocity duration and other data about every single note in the area you ve changed it s possible to double the size of your document if you make MIDI Tool modifications over large areas EXPRESSIONS DEFINING PLAYBACK One of the most remarkable aspects of Finale is its ability to respond to musical markings in the score during playback When Finale sees f the music gets loud When it sees a staccato mark it plays the note shorter W hat s more you can create any symbol or textual phrase whether or not it s a standard musical marking and define the effects it will have on Finale s playback 146 Tutorial 6 More MIDI Topics As a fi
303. yboard and MIDI interface where you want them Go ahead and plug in any power cords but dont turn anything on yet Plugthe game joystick port end of the MIDI cable into the game joystick port of the sound card viii Installation for Windows Plug the MIDI cable marked MIDI OUT into the MIDI IN port on your MIDI keyboard and the MIDI cable marked MIDI IN into the MIDI keyboard port marked MIDI OUT The MIDI ports on a MIDI keyboard are usually on the back of the unit The most common problem encountered by a new MIDI user is improperly connected cables The trick isto think of the route the music data is taking The notes you play will leave your MIDI keyboard from the port marked Out and proceed to the computer through a cable or port marked In Similarly when the computer plays back your music the notes leave the com puter through the port or cable marked Out and enter the MIDI keyboard through the port marked In So although it may seem contrary to common sense plug the In to the Out and vice versa Your connections should resemble those in this figure AMPLIFIER SPEAKER LJEOEJCOL OC JC OE JC OE JC E Lj LI EY EIC GL To Game Joystick port Si d SE RI TT KEYBOARD Turn on all your equipment If you discover that Finaleisnt responding to your MIDI keyboard check these connections again and consult the manual that came with your sound card Also read the Mo
304. yboard shortcuts You may have noticed that pressing ct A Mac 3 38 A is the same as choosing Select All from the Edit M enu cz J D Mac amp ag D is the same as choosing Redraw Screen and pressing ct U Mac 3 backslash is the same as choosing Update Layout You may find it especially useful to select Finale tools without having to usethe mouse In Windows you can assign any Finale tool to one of the function keys F2 F12 Fland F10 are reserved by Windows To assign a tool to a function key select the tool to be assigned then press and type a function key To switch tools type the tool s function key In Macintosh you can assign a Finale tool to one 196 Making the Most of Finale of eight keys F G H J K L semicolon and apostrophe To assign a tool to a key press option control and type the key to which the tool is to be assigned In the Master Tool Palette select the tool then click OK To switch tools press and type the tool key And whileit doesnt actually qualify as a keyboard shortcut Finales power OK and power Cancel techniques can save you alot of time Any time you ve crossed through several dialog boxes to make a certain setting to create something in the Shape Designer for example you dont have to retrace your steps back through those dialog boxes Instead click OK or Cancel while pressing the Mac 5 8 key You ll return directly to the score MACROS If
305. you re even a moderate efficiency demon you should consider linking Finale up with a macro program A macro is a series of steps dragging choosing menu commands typing and so on that s been automated and programmed to execute itself when you press a certain keystroke The built in keyboard shortcuts described above and M etatools are all well and good but what about commands that you use often but which have no keyboard equivalents Furthermore what about multistep procedures switch into Page View Scale View to 7596 click Page Layout Tool indent first system click OK that you perform often M acro programs let you perform any such sequence with a single keystroke QuicKeys CE Software 1 800 5CE SOFT or Tempo Shortcutter Affinity Micro Systems 1 800 367 6771 for example can make your life with Finale easier If you re unfamiliar with a macro program you ll have to sit down with its manual and learn how it works But its a worthwhile investment of time and will pay for itself many times over every time you work with Finale in fact and get to watch the macro program perform a routine multistep task for you Furthermore you can use a macro program to map tool keyboard equivalents since Finale provides only eleven For example you may decide to use feti T to switch to the Text Tool For Windows users check out the M enu Shortcuts Plug in for a built in Finale macro program 197 Making the Most of Finale L
306. your favorite design rules each time you create a new piece Teaching Finale precisely how you like your music to look could take you half an hour every time you launched the program The good news isthat Finale lets you determine all these variables once after which it remembers your preferences for all future pieces In the Finale 2003 folder theres a document called Maestro Font Default This is nothing more than a blank Finale document that s been customized with a dummy name page numbers at the bottom of the page specific music spacing rules and so on As long as you keep this document in the same folder as the Finale program itself those parameters will always be preset when you start Finale or create a new document Of course you can and should create your own default document using your own favorite setup the one we ve provided is meant to serve as an example When you re finished with these tutorials simply create a new document or modify the one we ve provided and make sure you ve named it Maestro Font Default If you ever do want to start completely from scratch select Document Without Libraries from the New submenu of theFile Menu Finale will then ignore the default file From theFile Menu choose New then Default Document Finale presents an untitled document Remember that its format is determined by the M aestro Font Default document in your Finale folder From the View Menu choose Scale View then select 7

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