Finale 2006 Tutorial PDF

I N S TA L L AT I O N A N D T U T O R I A L S
F O R W I N D OW S A N D M AC I N TO S H
2006
FINALE 2006 FOR WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH

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Table of Contents
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v
Installing Finale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Installation for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii

Preparing for Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Setting up your MIDI System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Starting Finale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
The MIDI Setup Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Installation for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Installing Finale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Preparing for Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
To setup your printer:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Setting up your MIDI System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
The MIDI Setup Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Setting up MIDI with OS X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
How to Learn Finale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

Tutorial 1a: Simple Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Creating a New Document with the Document Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . 1
Entering Music with the Simple Entry Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Overwrite vs. Repitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Adding Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Changing Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Saving your Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Tutorial 1b: Speedy Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Creating a New Document from a Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adding Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Speedy Entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Editing with Speedy Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Copying Music to Off screen Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deleting Measures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Erasing Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Tutorial 1c: HyperScribe - Notate As You Play . . . . . . . . . . .45

Introduction to HyperScribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Creating a New Default Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Click and Countoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Transcribing a Scale (with a Click). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Transcribing a Melody (with a Tap) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Setting the Time Signature and Beaming Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Two-handed HyperScribing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Tutorial 2: Adding Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Changing the Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Changing the Time Signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Entering Lyrics: Type into Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Entering Lyrics: Click Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adding a Second Verse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Repeat Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chord Symbols (Optional Section). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Working with Inner Voices: Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Tutorial 3: Articulations and Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Basic Articulations and Expressions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adding a Slur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Metatools: Putting in Many Articulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expressions: Creating your own Expressions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Markings that Play Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Staff Lists: Specifying Target Staves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Copying and Pasting Expressions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Using Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Tutorial 4: Layout and Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

Measure Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Pickup Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
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Spacing the Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Beat Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
The Page Layout Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
The Resize Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
The Text Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
The Graphics Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Printing Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Tutorial 5: Working with Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Setting Clefs and Staff Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hiding Staves (Staff Sets) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inserting Staves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Transposing Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Staff Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Optimizing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part Extraction 1: Splitting into Separate Documents . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Tutorial 6: Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

Assigning MIDI Channels and Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Using Kontakt for Finale with Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO) . .
Mixer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Human Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The MIDI Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Creating a Decrescendo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expressions: Defining playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Creating an Intelligent Tempo Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Creating Swing Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Tutorial 7: Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments . . . . . . . . .161

Creating Guitar Tablature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Copying Music To and From a Tab staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Changing the String and Fret Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Entry Directly Into a Tab Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Entering Slides, Bends and Tremolos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hammer-ons, Pull-offs and Other Markings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Entry Using a MIDI Guitar (Optional Section). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Tutorial 8: Other Notation Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

The Special Tools Tool: Fancy Beaming and Stemming . . . . . . . . . . .
Measure Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Shape Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Scanning Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Percussion Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Making the Most of Finale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
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Before You Begin

THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING FINALE!
Finale is a powerful integrated program for music transcription, notation, playback, and publishing. Incorporating elements of a word processor, a graphics designer, a sequencer, and a
page-layout program, Finale has all the power you need to create beautiful looking sheet music
and a quality MIDI performance. Easier than ever to learn and use, this program has the potential to help you produce more musicboth printed and playedfaster and better than ever
before.
Take a moment to look over the contents of your Finale package. It should include:
Installation & Tutorials Book
Quick Reference Guide
Finale Installation Disc, along with your Finale Serial Number
ABOUT THIS BOOK

In these pages, youll learn how to start putting Finale to work right away. From installing the
software, to entering music, to printing the score, and everything in between, well cover all the
basics you need to know to get up and running fast. 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 Windows 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 keystrokese.g., ! for Windows, a or b for Macintosh).
Throughout this book, youll 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 (a PDF file of this book can be found in the Finale/User
Manual folder). If youre reading this book in printed form, simply turn to the referred section.
Throughout this manual, youll find tip boxes; one is shown at
right. These tip boxes contain helpful hints and tips that relate
to the text where theyre found.
Tip boxes look like this. In

these boxes, youll find helpful
tips and tricks along the way.
Learning Finale wont be difficult. Though the program offers

hundreds of features and options, theres absolutely nothing wrong with ignoring the ones youll
never use. Dont have a MIDI instrument? Then skip those sections of the book. Dont plan to
use guitar fretboards? Then dont bother learning that feature. You may need some of the other
options another dayor never, depending on the kind of music you want to create; thats perv
Before You Begin

fectly OK. To help you get a jump start, weve divided Tutorial 1 into separate entry methods. If
you dont have a MIDI keyboard, you can skip Tutorial 1c. After reading chapter 1a, if you feel
comfortable using Simple Entry as your primary entry method, skip tutorial 1b.
Be sure to look at the Read Me file, which the Finale Installer copies to your hard disk and
installs in the Finale 2006 folder. This document contains important information about Finale
that wasnt available when this book went to press.
REGISTRATION/GETTING HELP
To receive all the benefits of being a Finale owner, be sure to complete the Registration Wizard. To
access the Registration Wizard, click Register Now the first time you launch Finale 2006 (or, from
the Help Menu, choose register Finale). You have the option of registering over the Internet, or by
phone, fax, or mail. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Finale, you are already a
registered owner; your registration number (serial number) has not changed.
As a registered owner, you may contact MakeMusic for customer support whenever you need help with Finale and cant
find the answer in this book or the USER MANUAL. There is no
charge for this help (although you may pay for long distance if
you call). Our customer support representatives will ask for
your serial number.
Remember that extensive help is

always at your fingertips: from the
Help Menu, choose User Manual,
then Table of Contents.
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 MakeMusics
website at http://www.makemusic.com. You can also send questions directly to MakeMusic via
e-mail at [email protected] or [email protected]. MakeMusic can be
reached by fax at (952) 937-9760, via mail at 7615 Golden Triangle Drive, Suite M, Eden Prairie,
MN 55344-3848, or via telephone at (952) 937-9703. Well answer any questions, as long as
youre the registered owner of the program (as named on the registration card) and include your
serial number.
In addition to receiving customer support benefits, sending in your registration card means
youll automatically receive company and product information from time to time, as well as official notification of any future upgrades to your program.
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Installation for Windows

INSTALLING FINALE
Macintosh users: skip to the next section, INSTALLATION FOR MACINTOSH.
Installing Finale onto your hard disk is easy, whether youre upgrading from a previous 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 program and its associated files. For a full installation, youll need about two hundred megabytes (200,000K) 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 are logged in
as the System Administrator and reboot after installation.
Insert the Install disc into your CD-ROM drive.
The Installer sets up a

folder called Finale 2006
for the Finale program and
its associated files and
folders. Do not alter this
setup.
If the Setup Program doesnt start, click the Start Menu and choose Run.
Type d:\setup (where D represents the CD-ROM drive on your machine) and click OK.
The Finale 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 2006. We recommend that you install all of the
Finale files into this new folder. For the most part, you can
press Enter to confirm each screens defaults.
Remove the 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.
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. Look in My
Computer to find out which
letter is associated with your
CD-ROM drive.
When you open any older Finale family notation file (from the File Menu, choose Open, then
navigate to your older file), Finale 2006 takes a moment to convert it into the new format,
then opens it as an Untitled file. If you save the file in Finale 2006 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 save the file with a slightly different name (for instance, My
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Score could become My 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 3 in
this volume.
SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM

If you are not using MIDI, skip this section. If youre just getting started with MIDI, this section
provides basic instructions for connecting your equipment.
MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Its the language spoken by computers
and electronic musical instruments. Well assume that youre connecting 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 operational MIDI system (not including your computer):
A MIDI keyboard
Amplifier/speaker or headphones
A MIDI cable (the sound card accessory which connects to the cards game/joystick port on
one end, and has two MIDI cables on the other end)
The last 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, contact a local music store
or the manufacturer of your sound card.
Install your sound card or USB interface and its drivers. See its documentation for instructions.
Place the computer, keyboard, and MIDI interface where you want them. Go ahead and plug
in any power cords, but dont turn anything on yet.
If you are using a sound card, plug the game/joystick port end of the MIDI cable into the
game/joystick port of the sound card. If you are using a USB interface, connect it to your
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computer using a USB cable. Again, if you are using a USB interface, consult its documentation for specific instructions.
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 is to 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 computer 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
Computer
To Game/Joystick port
on Soundcard
MIDI Out
MIDI In
KEYBOARD
Turn on all your equipment.

If you discover that Finale isnt responding to your MIDI keyboard, check these connections
again, and consult the manual that came with your sound card.
STARTING FINALE
Double-click on the Finale 2006 icon. It will be on your desktop. When you launch Finale for the
first time, you will see the Register Finale! dialog box. This dialog box continues to appear each
time you launch Finale until the product is registered.
Click Register Now! to start the Finale registration Wizard. Follow the simple instructions to
register your copy of Finale. Or, click Remind Me Later to register at a later time. You have
30 days to register your copy of Finale. After 30 days, printing and saving are disabled until
your copy of Finale is registered.
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If you have internet access (and are not running firewall, security or virus software that
would block information from being received back at your computer), simply select this
option, and the rest is taken care of for you automatically.
Otherwise, select one of the other options for phone, FAX or standard mail, and a window
will be displayed containing a User Code. You may print out this page and FAX or mail it to
us, or you can call with your serial number and User Code. In either case, we will generate an
Authorization Code that you manually type in to complete the process. In each case (including internet), our system automatically sends an email confirmation of the information. If
you selected the internet option, but have a firewall that blocked the information from being
received, then you can manually type in the Authorization Code information provided.
PLEASE NOTE that the User/Authorization Codes are computer specific,
and will only work on the given computer installation. Make sure that the
Authorization Code is typed in using capital letters, and also verify that the
correct serial number has been entered. If you make a change to the computer (such as replacing the hard drive or motherboard, or install a new
operating system), then you will need to re-authorize the installation.
Authorized installation of Finale by one registered user onto two machines
is permitted at no extra charge (multiple licenses excluded). All we ask is
that you register each installation with us. If you have already installed
and authorized twice, you will need to contact Customer Service directly by
phone, FAX or standard mail with your serial number and the location ID
for the specific installation in question, and one of our representatives can
clear the previous authorization from your account. If the software is not
"reminding" you to register when you run the program, then the registration/authorization has been successfully completed.
Next, the MIDI Setup dialog box appears. Here, you can choose the devices you want to use for
MIDI Input and playback. Youll learn how to configure MIDI using this dialog box in the next
section.
Click OK. The Launch Window appears. From here, you can choose how you want to begin a
new score, continue working on an existing project, or access reference materials. For example,
choose Setup Wizard to begin a new custom document by specifying the title, staves, key signature, time signature and other attributes for your new score. Well explain more about the Setup
Wizard in chapter 1a.

THE MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX
The first time you launch Finale, the MIDI Setup dialog box will appear (subsequently its found
in Finales MIDI Menu).
This is where you instruct Finale which MIDI drivers youd like to 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 the right hand box, the program will
select Finales SoftSynth (software synthesizer) which is installed with Finale. You can easily
choose a different device to enter or play back your music. Any time youd like to hear the music
on your computers speakers (which are connected to your sound card), youd typically choose a
driver with the term Synth or Synthesizer in it. If, on the other hand, youd like Finale to
play back on an external MIDI device (which would require its own speaker and amplifier),
choose a driver which has MIDI Out in its name.
You can leave SoftSynth selected for the MIDI output device to playback with your computer
speakers using Finales default General MIDI sounds. Or, choose from the available synthesizers
on your computer. The following diagram shows the MIDI Setup dialog box properly configured
to play back through the computers speakers via a sound card.
The diagram below 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.
For more information, consult the User Manual under MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX. Youre all set to
explore Finale. Skip to the next section, HOW TO LEARN FINALE.
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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 youre upgrading from a previous version
or working with Finale for the first time.
Before you begin installing Finale, make sure theres enough
The Installer sets up a folder
room on your hard disk to hold the program and its associated
called Finale 2006 for the
files. For a full installation, youll need about two hundred
Finale program and its
megabytes (200,000K) of free space on your hard disk. You
associated files and folders. Do
should also bear in mind that, like many other software programs, Finale creates and makes use of temporary files dur- not alter this setup.
ing 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.
Insert the Finale disc into your CD-ROM drive. Its icon appears on your desktop.
Double-click the CD icon. The contents of the CD appear on your screen.
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
2006. We recommend that you install all of the Finale files
into this new folder. For the most part, you can press Return
to confirm the defaults.
Finale 2006 will not disturb an

older Finale folder. You can
copy any custom files and song
files into the new Finale folders,
then delete the previous Finale
folder if you want to free up
disk space.
When you open an older Finale family notation file (choose

File, then Open and navigate to your older file), Finale 2006
takes a moment to convert it into the new format, then opens it as an Untitled file. If you save
the file in Finale 2006 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 save the file with a slightly
different name (for instance, My Score could become My Score 2), unless you are sure that
you wont need to reopen the file in an earlier version of Finale.
PREPARING FOR PRINTING

These instructions cover the basic preparations for printing from Finale or any program. If you
can print successfully from other programs already, skip ahead to the next section. Before you
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print for the first time, you must tell the Macintosh where to send its printing information, especially if you have more than one printer.
TO SETUP YOUR PRINTER:

Install OS X drivers for your printer. If the printer is compatible with OS X, youll find these
drivers on a CD included with your printer. You can also usually download the necessary
drivers from the printer manufacturers Web site. See the printers user manual for additional
information.
Navigate to the hard drive, and choose Applications, Utilities, and then Print Center (Printer
Setup Utility in OS 10.3 and greater). The Print Center dialog box appears.
If your printer isnt already listed, click the Add button.
In the new window, choose the appropriate zone from the popup menu.
Click your printers name and click Add.
Quit Print Center/Printer Setup Utility.
SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM

MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Its the language spoken by computers
and electronic musical instruments. Well assume that youre 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, youll 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 USB cable
The last 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 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. Most Macs have USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports, a 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, youve got
USB ports and will need the appropriate USB MIDI Interface or adapter.
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Place the computer, keyboard, and MIDI interface where you want them. Go ahead and plug in
any power cords, but dont turn anything on yet.
Plug one 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.
Plug one end of a MIDI 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. The trick is to think of the route
the 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
the computer plays back your music, the notes go out from the computer to the interface, leave
the 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
MAC
From serial
or USB port
MIDI In
MIDI Out
INTERFACE
MIDI Out
MIDI In
KEYBOARD
Turn on all your equipment.

Your MIDI system is now configured. To name a MIDI device or configure additional settings,
jump ahead to CONFIGURING MIDI IN OS X. If you do not wish to name a MIDI device or make
additional settings, you can skip ahead to STARTING FINALE.
CONFIGURING MIDI IN OS X
You can use helper utilities already available on your computer to configure your MIDI devices
by following these steps.
Navigate to your hard drive, and choose Application, Utilities, Audio MIDI Setup. The Audio
MIDI Setup dialog box appears. Now, well add new devices.
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Click the MIDI Devices tab. Audio MIDI Setup will search for MIDI hardware and software.
After the search, your MIDI interface will appear.
In the button bar, click Add Device. If necessary, drag the new device icon so it doesnt overlap the interface icon.
Double-click the new device icon.
Enter a device name, then select or enter the manufacturer and model. If more options are
required, click the More Properties arrow.
Click OK. Repeat the last four steps for any other devices. Now, well connect new devices to
the interface.
If you are using a controller for MIDI input, drag the outgoing arrow of the MIDI controller
to the incoming arrow on the MIDI interface.
If you are using a sound module for playback, drag the incoming arrow of the sound module
to the outgoing arrow on the MIDI interface.
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If you are using a device such as a MIDI keyboard for both input and playback, connect the
outgoing arrow on the MIDI device to the incoming arrow on the MIDI interface, and then
connect the incoming arrow of the MIDI device to the outgoing arrow of the MIDI interface.
Quit Audio MIDI Setup.
Now that you have setup MIDI with OS X, skip directly to STARTING FINALE
STARTING FINALE
Double-click on the Finale 2006 icon on your Desktop. When you launch Finale for the first
time, you will see the Register Finale dialog box. This dialog box continues to appear each time
you launch Finale until the product is registered.
Click Register Now to start the Finale registration Wizard. Follow the simple instructions to
register your copy of Finale. Or, click Remind Me Later to register at a later time. You have
30 days to register your copy of Finale. After 30 days, printing and saving are disabled until
your copy of Finale is registered.
If you have internet access (and are not running firewall, security or virus software that
would block information from being received back at your computer), simply select this
option, and the rest is taken care of for you automatically.
Otherwise, select one of the other options for phone, FAX or standard mail, and a window
will be displayed containing a User Code. You may print out this page and FAX or mail it to
us, or you can call with your serial number and User Code. In either case, we will generate an
Authorization Code that you manually type in to complete the process. In each case (including internet), our system automatically sends an email confirmation of the information. If
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you had selected the internet option, but have a firewall that blocked the information from
being received, then you can manually type in the Authorization Code information provided.
PLEASE NOTE that the User/Authorization Codes are computer specific, and
will only work on the given computer installation. Make sure that the Authorization Code is typed in using capital letters, and also verify that the correct serial
number has been entered. If you make a change to the computer (such as replacing the hard drive or motherboard, or install a new operating system), then you
will need to re-authorize the installation. Authorized installation of Finale by
one registered user onto two machines is permitted at no extra charge (multiple
licenses excluded). All we ask is that you register each installation with us. If you
have already installed and authorized twice, you will need to contact Customer
Service directly by phone, FAX or standard mail with your serial number and the
location ID for the specific installation in question, and one of our representatives can clear the previous authorization from your account. If the software is
not "reminding" you to register when you run the program, then the registration/
authorization has been successfully completed.
Next, the MIDI Setup dialog box appears. Here, you can choose the devices you want to use for
MIDI Input and playback. Youll learn how to configure MIDI in the next section.
Click OK. The Launch Window appears. From here, you can choose how you want to begin a
new score, continue working on an existing project, or access reference materials. For example,
choose Setup Wizard to begin a new custom document by specifying the title, staves, key signature, time signature and other attributes. Youll learn more about the Setup Wizard in chapter 1a.
THE MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX

The MIDI Setup dialog box is where you instruct Finale which devices youd like to use for
MIDI functions. On the left side of the dialog box, youll choose the MIDI input device. On the
right side, youll choose the desired output device. What you choose here will determine on
which device Finale will play back your music.
SETTING UP MIDI WITH OS X

Start Finale.
Navigate to the MIDI Menu and choose MIDI Setup. The MIDI Setup dialog box appears.
For the MIDI System, choose CoreMIDI.
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Select the proper input and output devices from their respective menus. If only ports are
listed, select the port on your interface to which your MIDI device is connected.
Click OK. Youre all set to explore Finale on your own.
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How to Learn Finale

The remainder of this book contains step-by-step tutorials. It is best to take them in order,
because each tutorial is more advanced than the one before it.
For some of the tutorials, youll be working on sample documents that
If you dont read any
are located in the Tutorials folder within the Finale folder on your
other tutorials, do take
hard disk. In addition to these tutorials, Finale itself contains four
a look at Tutorial 1a.
powerful instructional tools: the Status or Message Bar along the edge
of the application window, QuickStart Video Tips, Help and the USER
MANUAL. (At the end of each tutorial, youll find a short section called FOR MORE
INFORMATION, which directs you to some how-tos in the User Manual that relate to the
topics youve just covered.)
The Status Bar (Win) or Message Bar (Mac) 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 context-sensitive help. Click the Help button or press F1 (Win) or Help (Mac)
in any dialog box to show a discussion of the dialog box.
QuickStart Video Tips are a series of videos that run on your computer and give you step-bystep instructions on the use of many of Finale's tools and features. The Video Tips, which
can be accessed through the Help Menu, 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
as well as several visual demonstrations. 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 owners manual, many excellent books
are now available on basic computer usage, often with insulting names like Macintosh for Complete Morons or Windows for Blithering Idiots. Despite such uninviting names, these books
can be indispensable if youve never used a computer before. In any case, you should certainly
familiarize yourself with your operating system, making sure that you understand important
concepts such as pointing, clicking, double-clicking, dragging, and opening and closing windows.
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How to Learn Finale

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 youre 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, youre sometimes asked to !-click (Mac: aclick) something on the screen. That simply means that while pressing the ! (or a) key,
you click the mouse buttonthen release both. Once youve mastered that principle, the meanings of d-click and even !-d-click should be clear.
Because Finale does some things that music programs have never done before, youll also be
running into terms were certain will be new to you. Youll be introduced 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
to this list after performing the tutorials.
1.
See the Order of Entry in the

Making the Most of Finale
chapter for more detailed steps
after youve learned some
important Finale concepts.
Specify the title, number of instruments, and beginning

time and key signature. (See the Setup Wizard in Tutorial 1a.)
2. Enter the notes.
3. Listen to your piece to check for mistakes.
4. Edit the music.
5. Put in the lyrics.
6. Add repeats, chord symbols and fretboards.
, articulations (
, and slurs.
7. Put in all markings: dynamics (
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.
F)
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U)
Tutorial 1a: Simple Entry

In this tutorial well show you the easiest ways to start a new document and get notes on the
page. There are three basic note entry methods, so weve divided this tutorial into three parts:
Simple Entry, Speedy Entry and HyperScribe. We recommend you start with the Simple Entry
tutorial to get a good introduction to navigating around Finale. Simple Entry is Finales most
basic entry method, yet it is also one of its most powerful. If you want, you can simply click
notes onto the staff with a mouse. Or, for more speed, quickly type them in with your computer
or play them in with a MIDI keyboard. As you enter, you can even enter articulations, expressions, and other items on the fly. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to enter your notation into Finale using the powerful options offered by Simple Entry.
CREATING A NEW DOCUMENT WITH THE DOCUMENT SETUP WIZARD

You are probably familiar with Wizards from other applications, such as word processors and
spreadsheets. This Wizard is designed to help you set up a new Finale document. Lets create a
simple piano score.
If you havent already started Finale, do so now. If Finale is already started, click on the File
Menu and choose New, then Document with Setup Wizard.
Click in the Title 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 enter the year
and your name after the
symbol.
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.
Click Next. The Wizard

asks you what parts or instruments you want in your new score. In the first column is a list
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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.
In the first column, click on the word Keyboards. A list of common keyboards appears in the
second column.
In the 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 is
the 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 move the instruments around in the list
until they are correct. You can also select a standard score order from the drop-down
menu: Custom, Orchestral, Choral, Concert Band or Jazz Band.
If you want to save your instrument setup as an ensemble for use later, click Save As., enter
a name and click OK. Next time you use the Setup Wizard, you will be able to choose this
ensemble from the drop-down menu.
Your Wizard should now look like this:
Click Next. The Wizard asks for the time signature and key signature. Several common time
signatures are offered and a ? button allows you to create more unusual time signatures.

In the lower half of the box, 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.
C button.
Click the Cut Time
Click the down arrow once to set the key signature to F Major. Your Wizard should now
look like the picture below:
Click Next. The Wizard next allows you to set up a tempo marking, a pickup measure and
choose between setting your piece in the Maestro font (for an engraved look) or the Jazz font
(for a handwritten look.)
Check the box next to Specify Initial Tempo Marking. Set the tempo to the default: 120 beats
per quarter note. This piece doesnt require a pickup, so leave Specify Pickup Measure
unchecked. We want the new score to be in the Maestro font, so under Default Music Font
leave Maestro selected. Click on Jazz to see a sample of this font on the right, but re-select
Maestro before continuing.
Your Wizard should now look like the following picture:
Click Finish. Finale now presents you with a new, Untitled document, displaying 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 thirty-one empty measures.)
If the Jazz option is

grayed out in the Setup
Wizard, make sure the
Jazz Font Default File is
in the Finale folder.
You could continue with this file, but lets close it and open a file
where weve completed the left hand for you.
From the File Menu, choose Close. Save the file, if you wish.
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 .MUStherefore, the tutorial document you are looking for
may appear as Tutorial 1a.MUS.) After a moment, youll see a simple piano arrangement
of Frre Jacques come to the screen. The left-hand part has been prepared for you; in this
tutorial, youll finish the melody.

Windows View
Navigation
Palette
Menu Bar
Main
Tool
Palette
Playback Controls
Document
Window
Simple
Entry
Palette (docked)
Vertical
Window Scroll
Page Counter
Horizontal
Window Scroll
Page Scroll
Status Bar
Macintosh View
Document
Window
Simple Entry Palette

Menu Bar
Main Tool
Palette
Message Bar
Zoom Box
(expands to
full size)
Page Counter
Page Scroll
Title Bar
(moves window)
Vertical
Window scroll
System Lock icon
Horizontal
Window scroll

Take a look around the screen. Across the top, youll find the menu bar. Youll be using these
menus to control Finales behavior, edit documents, change the view, and much more. There are
nine unchanging menus; File, Edit, View, Options, MIDI, Plug-ins, Tools, Window and Help.
Also, you will likely see another menu which corresponds to the tool currently selected in the
Main Tool Palette.
Below the menu bar is the Main Tool Palette. Each square tile on these toolbars contains a symbol representing its function. Just about everything you do in Finale will be in the context of one
of these tools. Youll also see the Simple Entry Palette: on Windows running vertically along the
left edge of the screen, on Mac to the right of the Main Tool Palette. 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. To hide any toolbar, select it from the Window Menu to remove
the check mark. Selecting it again will cause it to reappear. (Note: Depending on your monitor's
video resolution, the toolbars may first appear as palettes on your screen.)
On Windows, the palettes are initially attached or docked to the edge of the window. 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, double-click. 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.
The right side of the screen has a vertical scroll bar, which
youll use to move the music youre viewing up or down; and
across the bottom of the screen is a horizontal scroll bar,
which youll use to move left or right through your piece.
To hide the Status bar on

Windows, click the Window
Menu and uncheck Status Bar.
On Mac, click the View Menu
and choose Hide Message Bar.
Youll also see the Page counter; this number identifies the
current page on the screen. To jump to any page in the
score, highlight the current page number, then type a new
number into the box and press j. (This piece has only one page.)
At the bottom of the window, youll see the Status Bar. On Macintosh, youll find the Message
Bar at the top of the window. The Status/Message bar indicates the tool currently chosen followed by a brief description of what it does. When you feel comfortable with Finale, you can
hide the Status or Message Bar, so that youll have more window space for displaying music.
Click the mouse pointer across the tools on the Main Tool Palette. As the pointer touches or
selects each tool, the Status or Message Bar identifies it by name, and gives you the first
instruction for how to use it.
If you look at your score, you may notice that Finale automatically fills any empty measures
with a whole rest (hereafter called a default whole rest). Thats just to save you time, and its
a feature you can turn off, if you want. Youll also notice that the music is displayed as a
page of sheet music. This is Finales startup view, called Page View.
If youre 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, noticing how the lists of commands
drop down as you pass over each title.
Click the Mass Edit Tool icon l on the Main Tool Palette. Not only does the icon highlight,
but there is now an additional menu on the menu bar: the Mass Edit Menu. Some Finale
menus appear only when you select certain tools, so theyre out of your way until you need
them.
Now that youve had a look around, lets begin our masterpiece. Click the horizontal and
vertical scroll bar arrows until measure one is visible (if necessary).
ENTERING MUSIC WITH THE SIMPLE ENTRY TOOL

Finale offers many different entry methods. The simple entry tool itself can be used to click
notes onto a staff, enter notes with your computer keyboard, or with a MIDI keyboard. Here,
youll learn how to enter notes using each of these methods.
Click the Simple Entry Tool 4. The Simple Entry palette becomes In addition to this
active. From the Window menu, choose Simple Entry Rests Palette
tutorial, you can
to show the Simple Entry Rests palette. These palettes are shown
also open the file
on the next page. Also, another menu has appeared on the menu
EntryExercise in
bar: the Simple Menu. This menu contains commands, a list of
the Finale/Tutorials
keyboard shortcuts, and other options that allow you to customize
folder for hands-on
the way Simple Entry works.
training.
From the Simple Menu, choose Simple Entry Options. The Simple
Entry Options dialog box appears. From this dialog box, you can
customize the behavior of Simple Entry.
Uncheck Create New Measures and then click OK. For this tutorial, all measures are already
in place. In the future, you can recheck this option if you want to tell Finale to automatically

add new measures when the final measure has been filled. Well talk more about this and
other Simple Entry Options later in this chapter.
Now, notice the two Simple Entry Palettes.
Eraser
Repitch
Double-whole Note
Whole Note
Half Note
Quarter Note
Eighth Note
Sixteenth Note
Double Whole Rest

32nd Note
Whole Rest
Half Rest
64th Note
128th Note
Dot
Quarter Rest
Eighth Rest
Sharp
Flat
Sixteenth Rest
32nd Rest
64th Rest
Natural
Half Step Up
128th Rest
Half Step Down
Tie
Tuplet
Grace Note

You can click tools in the Simple Entry Palette to specify the
To see a list of Simple
rhythmic duration, and other attributes, prior to entering a note.
Entry keyboard shortcuts
The tools are divided into different groups. There are duration
from the Simple Menu,
tools, like quarters, eighth notes, etc., accidental tools, like a
choose Simple Edit
sharp or flat, a tie tool, tuplet tool and grace note tool. Click a
Commands and Simple
duration tool to select it, then click an accidental, dot or tie to
Navigation commands.
modify the note. Notice your mouse cursor displays the tools
selected in the Simple Entry palette. Click a modifier tool again
to de-select it if you dont want to use it anymore. To select any tool and clear all the other tools,
double-click on it, or press the keystroke twice.
You can mix and match the tools to build exactly the note you want to add,
whether its a quarter note or a sharped tied dotted note that starts a triplet!
Simply click in the staff to enter the note displayed on the mouse cursor.
You can always select the note and edit it later using different, modifier keystrokes, which well talk about soon. The fastest way to enter notes in Simple Entry involves using keystrokes to select tools in the Simple Entry
Palette, and then enter the notes using keystrokes on your computer keyboard, which well do now.
Click the Quarter Note Tool 5 on the

Simple Entry palette or type the number 5 on the numeric
keypad. The Quarter Note icon is highlighted. Notice a note
with a vertical line appears at the beginning of the first
measure. This line is called the Simple Entry Caret. The
caret is much like a cursor in a word processing program. It
tells you where the next note will appear when entered.
Press the down arrow f three times. You can use the up e and down f arrows to specify
a staff position for the next note.
Press j. A quarter note appears and the Caret moves to

the right. If Playback Notes on Entry was selected (Simple
Menu), Finale briefly sounds an F. Press j at any time to
enter the note displayed on the Caret. You can also enter
pitches quickly using your QWERTY keyboard. The
QWERTY keyboard means the letters on your computer
keyboard and the numbers above the letters, and not the
numeric keypad, and not a MIDI keyboard.
Press the G key, and then the A key. Finale enters a G and an A, and the caret moves to the
right.
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Press the A key. After you have entered a note, you can easily edit its pitch. Notice the note
previously entered is a different color than the other notes. This indicates that the note is
selected, and can be changed and moved with keystrokes. (You can also !-click (Mac:
b-click) a note to select it.).
Hold down @ (Mac: b) and press the down arrow

twice. The note previously entered moves down to the F
space. While using the Simple Entry Caret, you can use
keystrokes to specify pitches before entering the note or
immediately after as weve done here. For a list of keyboard
shortcuts, from the Simple Menu, choose Simple Edit
Commands.
As noted earlier, you can also use the mouse cursor to
enter notes onto the 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. Currently, a ghostly quarter note should be
floating above your music, waiting for your click to place
it into the score.
You can define your own

custom Simple Entry
keyboard shortcuts. To do
so, from the Simple Menu,
choose Simple Entry
Options, and then click
Keyboard Shortcuts.
If you ever make a mistake, you can use the Eraser in the Simple Entry Palette to remove
items in the score. Click the Eraser Tool, and then click a notehead to remove the note.
Click above or below a chord to remove the whole chord. Click on an accidental, tuplet, tie
or dot to remove it.
Now, lets move ahead to the next measure. We know that the second measure of Frre
Jacques has exactly the same melody as the first. One nice thing about Finale is that you
never have to enter the same music twice. For example, instead of reentering these four
notes, you can just copy the first measure into the second.
Youll always use the Mass Edit Tool for copying, moving, and erasing music.
Click the Mass Edit Tool l.
Click the first measure of the top staff. The measure is now highlighted. Youve 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. Youve just dragged the image of measure 1 onto measure
2.
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1
& b 44
? b 44
& b 44
? b 44
Release the mouse button. The program asks you how

many times youd like measure 1 copied. Since youre
only copying it to measure 2, the default (proposed)
value of 1 in the Copy Measures dialog box is what you
want.
Click the OK button. Instead of clicking OK, you could

press the j key; in Finale, pressing j is the same
as clicking the OK button. Voila! Youve just copied the music from measure 1 into measure 2.
Click the Simple Entry Tool 4 again. Move the mouse cursor to the
right and over the A space in measure 3 and click. Then click the middle
line B. The next note in this measure is a half note, so youll have to
change rhythmic value.
Click the Half Note Tool 6 or press the number 6 in the numeric
keypad (numpad). Notice the mouse cursor and the caret both look like
a half note. From this point on, well use the term numpad to specify a
key on the numeric keypad to the right of the QWERTY keyboard. If you
just pressed 6 on the QWERTY keyboard, dont worry. A note a sixth above B (F) appeared
(which well talk more about soon). Just press k to remove the F and then press numpad
6 to select the Half Note icon in the Simple Entry Palette.
Click the C space in the third measure. A half note appears. To

complete the fourth measure, you could once again use the Mass Edit
Tool l to copy it from the third measure because its an exact duplicate. However, in this case its just as fast to type the notes in.
Press j to activate the caret. The caret appears to the right of the
selected note. Remember, the caret looks like a vertical line through a
note.
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Complete the fourth measure using the computer

keyboard. Remember, use the numpad to set the rhythmic
value, and then type the note letter on your QWERTY
keyboard (or specify the pitch by using arrow keys and
then press j).
Click the Eighth Note Tool 4, or press numpad 4. The

caret should now be at the beginning of measure 5.
If you make a mistake, click

on the Edit Menu and choose
Undo. Or, hold down the Ctrl
! (Mac: Command a)
key and press Z.
If you have a MIDI device, such as a MIDI keyboard, you can use it to easily specify pitches
in Simple Entry. (If you do not have a MIDI device, skip to the step marked [Non-MIDI
users]). First, ensure your MIDI device is properly configured with your computer (See earlier chapters INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS or INSTALLATION FOR MAC (depending on the platform you are using) for information on setting up a MIDI device). Then continue with the
following steps.
From the Simple Menu, ensure Use MIDI Device for Input is checked. If it is not, select it
from the menu.
On your MIDI device, play C5 (C above middle C), D, C, and B. Finale adds these notes to
the measure and the caret advances to the right. A note played on the MIDI device is much
like pressing Enter or a note letter on your computer keyboard, except Finale reads the
MIDI information and adds accidentals and chords automatically. In the future, note that
you can play multiple notes simultaneously to specify a chord. Feel free to use a MIDI
keyboard to specify pitches in place of your computer keyboard or mouse for the remainder
of this tutorial. If you just used your MIDI device to enter the eighth notes in measure 5,
skip the next step.
[Non-MIDI users] Type C, D, C and B to enter the eighth notes. You could also use the
arrow keys to specify pitch, or click them onto the staff.
Click the Quarter Note Tool 5, or press 5 on the numeric keypad.
Type (or play) A and then F. The caret moves to measure 6. Again, you could copy measure
5 to the next, but for this example, lets continue entering with Simple Entry.
Click the Eighth Note Tool 4, or press numpad 4. The next note is third space C, but if we
type a C it will appear on the middle C line below the staff. When you type a pitch, Finale
enters the note closest to the caret pitch (within the range of a fourth lower or higher than
the note displayed on the caret.
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Hold down d and press the up e arrow. The caret note

moves up an octave.
Type C, D, C and B to enter the four eighth notes. Now, lets

say we want to enter an eighth rest.
Press Tab. Finale adds an eighth rest. The Tab key will add a rest
of the duration currently chosen in the Simple Palette. Lets
change the rest weve just entered to an eighth note.
Hold down the Shift key and type A. Finale replaces the rest with
an A. Now, lets change the note we just entered to a quarter note.
Hold down @ (Mac: b) and type numpad 5. The eighth

note we just entered changes to a quarter note.
Press numpad 5. The caret changes to a quarter note.
Type F. Now lets add an articulation to the note we just entered.
Press the * key in the numeric keypad. A dialog box appears that notes
you are now in articulation mode.
Type A. An accent appears on the note. In articulation mode, the A key

is assigned to the accent marking. (These keystrokes are called Metatools which youll learn more about in chapter 3). You could also click
Select to choose from a list of articulations. You can add expressions the
same way. Simply press the X key instead of *.
Hold down ! (Mac: a) and type Z to undo. The articulation disappears, and you are
ready to continue entering notes.
&b
?b
You can also press the R

key to change a selected
note to a rest.
Youll notice that Finale automatically beams the eighth notes

together. You can change the beaming pattern at any time; see TIME
SIGNATURE DIALOG BOX in the User Manual.
Youll learn more

about how to enter
articulations, and edit
them, in chapter 3.
You probably also 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
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standards depending on the notes present in that measure. This feature will be discussed in
detail in TUTORIAL 4.
Complete the melody by typing or clicking the notes in.
Congratulations! Youve completed your first Finale melody.
4
&b 4
? 4
b 4
&b
?b
You can use additional Simple Entry keyboard shortcuts to add ties, grace notes, articulations,
and even clef, key and time signature changes. See SIMPLE ENTRY in the User Manual for detailed
info. Also, while using Simple Entry, right-click (Mac c-click) a note or rest to invoke a context menu which allows you to hide the note, change it to a rest and make other changes. Or,
from the Simple Menu, choose Simple Edit Commands to see a list of options. Each of these
commands can also be applied with a keyboard shortcut. In addition to using the list of keyboard shortcuts under the Simple Menu, you can also refer to your Quick Reference Card.
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As we mentioned earlier, you can adjust the behavior of
Simple Entry by changing items available under the Simple Menu. such as: Check for Extra Notes, Fill with Rests
and Select Notes on Entry at End of Measure, and Playback Notes on Entry. To view these settings, from the
Simple Menu, choose Simple Entry Options. The Simple
Entry Options dialog box appears as pictured here. When
Check for Extra Notes is selected (this command is
selected by default), Finale will consult the time signature
and not allow you to inadvertently enter extra notes in a
given measure. Fill with Rests will add enough rests to fill
the measure if you leave the measure and start entering
notes in another measure. When Select Notes on Mouse
Entry is checked, you can immediately use keyboard
shortcuts to change the note you just entered after clicking a note onto the staff with the mouse. If you have a MIDI keyboard or sound card, youll hear
a brief note upon entering notes when Playback Notes on Entry is checked. For more info
regarding these options, see SIMPLE ENTRY OPTIONS in the User Manual.
ACCIDENTALS
Lets add some blues to our melody line to illustrate how to add accidentals. If using the mouse
or the Caret, you can specify an accidental by choosing both a duration tool and an accidental
tool prior to entering the note. You can also specify accidentals as you enter notes by using keystrokes to apply a sharp (+ key) or flat (- key) to the note you just entered. By selecting an accidental tool exclusively, you can click to add accidentals to any note in the score. The Sharp Tool
m and the Flat Tool o add a sharp or flat to the note, if needed by the key signature. If you use
the Half Step Up Tool or the Half Step Down Tool , youll raise or lower the note. If the
note is already sharp, raising the note will add a double-sharp.
Click the Mass Edit Tool. First, well clear a measure to show how to enter accidentals while
entering notes.
Click measure 5 in the top staff so it is highlighted, and then press $ (Mac: o). This
method clears all entries in the selected region.
Click the Simple Entry Tool 4.
Click the Eighth Note Tool 4, or press numpad 4, and then enter a third space C at the
beginning of measure 5. An eighth note appears in measure five.
Press numpad + (plus). Finale adds a sharp to the note.

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Press numpad - (minus) twice. The note is now flat. Finale alters
the pitch of the note chromatically with each keystroke. You can
also use the Sharp m and flat o tools in the Simple Entry
Palette to specify an accidental before entering a note.
Click the Flat Tool o in the Simple Entry Palette. Now both the
eighth note and the flat are selected in the Simple Entry Palette.
Press the right arrow h key to activate the caret.
Hold down d and press the up arrow e key. The caret moves up an octave.
Type D. Finale places a D flat on the staff.
Double-click the eighth Note Tool 4 (or press numpad 4 twice) to deselect all other tools.
Finish entering the measure by typing C, B, Numpad 5, A and F. Notice Finale does not add
a natural on the C. Thats because Simple Entrys accidentals are smart. In other words,
they apply through the remainder of the measure. Of course, you can always add or remove
accidentals manually where needed to override a smart accidental.Now, lets use the mouse
to edit existing notes.
Double-click on the Flat Tool o. Only the Flat Tool is selected.
On measure 5, top staff, third beat, click on the A. An A flat appears next to the quarter
note.
Click on the Half Step Down Tool . In measure 5, click

twice on the F. A double-flat appears next to the F. Note that
when you selected the Half Step Down Tool, the Flat Tool
automatically deselected. You can only have one accidental
tool selected at one time. Lets try a sharp now.
Click on the Sharp Tool m. 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, well remove the sharp and the
double-flat.
Click on the Eraser Tool .
Click the Sharp and the double-flat to remove them. These items disappear as you click.
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CHORDS
Building chords is a snap with Simple Entry. To add notes with the mouse, just
select the same duration icon as the note already entered, then move the cursor
above or below a note. Notice vertical lines appear above and below the note as
shown to the right. This indicator tells you that a click will add a note to the chord.
While entering with the Simple Entry Caret, simply press the number that corresponds to the interval above or below the selected note to add it to the chord. Lets
try entering and adding chords to the left hand.
Click the Mass Edit Tool. First, well clear a measure to use for this example.
Click measure 5 in the bottom staff so it is highlighted, and then press $ (Mac: o).
Click the Simple Entry Tool 4, and double-click the Quarter Note Tool 5.
In measure 5, click on the A (top line) in the left hand. Now move
the cursor down a whole step to the G space and click. Now, click
the low F just below the staff. A chord with A, G and F are added
to the measure. Note that Finale automatically places the A notehead, as an interval of a second, to the right of the stem.
Press j to activate the caret. The caret appears.
Type C to enter a C on beat 2. Now, you can type an interval to

add additional notes in a chord.
Type 5 on the QWERTY keyboard. Finale adds a note of the same

duration a fifth above the C. Notice the G is now selected. To add
another note a third above G, you would type 3. You can also add
notes to a chord using note names.
Hold down d and press the up arrow e to move the caret

note up an octave.
Hold down the Shift key and type B. Finale adds a B to the chord.
If you are using a MIDI device, play the triad F2, A2 and C3
simultaneously to enter the next chord, then play C2. Play up
to 12 notes at once to add a chord.
If you are not using a MIDI device, type F, 3(QWERTY),

3(QWERTY), and C to complete the measure.
While entering chords, hold

down d and type an
interval to add notes lower
than the selected pitch.
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TUPLETS
Tuplets are any irregular grouping, including triplets, quintuplets, and so on. Well cover
tuplets briefly here; see TUPLETS in Tutorial 1b for a more in depth lesson. Lets enter a triplet to
the fourth beat of measure 5, and then learn how to change existing entries to a triplet.
Click on the Eraser Tool , then click on the last beat of the top staff, measure 5. First, well
place the caret in the staff as if we were entering this music for the first time.
Hold down ! (Mac: b) and click the second space Af on the third beat of measure 5.
The quarter note is selected.
Press j. The Caret appears on beat 4.
Type numpad 4 and then F to add the first eighth note.
Press numpad 9 (or QWERTY 9) to begin a triplet. Finale

adds a triplet bracket and automatically fills out the triplet
with rests as shown in the image to the right. The note you
just entered is the first note of the triplet. Now, you can type
the letter names to fill the triplet with notes.
Type E and F to complete the triplet. The cursor advances to

the next measure. You can also use the mouse to change an
existing note to a triplet.
To click a tuplet onto the staff with your mouse, choose the rhythmic duration and the
tuplet tool in the Simple Palette, and click to create the tuplet. Then, simply click the rests
to fill in the tuplet. Finale will ignore 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.
Now, well change the first three eighth notes in measure 6 to a triplet.
Double-click the Tuplet Tool ] on the Simple Entry Palette. Only the Tuplet ] icon
should be highlighted in the Simple Palette.
Click the first beat on the top staff, measure 6. The existing eighth notes are now enclosed
in a triplet bracket.
To enter more advanced tuplets, hold down @ (Mac: b) and press numpad 9 when
using the caret. Or, hold down d and click the score. The Simple Entry tuplet Definition dialog box appears where you can specify more advanced tuplets such as quintuplets,
septuplets and the like. See SIMPLE ENTRY TUPLET DEFINITION DIALOG BOX in the User Manual for details.
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OVERWRITE VS. REPITCH
While entering with the Simple Entry Caret, Finale overwrites existing entries, replacing them
with the new ones. Youve already seen while entering tuplets; the eighth notes replaced the
existing eighth rests. Instead of overwriting existing notes, you can also use the Repitch Tool to
change the pitch of existing entries without replacing them.
Click the Repitch Tool
, or hold down ! (Mac: a) and press R.
Move the mouse cursor to the second space A in the first measure (above the F) and click.
The F moves up to the A.
Press j. The caret appears on the second beat.
Type B. Finale moves the existing G to an B and the caret moves to the right. You could continue typing note names to repitch each entry. After changing a notes pitch, use modifier
keystrokes to edit the note as you would normally.
In the QWERTY keyboard, type 3 to add a third above the note.
In the numeric keypad, press the + (plus) key (or QWERTY
=). A sharp appears on the note. Measure one should look
like the image to the right. Now, if you are using a MIDI keyboard, you can play pitches to change notes.
On a MIDI keyboard, play an C5 (C above middle C). The A
on the third beat moves up to the C. You can also play multiple notes to enter chords. Finale
will add the accidentals for you automatically.
CHANGING THE KEY SIGNATURE, TIME SIGNATURE, AND CLEF

While entering with Simple Entry, you can use keyboard shortcuts to change the key and meter.
Hold down ! (Mac: b) and click on any note in measure 1. For this example, well
select a note with the mouse. In the future, you can use this method at any time while entering with the Simple Entry Caret, or whenever a note is selected in the score. The key and
time signature change appears at the beginning of the measure you are editing (unless specified otherwise in the Key or Time Signature dialog box). Clef changes appear at the position
of the caret, or to the left of a selected note.
Hold down @ (Mac: b) and press K. A Waiting for input message appears that tells
you Finale is ready to enter a key change.
Click Select. The Key Signature dialog box appears.
On the scroll bar to the right of the key signature display, click the up arrow twice. Well
change the key signature to G major.
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Click OK. The key change appears at the beginning of the first measure. Youll learn more
about the Key Signature dialog box in chapter 2. Now lets say we want to change the time
signature.
Hold down @ (Mac: b) and press T.
Click Select. The Time Signature dialog box appears. Here, you can change the number of
beats and beat duration using the arrows on the right. For now, leave the time signature set
to common time. Youll learn more about this dialog box in chapter 2.
Click OK. Now, lets say we want to change the clef.
Hold down @ (Mac: b) and press C.
Click Select. The Change Clef dialog box appears.
Select a new clef and click OK. You return to the score. Finale
creates a mid-measure clef unless the Caret is placed at the beginning of a measure or the first note of a measure is highlighted; in
which case the clef change will appear at the beginning of the
measure (just to the left of the barline). Youll learn more about
clef changes in chapter 1c and 5.
Youll learn more about

key signature, time
signature, and clef
changes in chapter 2.
Note that when you see the Waiting for Input message, you can also use a metatool to quickly
enter a key clef or time change. See METATOOLS in the Keycuts chapter of the User Manual for
information on assigning metatools.
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. First of all, if you are using the
Simple Entry Caret, Finale will automatically add a measure when you fill the last measure of
the score. Therefore, you can simply continue entering notes and Finale will create the measures
for you. You can also use the Measure Tool z to add measures at any time. To do this, click the
Measure Tool, and from the Measure Menu, choose Add (or, !-click (Mac: b-click) the
Measure Tool). In the Add Measures dialog box that appears, type in the number of measures to
be added, and click OK. To add a single measure, just double-click the Measure Tool.
Note that as you add measures, the final barline will move
to the last measure of the score.
CHANGING VIEWS
To delete measures, click on the

Mass Edit Tool, select the measure,
then press the Delete k.
Before going on, you should get accustomed to moving around your score.
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Finale offers you the choice of three views of your music. So far, you've been working in Page
View, where you see the music laid out like a page of sheet music. Finale also offers Scroll View,
and Sequencer View where the music is displayed as a continuous horizontal band. Most of
Finale's tools work equally well in any view, although you'll find that the computer redraws the
screen faster in Scroll/Sequencer View. For now well focus on Scroll View.( Youll learn more
about Sequencer View in chapter 6.)
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. Names, 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 Measure 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 Measure 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
youll see if you let go of the mouse button.
Drag the mouse all the way to the left, until the Measure counter says 1. Release the mouse
button. Youre back at the beginning of the score.
Note that the scroll box in the horizontal scroll bar represents your position:
The scroll box tells you whether you are at the beginning...
...the middle...
...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.
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From the View Menu point to Scale View to

and select 75%. The screen picture redraws
at 75% of its original size.
You havent actually reduced the printed size
of the music. Youve simply changed the way
its displayed on the screen. The music will
still print at full size.
Now you have a good overview of your piece.
In certain cases youll need the music to be
large enough for you to maneuver with precision. Finale lets you have your cake and eat it
tooyou 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 Frre Jacques document. To switch between the two windows, hit Control-Tab (Win
only) or select the desired window from the Window Menu. Its easy, but it would be nice to
see the contents of both windows at once.
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 masterpiecetheyre two independent
views of the same piece. The title bar in the upper window is highlighted, indicating that it
is the active window. Using the commands in the View Menu, you can zoom in, zoom out,
change from Page View to Scroll View, and so onbut all of these view changes will only
affect the active window. You can even use the Zoom Tool b to zoom in on a particular
spot.
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.
Lets say the active window contains the view you really want to work on, and youd like it
to fill your screenbut you still want access to the other window.
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From the Window Menu, choose Cascade (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.

You can open as many windows as you want. In fact, they dont have to be windows on the
same documentyou 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 youve made to Frre Jacques exist only on the screen. If
someone trips on the computers power cord at this moment, all of your work will be lost, and
youll be left with the original, incomplete Tutorial 1a document.
For this reason, its a good idea to save your work back onto the disk at regular intervalsperhaps every 15 minutes or so. To save your work on the disk:
From the File Menu, choose Save or press !-S

(Mac: a-S). Your changes have now been saved on
the hard disk. (You still have a fresh, untouched copy
of this document, however; its on your original Finale
disc.)
If youre afraid you might forget to save your work and
run the risk 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 YOURE READY TO CONTINUE

From the File Menu, choose Close to close the active document, and all open windows on that document. Or, choose Close All (Mac: b-Close) to close all open documents. 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.
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 experimentation before proceeding to Tutorial 1b, choose Default Document from the New submenu of the File Menu. Finale will
open a new Untitled document.
If youre ready to move on, go right ahead to the next tutorial. If youve had enough for one lesson, choose Exit (Mac: Quit) from the File Menu.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics youve just covered. See,
for example:
ACCIDENTALS
ARTICULATION TOOL
COPYING MUSIC
KEY SIGNATURE TOOL
PAGE VIEW
SAVE (FILE MENU)
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SCROLL VIEW
SIMPLE ENTRY
TIME SIGNATURE TOOL
TUPLET TOOL
ZOOM TOOL
Tutorial 1b: Speedy Entry

In addition to Simple Entry, Speedy Entry offers another fast and efficient method of music
entry. This tool is particularly useful if you plan to use a MIDI device for input. You can enter
music very quickly, with one hand on a MIDI keyboard and the other on the numeric keypad, or
using the MIDI device exclusively. You can also edit existing music with equal ease.
In this tutorial, youll explore the Speedy Entry Tool in depth, and youll get to know some more
of Finales MIDI input and playback capabilities. We assume youve 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 devices. Most MIDI devices are keyboards, but there are also guitar, string, wind, percussion, and even voice MIDI controllers. As mentioned earlier, the term MIDI keyboard will be
used to refer to whatever MIDI device youre using.
If you need help hooking up your MIDI device, look at the section called SETTING 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 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 use the template weve 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? Use the Lead Sheet template. If you
find you use a particular template every single time, you may wish to make it your default file the template the Setup Wizard uses.
Well 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.
From the File Menu, choose New, then select Document from Template.
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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 thirty-one
empty measures.
ADDING MEASURES
Although every new Finale document contains thirty-one empty measures, which is sufficient
for this tutorial, 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 Measure Tool z. To add a single blank measure
to the end of the score, double-click the Measure Tool. To add multiple measures, !-click
the Measure Tool (Mac: b-click the Measure Tool). In the Add Measures dialog box that
appears, type in the number of measures to be added, and click OK.
SPEEDY ENTRY
Click the Speedy Entry Tool a. Another menu appearsthe
Speedy Menuwhose 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 Device for Input.
If youre not using a

MIDI keyboard, make
sure Use MIDI Device
for input is unchecked
in the Speedy Menu.
If youre 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, youll see a thin vertical cursor at the left side of it, called the insertion bar. Theres also a short horizontal cursor called the pitch crossbar, which indicates
pitch.
In the upper-left corner of the frame, youll 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,
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Finale would call them Voice 1 and Voice 2. It is more likely, however, that you would use
Finales four transparent layers.)
Pitch Crossbar
?
Editing Frame
Insertion bar
Use the up/down arrow keys to move the pitch crossbar, and the left/right arrow keys to move the insertion bar.
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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, a middle C quarter note appears. If your
MIDI keyboard is not sending correctly to the computer, youll see a
quarter rest; in which case, see SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM
in the INSTALLATION CHAPTERS earlier in this book. To remove the
rest, click it and press k.
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.
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 youre
using the numeric keypad.) In Finale, 5 means a quarter note. Take a look at these diagrams:
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Windows Speedy Entry Keypad Commands
1
j
q
j
q
j
q
With Ctrl:
128th note
With Caps Lock:

Hands-free MIDI input
4
With Ctrl:
DefineTuplet
=
Tie/untie
to next
note
Slash
Grace
note flag
P
Add or
remove
accidental
( )s
Hide/show
note or rest
L
Flip stem
With Ctrl:
Unfreeze
stem
F
Add Flat
With Ctrl:
Flip Tie
With Ctrl-Shift: Restores

tie to automatic setting
Previous
measure
Next
measure
Grace
note
.
Add dot
/
Break/join
beam to
previous
note
Shift
With a number (1-8):
Insert note (or rest w/MIDI)
Constrain dragging
Ctrl
With Shift and
a number (1-8):
Enter rest
**If you turn Num Lock on, you can use the
numbers on the keypad for note durations instead.
Num
Lock
/
Break/join
beam to
previous
note
*
Show/hide
accidental
Freeze/
unfreeze
rest
8
Up a step
Flat
Beam
Enter
Add note to chord
Change rest
to note
With Shift:
Next layer
With Ctrl:
Freeze/unfreeze
accidental
Num Lock off **
'
Voice 1/2
Exit/
Reenter
measure
With Ctrl:
Flip enharmonic
through measure
BackSpace
Remove note
from chord
Change note
to rest
9
Flip
enharmonic
With Ctrl:
Begin Tuplet
With Ctrl: Ties to previous note
R
Change
note to
rest
Flip
enharmonic
With Shift:
Up a staff
4
Previous
note
With Shift:
Previous
measure
Half step
increase
6
Next note
With Shift:
Next
measure
2
Down a step
With Shift:
Down a staff
Half step
decrease
Enter
With Ctrl:
Flip
enharmonic
through
measure
Add note
to chord
With Ctrl:
Start/End
of measure
Change
rest
to note
Add dot
With Shift: Insert mode
With Ctrl:
Continue
accidental
through
measure
Del
With Shift:
Remove
note, rest
or chord
Macintosh Speedy Entry Keypad Commands

SPEEDY ENTRY KEYBOARD COMMANDS
Remove note
from chord
Change single
note to rest
delete
(backspace)
Remove note, rest,
or chord
Slash
Grace
note flag
Change
note to rest
Hide/show
note or rest
L
Flip stem
With Option:
Unfreeze
stem
With +/-:
Continue accidental
through measure
With 9:
Flip enharmonic
through measure
option
With a number (1-8):

Begin tuplet
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Previous
measure
Next
measure
Flat
beam
return
Down a staff
'
Grace
note
Voice 1/2
With Shift:
Up a staff
With Opt and number:

Enter rest
Previous
note
F Flat
With
Command:
Flip tie
direction
P
Add or
remove
accidental
( )s
Next
note
clear
shift
Insert note (or rest w/MIDI)
With
Caps Lock:
hands-free
MIDI input
Constrain dragging
Up
a step
Down
a step
w
e
j
q
With Option:
Tie/ untie
previous note
=
Tie/untie
to next
note
W
q
j
q
With Option:
Freeze/unfreeze
accidental
/
Break/join
beam to
previous
note
*
Show/hide
accidental
9
Flip
enharmonic
+
Half step
increase
h
j
q
Exit measure and

redraw
Reenter measure
With Option: 128th note
Add dot
Half step
decrease
enter
Add note
to chord
Change
rest
to note

Since the 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 youre 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 number
key, you get a rest.
Youll find the complete

Speedy Entry Keypad
Commands on your
Quick Reference Card.
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). Youve just built the first four notes of a C scale. Before you could really
see what youd done, however, Finale advanced the editing frame to the next measure, ready
for you to play more notes.
Note that entry with a MIDI device using Speedy Entry is in a way opposite from using a
MIDI device with Simple Entry. In Simple Entry, the note duration is specified in the Simple
Entry Palette before playing the pitches. In Speedy Entry, the pitches are held down prior to
specifying the rhythmic duration. To lock Speedy Entry to a duration (like in Simple), see the
User Manual under SPEEDY ENTRYTO ENTER MANY NOTES OF THE SAME VALUE.
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 zero (0) key to exit the editing frame, or click the mouse on any blank part of the
screen. The editing frame goes away.
From the Speedy Menu, choose Jump to Next Measure. If you click the Speedy Menu again,
youll see that Jump to Next Measure no longer has a check mark in the Speedy Menu; youve
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.
Now that youve turned the Jump to Next Measure 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.
Now press the left arrow and right arrow keys on the keyboard a few times. The insertion bar
moves by one note or rest each time you press the right or left arrow key. You can also move
the insertion bar by clicking a note with the mouse.
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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. Youve now changed
all four notes in this measure to eighth notes. Theyre
automatically beamed.
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V1
Position the mouse pointer squarely on the last notes

notehead. Click 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 connected
properly, Finale plays the note each time it changes pitch. This feature can be disabled by
deselecting Playback from the Speedy Menu.)
Click squarely on the high Fs notehead. With the button
down, drag it slightly to the right or left. The Speedy Entry
Tool gives you complete controlnot only of a notes pitch,
but also of its position in the measure.
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 d key while youre
dragging.
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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 k. Pressing the k key removes a note, rest, or chord from the score.
But what if you delete a note by accident? Any time youre 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 Undo (or press !-Z) (Mac: a-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.
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WORKING WITH CHORDS
Position the insertion bar on the F, and use the up/down arrows to move the crossbar to the
third-space C.
Press j. There are now two notes in the chord. Using the four directional arrows, you can
maneuver anywhere in a measure, and using the j key, you can add a note to an existing
note or chord. (If the insertion bar is on a rest, j turns the rest into a note.)
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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 youre working on
scrolls downward (or upward, if youre 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.
Use the up arrow key to position the crossbar squarely on the top notehead (F) of the chord.
Press $(Mac: o). The $ (o) key is the opposite of j: it removes a note from
a chord. (If theres only one note in the chord, this keystroke turns it into a rest.)
ACCIDENTALS
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.
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#
b
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 Af and press the 9 key. The spelling of the note changes to Gs.
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Move the crossbar down away from the two notes. Press the 9 key several times. If the crossbar is on a chords 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 note is an Af. In the next step, youll hide the
accidental.
Position the crossbar on the Af. Press the asterisk (*) key. Youll usually want to use the
asterisk key on the numeric keypad. If you prefer, however, you can press d-8 (the main
keyboard asterisk) instead.
Pressing the asterisk key hides an accidentalor, if none is there, it causes an accidental to
appear. The note retains its identitythe note that now looks like an A will still play back as
an Af. To restore the accidental, press the asterisk key again.
Finale can even put an accidental in parenthesessimply 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 2which is emptyand try the Tuplet Tool.
Click the Speedy Entry Tool a, and click measure 2.
While playing any MIDI keyboard key, press the 5 key four times. Youve 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 !-3 (Mac: b-3). You do this before entering a triplet; Finale puts a tiny 3 in
the upper right of the editing frame, letting you know its 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. Youve just created a half-note triplet.
Press the 0 (zero) key to exit the editing frame. In 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.
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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, youll 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
boxes at the top of the Tuplet Definition dialog box. As you see, Finale has guessed that you
want to fit three quarter notes in the time of twoprecisely 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. Youve just turned ordinary quarter notes into a triplet by clicking the first of them
with the Tuplet Tool. (You can edit the tuplet to look any way youd like.) Notice the six handles that appear. These handles control the various elements of the bracket:
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Drag this handle to change
the angle of the bracket.
Drag this handle to independently

move the bracket from the number.
3
Drag this handle up or
Drag this handle to move the
down to change the length
number relative to the
of the hook.
Drag this handle to move
the entire bracket and num-
You can modify the triplet you made in Measure 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 doesnt 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 Metatool. Heres an example:
Click the main handle of the triplet in measure 3 and press k. This is how you turn
tuplet-defined notes back into normal notes.
Now lets define a Tuplet Metatool. 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 d, 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 the triplet you want this Metatool 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. Youve just specified that this Metatool 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
theyll look right on the first try.
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Finally, if youre creating a piece with many tuplets, youll want to predefine their visual definition. With this shortcut, youll 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 appearance before you ever enter the tuplets themselves. Note that the following shortcut is not the same as creating a Metatool, which turns normal notes into tuplets
after theyve been entered into the score. By using the following technique, you can specify
what the tuplets will look like when they first appear.
!-click (Mac: double-click) the Tuplet Tool ]. Document Options-Tuplets 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 !-3 (Mac: b-3) just before you enter the notes themselves.)
Changes to the
Document OptionsTuplets only affect
future tuplets, not
existing tuplets, in that
INSERTING NOTES OR RESTS

Click the Speedy Entry Tool a.
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Click on the first measure and position the insertion bar on

the two-note chord. Remove it by pressing k.
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Move the insertion bar back to the middle C note again.

While holding down d, press the 6 key located above the main keyboard, not on the
number keypad. When you press d, 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 rest6 is the keyboard equivalent of the half note value. (If you had held down a key on your MIDI keyboard while you
pressed d-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 youre inserting a lot of notes, you can switch
to the Insert mode. From the Speedy Menu,
choose Insert Notes or Rests. When youre done,
select Insert Notes or Rests again to deselect it.
To insert rests in Speedy Entry without

a MIDI keyboard, hold down d +
c + the number key while in Insert
mode. (Mac: b + d + the
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Your example should now look like this:
The problem is that there are five beats in the measure
the half rest and three quarter notes (even though you
might not see the third note). With Finales rhythmicwatchdog feature (Jump to Next Measure) turned off, Finale
wont notify you until you exit the editing frame.
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Press the zero key to exit the editing frame. Finale displays
a dialog box that tells you that there are too many beats in the measure.
Youre offered four methods of solving the problem. You could leave the extra beats in the
measure (by selecting the top option). You could tell Finale to eliminate any extra beats by
removing them from the end of the measure (by clicking the second radio button). You could
tell Finale to 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 Finale to rebar the music by redistributing notes throughout 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 beatthe last
E quarter noteand you exit the editing frame.
In the next section, youll create a lead sheet that begins with a pickup. To complete the first
measures transformation into the pickup measure, the only task remaining is to create a dotted rhythm.
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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 the 4 key. Youve turned the last quarter note into
an eighth note; the pickup measure is complete.
ENTERING MUSIC: SPEEDY ENTRY

Youve now learned the basics of using the Speedy Entry Tool with the MIDI keyboard. Youve
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 youve been working on now contains the pickup notes for Oh, Susannah. 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 youve learned:
Key
Effect
. (period)
Add a dot
Eighth note
Quarter note
Half note
] (right
bracket)
Go to next measure
[ (left bracket)
Go to previous measure
Remove a note, rest, or

chord
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&
&
13
& .
When you reach measure 14, you may realize that the last four bars of Oh, Susannah are
exactly the same as measures 6 through 9. To save time, you can use the Mass Edit Tools copying function to complete the melody.
In the first tutorial, you copied a measure of Frre 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 target
measures on the screen at the same time.
Now youll 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 materialin word
processors, spreadsheets, and even music programs. Its called d-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.
Click the Mass Edit Tool l then click measure 6.

While pressing d, click measure 9. Measures 6 through 9 are now selected.
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As a matter of fact, theres yet another way to select a range of measures thats especially
handy for selecting large regions, because you dont have to scroll to the endpoint to dclick. Its the Select Region command in the Edit Menu. Youll read more about it in a
moment.
COPYING MUSIC TO OFF SCREEN TARGETS

Now you have to copy this music to the end of the piece. Heres another keyboard shortcut. This
one, used for copying music from one place to another in Finale, works like this:
Select the source
measures...
Scroll...
This music...
...and Ctrl-Shift (Mac: Option-Shift)

click the first of the target measures.
...gets copied here.
Youve already selected the source measures, so proceed as follows:

While pressing !, click measure 14 (Mac: b, click measure 14). Thats a very useful
trick to remember: !-clicking (b-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.
Click OK (or press j). Thats all there is to it!
Youve entered all the music for your first lead sheet.
DELETING MEASURES
To copy specific items, select the measures

with the Mass Edit Tool, then !
d click (Mac: b - d click)

on the target measure to display the Items
to Copy dialog box where you can choose
specific items to copy.
This version of Oh, Susannah is seventeen measures long. However, you will remember that
Finale provided you with thirty-one empty measures when you began this tutorial. Therefore,
you now need to delete measures 18 through 31, using the Measure Tool and the Select Region
command mentioned a moment ago.
Click the Measure Tool z. 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 score that you want to selecteven if none of
it is visible on the screen at the moment. (The Beat drop-down lists even let you specify parts
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of a measure you want to include in the selection, but can only be used when Partial Measure
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 Measure: text box and adjusted the Staff drop-down lists correctly for you.
In fact, the only number you have to change is the Through Measure: text boxthe last measure of your selected region.
Tab to the Through Measure: text box. Type 31. (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 able to 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. Nonetheless, 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 use the 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
Select the first two measures of the song. You can use any of the selection methods youve
tried so far: clicking one measure and then d-clicking the second, or drag-enclosing both
at once.
Press $ (Mac: o). 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 like
this one, as follows:
From the Edit Menu, choose Undo. Finale restores the music.
MORE ON SPEEDY ENTRY

Combining the speed of Speedy Entry with the convenience of Mass Edit copying, as youve just
done, is a quick, accurate method of entering musicespecially with practice.
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Eventually youll discover even more shortcuts: for example, to enter several repeated notes,
just hold the MIDI keyboard key down continuously while you repeatedly press the rhythmicvalue keys (you dont have to restrike the MIDI keyboard key each time).
As mentioned earlier, you can do the opposite, too. You can tell Finale that all the notes youre
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. You can press Caps Lock to activate this
feature. For instructions, see the User Manual under SPEEDY ENTRYTO 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 youll inadvertently throw notes onto the
screen. Chords are a breeze, too: just hold down MIDI keyboard 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 d while you dragyour 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 youll 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 t key (letter t) ties a note to the next note. !-equal (Mac: b-equal) ties a
note to 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 youre working on a score with several staves,
pressing d-down arrow (Mac: i) moves the editing frame down to the next lower staff;
pressing d-up arrow (Mac: d-i) moves it back up.
Finally, if you ever want to hide an entry (a note or rest), just position the insertion bar on it and
press the letter h key; the entry appears lightly in the score (if Show Hidden Notes and Rests is
checked under the View Menu), and will not print. Also, when you begin working with Finales
four transparent staff layers (called Layer 1 through 4), you can flip through the layers by pressing d - (apostrophe) (Mac: d-down arrow or d-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.
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Theres no need to learn all of 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).
If you ever add too many augmentation

dots, press the appropriate number key
to return the note to the original
duration.
PLAYBACK
Youre about to discover that your folk song masterpiece, Oh, Susannah, not only looks
goodit sounds good, too.
It doesnt matter which tool is currently selected.
From the Window Menu, choose Playback Controls (if theyre not already on the screen).
The Playback Controls appear. On Windows, the Playback Controls are docked at the top of
the screen.
On the Macintosh, the Playback Controls are a floating palette, shown below:
Click the Play button 1. If your MIDI system is hooked up properly, youll hear Finale play
the song. To stop playback, click either Pause 0 or Stop 8.
If you dont hear anything, consult SETTING UP
YOUR MIDI SYSTEM in the INSTALLATION CHAPTERS
earlier in this manual.
If you wish to use the internal speaker

on a Macintosh, select the MIDI Menu,
then Internal Speaker Playback.
On Mac, hide the Playback Controls by clicking on

the Window Menu, then select Playback Controls so that the check mark disappears. This
step is not required on Windows.
As youre about to find out, you dont have to use the Playback Controls to play back your
score:
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Windows Users: While pressing the Space bar, click any
measure. Mac users: hold down Shift, press the Space bar
and click any measure. Once again, Finale plays back your
score, this time beginning with the measure you clicked.
Click anywhere on the screen to pause. Of course, this is
only the tip of the playback iceberg. Try this funbut usefulfeature:
Mac users: when the

Playback Controls are
visible, simply pressing the
spacebar will start
playback.
While pressing ! (Mac: b) and the Space bar, drag the cursor back and forth across
the notes in the score. This scrubbing playback feature lets you spot-check any part of the
scorea useful feature when, for example, youre 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.
More playback features will be discussed in chapter 6: PLAYBACK.
SETTING THE INITIAL TEMPO

Finale offers a number of ways to set the tempo for a piece. For example, in Tutorial 6 youll
learn how to make tempo markings such as Allegro, Presto, and ritard actually control the playback tempo. For now, though, well set the tempo the quick way.
Once again, from the Window Menu, choose Playback Controls. The Playback Controls reappear. On the Macintosh, click the expander triangle on the left side of the playback controls.
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 minuteor any other rhythmic unitchoose the
value you want from the Tempo drop-down list.
Click the Play button. Finale plays your song back at a more sprightly tempo.
When youre 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.

If youve had enough for one session, choose Exit (Mac: Quit) from the File Menu. If you want to
continue to the next tutorial, close the file, saving changes if you wish.
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The next tutorial will introduce you to the HyperScribe method of entry where Finale will
notate as you play in real time.

for example:
ACCIDENTALS
CHORDS
COPYING MUSIC
COURTESY ACCIDENTALS
DOTTED NOTES
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ERASING
MEASURES
PLAYBACK
SPEEDY ENTRY
Tutorial 1c: HyperScribe - Notate As You Play

So far, youve 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 record and transcribe a live performance in real time. To do this youll be using the HyperScribe Tool, which notates your performance almost as fast as you can play it. By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to get
notes on the page by playing on your MIDI keyboard, 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. But
to convert your performance to standard notation, the computer needs to know how each notes
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 provide the click.
The computer gets what it needs to transcribe the musica reference point for each beatand
the musician gets what he or she wantsthe freedom to speed up or slow down while playing.
Whats more, Finale lets you decide what youre tapping to provide this tempo reference; if
youre playing a single-line melody, you might tap along on a very high or low key on your MIDI
keyboard. For two-handed performances, youll probably choose to tap your foot on a pedal. But
any MIDI controller, from breath controller to modulation wheel, can provide the tap.
HyperScribe, as this recording mode is called, can be extremely accurate. First, however, Finale
needs you to answer some questions concerning what youre about to play:
Whats the rhythmic value of your tap? Quarter notes? Eighth notes?
Will there be inner voices or triplets?
In this tutorial well explore how these settings affect your transcription. HyperScribe, by the
way, isnt just for keyboard virtuosos. No matter how slowly you go, HyperScribe is still an
excellent means of entering musicsingle-line or simple music in particularinto a score. Even
non-keyboardists often come to prefer HyperScribe for quick, accurate note entry. With the MicNotator feature, you can even play your favorite instrument, like clarinet or saxophone, to enter
notes. See MICNOTATOR in the User Manual for more details.
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In the following sections, youll give HyperScribe a try. For a more complete discussion of various settings and how you might use them, see the User Manual under HYPERSCRIBE 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 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 is that Finale lets you determine all these variables once, after which it remembers your preferences for all future pieces. In the Finale 2005 folder theres a document called
Maestro Font Default. This is nothing more than a blank Finale document thats 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 weve provided is meant to serve as an example. When youre finished with these tutorials,
simply create a new document (or modify the one weve provided), and make sure youve named it
Maestro Font Default (on Windows, choose .FTM for the file type). See FINALE SCORE TEMPLATES
in the Appendix of the User Manual for more information.
From the File Menu, choose New, then Default Document. Finale presents an untitled document. Remember that its format is determined by the Maestro Font Default document in the
Finale/Component Files folder.
From the View Menu, choose Scale View, then select 75%. Now we need to make sure the
settings are correct for our experiment.
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 Finale to 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 well double-check.
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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 the Click popup Menu, select While Recording.
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, well instruct Finale that it
will be providing the tempo information, not you.
TRANSCRIBING A SCALE (WITH A CLICK)

Click the HyperScribe Tool g. A new menu appears on the
menu bar called HyperScribe, where youll make your transcription settings.
If you wish to use the

internal speaker on a
Macintosh, select the
MIDI Menu, then Internal
Speaker Playback.
From the HyperScribe Menu, choose Beat Source, then Playback and/or Click. In the Playback and/or Click dialog box,
you specify a start signal, set a tempo 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 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 Finale to use any MIDI signal as a cue to start the
countoff for a HyperScribe session.
Note 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.
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Click OK. Thats it! Finale is now ready to provide you with a metronome click.
From the HyperScribe Menu, choose Record Mode. Make sure Record into One Staff is
selected.
Click the first measure. A dotted frame surrounds the measure you clicked, indicating that
Finale is ready for you to begin. It doesnt 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
youre finished. Finale is waiting for you to send a signal that youre 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 countoff 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 coutoff measures are up, play a two-octave C scale, in quarter notes, starting
on middle C, as shown below.
&c
As you play each measure, it fills up with notehead-like dots; only when youve completely
filled a measure (and moved on to the next) does the full-fledged notation appear.
When youre finished, click your mouse anywhere on the screen. The editing frame goes
away. Take a look at what Finale did: did you get your C scale? If you didnt, try entering a
slower tempo in the Playback and/or Click dialog box. Now lets try a real melody instead of
a scale. Only this time, well provide the Tap or tempo instead of Finale.
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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 g.
From HyperScribe Menu, choose Beat Source, then Tap (even if its already checked). You
have to tell Finale which key or pedal (or other MIDI controller) youll 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, youll use a 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). Otherwise, 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 Finale is 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.
Click OK. You return to the score.

Click the first measure. You dont need to erase your C scale; a new HyperScribe pass overwrites whatever was there before.
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Play Ode to Joy as shown here. Remember to tap steady quarter notes with your left hand
on C below middle C.
& c .
& .
When youre finished, click the mouse. Scroll back to the first
measure. Look over 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 a single-line melody, you

might like to try the next experiment: playing with two hands
while tapping with your foot.
When using HyperScribe

with a Tap, make sure you
play the first note at the
same time or after the
first tap.
Open the file called Tutorial 1c. This is a grand staff like one you can create with the Setup
Wizard.
SETTING THE TIME SIGNATURE AND BEAMING PATTERNS

In the previous experiments, you used Finales default setting of quarter-note key taps. In the
next experiment youll be trying a piece in time, which will require you to change some of
HyperScribes settings.
Click the Time Signature Tool d.

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.
Were changing the meter to so you might expect the top number to be 6. Why are we subtracting beats (so that it is now 2)? Read on.
N,
Using the lower scroll bar, click the right scroll bar arrow once.
When you increase the beat duration (lower number) to a dotted quarter-note value, the new meter suddenly makes sense:
two dotted quarter notes do, in fact, make a meter.
The Time Signature setting does more than set the meter; it also
determines the beaming patterns for the music youre about to
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Note that with the Time

Signature Tool selected, you
can also right (Mac: c)click a measure to choose a
new time signature.

input. You could have increased the top number to 6, and decreased the bottom number to
eighth notes, like this:
6
&8 j j j j j j

But then youd wind up with no eighth notes automatically beamed together. By specifying a
meter formed by two dotted quarter notes (instead of six eighth notes), youve instructed
Finale to beam the eighth notes together in dotted-quarter note groupsthat is, in groups of
three.
Select Measure 1 through End of Piece (if its not already selected).
Click OK.
TWO-HANDED HYPERSCRIBING
Click the HyperScribe Tool g. The HyperScribe Menu appears.
From the HyperScribe Menu, choose Beat Source, then Tap (even though it may already have
a check mark next to it). Since youre playing a piece, you have to tell Finale that youll be
tapping every dotted quarter note.
Click the dotted quarter note icon. Youd click the same button for a piece in 3/8, 9/8, or 12/8
meter.
Click Standard Sustain Pedal, then click OK. Youre telling Finale that youll be tapping on
the pedal rather than on a MIDI keyboard key.
From the Options Menu, select Quantization Settings. The Quantization Settings dialog box
appears.
Under Smallest Note Value, click the eighth 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 performance 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.
Click OK. Youve told Finale that youll be tapping the sustain pedal, that each tap is to represent a dotted quarter note, and youve specified a quantization value. One other parameter
has changed since your first HyperScribe efforts: Youre 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 pointa key on the MIDI keyboard, below which all notes will
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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. Now, choose the point between the
two staves you want notes to split between the left and
right hand staves. If youre familiar with MIDI key numbers (middle C = 60), you can type a key number into the
text box in the Fixed Split Point dialog box that appears.
Its easier, however, to define a split point simply by playing the key.
Click Listen. Finale asks you to play the key you want to use as a split point.
Play the B just below middle C. Finale enters the key number into the text box. Now, notes
played on or above the B below middle C will be placed into the top staff.
Click OK. At this point, youre 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. The More 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 keyboardif it plays back louder the harder you strike a keythen Finale
will be able to 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. Youve now told Finale all it needs to know about the upcoming performance. Youve told it that youll be tapping on the pedal, that your taps represent dottedquarter 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 B, and that you want it to record
your dynamics and rhythmic feel.
If you take this 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 Chopsticks one
possibility is shown below. Play as slowly as you like, but be sure youre giving the sustain
pedal a little tap every beat (that is, every dotted quarter note), as indicated by the arrows
below.
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TAP:
& 68
? 68
X
.
X
.
X
.
X
.
X
&
? .
j

.
j
..
J .
When youre finished, click the mouse. Scroll back to the first measure. If all went well, you
should have a fairly clean, correctly beamed Chopsticks transcription.
If the dotted-line rectangle never budged from the first measure, there may be something
wrong with your MIDI setup. Its possible that your pedal isnt sending 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 Menu. Also, be sure your foot taps were synchronized with your hands.
Play back your performance (click Play 1 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 this file, weve turned off scrolling playback, so Finale simply 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 youre listening to the playback. This is
sometimes called bouncing ball playback.
NOTE: To play a scorea large score in particularis 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 Playback 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.
On Windows, click the Settings
button. On Macintosh, click the left arrow
button to
reveal more options. Here, you may want to specify a Human Playback style. Finales Human
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Playback feature processes your score and generates a performance based on the expressions,
articulations, and other markings youve placed in the score. You can choose from a variety of
styles including Classical, Baroque, and Jazz.
Check Scrolling (if it isnt already checked). 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).
Click Play 1. The Status or Message Bar keeps you apprised of Finales progress in pre-computing the music. When its 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 HyperScribe. 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, well add more details to our score with key and time signatures, lyrics,
repeats and guitar chords.

for example:
BEAMING
TIME SIGNATURES
CLEFS
EDUS
GROUPS
MICNOTATOR
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PLAYBACK
QUANTIZATION
HYPERSCRIBE TOOL
STAFF ATTRIBUTES
STAVES
Tutorial 2: Adding Details

Theres a lot more to music than just notes. In this tutorial, well cover how to add detailskey
and time signatures, lyrics, repeats, chords and more. Open the Document called Tutorial 2 in
the Tutorials folder: well use this version of Oh, Susannah to explore Finales 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 use the Setup Wizard, you should start off with the correct key signature for your piece
every time. But lets say you change your mind after entering in the music. Well change the key
for our folk song Oh Susannah.
Click the Key Signature Tool h.
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 its requesting some information from you. In this particular dialog box, you use the 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.
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
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notes when you change the key signature. Leave the settings as they are; youre 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.
Click OK (or press j). The dialog box goes away, and your piece is instantly transposed to
the key of C.
CHANGING THE TIME SIGNATURE

If you use the 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.
Click the Time Signature Tool d, and double-click the first measure. Make sure you click
the middle of the measure (within the staff lines). There are two 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.
On the upper scroll bar, click the left scroll bar arrow twice, to change the upper number
from 4 to 2. You want the meter to be two half notes per measureso 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 pulsethe 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).
Click the radio button for Measure 1 Through End of Piece. The Time Signature dialog box
looks like this:
Uncheck Rebar Music.
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Click OK (or press j). Thats it. Youve now put Oh, Susannah into cut time. (Finale
C
defaults to displaying the cut time symbol for . If youd prefer , see the User Manual
under CUT TIME.
ENTERING LYRICS: TYPE INTO SCORE

One of Finales greatest powers is its ability to handle lyrics intelligently. If you provide the lyrics, 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. Finale also adds word extension underlines for melismatic passages automatically.
There are two ways to create lyrics within Finale. You can type the lyrics directly into the score,
so that you know at all times where you are in the musica feature called Type Into Score. Or
you may prefer the faster Click Assignment methodwhere 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 pasting your lyrics in from another program, such as a word processor.
In this tutorial, youll try both techniques.
Click the Lyrics Tool k. A new menu, called Lyrics, appears and a row of four positioning
triangles appears to the left of the staff.
From the Lyrics Menu, choose Type Into Score, if its not already selected.
Click on the staff above the first melody note. You dont have to click the notehead. Instead,
click anywhere within the staff lines above it. A small blinking cursorthe 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, there are a few things you should know. If you make a mistake, just backspace
over it by pressing the $ key (Mac: k). (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 youve already typed, click in the staff above
the syllable in question so that its highlighted; then type in your correction.
As you type the rest of these lyrics, youll encounter some syllables that are supposed to be
held through two melody notes:
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In such cases, just skip past the sustained note by pressing the space bar. Finale will create
word extensions for you when appropriate. Use the space bar to skip past rests.
Finish typing the first verse:
Im [space] goin to Lou-si-a-na, my [space] true love for to see. [space]
Oh, Su-san-nah, now dont you cry for me,
Oh, I 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, youll
find that you can move the baseline (and all the attached lyrics)
up and down.
The four triangles (from

left to right) move the
baseline horizontally
for:
1.the entire piece
2.this staff
As you typed, Finale stored each syllable in a built-in text processor, the Edit Lyrics window. Lets take a look.
3. this staff, this system

only
From the Lyrics Menu, choose Edit Lyrics. Sure enough, there are
4. next syllable entered
your lyrics in their raw text form. Its important to understand
that the Edit Lyrics window and the lyrics in the score are dynamically linked. If you change a syllable in the Edit Lyrics window, that syllable automatically
changes in the scoreand vice versa.
.
Oh,
j

I
come
from
.
Al
ba
While the Type Into Score process is handy, its not the fastest possible method for entering
lyrics. When youre working with very large scores, or when you want to import lyrics from
another program (such as a word processor), you might want to use the Click Assignment
method, whereby you enter the lyrics directly into the Edit Lyrics window. No matter which
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method you prefer, Type Into Score is always handy for making quick changes to lyrics already
in the score.
In the next section, youll learn about the Click Assignment method. To restore your melody
to its wordless form, youll 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.
Click the Mass Edit Tool l. The Mass Edit Menu appears.
From the 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, youre entering the word into the Edit Lyrics box and assigning it to
a particular note at the same time. When we use the Mass Edit Tool to clear the lyrics, were
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 Items to Clear dialog box appears.
Click Uncheck All. All check boxes disappear.
Click the Lyrics checkbox and click OK. You return to your score, where your lyrics have disappeared, but your notes remain.
ENTERING LYRICS: CLICK ASSIGNMENT

With this method, youll 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 (as it did with the
Type Into Score method), youll find that you can type much faster in this mode.
Click the Lyrics Tool k. The Lyrics menu appears.
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:
k) key. You can copy and paste text as youve just done, using !-C (Mac: a-C) to
copy selected text and !-V (Mac: a-V) to paste it. You can also cut selected text, so
that its removed from the Edit Lyrics window but placed on the Clipboard ready for pasting
in another place; the Cut command is !-X (Mac: a-X).
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Click OK. You return to the score.
ASSIGNING LYRICS
From the Lyrics Menu, choose Click Assignment. 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.
Use the title bar to move
the window out of the way
of the music, if necessary.
Click the close box

when you're done
click-assigning.
Select Auto
Update if you're
click-assigning
one syllable at a
time and want
Finale to widen
the measure
accordingly after
each click.
Drag the scroll box to
move quickly to another
spot in the lyrics.
Use the side scroll

bar to switch from
one Verse to
another.
Click the right or

left arrows to scroll
the lyrics one
syllable in either
direction.
Click in the grey area
to scroll the lyrics by
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.
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&C
Oh,
Move the cursor to the second note, and click 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 ! (Mac: b) key, you can distribute all the
lyrics with a single click.
While pressing the ! (Mac: b) 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. Youll
probably notice a problem right away: Starting at measure 5the lyric Im goin to Lou-si-anathe lyrics havent been assigned to the proper melody notes. Theyre off by a syllable.
4
&
ban
jo
on
my
knee.

I'm goin'
to
Lou'
si
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 a note.
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.
From the Lyrics Menu, choose Shift Lyrics. The Shift Lyrics dialog box appears, letting you
specify the direction you want the syllables to be shifted. The default, to the right, is what
you want.
Click OK (or press j). Youre going to click within the staff lines above the first syllable
you want shifted.
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Click in the staff above the syllable goin. Finale shifts the
goin syllable, and all subsequent syllables, to the right.
Now scroll until you can see the word true, where the lyrics
are again misaligned.
knee,
I'm
goin'
to
Lou' - si
Click the note above the word true. Youve successfully

aligned the lyrics to the notes.
ADDING A SECOND VERSE

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.
From the Lyrics Menu, choose Edit Lyrics. Your lyrics appear in the text window. Note that
at the bottom of the dialog box you see a drop-down list (currently set to Verse) and a text
box (currently set to 1), indicating that you are viewing the lyrics for verse 1.
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, youll anticipate the passages where one syllable is sustained
through more than one note, so that you wont have to use the Shift Lyrics command after
placing the lyrics.
To do this, youll create an invisible syllable within the lyrics. This syllable is simply a blank
character, sometimes called a hard space. By pressing and holding down the @ key, typing 0160 on the numeric keypad, and then releasing the @ key (Mac: b + spacebar),
you produce an invisible character that Finale thinks of as a syllable, even though its invisible on the screen.
Remember that Finale looks for a space or a hyphen to indicate the end of a syllable
whether invisible or not. To convince Finale that this character is a syllable, you need to follow each invisible syllable with a space.
Click in the text box, and type the second verse exactly as you see it here. Create an invisible
syllable (@ 0160 or b + 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 I froze to death, Su-san-nah, dont you cry.
Oh, Su-san-nah, now dont you cry for me,
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I [invisible syllable] come from Al-a-ba-ma with a ban-jo on my [invisible syllable] [invisible syllable] [invisible syllable] knee.
Click OK. Scroll to the beginning of the music.
Choose Click Assignment from the Lyrics Menu.
!-click (b-click) in the staff above the first note. If youve typed the lyrics correctly,
Finale should enter the entire second verse without a hitch. Now, if you need to adjust the
positioning of the second lyric line, drag the leftmost of the four positioning handles up or
down.
The invisible syllables you added should make all syllables align with their notes. Finale also
adds word extensions for you automatically. We added three invisible characters before the
last syllable to skip measure 17, which well be skipping over the second time through (well
talk about creating the repeat markings in the next section). Lets delete this extra word
extension.
From the Lyrics Menu, choose Edit Word Extensions. The word
extension handles appear. You can use these handles to manually adjust the length of each word extension.
16
&
ban
ban
jo
jo
on
on
my
my
knee.
It
knee.
Click handle on the right edge of the word extension in the second verse and press Delete k. The word extension disappears.
To tell Finale to always

break a Smart Word
Extension at a
particular barline,
choose the Measure
Tool, double-click the
measure to the left of the
barline, check Break
Smart Word Extensions
and click OK.
THE REPEAT TOOL

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 playback back to
another measure. If you need to create a first and second ending, just highlight the measure(s) you want to include in the first ending, and then from the Repeat Menu, choose Create First and Second Ending.
A repeat barline doesnt necessarily direct music backward; it could make the music jump to a
later measure, as it does if youre using a coda sign. You can build nested repeats, multiple endingseven purely graphic repeat barlines that have no playback functions at all.
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In your Oh, Susannah lead sheet, youll actually need several repeat barlinesone 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
&C
.
Oh,
come
rained
from
all
Al
night
a the
...End
16
&
ban
ban
jo
jo
on
on
my
my
knee.
It
knee.
Youre welcome to perform these modifications yourself, if you want; youll 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 Menu).
Youll also need the Speedy Entry Tool a to change the music in the first and second endings,
and the Measure Tool z to create the extra measure.
If youd 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 youre ready to proceed.
The repeat tool is designed to allow you to add standard repeat barlines and endings easily
using context menus. By context-clicking (Windows users right-click, Macintosh b-click)
measures and selected regions, you can easily and edit repeats without taking focus off the
score. Now, lets add a repeat with a first and second ending.
Click the Repeat Tool x. Measure 1 is a pickup measure, so you want the first repeat barline
to appear at the beginning of measure 2.
Windows users Right-click (Macintosh users Control-click) measure 2. A context menu
appears which offers several repeat options.
Choose Create Forward Repeat Bar. A forward repeat
bar appears at the beginning of measure 2. Note that
you could also click measure 2 and from the Repeat
Menu choose Create Forward Repeat Bar to perform
the same task.
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Now, lets create the first and second ending. You want the first ending to appear at measure
17. Scroll down so measure 17 is visible.
Windows users Right-click (Macintosh users Control-click) measure 17. For a first ending
longer than one measure, you would select the measure region and then context-click.
Choose Create First and Second Ending. Finale places a first ending over the highlighted
measure and also places a second ending over the following measure. Thats it! This repeat is
already defined to play as shown, upon reaching the backward repeat bar, playback will jump
back to measure 2, and then, the second time through, skip over measure 17 to the second
ending.
To remove a repeat barline or bracket, click the Repeat Tool, then click the measure. Click
the square handle at the bottom of the barline and press k.
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.
Finally, please note that Finale also offers a number of text repeats, such as D.S. al Coda.
These text repeats are purely graphic, so they do not affect the playback of your score.While
the context menu items are great for creating basic repeat barlines and endings, you might
want a more in-depth discussion of the Repeat Tool and its various capabilities including
multiple ending passes, defining three or more endngs, or adding a Coda, D.S. al Coda, D.C.
al Coda and more. Consult 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. 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 can skip this section.)
This section assumes that youve completed the Oh, Susannah lead
sheet up through the last section. If not, choose Open from the File
Menu; open the document called Tutorial 2b, which is complete to
this point.
To enter chord
symbols without a
MIDI keyboard, click
on the Chord Tool,
then choose Type into
Score from the Chord
Menu.
Scroll to the first measure of the piece, if necessary.

Click the Chord Tool X. 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 Analy65

sis (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 also choose Edit Learned Chords, in which you can teach Finale to
recognize unusual or especially complex chords.
From the Chord Menu, choose MIDI Input. If you dont have a MIDI keyboard, dont despair;
its 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.
Play a C triad, root position, on the MIDI keyboard. It doesnt matter how the chord is voiced
or what octave its in; just make sure that the bottom note is a C.
C
1
&C
j .
.
.
Oh,
come
rained
from
all
Al
night
a - ba
the
day
ma
I
Finale puts the chord symbol, C, above the staff. (If 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 move the baseline of the chords.)
So far, so goodnow you need to advance the cursor to the
right, in preparation 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.
Play a single noteany noteabove middle C. If you want
to move backward, play a single note below middle C.
Play three more single notes above middle C. Youve just
moved the ear cursor to the next downbeat, where theres
another chord.
The four triangles (from left

to right) move the baseline
horizontally for:
1. the entire piece
2. this staff
3. this staff, this system only
4. next chord
come
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from
.
Al
ba
ma
with

C
1
&C
j .
.
.
Oh,
come
rained
from
all
Al
night
a - ba
the
day
ma
I
with
left,
&
Play another C chord, this time in first inversion (E on the bottom).

This time, Finale writes C/Ea C triad with an E in the bass.
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:
C
1
&C
C/E
.
Oh,
come from
C/G
.
Al
a - ba - ma
with
to
Lou
G7
&
ban - jo
on
my
knee,
&
-
na,
my

Im
C/G
7
- a
goin
G7
j

true
love
for
to
si -
C7
see.
10
& ..
Oh,
Su
san - nah,
G7
now
dont
you
come
from
me,
Oh,
C/G
G7
la - ba -
ma
with
16
&
ban
for
C/E
13
& .
cry
jo
on
my
knee.
..
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C
1
&C
C/E
j .
.
.
Oh,
come from Al rained all night

G7
C/G
4
&
ban - jo
wea - ther
on
it
my
was
knee,
dry,
a
froze
a - ba - ma
the day
I
C
with
left,
a
the
goin
sun
to
so
Lou
hot
Im
The
G7
na,
to
my
death,
true
love
Su - san - nah,
for
dont
to
you
see.
cry.
si I
C7
C/G
7
&
10
&
Oh,
Oh,
Su
Su
san - nah,
san - nah,
G7
now
now
dont
dont
you
you
cry
cry
for
for
C/E
13
& .
me,
me,
Oh, I
I
come
come
from
from
A
A
G7
C/G
ban ban -
la - ba - ma
la - ba - ma
with
with
a
a
16
&
1.
jo
jo
on
on
my
my
knee.
It
..
2.
knee.
Youll find that Finale 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 User Manual under EDIT LEARNED CHORDS.
If you make a mistake, choose Undo from the Edit Menu, click the note, and play the chord
again. Heres how you tell Finale that youre finished entering chords:
Click any blank part of the screen. Go aheadplay it back! (Click Play 1 on the Playback
Controls.) Youll discover that Finale plays the chord symbols wherever they occur. (You can
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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 Manual Input from the
Chord Menu. Youll see square handles appear, which you can then drag to move chord symbols. If you click a handle and press k, youll delete the chord; if you double-click a handle, youll enter the Chord Definition dialog box (see the User Manual under CHORD
DEFINITION DIALOG BOX for more complete information).
Now suppose youre 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 the staff. No
problem:
From the Chord Menu, choose Show Fretboards. Finale instantly places full-blown fretboard
diagrams underneath the regular chord symbols. Theyll even transpose if you change the
key!
To adjust the distance between the fretboard diagrams and the staff, choose Position Fretboards from the Chord Menu, 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, lets suppose that youve decided to add a few harmony notes.
Finale lets you have up to eight voicesindependent lines of music, each with its own stem
per staff. (Within each of the eight voices, a chord can have up to twelve notesa total of 96
notes per staff on any given beat.) Most of the time, youll probably need only two voices, stems
up and stems down. Youll find such music especially easy to notate in Finale, because every
staff can have four completely independent layers of music. You can think of them as clear plastic overlays, because each layer is utterly independenteach can even have its own MIDI channel for playback. You can flip easily from one layer to the other, and even hide the ones youre
not working on.
If you do need more voices, youll discover that each layer can have two voices of its own, Voice
1 and Voice 2, giving you a total of eight to work with. The Voice 1/Voice 2 mechanism is more
complex, however; save it for the times when you need more than four voices per staff.
From the Options Menu, choose Document Options, 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.
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For Layer 1, Freeze Stems and Ties should be checked, and Up should be selected from the
drop-down list by default. Also, Freeze Ties in the Same Direction as Stems and Apply
Adjustment Only if Notes are in Other Layers are checked. 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! Youve simply told Finale that whenever there are two
independent voices, Layer 1s stems should automatically flip up, and
Layer 2s stems should flip down. In such cases, ties should flip the
wrong way to avoid collisions with the other voice. Youve also said
that when Layer 2 has a rest, it should appear four lines or spaces
lower (6) than its usual position (the middle B line). Youll see the
effects of your settings soon.
Click OK. Now lets put in the harmony notes. You want to enter
them in Layer 2.
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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. Make sure
Use MIDI keyboard
is unchecked in the
Speedy Menu.

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. Youve just made Layer 2 the active layer of every
staff.
Click the half note icon 6 in the Simple Entry palette (or press 6 on the
number keypad) to select a half note duration.
Position your cursor on the A below middle C on the first beat of
measure 10 and click. Do the same for the second half note in measure 10. You can see that the stems are properly flipped. (Note you
could also enter these notes with the Simple Entry Caret with the
same results).
Press @-d-1 (Mac: a-b-1) to return to Layer 1. The
editing frame now displays Layer 1, and Layer 2 is dimmed. @d-# (1-4) (Mac: a-b-# (1-4)) is a keyboard shortcut used
to change the active layer while entering.
While using the

Simple Entry Caret,
when you switch
layers, Finale creates
placeholder rests for
you automatically, so
you can continue
entering in a new
layer at any point in
the measure.
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 is to fill up the beginning part of the measure with rests (below left):
& c
&
To create the appearance of a Layer 2 voice that begins in mid-measure (right), first create placeholder
rests (left). Use the letter h key to hide the rests.
In Simple Entry, Ctrl/Option-click each rest and press the letter h key. The rest dims to indicate it is hidden (and will not print); now its merely a placeholder to align the notes of the
second voice. (Press the h key 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:
& c
You need to offset one of them to avoid the collision. One solution is simply to drag either
note to one side when youre editing with the Speedy Entry Tool a. (You can drag notes
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both vertically and horizontally when youre editing. If you want to make sure you dont
inadvertently move the note sideways when you want to drag it up or downor vice versa
press the d 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 Manual for more information.

This tutorial has covered a lot of ground; if youve made it to the end, congratulations. Finale
offers a lot of power, and you can harness it! Choose Save from the File Menu, if you havent
already done so. If you think youve done enough for one session, choose Exit (Mac: Quit) from the
File Menu, and youll return to the desktop.
If you want to go on, close this document and turn to the next tutorial.

for example:
CHORD SYMBOLS
FIRST ENDINGS
FONTS
MULTIPLE VOICES
LEAD SHEETS
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LYRICS
MELISMA
PLUG-INS
REPEATS
WORD EXTENSIONS
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 languagearticulations, dynamics,
slurs and more. Open the Document called Tutorial 3 in the Tutorials folder: well use this
arrangement of Oh, Susannah to explore Finales 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
Well start with an introduction to articulations (staccatos, accents, fermatas) and expressions
, solo).
(Moderato,
Click the Articulation Tool t. Using this tool, you can
click on, above, or below a noteit doesnt matter. Finales
articulations are smart; they jump into place, centered on
the notehead, automatically.
Click the dotted quarter note in the Trombone 2 staff in
measure 3. The Articulation Selection dialog box appears.
You must be in the same layer

as your notes to attach
anything to them, such as
lyrics, articulations,
expressions, or chord symbols.
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Incidentally, some symbols, such as , have been defined to flip upside-down automatically
when a notes stem direction changes (as a result of a transposition, 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 courseto move the mark, drag its handle. (You can also
delete a mark by clicking its handle and pressing k.)
So that you understand whats happening behind the scenes, try this experiment:
Click the Simple Entry Tool 5. Windows users Ctrl-click, Mac users Option-click squarely on
the notehead of the dotted quarter note; press the down arrow three times until the stem direction changes. Finale doesnt simply flip the stemit also relocates the accent mark to the other
side of the note. Press the up arrow three times to move it back into place.
Now lets add a couple dynamic markings.
Click the Expression Tool y. Expressions are attached either to the measure you doublemarking.
click or to a specific note in that measure. For the moment, lets put in a
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 youre ever trying
to put in an Expression and this window comes up empty, its
because no libraries were loaded into the document. Well cover
libraries in more detail later in this tutorial.)
To add an expression
while entering with the
caret in Simple Entry,
press the X key.
Note, incidentally, the buttons on the lower right side of this window: Text and Shape. These
buttons access two different libraries; the one youre currently viewing, Text, contains only
words. Even the dynamic markings (such as or ) are simply characters in the Maestro
music font. If you click the Shape button, however, youll see a new set of symbols containing
only shapesslurs, crescendos and the like. Well discuss the Shape expressions later in Tutorial 8.
p F
Note also the buttons at the bottom of the window: Measure Expression and Note Expression. A Measure 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).
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You will undoubtedly encounter many instances where it makes no real difference 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 make this option available. Since you double-clicked below the
measure, Measure Expression is the only available option.)
Double-click on . The Measure Expression Assignment dialog box immediately appears;

youll explore its options later.
Click OK. The

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 k.)
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ADDING A SLUR
As a quick exercise, lets add some slurs to the score.
Click the Smart Shape Tool W. The Smart Shape Palette appears as a toolbar on the top of the
screen (or as a palette on the Macintosh), containing icons for slurs, crescendos, 8va markings,
lines, and several kinds of brackets and lines. This palette is just like the others youve encountered; you can hide it or move it around.
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 W 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 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. Youve just created a noteattached slur. Take a look. Is the slur exactly where you
wanted it? Does it arc too high or too low?
Shortcuts for the Smart Shape

Tool: Hold down S for a slur, <
for a crescendo or > for a
decrescendo.
A Smart Shape is easy to edit. When a Smart Shape has

multiple handles, its currently selected. Each slur will
have six handles. Here is a description of how to use these handles to edit the slur:
the arc asymmetrically.
Drag this handle to

move the left endpoint.
Drag this handle to

change the arc.
Drag this handle to

move the entire shape.

the arc asymmetrically.

the right endpoint.
Hold down the d key while editing the slur to constrain your cursor to perfect horizontal or vertical movements.
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.
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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 know that its 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 reshaping 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 its already been selected, in which case it has reshaping
handles). To delete a Smart Shape, click the handle to select the shapeand press the k
key. For more information, see the User Manual under SMART SHAPE TOOL.
Before moving on, you can choose to hide the Smart Shape Palette by deselecting it in the
Window Menu. Otherwise, feel free to leave it on the screen.
SELECTION TOOL
If youre 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 (Mac: c-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 cd-A (Mac: a-d-A).
The Selection Tool works on Measures (Measure Tool), Notes (Simple Entry), 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 Manual under SELECTION TOOL.
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 have to go
through the Articulation Selection dialog box for every single note?
Fortunately, no. You can select a region of notes and tell Finale to 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 Metatools. You can assign a metatool to
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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 Metatools is always the same: Press d-number or letter
key to program the keystroke; use the number or letter key alone to enter the marking into the
score. Some Metatools have already been programmed for you; lets take a closer look.
Click the Articulation Tool t.
While pressing d, press the S key. The Articulation Selection dialog 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 Metatool currently assigned to that articulation. Metatool S is assigned to the staccato mark, Metatool A is assigned to the accent mark, and so on.
Remember, you pressed d-S to access this dialog box, telling Finale you wanted to program Metatool S. For now, lets assume you are satisfied with using Metatool S for the staccato
mark.
Click Cancel.
Position the cursor on the first note 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 see is a handle. To see the dot, select a different tool. Then reselect the Articulation
Tool.
While pressing the S key, click the second note. As you can see, using a Metatool 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 key, and your marking appears. Whats
more, you can reprogram the other keys with symbols other than the ones currently defined.
While pressing d, press the A key. As you can see, Metatool A is currently assigned to
the accent mark. Lets say you use this particular articulation fairly infrequently, and you
would rather assign Metatool 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 happenedyouve successfully programmed a Metatool. (Remember, thats why you pressed d-A, which is Finales signal that youre teaching it a Metatool.)
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.
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Furthermore, Expressions can have their own set of thirty-six Metatools. 1 through 4 might
be dynamics you use often; 5 and 6 might be cresc. and dim., and so on. You create the
Metatools the same way: Select the tool, press d 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 youre 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. Note that with Expression Metatools, you
need to predetermine whether they will be note expressions or measure expressions. This is
done in the Expression Menu; simply choose one of the three items in the lower half of the
menu. (Context Sensitive means that if you click a note, the expression will be a note
expression; if you click a measure, it will be a measure expression.)
When you save your document, all your Metatool assignments are saved too, so that you can
continue placing expressions using Metatools the next time you open the document. You can
redefine your Metatools at any time, however, as you just learned above.
Programmed Metatools are specific to the document that you are currently working on; therefore, you can have different sets of Metatools for different pieces. If you find that you use the
same Metatools over and over again, you can change the Maestro Font Default document to
include your own Metatool assignments. That way, they are available for you every time you
start a new piece. (See the User Manual under METATOOLS for details.)
Of course, you can continue this way, clicking staccato marks into the tutorial score thats
now on the screen. But dont botherif you want to apply a marking to a whole group of
notes, theres 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 youve drag-selected. When you release the mouse
button, the Apply Articulation dialog box appears.
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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 Metatools 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 you release the mouse button, a breath mark is added to each
note you selected, since thats the symbol currently assigned to
Metatool A.
Use c-Z (Mac:

a-Z) as a
shortcut for Undo.
But lets suppose you really intended to put staccato marks on those notes, and held down
the wrong Metatool key by mistake. No problem!
While pressing the k key, drag through the notes in measure 2. The breath marks disappear.
Now use this technique to enter staccato marks for the entire measure in one quick, easy
step:
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While pressing the S key, drag through all four notes of measure 2. The staccatos are now
entered for every note in the measure. You can also edit any number of articulations in the
score at once.
Drag a box over the first two articulation handles. You can now drag or nudge both of these
articulations simultaneously.
Hold down the Shift d key and click or drag over additional articulations. This way, you
can pick and choose the articulations you want to position or edit.
EXPRESSIONS: CREATING YOUR OWN EXPRESSIONS

Lets 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 youll need to create them yourself. Furthermore, each of these markings
should appear only in one part, so youll be creating note expressions.
Click the Expression Tool y and double-click on the dotted quarter note in measure 1 (of
the Trombone 2 staff). Since you want to create a note expression, you must be sure to double-click on (or below or above) a note or rest. If 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.
Youll find that the Text Expressions youre seeking,
Con Sordino and Senza Sordino, dont appear in this
list. Heres how to create them.
Click Create. The Text Expression Designer dialog box
appears.
Attach markings to the closest

note in the score. If you later
respace the music, the marking
will retain its position relative to
the note.
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Windows Users, from the Text Menu, choose Font and, then click OK. Macintosh users, from
the Text Menu, choose Style, and then Italic.
Type the words Con Sordino.
Click OK, click Note Expression, click Select, click OK.
As you proceed through the dialog boxes (by clicking
either OK or Select), you may notice that 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.
You can apply multiple fonts in

expressions to create more
advanced text, such as tempo
markings. Simply click the Text
Menu and choose font to specify
the new font, size or style for
highlighted text, or the next
character(s) entered.
When you return to the score, youll see that the Con
Sordino markings position was determined by your
original click. Feel free to adjust its positioning by
dragging its handle. Note expressions are positioned
relative to their assigned note (as specified in the Note Positioning tab of the Text Expression
Designer dialog box).
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.
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Lets suppose you want the musicians to play faster at the chorus or Vivace. You wont find
this term in the standard Finale expression sets, so youll need to create it yourself.
Click the Expression Tool y and double-click below measure 10. The Expression Selection
dialog box appears.
Youll find that the Expression youre seeking doesnt appear in this list.
Click Create. The Text Expression Designer dialog box appears.
Type the word Vivace. Next well add a Tempo playback effect to the marking.
Click Playback tab. The Playback options appear.
From the Type Menu, choose Tempo. The duration menu appears to the right. Its already set
to a quarter note, so well leave it alone.
Click in the Set to Value box and type 200.
Click OK; click Select. As you proceed through the dialog boxes (by clicking either OK or
Select), you may notice that Vivace has been added to the list of expressions. You wont
have to create it again the next time you need it.
When you return to the score, youll see that the markings position was determined by your
original click. Feel free to adjust its positioning by dragging its small square handle. Measure
expressions are positioned relative to the alignment point specified in the Measure Positioning tab of the Text Expression Designer dialog box.
While dragging markings is good for general repositioning, you may sometimes need to make
finer position adjustmentswith the nudge keys.
THE NUDGE KEYS (ARROW KEYS)

Click the Vivace marks handle and press the left arrow key. The Vivace marking moves
just a pixel (screen dot) to the left. You may have to look very closely to see it move at all.
You can continue to reposition any marking whose handle is selected by pressing the up,
down, left, and right arrows.
These four arrow keysthe directional arrowswill 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.
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MARKINGS THAT PLAY BACK
Now that youve 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). Youll notice that your
staccatos and breathmarks actually affect the articulation of the notes in playback!
Youll 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.
Mac users: when the Playback

Controls are visible, simply
pressing the Space bar will
start playback.
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 scorekey velocity (volume), tempo, transposition, patch, MIDI channel, pitch
bend, pedal, and so on. In Tutorial 6, youll learn how to program your own intelligent score
markings.
STAFF LISTS: SPECIFYING TARGET STAVES

In the previous sections, you learned how to create a measure expression that appears in every
staff, as well as a note expression that appears in only one staff. Sometimes, however, you might
need something in betweena marking that is to appear, for example, in every staff of the
woodwind section only.
Youre 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 adjacentfor example, you might use a Staff List to place a rehearsal letter over the
first staff in every orchestral section.
Click the Expression Tool y. Go to measure 10, and double-click just above the left barline.
The standard palette of expressions appears. Make sure that Measure Expression is selected.
In this example, youll add a rehearsal letter.
Click Create. Type a capital A, and then, in the Enclosure section, click the drop-down menu
and choose Rectangle. From this drop-down, you can choose from a number of enclosure
shapes.
Click Edit. When you click Edit, the Enclosure Designer dialog box appears. Here, you can
customize the shape and other attributes for the enclosure.
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If you wanted to, you could change the size, positioning, and line thickness of this enclosure.
(These variables may need adjustment, since a PostScript printout of enclosures wont always
match their appearance on the screen. For more information, see REHEARSAL LETTERS in the
User Manual.) Leave it alone for now.
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 Multimeasure
Rest box.
Click OK. Click on Measure Expression, then click Select. The Measure Expression Assignment dialog box appears.
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There are several items of interest in this dialog box. One of them, Allow Individual Positioning, allows you to put this expression into several staves at onceand yet reposition each
one independently. If you dont click this checkbox, the positioning of this marking will
change uniformly in all staves at once when you move any one of them.
At the moment, though, were 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 and Parts.
When you click in the Score column across from a staff name, an X appears. Youve 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 youve elected to
hide Expressions for this staff in the Staff Attributes dialog box. (See STAFF ATTRIBUTES in
the User Manual for further 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 staffs 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
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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, youd also put check marks
in the Parts column for the remaining instrumentsbecause youd want these rehearsal letters to appear in every instruments part without cluttering up the conductors score.
Click in the text box next to List Name; type Rehearsal Letters and then click Add. Youve
just named this staff list.
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 alljust 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.
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You might ask, If I 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, thats 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 EXPRESSIONS

If youve 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. Fortunately, Finale allows you
to copy them onto any other music in the score, even if the notes are different.
Click the Mass Edit Tool l. Scroll to measure 2, so that its the first measure on the screen.
Make sure that Copy and Replace is selected in the Mass Edit Menu.
From the Mass Edit Menu, choose Items to Copy. An entry item is a note, a rest, or anything
attached to oneas opposed to measure items like key signatures, 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.
Click Uncheck All.
Select Articulations. Click OK. Now that youve 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 articulations you want to
copy.
Drag the highlighted measure so that its superimposed on measure 3 (of the same staff).
Release the mouse button. The Copy Measures dialog box appears.
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 source and target measures arent identical, Finale
does its best to place your articulations on any notes that do occur on the same beats.
The technique 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 Items to Copy method you just used,
you can copy just the chord symbols from the first verse to the last verseeven if the melody
is different 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.
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USING LIBRARIES
Suppose youre finished with your brass quartet. Along the way youve created a number of textual expressionsCon 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 use in any other piece
that might require them. As mentioned earlier in this tutorial, these sets of symbols are stored
in separate files called libraries.
From the File Menu, 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. Youve told Finale that you want to save the new text
expressions, as opposed to, for instance, new chord symbol suffixes, 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. Youre now asked
to name this library.
Type Brass Expressions and click Save. The next time you need these markings, 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, youll 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.
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 existing 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 during this
session. Therefore, if youve 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 a new file name, type the 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 delete them 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 where to look for your music and library files.
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Choose Save from the File Menu if you havent already done so. If you think youve done enough
for one session, choose Exit (Mac: Quit) from the File Menu, and youll return to the desktop.
If you want to go on, close this document and turn to the next tutorial.

for example:
EXPRESSIONS
METATOOLS
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ARTICULATION
STACCATO MARKS
Tutorial 4: Layout and Printing

One of Finales 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, youll 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
youre rearranging measures to avoid awkward page turns).
The first method, which employs the Measure Tool, is to force a specific measure to always
appear at the beginning of a system. If measure 33 begins a new 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 youve just opened. Make sure youre in Page View so you can see the
effects youre 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%.
Click the Measure Tool z. Handles appear on every barline. Locate measure 10its where
the chorus begins.
Double-click measure 10. The Measure Attributes dialog box appears.
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Select Begin a New Staff System. Click OK. Now measure 10 will always begin
a new line, even if you add or subtract music that comes before it. Note the
icon that appears beside the systemits 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 New 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 l. Click measure 1; then d-click measure 5. All five measures
should now be highlighted. (If not, make sure Partial Measure Selection isnt selected in the
Edit Menu.).
From the Mass Edit Menu, choose Fit Music. The Fit Music dialog box appears.
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 systema little crowded, perhaps, but Finale
did what you asked it to do.
Using the Fit Music dialog boxs other option, Measures 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; youre free to override its placement decisions, but the result may be measures that are
too wide or too crowded.
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Youve 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 arrangement, and they wont be affected by future
measure-rearranging commands like Update Layout or even Begin a New Staff System. You
can remove locked measure groups from the piece by choosing Update Layout from the Edit
Menu while pressing d, or by selecting the grouped measures with the Mass Edit Tool
and choosing Unlock Systems from the Mass Edit Menu.
The concept of locked measure groups is especially useful if you want to force Finale to create a specific number of measures per line. When you click the Page Layout Tool, the Page
Layout Menu appears; simply choose Fit Music from this menu, and enter the number of
measures youd like to fit in each system. Finale ignores any measure groupings youve made
and locks the measures into groupings of four per line (or any number youve specified). The
same Fit Music commands are available in the Mass Edit Tool to make selecting measures
easier. Again, to restore these measures to floating status, choose Update Layout while
pressing d (or use Unlock Systems in the Mass Edit Menu).
A dUpdate Layout, by the way, works exactly like the normal Update Layout command: it only affects the pages of your piece from the page youre viewing to the last page. If
youve carefully created measure groups on the first page, for example, you wont disturb
them if you perform a dUpdate Layout command while viewing page 2.
For small fixes to the measure layout, you can move a measure or two from system to system
using a quick Mass Edit technique.
Click measure 18. Press the up arrow key on your keyboard. Finale moves the orphan measure you clicked onto the system above.
PICKUP MEASURES
Lets turn the first measure of Oh, Susannah into a proper pickup measure. There are several
ways to do this, but well show you the easiest. This method changes the first measure in the
document into a pickup measure.
From the Options Menu, choose Pickup Measure. The Pickup Measure dialog box opens,
where you can tell Finale how long your pickup lasts. Click the note that corresponds to the
sum of the pickup notes. In our example, we have a dotted quarter note and an eighth note,
equalling a total of a half note.
Click the half note then click OK. Finale hides the half note rest and only displays our pickup
notes. Finale even fixes the measures numbers to automatically skip the pickup measure.
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You may have noticed that the notes are still spaced as though the half note rest were still
there. Never fear, well fix the spacing in the next section.
SPACING THE MUSIC

As noted earlier in Tutorial 1, Finale is automatically applying proPressing 4 when
fessional publisher-standard note spacing to your music as you go
measure are highlighted
along. (This feature can be turned off by deselecting Automatic
with the Mass Edit Tool
Music Spacing from the Edit Menu.) Automatic Music Spacing not
is a shortcut to Apply
only spaces the notes, it is designed to avoid the collision of chords,
Note Spacing.
lyrics, and other score elements. In most cases, you will never need
to worry about this feature. However, you may encounter instances
when the music does not appear to be spaced correctly; usually, the automatic spacing hasnt
been 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):
Click just to the left of the top staff, in any staff system. This is a quick way to select an
entire staff with one click. Youll notice that the whole line is highlighted. Because we dont
want to overlook the bass staff while making spacing decisions, well need to select the bass
staff, too.
Hold down the d 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. Youll
have to wait until the normal cursor returns before you can
resume your work.
Use Time Signature

Spacing in the Mass
Edit Menu, Music
Spacing submenu to
restore default spacing.
When Finales finished, you might notice that the spacing of

music and barlines is much more professional looking. Every measure is 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 four quarter notesit actually gets much less. For
more information about Finales three music spacing types, see the User Manual under
MUSIC SPACING.
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).
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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 measures seem too wide or too narrow, select
Update Layout from the Edit Menu, or press !-U (Mac: a-backslash).
BEAT CHARTS
You just learned how to use the Music Spacing command to neatly space music, lyrics, and accidentals. Youll recall that the procedure was to select the region whose spacing you want to fix,
then choose Music Spacing from the Mass Edit Menu. (Remember that Finale is configured to do
this automatically.)
In using the Music Spacing command, you unlocked a special feature of every measure affected
by it: you gave each measure a beat chart. A beat chart is a set of handles that lets you reposition
any beat (and the notes that fall on it) in every staff at once.
Click the Measure Tool z. Each barline in the piece sprouts two stacked handles. 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 5s ending barline. A beat charttwo rows of square
handlesappears 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.
When you click the bottom
handle of a barline...
4
&4
4
&4
...a beat chart appears. The top row of
handles indicates the positions of the
beats as theyd fall with linear spacing
and the bottom row of handles allows
you to move beat positions by dragging
Drag the third lower handle half an inch to the right. When youre finished, youll see that
youve actually moved the third beat to the right, in every staff. Lets say you had a many-note
glissando for the lead on beat two, you can make room using this technique.
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While pressing d, drag the second beats bottom handle to the left. When you press
d while dragging a handle, you also affect all handles to its right.
Position the cursor between the first two top handles. Double-click. A new handle appears.
When you double-click between two upper handles, you create a handle that controls the
halfway point between those two handles. In this case, youve 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 measureto
make room for a caesura (railroad track) marking, for example, or to create a measure of recitative, beat charts will do the trick.
Youll 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

The units of measurement Finale normally uses are inches. You can work in whatever units you
feel most comfortable with.
From the Options Menu, choose Measurement Units; from
the submenu, choose Inches (if its not already selected). You
are familiar with inches and centimeters; points, spaces and
picas are typographical units (72 points = 1 inch, 12 spaces =
1 inch, and 12 points = 1 pica). An EVPU is an ENIGMA
Virtual Page Unit, a very small measurement thats evenly
divisible by inches, points, spaces and picasthere 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.)
Click the Page Layout Tool f. Your page of sheet music is
instantly covered 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.
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To view your entire

page, click on the View
Menu, select Scale View
to, then Fit in Window.

Page margins
System Lock icons
Top and left

system margins
Begin New System icon
System Numbers
Bottom and right

system margins
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 one line of music, no matter how many instruments (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 one at
the lower right corner. To manipulate any margin, simply drag its handle. You can even dragenclose margin handles or select all margin handles with c-A (Mac: a-A). To move the
entire system, creating more space between systems for a choreographers 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 undesirable 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.
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Click in the middle of the first system (on the staff lines) and drag it down about an inch, as
shown:
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
covered up when we space the systems later, well make the top system margin bigger to include the title.
c-click (Mac:
a-click) and drag
to move systems
independently.
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:
Next, lets 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:
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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 a time, 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 dialog box appears. If
you can't see your music, feel free to move this dialog box to
a convenient location on the screen (by dragging its title
bar). The four text boxes correspond to the four margins of
the staff system (top, left, right and bottom). You also have
a text box for the distance between the systems. Each text
box has a checkbox, so you can make changes to only the
checked 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.
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 controlling page margins; it can be
found in the Page Margins submenu of the Page Layout Menu.
The changes you make with the Page Layout Tool normally affect only the individual page or
system youre adjusting. For example, under normal circumstances, you can simply drag the
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, you can do that, too. You could click on the
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Page Layout Menu, 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 system will affect
all of the systems.
Click on any selected bottom system handle and drag it down so that the bottom margin is
below the stem of the low bass note.
When you release the mouse button, you can see that youve allotted more space for the bottom margin in every system. Youve told Finale how far the system extends beyond the staff
lines.
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
separate file, or just insert a page break to start the next song at the top of a new page. First,
well need to add some measures to the end of the piece.
Click on the Measure Tool z. 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.
Click the Page Layout Tool f. Handles appear on the page and system margins.
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Click on system 7. The handle should appear filled in. Youve just selected the system.
From the Page Layout Menu, choose Insert Page Break. Finale places the system at the top of
a new page. Youll also see a Page Break icon by the system.
Page Break icon
INSERTING OR DELETING SYSTEMS

Lets 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 opens the Insert Staff Systems dialog box. Here you can
specify how many systems to insert, how many measures, where to insert the system and
whether to recalculate the even spacing 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 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 have a filled square.
From the Page Layout Menu, choose Delete Staff Systems.
THE RESIZE TOOL

Youve already experimented with the Scale View to command in the View Menu. This commandand the options on its submenuallow 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 musicthe printed imageremains precisely the same.
The Resize Tool, however, can resize the music itself.
For this example, use the document called Tutorial 4 that youve been working on to this
point and scroll to page 1.
Click the Resize Tool w. The amount of music to be resized depends on where you click on
the screen.
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Click a notehead. The Resize Notehead dialog box appears. The limits of the Resize Tool are
10% to 999%.
Type 200 and click OK. Youve just doubled the size of the notehead (or made it 200% of its
original size). To restore it, you must click precisely at the spot where the normal size notehead was. The Resize Notehead dialog box reappears; type 100 and click OK. (Or, select
Undo from the Edit Menu.)
The reduction and enlargement effects of this tool are not cumulative. If you make a note half
its size (50%) and then decide to reduce it again by half, you would type 25% in the Resize
Notehead dialog box the second time, not 50%.
Scroll to measure 5. Click the stem of the eighth notes in the top staff. The Resize Note dialog
box appears, but this time youre resizing the entire note groupin other words, a chord or a
series of beamed notes. When you enlarge or reduce an entry group, any lyric or dynamic
attached to it also grows or shrinks.
Type 50 and click OK. Youve 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. Youve just created a cue (or rehearsal) staff at 80% 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 optionsHold Margins 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 example, the system will shrink in both
dimensions, thus reducing its width. If you do select Hold Margins, Finale will hold the system at its current margin-to-margin
width but reduce the music in it so that more measures fit on the
line.
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To resize a system using

Resize Staff System, you
must have more than one
staff; otherwise, use
Resize Staff.
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).
Finale also wants to know whether it should maintain the amount of blank space between
this system and the next one, or whether youre reducing that distance as well. Select Resize
Vertical Space if you want to tighten up the space between this system and the next.
For Resize System,Type 75. Select Hold Margins and Resize Vertical Space (if theyre not
already selected). Click 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 100%, and
click OK. The system is back to its original size.
So far youve seen Finale resize a single note, a note group, a single staff, and an entire system. Often, however, youll want to reduce all the music at once, so that you can fit the music
on fewer pages.
If you cant see the upper-left 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.
Type 75. Click OK.
NOTE: If you use the Resize Tool on a system or a page, as youve just done, you change the
measure widths. Whenever 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 Update Layout for you; if you have
decided to turn this feature off, you'll need to do it manually now.
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From the Edit Menu, choose Update 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 see the results until you choose Update 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 a title.
For this tutorial document, we have provided you with a dummy title, Title. The word Title
has brackets around it, to tell you its special, a text insert. Well talk more about text inserts
later in this tutorial.
First youll change the dummy title to Oh, Susannah; then youll 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 youre working on. (In Scroll View, it returns you to measure 1.)
Click the Text Tool [. The Text Menu appears, and the dummy title, Title, sprouts a
small square handle.
Double-click the dummy titles 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 whatever 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.g., bold) of the text, you can
make your selection from the appropriate 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 the text you just typed, and make a size selection from the Size submenu 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 typeface from the Font dialog box or submenu of the Text
Menu. Now you need to align the subtitle on the page.
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From the Text Menu, choose Alignment. When you choose Alignment, a submenu 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
(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 k.
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 keyboard shortcuts for many of these features; lets
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 !(Mac: a)-d-P. This keyboard shortcut
instructs Finale to place a Page number insert at the current cursor 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 number 2 instead of the number 1. See TEXT TOOL in the User Manual for a further
discussion of inserts.
Press !(Mac: a)-d-] (right bracket). This keyboard shortcut instructs Finale to
align the text block with the right margin of the page. (You could also select Right from the
Placement submenu of the Text Menu.) 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.
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. Well leave the position where it is, but attach the
page number to every page in the score.
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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.
For a further discussion of keyboard shortcuts and the Text Tool in general, see the User
Manual topics relating to the TEXT TOOL.
If youre satisfied with your work, save it by choosing Save from the File Menu.
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 include a graphic element (a
company logo for example) which has been created in a graphics program. Or, in a totally different vein, you may wish to export a Finale-generated musical example into a word processing
application. Both the importing and exporting of graphics is performed with the Graphics Tool.
Lets 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%.
For Windows, click on the Window Menu and choose Advanced Tools Palette. 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: Place the 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 rectangle has enclosed the pickup measure on the screen: now release the mouse button (the dotted outline should remain on the screen).
When you selected the Graphics Tool, a Graphics Menu 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 format you wish to
export. The decision of which format you choose will be based on what kind of printer you
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mats are accepted by the word processing or desktop publishing application you wish to bring
the Finale example into.
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 Menu, and not Export pages, this is not applicable to our
example, but keep in mind that you could export entire pages without needing to dragenclose the page.
Under File Names, select Prompt for each name (if its not already selected). This instructs
Finale to ask us what well want to name our file. Youd choose Generate Names 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.
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, youd 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 necessary, and this could cause complications when printing. A resolution less than that of your printers 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.
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Click OK. The Save TIFF dialog box will appear, allowing you to name your file and determine where it will be located.
Youll want to remember where youve saved this file for future reference.
Make sure your Finale 2005 folder is specified. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will use
the default Finale directory; if you have changed this folder name (or are using a different
version of Finale) please replace references to Finale 2005 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 youve created a TIFF file, well import the same file back into Finale. While
importing Finale examples into Finale is not necessarily something youd 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 company 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
windowin Page Viewwhere you'd like the graphic to appear).
The Place Graphic dialog box is where you specify the graphic item you wish to import: in
this tutorial we'll use the file you saved moments ago.
If your Finale 2005 folder is not already chosen, select it now.
Click on tut4picture once to select it, then click the 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.
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 Manual.
PRINTING BASICS
There are essentially two kinds of printers that work with Finale: PostScript-equipped printers,
suitable for professional publishing; and non-PostScript printers, including inkjet and bubblejet
printers.
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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 language 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 shopsomething like a copy shopand 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 symbols 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 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.

Youve learned some very important concepts in this tutorial. In fact, these techniques and principles constitute much of the editing work youll need to do in Finale. Heres a quick review of
what youve covered, in order:
1. Use the Measure Tool and Mass Edit to arrange measures.
2. Use the Music Spacing command to space and align notes, avoid collisions of lyrics and
accidentals, and set ideal measure widths.
3. Especially after using the Music Spacing command, its important to choose Update Layout from the Edit Menu, so you can see what the final layout will be. You should get in the
habit of updating the layout just before printingso that you never get unexpected
results when you print.
4. Use the Page Layout Tool to adjust the spacing of all systems on the page.
5. Use the Text Tool to add titles, composer credits, copyright notices, and so on.
6. Use the Graphics Tool to Import/Export Graphics.
If youve had enough for this session, choose Exit (Mac: Quit) from the File Menu. If you want to
go on, close the document you have open.
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for example:
AUTOMATIC UPDATE LAYOUT
FONTS
MASS EDIT TOOL
MEASURE LAYOUT
TITLES
SPACE SYSTEMS EVENLY
GRAPHICS TOOL
BARLINES
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PAGE LAYOUT
PRINTING
SYSTEMS
TEXT INSERTS
RESIZE
MEASURE NUMBERS
WORD EXTENSIONS
Tutorial 5: Working with Scores

Its 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 multistaff scoresparticularly orchestral scoresyou will want to go through this whole tutorial. By
the end of this tutorial, you should be able to create from scratch a conductors 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 the View Menu, select Scroll View. You may find that it is easier to do all of your editing
work in Scroll View (where the music is laid out in a continuous horizontal band), especially
when working with scores that contain several staves.
Click the Staff Tool s.
From the Staff Menu, choose New Staves. The New Staves dialog box appears, asking how
many staves youd like to add, and how much distance you want between them. The negative
number in this box is the distance from the top of one staff to the top of the next. Here, a positive number measures upward; a negative number measures downward.
Type 3 and click OK. Finale has added three evenly spaced staves,
giving you a total of four; lets imagine that youre going to create a
string quartet.
You can reposition a staff by grabbing its handle and dragging it up
or down. To remove a staff, click it and then press k.
To see more staves,

select a smaller view
percentage from the
View Menu, Scale
View submenu.
SETTING CLEFS AND STAFF NAMES

If you use the Setup Wizard, youll have all of the clefs and staff names setup for you. If you
decide you dont like what the Wizard chose, you can always edit them using the techniques
below. Well 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. Well 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 staff in the first system (line) of the
piece. The abbreviated name will appear next to subsequent systems.
Click the Edit button across from Full Name. The Edit Text window appears.
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Type Violin I; click OK.

Click the Edit button across from Abbr. Name.
Type Vln. I; click OK.
Incidentally, you establish the global position of staff names using
Dont use j to
the commands in the Set Default Name Positions submenu of the
exit the Edit Text
Staff Menu, and you establish the default font for staff names using
dialog box. Finale
the Fonts section of the Document Options dialog box (under the
will think you want
Options menu). This will affect all staff names which have not yet
to add a new line.
been created; it will not change existing staff names. Once youve
created a staff name, you can edit its font by using the Font command 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, Vln. I, closer to the staff.
The clef for the first violin is the treble clef; since thats the default, you dont have to change
it.
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You could click OK at this point; youd return to the score, where the first staffs name would
now appear. However, as long as youre 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 II, and enter Vln. II as its abbreviated name. Once again, you can move
directly to the attributes box for the next staff without having to go back to the score:
From the staff drop-down list, choose [Staff 3]. Youre 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).
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).
Click OK. If you want to adjust the overall positioning of the new instrument names, choose
Full Staff Names or Abbreviated Staff Names from the Set Default Name Positions submenu
of the Staff Menu. Youll see a dialog box that lets you drag the staff name wherever you want
relative to the staff itself.
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SELECTING PARTIAL MEASURES; TRANSPOSING A REGION
Up to this point, youve done all your manipulation of music in one-measure increments. Using
the Mass Edit Tool, youve clicked a measure to select it, drag-enclosed several whole measures,
clicked the first measure and d-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 time in a word processorits a
nice shortcut, but sometimes you need to select in smaller units.
What if you want to select half a measureor only one note?
Click the Mass Edit Tool l. From the Edit
Menu, choose Select Partial Measures.
When Select Partial Measures is on, you can
select any slice of a measurefrom a single note
to a motif that crosses several barlines.
In the musical example you have on the screen,
for example, suppose you decide that a certain
passage in the Violin I part would sound better if
it were up a third.
Scroll to measure 6. Click and hold in measure 6,
just above and before the third beat. Drag down
and to the right, until youve selected the first
two eighth notes in measure 7. When you release the mouse button, the region is highlighted.
3
3
b
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# n
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6
From the Mass Edit Menu, choose Transpose. The Transposition dialog box appears.
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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 Measure Selection, clicking a measure doesnt
select the whole measureit only marks the beginning of a region
that youre about to drag across. Therefore, if you do want to select a
whole measure when Partial Measure Selection is on, double-click
the measure. (If you double-click a second time, and your score has
more than one staff, you extend the selection vertically, to include
that single measure in every staff.)
Use the following

key commands to
quickly transpose a
selected region:
6 = Up M2
7 = Down M2
8 = Up octave
9 = Down Octave
The technique you just learnedselecting a region, then applying a command from the Mass
Edit Menuis 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 youve written out a piece in K and you suddenly realize it works better in M); Rebeam (which affects how
notes are beamed together after youve already entered the music); Fit Music (which, in Page
View, forces a group of selected measures into one system); and many other convenient features. With a combination of Partial Measure Selection and the Mass Edit Menu, you should
be able to transform any music in your score in any way you can imagine.
For a blow-by-blow description of the other Mass Edit commands, see MASS EDIT TOOL 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 youre not currently editing. If you
want to permanently hide staves, see OPTIMIZING SYSTEMS later in this tutorial.
Lets say, for example, that you want to work just on the Violin I 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 s. First youll use the Staff Tool to tell Finale which staves you want to
see.
Click the handle of the Violin I staff. Then, while pressing d, click the handle of the
Viola staff. d-clicking allows you to select several staves one at a time, even if theyre not
adjacent in the score.
Now that youve specified the staves, its time to program one of the Staff Sets.
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While pressing and holding ! (Mac: b), select the View Menu, then choose Program
Staff Set; choose Staff Set 1 from the submenu that pops out. (Dont release !/b
until you choose the Staff Set). Youve just programmed Staff Set 1 to display only the first
and third staves. (In Finale, pressing ! (Mac: b) often means Im programming
something. In the View Menu, Finale actually displays different commands depending on
whether or not you were holding down the !/b key when you opened the menu.)
As soon as you program Staff Set 1, the two blank staves vanish. Theyre still part of the
piece; theyre just hidden for the moment. Furthermore, you can rearrange staves in each
Staff Setdragging them up or down as much as you wantwithout disturbing the staff
order in the full-score view.
INSERTING STAVES
Lets say we add a flute to our string quartet. We could use the same technique for adding 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 s. The Staff Menu appears. We want to insert our flute staff above the
Violin I 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 Wizard). The Parts page of the Setup
Wizard appears.
Choose Woodwinds.
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 I staff.
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 lets say youve already added music and you
dont want to lose it. Weve already seen how to change the staff name earlier in this Tutorial, so
well just cover how to change the staff from a C instrument to a transposing instrument.
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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 dont need to for common instruments,
such as a clarinet, french horn or saxophone.
Next to Key Signature, click on None to open a menu of choices. Select (Bf) Up 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 Bf transposition.
STAFF STYLES
Lets 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 ability to shape your staff on a measure by
measure basis. Staff Styles can do a lot more than just transpositions; for more information, see
STAFF STYLES in the User Manual.
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For this experiment, well switch to flute for measure 5 through 8.

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.
Transposition
Staff Styles must
be applied to a
full measure.
Click on the first measure of the top system, then d-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
measure in the staff. The Staff Style well apply will affect only the measures weve selected
without changing the clarinet transposition for the rest of the piece.
From the Staff Menu, choose Apply Staff Style.
The Apply Staff Style dialog 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. (You may
need to scroll down). Your clarinet staff now has
a flute staff name and a C instrument transposition. Note that Finale adds a blue bar above the
measures. These non-printing 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, youll see
that your earlier measures are still in a clarinet
transposition and dont have marker bars.
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 probably dont want that flute solo to
consume four full score pageswith 23 blank instrumental staves on each page. Instead, youd
want the flute line to appear by itself for the first few lines of music.
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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 a process called optimizing systems.
Its very important that you understand how this process works. Lets 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 blank staves. For example, if you decide that the clarinet should
double the flute soloand you write the music into its partFinale will still print only the flute
part, because thats 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, its best to optimize systems only after your music is exactly as you want it.
This example assumes youre in Page View, with the Tutorial 5 document open.
Click the Page Layout Tool f. 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. Youll 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 Finale works faster without it. If you unoptimize, youll 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, youd want to
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optimize system 2 through the end. The first system will display the full forces of the piece,
but suppress empty staves through the rest of the score.
Click OK, and move back to page one. Take a look at the scoreinstead 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 optimized by displaying a non-printing optimization
icon, as shown below. If you wanted to restore the staves, youd repeat this example; but in
the Staff System Optimization dialog box, youd select Remove Staff System Optimization.
Optimization icons
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If theres a certain staffeven an empty onethat 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 looking for entriesnotes 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 considers this real
whole rest an entry, because you put it thereas opposed to the default whole rests Finale
puts in every empty measureso 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, see the User Manual under the STAFF ATTRIBUTES DIALOG BOX.
There may even be times when youll 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 accordingly (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 configuration) must vary from system to system.
PART EXTRACTION 1: SPLITTING INTO SEPARATE DOCUMENTS

Now were ready to turn our conductors score into parts for the individual
musicians. When Finale extracts parts, it lumps together many empty measures
into one standard block rest or multimeasure rest with a number over it,
like this:
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 youve 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 handled. 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 c-clicking (Mac: a-clicking) on the Clarinet in the staves window. To add instruments to the selection, d-click on them. Keyboard staves need to be extracted as a
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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 %s with a staff or group name and %n with a staff or group number. Make a note of where Finale will save the new files (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 automaticif you
have a large score with lots of instruments, you can set it to work and then get a cup of
coffeebut it requires enough hard disk space to store all the resulting documents. When
Finale is finished saving parts, it will automatically open them for you. Finale opens all the
parts, with the Cello on top, complete with multimeasure rests.
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 youll 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 dont have time to spend on
part-by-part formatting. With this command, the computer will simply churn out parts unattended, one after another.
When you choose the Print Parts command from the File Menu, youre 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

The third 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 scoreScroll Viewand any individual part. Therefore, you must be
in Scroll View before you begin this experiment.
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From the Window Menu, choose Tutorial 5 to return to the full score document.
From the View Menu, select Scroll View.
Click the Staff Tool s, 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.
From the 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.
Click OK. A warning appears. Click Continue. If you look in the Edit menu again, youll see
that the Special Part Extraction in the Edit Menu now has a check mark. Thats your signal
that Page View now contains the extracted part. (If you change your mind about the multimeasure rest parameters you just specified, you 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.
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.
Heres 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).
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&c
(a) Flute
Violin 1

&c
Violin 2
&c
(b)
(c)
Fl.
&c
Fl.
&c
Its a simple matter to restore the extracted parts 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).
5. If there are other instruments whose spacing will be similar to the first, perform Special
Part Extraction on them, and print. (Chances are you wont have to respace Flute 2 if
youve 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 consume 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 dont have to worry
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that your changes wont appear in all the partsbecause 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 youve already done are gone forever. Thats why, in some cases, you
may prefer the first method of part extraction.

Close your string quartet document, saving it if you want.
In the next tutorial, well cover some techniques to make your score sound as good as it looks. If
you wont be playing back your scores, feel free to skip ahead to Tutorial 7.

for example:
CLEFS
EXTRACTING PARTS
STAFF NAMES
STAFF STYLES
OPTIMIZING SYSTEMS
TRANSPOSING INSTRUMENTS
TRANSPOSING (BY INTERVAL)
STAVES
HIDING STAVES
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Tutorial 6: Playback
It may be that youre 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 Finales special playback
and MIDI capabilities. If you dont plan to playback with Finale, skip ahead to Tutorial 7.
One of Finales strengths is its versatile playback and MIDI editing capabilities. You have extensive of control over broad-scale playback effects, and of course, the most minute details. For
example, you can choose to playback using professional GPO instrument sounds, indicate your
piece is to be performed in a Reggae style with Human Playback, and then adjust the volume and
panning in real time with Finales mixer controls. Then, if a section doesnt sound exactly as you
like, use the MIDI Tool to rework the most subtle detail.
This chapter will first guide you through the easy ways to get your music sounding great, and
then delve into some advanced MIDI editing topics for the perfectionists.
ASSIGNING MIDI CHANNELS AND INSTRUMENTS

Usually, the first step to preparing a score for playback is assigning instruments to staves. If you
began your score (or added staves) with the Setup Wizard, instruments have been assigned for
you automatically. Even so, you may need to edit the channel, patch, or bank depending on your
MIDI output device. For example, setting each staff to its own channel allows you to make
changes to each staff individually in real-time using the Mixer or Staff Controls. You can modify
the instrument sound, volume, panning, and channel for every staff individually. Furthermore,
you can adjust all of these settings for separate layers (voices) within a single staff.
In this section, youll learn how to manipulate the channel and instrument for staves using the
Instrument List.
Close any documents you have open, and open the document called Tutorial 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 appearsa staff-by-staff
listing of your score. Each staff name has several columns.
Make sure that the Send Patches Before Play check box, found in the lower-left corner of the
Instrument List window, is checked.
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Click to silence a staff.
Click to Solo a staff (silences all other staves).
Click again to un-mute the staff. Click again to resume normal playback.
Click to set this staff
as the recording staff.
Click and type to change the MIDI channel

for the instrument
Use this
column
to enter
a bank.
Click the
arrow to
expand the
staff listing,
so that you
can view the
individual layer
assignments.
Click here to
enter a specific
volume.
Click here to
enter a specific
pan value.
With Send Patches Before
Click the arrow to
choose an instrument Play on, Finale will
for the staff from a list. use this program number
(or patch) when you play
back using General MIDI.
Click the arrow to

choose a General MIDI
patch.
An Instrument contains the information needed to access a specific MIDI sound. This includes a
name for identification of the Instrument, a 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 stavesif you write a piano part, for example, youll certainly want
both staves to play over the same MIDI channel and the same piano sound, so youd 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 staff, 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 Mute column (M) to mute a staffor click in the
Solo column (S) to isolate a staff (and silence the others).
From the Instrument drop-down list across from the Strings staff, choose New Instrument.
Youll need to scroll up to see New Instrument. The Instrument Definition dialog box
appears.
Name this Instrument Strings. Type 3 in the Channel text box. Youll need to set each
instrument to a unique channel, so we can send MIDI data to each instrument
independently.
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Next to General MIDI, youll see 1: Acoustic Grand Piano. Click on the down arrow and
choose 49: String Ensemble 1. Youll 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. The Instrument 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.
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. If you find it easier, you can just edit one of the existing names
provided by Finale.
From the Instrument drop-down list across from the Bass staff, choose Acoustic Bass. Your
final setup should look like this:
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If necessary, drag the Instrument List box so that you can see the first measure.
Windows users, while pressing the Space bar, click the first measure. Macintosh users, just
press the Spacebar. If Finales SmartMusic SoundFont is selected under the MIDI Menu, or
your MIDI device is correctly configured, youll hear this arrangement in all its four-part
multitimbral glory. Click the score to stop playback (Macintosh: Press the Spacebar again).
Now suppose you decide to play the piano part on a different channelchannel 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 assignment of both staves to channel 11 automatically. When you do this, the general MIDI instrument will also change for both staves
(since there is another instrument 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 change to the piano sound. Before moving on,
change the Piano staves back to channel 1.
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.
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USING KONTAKT FOR FINALE WITH GARRITAN PERSONAL ORCHESTRA (GPO)
Up to this point youve probably been listening to Finales performances using the standard General MIDI sounds. Although the
SmartMusic SoftSynth is a first-rate GM SoundFont, Finale also
offers professionally sampled sounds from Garritan Personal
Orchestras renowned collection of world-class instrument libraries. These are real instrument recordings that have been professionally mastered, offering the most realistic sounding playback
imaginable. An assortment of GPO instruments is included with
your Finale package, and can be selected while starting a new score
with the Setup Wizard, or assigned to existing instrument staves.
You can use a MIDI

hardware device, the
SmartMusic SoftSynth, or
a Native Instruments
player (such as the
Kontakt player) for
playback, but only one of
these methods for any
given document.
Note the recommended system requirements for GPO are higher

than Finales recommended system requirements. In order to make the most of GPO, you should
have at least 1 GB of RAM and a processor speed of 1.8 GHz on Win and a G4 of 733 MHz on
Mac. This steps in this section require at least 512 MB of RAM. Close all applications other than
Finale.
To specify you want to use GPO instruments while beginning a new score, do the following. (Do
not close Tutorial 6, well continue where we left off soon).
Launch the Setup Wizard. Either click Setup Wizard in the Launch Window, or, from the
File Menu, choose New > Document with Setup Wizard.
Enter a Title, Composer, and Copyright and click Next to move to page 2.
In the upper left corner, after Instrument Set, click the drop-down menu and choose Garritan Personal Orchestra Finale Edition. A new set of instruments appear in the lists below.
Add these instruments and complete the wizard as you would normally. When the score
appears, all staves are setup to use GPO instruments automatically. Enter some notes and
click the Play button in the Playback Controls to audition these instrument sounds.
Of course, you can also assign GPO instruments to existing staves. When doing so, you also
need to assign the staves corresponding channel in the Kontakt Player. Heres how:
From the Window Menu, choose the Tutorial 6 file we were
working with earlier. It will be at the bottom of the Window
Menu and titled Tutorial 6.mus.
From the MIDI Menu, Windows users choose Native Instruments VST Setup. Mac users choose Native Instruments AU
Setup. The Native Instruments VST/AU Setup dialog box
appears.
Windows users press CtrlTab, and Mac users,

Command- to switch
between active documents.
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Check Play Finale File Through Native Instruments VST/Audio Units. For our purposes, consider Audio Units the Mac equivalent of VST in Finale.
From the drop-down menu to the right of 1-16, choose Finale GPO. Note that in the future
you can choose Finale GPO for all of these slots. Each incarnation of the player can house 8
different instruments, so you can use up to 64 total in a document simultaneously.
Click the Edit button to the right. The Kontakt Player for Finale with Garritan Personal
Orchestra appears. The Kontakt Player can be used to make adjustments to tuning, key velocity and other instrument attributes. However, by far the most common usage of this player
for Finales purpose will be assigning GPO instruments to channels equivalent to those specified for that instruments staff in the Instrument List.
Click the Load button and select Section Strings > Violins > Violin Plr1. Notice this choice
now occupies the first of eight slots at the top of the player interface.
Click the Channel region
and choose channel 3. Remember we set the strings
staff to channel 3 in the Instrument List earlier. You might want to open the Instrument List
and move it to the top of the screen as a reference while assigning channels with the Kontakt
Player.
Click and drag the Mod wheel (lower left) up almost to the top. You will need to click the
Mod wheel every time you add a sound. This is GPOs volume/expression control, and clicking it sets the sound to an audible volume.
Click the second slot at the top, then click Load > Harp > 1KS Combo. Set the channel to 4.
Click the Mod wheel. Harp 1 KS Combo appear in the second slot.
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Next, add a Steinway Piano and set it to channel 1, then a Dbl Bass Plr1 and set it to
channel 2. Be sure to click the Mod wheel after you add each one.
Now that all instruments have been set, close out of the Kontakt Player. If the Playback Controls are not visible, from the Window Menu, choose Playback Controls.
Click the Play button to review playback. Finale plays your score using the GPO instruments
you selected.
Remember that each incarnation of the Kontakt Player only accommodates 8 instruments.
Therefore, if you would like to use separate GPO instruments for 9 or more staves, you will
need to add Finale GPO for additional channels in the Native Instruments VST/AU Setup
dialog box. Then, when you click the Edit button next to, for example, the channel 17-32
option, a fresh Kontakt player is ready for you to assign the next 8 channels. In this case,
channel 1 in the Kontakt Player is equivalent to channel 17 in Finales Instrument List.
If you plan to use GPO regularly, set staves to consecutive ascending channels in the Instrument List. (Set the top staff to channel 1, second staff to channel 2, etc.) When you do so, you
will never need to edit the channel each time you change GPO sounds in the Kontakt Player.
Also note the Document Setup Wizard automatically assigns channels to staves this way.
MIXER
As you listen to your document, you may discover a need to adjust Volume, panning, and
the balance of individual staves. For example, you may want to
instrument controls in the
increase the volume of the flute section, or move the trumpet secMixer and Studio View
tion to the right side of the stage using panning controls. You can
Staff Controls are linked.
use Finales Mixer controls to make these adjustments. The Mixer
A change to a setting in
allows you to make real-time playback adjustments to the full
one of these two places
score, or each staff individually. The mixer settings you apply are
applies to both.
post-processed on top of existing playback data, so all existing
MIDI data, including HP, is left as-is (as if you were sending the
music from your computer through a conventional mixer). Mixer settings appear in the Mixer
window and Staff Controls. There is even a view, Studio View, designed specifically for auditioning your score. To view these controls, do the following.
From the View Menu, choose Studio View. Your music is stretched across the page as if you
were in Scroll View. The Staff Controls appear to the left of your staves. The Staff Controls
are permanently affixed to the left of your staves in Studio View (and only available in Studio
View).
From the Window Menu, choose Mixer. The Mixer window appears. All the staff controls
appear at first. In the following example the Mixer is minimized. Mac users, click and drag
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the lower right-hand corner to adjust the size of the mixer. Windows users, move your cursor
over the edge until you see a double-sided arrow, then click and drag to resize the mixer.
Macintosh
Windows
The Master controls apply to the full score and include a volume slider, reverb dial and room
size dial. Staff Controls include a volume slider, pan dial, and instrument selector, as well as
Solo, Mute, and Record buttons. All Staff Control settings are redundant to the staff controls in
the Mixer. All Mixer/Staff Control settings are saved with the document, so your music will
sound the same the next time you open it.
Now, lets take a quick tour of the Mixer controls and explore some real-time playback effects:
Click the Play button in the Playback Controls. The following steps should be performed
during playback. It is a short piece, so if you reach the end, just click the play button again
and continue where you left off.
Click the Master Volume Slider in the Mixer and drag to adjust the volume. Then, to make
fine adjustments, use the up and down arrows to move the slider incrementally. You can also
view these changes, or enter them manually, in the Instrument list.
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Click the INST LIST button at the bottom of the Master control pane. The Instrument List
appears. Click the Title Bar at the top and position it so it is not obstructing the Mixer or
Staff Controls.
In the Staff Controls on the left side of the screen. Click and
drag a Pan dial counterclockwise as far as possible for one of
the Piano staves. When you release the mouse button, a small
box displays the current value. Notice the piano shifts to the
left speaker or headphone. Also notice the sympathetic
response in the Pan text boxes of the Instrument List. You can
also type a MIDI value (1-127) in any of these text boxes to
specify a precise value.
Remember, changes to
Mixer settings and Staff
Controls apply to all other
staves set to the same
channel.
To the left of the String staff, Click the S button in the Staff Controls. You are now listening to a string solo. Click S again to hear all the staves. The M performs the opposite
function of muting a staff. You can mute or solo as many staves as you want.
Finally, click the Reverb dial and drag clockwise. The Reverb and Room Size effects apply
only to the overall output.
HUMAN PLAYBACK
Finale includes a powerful capability to interpret articulations, expressions, hairpins, and other
markings, and generate playback that simulates a live human performance. This feature, called
Human Playback, can be set to emulate a specific musical style, such as classical, baroque, or
jazz, and can even recognize and interpret expression text that appears in the score, such as
rit. or cresc., and adjust the tempo or dynamic level accordingly. Human Playback will even
include Smart Shapes in its interpretation including crescendos/diminuendos (hairpins), glissandos, and trills. If your goal is to create a MIDI performance that sounds closer to a human
performance, try these options first.
Caution: If you are using the Human Playback feature, MIDI data assigned to the document
manually with the MIDI Tool or Expression Tool will not apply to the MIDI performance. To
turn off Human Playback, in the Playback Settings, under Human Playback Style, choose None.
(You can still apply Human Playback to regions of your score with the Apply Human Playback
plug-in).
When you start a new Finale document, Human Playback is on by default and set to the Standard playback style. Simply add some of the markings just mentioned and playback the score
to hear Human Playback at work. To customize Human Playbacks interpretation, do the following:
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Windows users, click the Playback Settings icon
users, click the expand arrow
on the playback controls. Macintosh
on the Playback Controls. The Playback Settings appear.
For Human Playback Style, select the style of the piece you are notating. For example, the
Jazz style adds a swing feel to the piece. The Baroque style performs articulations according
to standard baroque performance standards.
Windows users, click OK to apply these settings. Macintosh users can minimize the Playback
Controls if desired.
Click the play button to review Human Playbacks interpretation. Windows users note that the Spacebar-click method does
not process measures for Human Playback.
Click HP Preferences to
customize Human
Playbacks interpretation.
You can also apply Human Playback to a region of your score using
the Apply Human Playback plug-in. To do this, first, set human
Playback to None in the Playback Settings (Mac: Playback Controls), then highlight a region of
your score with the Mass Edit Tool and from the Plug-ins Menu, choose Playback > Apply
Human Playback. See PLAYBACK in the User Manual for more details.
If you want more control over every detail of Finales MIDI performance, you can use the MIDI
Tool. If you use the MIDI Tool, set Human Playback to None in the Playback Settings dialog box
(Mac: Playback Controls). Note that if you use the MIDI Tool to customize MIDI data for parts
of your score, you can still apply Human Playback to other regions of your score using the Apply
Human Playback plug-in.
TAPPING A TEMPO
Recording a tempo with Finale using a MIDI device or even your computer keyboard is as easy
as waving a baton. You can record, or conduct, a tempo as you listen to the score to define precise tempo adjustments using TempoTap.
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Lets use the Tutorial 6 file to demonstrate TempoTap.
From the View Menu, choose Studio View. Notice the extra staff at the top. This is the TempoTap staff. It is only (and always) visible in Studio View. This staff shows you the beats
youll be tapping.
Click the HyperScribe Tool g.
Click the first measure of the TempoTap staff. You are now
ready to begin tapping the tempo. Unlike HyperScribe, Finale
always begins recording your tempo on the first signal. (In the
future, note that you can begin recording a tempo at any measure).
Tap the tempo on your computer keyboards Spacebar,
increasing or decreasing the tempo as desired. The scroll bar
advances with the music. If you reach a point in the score you
wish the tempo to remain
To prepare for recording a

tempo, consider counting
off a measure or two,
stopping short of pressing
the spacebar, before
recording the first beat,
Stop tapping when you are finished recording the desired measures, then click the score.
When a message appears, click OK. Finale assigns the most recent recorded tempo to all
measures following the region up to the next tempo change.
Click the play button in the Playback Controls to review playback.
You can record with additional precision by editing the note durations in the TempoTap staff.
By default, the staff is filled with notes equalling the value of the main beat. If you want to specify a rallentando passage, for example, which slows drastically in a short amount of time, you
may want to tap eighth notes instead of quarter notes to indicate the gradual change in tempo
for the duration of the passage. To do so, use the Simple or Speedy Entry Tool to enter eighth
notes for that region in TempoTap staff.
THE MIDI TOOL

If you want precise control over every aspect of the MIDI data, you can use the MIDI Tool
instead of applying Human Playback. The MIDI Tool lets you edit the raw MIDI data of your
score, from a single note to an entire staff. You can visually edit pitch bends, velocity, patch
changes, and other parameters. If Human Playback provides all the control you desire over your
performance, you can skip the rest of this chapter.
Captured MIDI information isnt really part of the notation itself. Instead, it consists of variables that a musician creates in a performance of the musicspecifically, when recording with
HyperScribe. Stress and accents, rushing the beatall of these human elements constitute captured MIDI data. When you use Human Playback, this data is added for you temporarily every
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time you playback the score. The MIDI Tool allows you to adjust this data for your score manually.
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 looking at the notated version.
Finale always lets you choose which way youd like to hear your music: as strict, perfectly even
sheet music, or as the original, unquantized MIDI performance, with a human feel and all captured MIDI data intact.
As an experiment, try listening to the same piece twiceonce with, and once without the captured MIDI data.
Close the open document, if you want. Open the document called Tutorial 6a. The documenta passage from Ellmenreichs Spinning Songappears.
For the remainder of this chapter, you will be applying MIDI data manually. Since Human
Playback is set (by default) to override all MIDI Tool data, so before continuing, well need to
turn off Human Playback:
Windows users, click the Playback Settings icon
users, click the expand arrow
on the playback controls. Macintosh
on the Playback Controls. The Playback Settings appear.
For Human Playback Style, choose None.

(Windows users) Click OK. Now, Finale will not process the entire score for Human Playback each time you playback your score. (You can still use the Apply Human Playback plugin to activate Human Playback for regions of your score).
While pressing the Space bar, click the first measure. The piece plays backtechnically perfect, but without any expression.
For comparison, listen to it now as it was originally performed. To tell Finale to 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:
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From the Options Menu, choose Playback Options. The Playback Options dialog box
appears.
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 as it was
recorded in HyperScribe. For example, you should hear a natural crescendo in the first two
measures (that is, if your keyboard is touch-sensitive). Finale is using the performance data
captured from an actual performance. 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 manipulating this data.
On Windows, click on the Window Menu and choose Advanced Tools Palette.
Click the MIDI Tool p. A new menu appears, called MIDI Tool.
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
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measure to a point below the second measure, so that both are partially enclosed by the dotted-line rectangle, and releasing the mouse button.)
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Selecting music with the MIDI Tool is exactly like selecting music with the Mass Edit Tool
(with Partial Measure 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 d-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 Menu, youll 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, youll 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, its 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 second box. Click OK. Youve 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 youve made the
changes to the Playback Options described in the introduction to this section.
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
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keyboard is not touch-sensitive. Unless you want to take this opportunity to connect a velocitysensitive MIDI keyboard, skip ahead to EDITING NOTE DURATIONS (START AND STOP TIMES).
Being able to scale performance data in this way may be useful, but its not very interactiveyou can only tell what changes youve made by listening to the music. Fortunately,
you can also see the changes youve made.
Click anywhere on the screen to halt the playback.
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-windowjust use the menu commands after selecting the desired staves.
Because the MIDI Tool split-window differs significantly between Macintosh and Windows,
weve pictured each below.
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Windows
Drag through the graph area to
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

handles to select individual notes.
Use the horizontal scroll bar to view and

edit different measures in the score.
Macintosh
Drag through this graph area to

select a region of music to edit.
Click these icons
as a shortcut for
choosing menu
commands.
Click these buttons to

view other measures
and staves in the score.
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Click, Shift-click, or drag-enclose

handles to select individual notes.
At the bottom of the window, youll 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 window you can see a legend of velocity values,
scaled from 0 to 127.
You can immediately see the effects of your Scale commandthe bars representing the key
velocities grow steadily shorter over the first two measures. As an experiment, lets now
make the second half of the phrase crescendo. You may need to move the display so that you
can see measures 3 and 4; if so, click the arrow buttons (on Windows, use the 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:
& b . . .
.
>
n
>.
.
>
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. Youve just
programmed a crescendo for the second half of the phrase.
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Click OK. Whenever youre 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.
EDITING KEY VELOCITIES

The remaining experiments in this tutorial delve deeply into some
of Finales powerful MIDI capabilities. If you dont thrive on technical discussions, feel free to skip ahead to EXPRESSIONS: DEFINING PLAYBACK later in this chapter.
The MIDI Tool Menu Play

command does not support
Internal Speaker Playback on
the Mac. Use the Playback
Controls.
Heres a quick rundown of the remaining MIDI Tool Menu commands. These descriptions assume youve first selected the music
to be edited. Remember that when youre not in the MIDI Tool split-window, you select measures exactly as you would with the Mass Edit Toolby clicking a single measure, drag-enclosing several, 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 individual note handles
in one of the ways shown here:
& b . . .
.
>
3
& b . . .
.
>
3
& b . . .
.
>
3
To select individual notes in the MIDI Tool split-window, you can drag-enclose them or Shift-click individual handles, or Shiftdrag-enclose additional groups of notes.
Once youve selected the music, you can choose any of the MIDI Tool Menus transformation
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 virtually any positive 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.
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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 musics 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 Original). If you enter negative numbers
(when Absolute is selected), youll be giving the specified music less velocity, and hence less
emphasis. In the Alter Feel dialog box that appears, youll see that you can provide either an
absolute or a percentage change independently for notes that fall 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, youd 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 50% more volume on the backbeats.
Randomize alters the selected musics velocity by a random amount. This can be a useful option
if you want to give your playback a more imperfect, human feeling. Type a fairly small number
into the text boxbetween 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 Key Velocity in the Playback Controls. Suppose, for example, that this value is 60. If a note displayed in the MIDI Tool window
has a velocity of 90, Finale simply remembers that its velocity is 30 more than the Base Key
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 preservedbut the overall
volume level will increase or 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.
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Press the $ (Mac: o) key. The $ (o) key removes all MIDI data alterations in
the selected regioneven if youre not in the MIDI Tool split-window. It doesnt erase all
MIDI data, howeveronly the kind thats 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 youll 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.

Youll notice that the graph in the MIDI Tool split-window has changed. Now youre seeing
each note represented by a thin horizontal line; the longer the line, the longer the notes
duration. Youll also see several thin gray vertical gridlines; these gridlines represent the
strict quantized locations of the notated notes:
The piano
keyboard helps
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 of the dialog boxes for these commands, however, youll 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. What 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.
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In fact, Start Time measures the difference between
the notated (quantized) values starting point and the
moment you actually struck the note in your
performance. In the figure on the right, the Start Time
is a positive 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 before the next beat).
The Start Time is the difference between the actual
(performed) attack point and the notated (quantized)
attack point. The Stop Time is the difference between
the performed and quantized release points. These
differences can be either positive or negative; Stop
Time (a), above, is a negative number, but Stop Time
(b) is positive.
Start and Stop Times

Start Time
Stop Time
(a)
(b)
2
3
In fact, had you played precisely on the beat, with

1. These bars represent the durations of
the notes you played.
accuracy to 1024ths of a quarter note, the Start and
2. Finale quantizes or rounds the duraStop Times would both be zero. There would be no
tions to the nearest beat.
difference between the quantized and the actual attack
3. Finale produces notation.
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. The following table has
some common EDU equivalents (a full table appears under EQUIVALENTS in the Appendix of
the User Manual.
Value
EDU Equivalent
Whole
Half
Dotted Quarter
Quarter
Dotted Eighth
Eighth
Sixteenth
4096
2048
1536
1024
768
512
256
Keeping this chart handy, take a look at some of the MIDI Tools Note Duration menu commands:
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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 (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 value to 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 its 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 notesit 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 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 A (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.
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 note is entering late. You could solve the problem with the
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MIDI Tool: Select the entire staff. Then, making sure that Note Durations is selected in the
MIDI Tool Menu, choose Add To. In this instance, youd add a negative number to both Start
and Stop Times, thus forcing the strings to enter (and release) slightly early on playback. If
youve 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 can create some interesting echo effectsa 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 MIDI Tool to accent the melody in a series of chordsto
bring out an inner voice. Once youve selected the region to be affected, double-click the highlighted area to enter the MIDI Tool split-window. By clicking and d-clicking (or by dragenclosing and d-drag-enclosing), you can highlight only the handles of the individual notes
you want to change, even if theyre buried in chords. In the Silent Night example below, only
the handles of the melodythe middle voicewere highlighted.
Once the correct notes are selected, choose Percent Alter from the MIDI Tool Menu. Set all Key
Velocity values to 150% (for example) of their current values; instantly youve 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 50% greater than the harmony notes.)
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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 experiment with adding pedaling to a passage. Well assume that youre viewing the first two measures of the Tutorial 6a document in the MIDI Tool split-window.
From the MIDI Tool Menu, choose Edit Continuous Data. The View Continuous 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.)
Click OK. You return to the MIDI Tool split-window, where the display has changed. On the
left side is a scale of controller valuesin this case, sustain pedal valuesfrom 0 (pedal up)
to 127 (pedal down).
The sustain pedals value cant change smoothly over time (like pitch wheel data can).
Youve 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.
Note, too, that the notes in the display no longer have handles. Thats because controller information is independent of
the actual notes being playedyou 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
another on/off controller, or a patch change) by dragging through a sliver of the graph area.
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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 beginning 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.
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 pedals value to 127.
Type 127. Click OK. Suddenly the entire graph area is gray. Thats because youve 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 barline. This doesnt 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.
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.
From the MIDI Tool Menu, choose Set To. Click OK. You didnt 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. Youll see that the bar representing the pedal is
now quite short:
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From the MIDI Tool Menu, choose Play. You hear Finale applying the pedal to the region
you specified.
Select the MIDI Tool p from the Main Tool Palette. (Mac: click the Close button.) Clicking
on the MIDI Tool (or any other tool in the Main Tool Palette) closes the MIDI Tool splitwindow. (Mac: you must click on the Close button to close the MIDI window.)
Once youve created one complete usage of the pedal, as youve just done, you dont 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. Youll find out about copying
MIDI Tool data in the next section.
REMOVING AND COPYING MIDI TOOL DATA

To delete any modifications youve made with the MIDI Tool, select the desired measures in the
score, and then press $(Mac: k) This procedure deletes only the currently selected data
type. In other words, if youve changed both Key Velocities and Note Durations, you can delete
only one at a timedepending on which one is currently selected (with a check mark) in the
MIDI Tool Menu. Similarly, if youve edited several different controllers, pressing the $
(k) 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 its superimposed on the first of the target measures.
The changes youve made to the captured MIDI information are copied to the target music. Once
again, however, this procedure copies only the currently selected data type.
A final note about MIDI Tool changes: They can greatly increase the size, in kilobytes, of your
document. Because Finale is recording velocity, duration, and other data about every single note
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in the area youve changed, its 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 , the music gets loud. When it sees a staccato mark, it
plays the note shorter. Whats more, you can create any symbol or textual phrasewhether or
not its a standard musical markingand define the effects it will have on Finales playback.
As a first experiment, youll now perform some further transformations to the document youve
been working on. If you dont already have the document Tutorial 6a on the screen, open it
now.
Click the Expression Tool y. 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.
mark. In
Click Note Expression. Double-click the
the Note Expression Assignment dialog box, click
mark in your score. To
OK. Youve placed the
adjust its position, drag its handle.
Double-click below the first note, bottom staff, of

measure 7. Once more the Expression Selection dialog box appears.
j
j
& b b .
.
?b
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Make sure Note Expression is selected. Double-click the

mark. When the Note Expression Assignment dialog box appears, click OK. Adjust the position of the new expression.
Now listen to the new dynamics.
If the Playback Controls arent on the screen, choose Playback Controls from the Window
Menu.
Click Play 1. Sure enough, when Finale reaches measure 5, it obeys your dynamics. Now
lets see why. (Click Stop 8 to interrupt playback.)
Double-click the
Click the Playback tab. Options under the playback tab show the MIDI playback choices for
this marking.
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marks handle. The Text Expression Designer dialog box appears.
Look at the playback definition of the

marking. Key Velocity is selected in the Type dropdown list, and the number 36 appears in the Set to Value text box. In other words, the cremarking should give the notes it affects a Key
ator of this marking decided that the
Velocity of 36. (The scale of MIDI velocity goes from 0 [silence] to 127 [very loud].) When
Finale reaches the
marking, it will play all notes (assigned to that instruments MIDI
channel) at velocity (volume) 36at least until it encounters a new dynamic marking.
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
sound; just type the number of your MIDI keyboards clarinet patch into the Program
Change text box when you create the expression.
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#
& # 43 #
To Clarinet
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 youre creating an

marking, you could define it to transpose the affected
music up an octave. In this dialog box, youd choose Transposition from the Type dropdown list and type 12 in the Set to Value text box (up 12 half steps). Notice that the written
notes dont get transposedonly their playback. Note, too, that Finale will continue to play
the music up an octave until it encounters another expression, such as loco, that youve
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, lets create a
new expressiona Presto tempo indication.
CREATING AN INTELLIGENT TEMPO MARKING
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Click the Expression Tool y, and double-click just above the beginning of measure 4. The
Expression Selection dialog box appears. If you scroll through the list youll 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
the text for your new marking. Note, however, that you dont have to have any text at all
its perfectly legal to attach a playback definition to an invisible marking. (Youll see its handle in the score.)
Type Presto. Now, lets add a metronome marking.
From the Text Menu, choose Font. The Font dialog box appears.
Under Font, choose Maestro, and set the size to 24, then click OK.
Type q to add a quarter note.
From the Text Menu, choose Font, and set the Font to Times New Roman (or Mac: Times),
and the size to 14. Then click OK. Your marking now appears in the entry window. You can
mix several fonts, sizes and styles in a single expression.
Click the playback tab and 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 rhythmic 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 k.) Now the fun part: listen to
your sudden tempo change.
To specify placement for an expression,

use the Note and Measure positioning
tabs. For example, to align the expression
with the opening time signature, click the
measure positioning tab.
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From the Window Menu, choose Playback Controls, if theyre not already showing.
Click Play to hear the score playback as you defined it.
CREATING SWING PLAYBACK

Making your score play back with eighth notes in swing style 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 (the backbeat) is
played as though its the last note of a triplet, as shown here.
j

3
In other words, its 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.
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 Jazz or Blues Human Playback is

applied, swing settings are set
automatically. Swing settings are grayed
out if the Human Playback style does not
incorporate swing, as is the case with the
Classical or Romantic styles.
If you type 100 into the Set to Swing text box, you will
hear true triplet swing in your playback. Needless to
say, you can change this number, depending on the
amount of swing you want; at a fast tempo, youd 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.
Click the Expression Tool y, 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 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.
Click Edit. The Shape Expression Designer dialog box appears, waiting for you to make
changes for your marking. Note, however, that you dont have to have any text or shape at
allits perfectly legal to attach a playback definition to an invisible marking. (Youll see its
handle in the score.)
Click the Playback tab. Finale displays the Playback Options.
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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 number 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 k.)
Click Play 1 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.

You can save expressions in a library of its own, if you want; click on the File Menu, choose Save
Library. Click Text Expressions, click OK, give the library a name, 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 example:
CRESCENDO/DECRESCENDO
DYNAMICS
EXPRESSIONS
KEY VELOCITY
MIDI CHANNELS
PLAYBACK
START AND STOP TIMES
SWING
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Tutorial 7: Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments

Finale offers a variety of 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.
CREATING GUITAR TABLATURE

Lets start by creating a new document containing both standard and tablature notation. Well
use the Document Setup Wizard to do this.
Click the File 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. Page two of the setup Wizard appears.
In the 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 the third 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 tablature 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.
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COPYING MUSIC TO AND FROM A TAB STAFF
There are a few ways to enter into a tab staff. Well start with the most basic, copying 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. Heres how to create
tab from existing music in standard notation.
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 d key and click measure 4. Now measures one through four should
be highlighted.
Drag the highlighted region down to the tab staff, and release the mouse button. You should
now see the Lowest Fret dialog box. Well talk more about this dialog box soon.
Click OK. The first four measures of music will now translate into tablature notation. You
should now have tab of the melody line like the example below.
b 3
& b 4 J
T
A
B
3
2
1
3
2
2
2
1
In this case, the fret numbers represent the pitch as played on the lowest possible fret in
standard guitar tuning.
Now, lets say you want the tab positioned farther up the neck. Heres 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 it is highlighted.
Hold down the Shift d key and click measure 8. Now measures five through eight should
be highlighted.
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Drag the highlighted region down to the tab staff. You should now see the Lowest Fret dialog
box.
For Specify Lowest Fret, enter 5. Well say you want to place all the numbers on the 5th
fret or above.
Click OK. The tab staff will now have all notes fingered no
lower than the 5th fret.
This ability to copy music from standard notation into tab,
and specify a lowest fret, can be applied to smaller areas
of the score by selecting part of the measure. To do this,
click the Edit Menu and enable Select Partial Measures.
To set the lowest fret for an

entire tab staff, click the Staff
Tool, double click the tab staff,
then click the Select button at
the bottom. Enter a value for
Default Lowest Fret, then click
OK back to your score.
In addition to translating standard notation directly to

tablature, you can also copy tablature directly into a standard notation staff. We will use the second half of Spanish Dance No. 2 to demonstrate this. For this example the tablature is entered for you
already.
With the Mass Edit Tool selected, click measure 9 of the tab staff.
Hold down the Shift d key and click measure 16 of the tab staff. Now measures nine
through sixteen of the tab staff should be highlighted.
Drag the highlighted region up to the standard staff. Measures 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).
In addition to changing the lowest fret while copying, you can also change the lowest fret for any
region of tablature with the Mass Edit Tool. To do this, click the Mass Edit Tool and highlight a
region of the tablature staff. Then, from the Mass Edit Menu, choose Utilities >> Change Lowest
Fret. Enter the new Lowest Fret and click OK to apply your changes and return to the score.
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CHANGING THE STRING AND FRET NUMBER
You can edit tab numbers and move them between strings manually with the Simple 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 youll 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.
While pressing the ! (Mac: b) key, on the fifth measure, click the 5 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 e and down arrow f
to move selected tab numbers between strings, or the left
arrow g and right arrow h to move selection between fret
numbers horizontally.
You can also easily change the fret number. The Simple
Entry Tool should still be selected.
To enter tablature for lute

or another instrument with
alternate tuning, either use
the Setup Wizard, or apply
a Staff Style. You will find
information on entering a
Staff Style in chapter 5 of
this tutorial manual.
While pressing the ! (Mac: b) key click any fret number in the tab staff. The tab number changes color to indicate it is selected.
In the Numeric Keypad (or while holding down !-d, or on Mac, b-d), type a
new number. You can now use the numeric keypad (numpad) to enter any one or two digit
number.
Hit the + 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 tablature up to the standard notation staff
with Mass Edit Tool.
ENTRY DIRECTLY INTO A TAB STAFF

In addition to copying from a standard notation staff, you can also enter tab directly into a tab
staff. This comes in handy if you are working with a tab staff only or already know the tablature
and not the standard notation. Again, well continue to use the same file weve been working on
to describe how to do this, first by entering tablature with your mouse, and then with your computer keyboard.
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Click the Mass Edit Tool l and highlight the first two measures of the tab staff. Measures 1
and 2 of the tab staff should be highlighted.
Press the Backspace $ (Mac: o) key to remove the existing tab notation from these
first measures. You should now see standard notation above an empty tab staff for the first
two measures.
Click the Simple Entry Tool 4. 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 use this procedure to enter into a score containing a tab staff only.
Click the Eighth Note Tool 4 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 always see a 0 first.
Use the up and down arrows to

move a selected fret number up
or down a string. The number
will adjust to reflect the same
pitch on the new string.
Press numpad 2 (or while holding down !-d, or on Mac, b-d, press 2). The
0 changes to 2.
Click the tab staff on the third string directly below the
second note in the piece. A 0 appears on the G string.
Press numpad 3. The second fret number changes to 3.
You can use this method, first clicking the rhythmic
duration, clicking the string and then typing the fret
number to create all of your tab notation, but you can
also quickly enter tablature without the use of the
mouse with the Simple Entry Caret.
If you do not have a numeric

keypad, you can press j to add
a 0 on the caret pitch, then hold
down !-d (Mac bd) and type the number.
Press the right arrow h key. The caret is now active on the second beat of the first measure.
On your QWERTY keyboard, type 2. Notice the Caret moves to
the second (B) string. Use numbers 1 through 6 on your
QWERTY keyboard to specify the string for the fret number you
are about to enter. 1 is the top string, 6 is the bottom.
Press numpad 3. Finale places a 3 on the B string and the caret
moves to the right. (Notebook users, see the tip at right.)
Press numpad 1. Finale places a 1 on the same string. Now, lets say we want to add another
note below the 1 on the second beat.
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Hold down @ (Mac: b) and type 4 on the QWERTY keyboard. Finale adds a 0 on the
fourth sting below the fret number you just entered.
Hold down @ (Mac: b) and type numpad 3 (or, !-d (Mac:
b-d) 3). The 0 changes to a 3. You can use the last two steps at
any time, first entering the string and then the fret number to create chords.
You can also use the up and down arrows to specify the string for an additional fret number and then hold down ! (Mac: a) and press j) to
add a note on the same string displayed on the caret. Then hold down @
(Mac: b) and type the desired number on the numeric keypad.
Press k to remove the extra fret number. Now, lets finish
the measure.
To see a list of Simple Entry

keyboard shortcuts from
the Simple Menu, choose
TAB Specific Commands.
On the QWERTY keyboard, type 3 to specify the G string,

then, on the numeric keypad, type 3 and then 2. You have
completed tab for the first measure. The Caret should appear
at the beginning of measure 2. Note that you can always
press the left arrow g key to select the fret number you just entered, type a new number on
the number keypad to replace the old, and then press the right arrow h key to continue
entering.
Type numpad 3 to enter the first fret number in measure 2.
Now, well enter a rest.
Press l. Finale adds a rest on the and of beat 1. Since
rests are generally not displayed on tab staves, the rest is
hidden. It will display as a shaded rest in the score, and will
not appear in the printout. Now, lets enter the half note on
the second beat.
Refer back to Tutorial 1a

for information on entering
standard notation with the
Simple Entry Caret.
Hold down !, @ and d (Mac: c, a and d) and then, on the QWERTY

keyboard, type 6. Notice the note on the Caret changes to a half note. The next fret number is
on the same string, so we can just type in the fret number.
Press Enter. Finale places a 0 on the
string. You could have instead hit the 0
key on the numeric keypad. Measures
1 and 2 are now complete.
Instead of typing the string and fret
number, you can also use a MIDI
device to enter tablature with the Simple Entry Caret. First, from the Simple
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Menu, ensure Use MIDI Device for Input is checked. Then, with the Caret active, choose the
rhythmic duration (!, @ and d (Mac: c, b and d) and the number on
the QWERTY keyboard) and then play the note. Finale will place the fret number on the
appropriate string.
There are many additional keystrokes you can use while entering tablature using the Simple
Entry Caret. For a complete list, from the Simple Menu, choose TAB Specific Commands.
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 W.
Click the Tab Slide Tool 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.
Click the Bend Hat Tool in the Smart Shape palette. Now well enter a bend and release
from third beat of the second measure to the first beat in the third measure.
Double click 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.
Double click the B flat on the last beat of the second measure. You should now see a bend hat extending from the B
flat back to the A in the third measure.
Click the Trill Extension Tool . Well use this tool to add a
tremolo on the last note.
Above the last note, double-click and drag to create a tremolo marking. Your standard notation staff should now look
like this.
&c
b b
Use pre-set metatools to

quickly enter Smart Shapes
into a tab staff. For
example, hold down the B
key and double-click a fret
number to enter a bend
curve, N for a bend hat or
hold down E, double-click
and drag for a tremolo.
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Click to the left of the standard notation staff to highlight the entire staff.
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 translate properly for
tab notation. The bend hats have converted to bend and release curves.
You will notice the last note is translated to the open A string. Now, lets move this down to
the E string for the tremolo.
While pressing the ! (Mac: b) key, click the last note so it is selected.
Press the down arrow f 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.
Click the Smart Shape Tool W.
Click the Guitar Bend Tool .
On the second to last fret number (3), hold down the ! (Mac: b) key and doubleclick. You should now see a curved line with an arrow pointing up 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 difference of the fret numbers.
Now, you may want to add a bend indication in the standard staff on the second to last note.
Click the Slur Tool W in the Smart Shape palette.
Double click the second to last note (C) in the standard notation staff.
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Click and drag the handles to edit the slur. You can use the slur handles to create a small
curve to the right of the note.
For compete information on entering all Smart Shapes, see the User Manual under the SMART
SHAPE TOOL.
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.
Click the Slur Tool W in the Smart Shape Palette.
In the tab staff, double 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.
While pressing the ! (Mac: b) key, click the Custom Line Tool .
Scroll down until you find the H custom shape and click it so it is highlighted. There are several sets of these (H, P, B, and R) markings of different styles and fonts. For more details,
choose one and click Edit. Then click OK to return to the Smart Line Selection dialog box.
Click Select.
Double click the 1 on the last beat of the first measure and drag across the barline to the
first beat of the next measure. Remember, the direction of the slur and font of the H
depends on the option chosen in the Smart Line Selection dialog box, and may not match the
image below.
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 regularly for fretted
instruments. In the Smart Line Selection window you will find figures for bends (B), releases
(R), palm mutes (P.M.), harmonics (A.H. and P.H.), picking and others.
ENTRY USING A MIDI GUITAR (OPTIONAL SECTION)

You can use a 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 each pitch while
entering directly into a tab staff. Heres how to use a MIDI guitar for entry.
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First, setup a guitar-to-MIDI interface with your computer. In order to communicate 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 like a 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.
Coordinate MIDI channels for your guitar
strings. From the MIDI menu, choose Tablature MIDI Channels. The Tablature MIDI
Channels dialog box appears as seen here.
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 and click OK.
Consult your interfaces 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 Windows, 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.
After MIDI In Latency, enter 25. This is just a good first guess. You will probably need to
make further adjustments depending on the guitar-to-MIDI interface you are using and your
own performance habits. Try anywhere from 25 to 150ms or so.
Click OK.
Create a new document containing a standard and tab staff with the Setup wizard. Follow the
instructions at the beginning of this chapter to do this. Well 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.
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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 click is to be used during recording. Now, well instruct Finale that it
will be providing the tempo information.
Click the HyperScribe Tool g. A new menu appears on the menu bar called HyperScribe.
From the HyperScribe 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.
Click OK. Finale is now ready to provide you with a metronome click.
From the HyperScribe 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 Finale is ready for you to begin. Finale is waiting for you to send a signal that youre
ready because we set the Start Signal to Any MIDI data. It doesnt matter which note or you
play.
Play a note 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 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.
At the conclusion of the second countoff measure, play a two-octave C scale, in quarter
notes, starting on middle C, as shown below.
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As you play each measure, the numbers appear compressed together; only when youve completely filled a measure (and moved on to the next) does the full-fledged notation appear.
When youre finished, click the mouse button anywhere on the screen. The editing frame
goes away. Take a look at what Finale did: there should be a 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.
Highlight the measures containing fret numbers, and then drag the region into the notation
staff. Your document should now look like the figure above.
HINTS AND TIPS FOR TABLATURE

For complete information, see TABLATURE in the User Manual.
1. Up and 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 the 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 HyperScribe session, first configure your Quantization Settings. From the Options menu choose Quantization Settings. For more information, see QUANTIZATION in the User Manual.
4. If you 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 bottom, 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 Letters.

for example:
COPYING MUSIC
HYPERSCRIBE
SMART SHAPE TOOL
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SIMPLE ENTRY
STAFF STYLES
TABLATURE
Tutorial 8: Other Notation Topics

In this section youll 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, beaming, ties, dots,
and stems.
Open the tutorial document called Tutorial 8. A piece for flute and piano appears on the
screen. Since youll 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 {. 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 youve encountered: You can hide it or turn it into a floating palette.)
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
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
Secondary Beam Break Tool
breaks 16th-note (and other) beams
Secondary Beam Angle Tool
changes the angle of secondary beams
Dot Tool
moves a dot up, down, left, or right
Beam Stem Adjust Tool

changes the length of a beamed stem
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 on which tool youre usingto hide these handles,
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deselect Show Handles in the Special Tools Menu). 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 d-clicking.)
For a complete discussion of all Special Tools functions, consult the User Manual under SPECIAL TOOLS. For now, lets try some experiments.
Click the Note Position Tool B, if its not already selected.
Click the first measure of the middle staff.
Drag any notes handle left or right. You can move any note, chord, or rest horizontally with
this tool, without affecting its playback. Of course, its easier to simply drag notes left or
right using the Speedy Entry Tool.
Click the Notehead Position Tool C. 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 that measure until you tell it differently. You could click another measure to select it.)
Drag any handle left or right. Because the Notehead Position Tool lets you move individual
noteheads, you could, for example, use it to rearrange the notehead configuration of a cluster
chord.
You can also change a noteheads appearance:
Click the Note Shape Tool Q, and double-click a notes handle. The Symbol Selection dialog
box appears, containing every possible symbol in the Maestro 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 its
obscured by its handle.
From the Special Tools Menu, choose Show Handles to uncheck it. By turning off Show Handles, you make the handles invisible. Now you can see the 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.)
If you want to change noteheads for all notes in a region of your score, choose the Mass Edit
Tool, select the region, and from the Mass Edit Menu, choose Change, Noteheads.
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 Xs 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 nonstandard noteheads. See STEM CONNECTIONS DIALOG BOX in the User Manual.
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Lets try some other experiments.
Choose Show Handles in the Special Tools Menu again. The handles reappear.
Click the Accidental Mover Tool E. Every accidental in the measure now has a handle.
Experiment with dragging these handlesyou 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 Positioning. 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 M. 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 d while dragging.
The next tool, the Broken Beam Tool R, is what you use to change the direction of a sixteenth-note (or smaller) beam stub, as shown here:
Before
After
Click the Stem Direction Tool A. A handle appears above and below every note in the measure. A click on any handle flips the stem in its directionand 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, its easier to flip stems with the Simple or
Speedy Entry Tool. Position the insertion bar on a note and press the L key to freeze its stem
in the opposite direction, or !-L (Mac: b-L) to restore the stem to its floating status.
Note that the keystroke may different if you have edited the Simple Entry keyboard shortcuts.)
Click the Double/Split Stem Tool N. 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:
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Try it now:
Click the lower 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 sixteenth-note chord. Deselect Show Handles (in
the Special Tools Menu) to hide the handles for a moment. You can see that youve 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 F 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):
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The Custom Stem Tool L provides great flexibility in special
For a single stemless
beaming casesfor example, splayed beaming, where three mininote, change the stem to
stems connect a Cf, Cn, Cs chord cluster. Thats only one function
of the Custom Stem Tool. If you double-click a notes handle, youll a blank shape with the
Custom Stem Tool.
enter the Shape Selection dialog box, from 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 Manual for full
instructions in the use of these tools.
Click the first measure of the top staff, then click the Beam Angle Tool G. Any notes that are
beamed together sprout two handles, one at each end of the beam. The right handle changes
the beam angle; as you move it up and down, 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.
Five tools provide additional control over beaming. For example, the Secondary Beam Break
Tool K lets you specify places where youd like secondary beams (sixteenths, 32nds, and so
on) to break. The Beam Extension Tool H simply extends any beam past its last note. And
theres also a Secondary Beam Angle Tool J that lets you give sixteenth-note (and lower)
beams different slants. This tool is useful for creating the modern feathered beaming notation of accelerandi and ritards, where several secondary beams converge. The Beam Width
Tool O lets you change the thickness of beams themselves; and the Beam Stem Adjust Tool
P 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 I. Four Handles appear on the tie. You can click and drag these handles
to adjust the tie shape manually.
Double-click the ties left handle. The Tie Alterations dialog box appears. This dialog box
allows you to change the appearance and placement of individual ties in the score.
The Tie Placement Controls allow you to affect the vertical and
To flip a tie with the Tie
horizontal points at which the tie starts and ends. The Tie ConTool, select the ties handle
trol Points offer you control over the shape of the tie. Note that
and hit c-F (Mac: aunder Tie Direction, Automatic is the default setting. This
F)
means that Finale decides which direction the tie should appear
based on your settings in the Tie Options dialog box. For more details, see TIE ALTERATIONS
DIALOG BOX in the User Manual.
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Click Cancel.
Click the Dot Tool D. Double-click the first dotted notes handle. The Dot Offsets 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 horizontal dot positioning globally, too; see
DOTTED NOTES in the User Manual.)
The H offset is the horizontal distance between the dot and its default placement (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 Finale text boxes. From the Options Menu,
choose Measurement Units.)
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 youve done, click the handle of the affected element (to select it), and
press k or $. You can also erase Special Tools modifications 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
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Select this item in Items to Erase:
Notehead Position Tool
Notehead, Accidental and Tablature String Alterations
Note Shape Tool
Accidental Tool
Broken Beam Tool
Stem and Beam Alterations
Stem Length Tool
Custom Stem Tool
Beam Angle Tool
Secondary Beam Break Tool
Secondary Beam Breaks
Beam Extension Tool
Beam Extensions

To erase changes made with this
tool
Select this item in Items to Erase:
Secondary Beam Angle Tool
Beam Width Tool
Beam Stem Adjust Tool
Tie Tool
Dot and Tie Alterations
Dot Tool
Dot and Tie Alterations
You can remove changes youve 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 Utilities, then Remove Stem Changes.
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 these situations, Finale can create
several different numbering systems, one for each region of a piece.
In this example, however, youll simply number every measure sequentially. Youll be using the
Measure Tool.
Click the Measure Tool z. From the Measure Menu, choose Measure Numbers, then select
Edit Regions. The Measure Number dialog box appears.
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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. (The Tutorial 8.MUS file, that is. New
default documents have a single measure number region by default starting with the first
measure.)
Click Add. Finale creates a measure number region, Region 1, encompassing measures 1
through 999. (There aren't anywhere near 999 measures in this document, but weve 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.
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Click Position. The Position Measure Number dialog box appears, letting you set the position
of the number relative to the beginning of the measure.
Drag the number into place just below and to the right of the barline. You dont 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 Measure 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, well
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. Youve now numbered all the measures, but they appear over 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 s; double-click any measure in the middle staff. The Staff Attributes
dialog box for this staff appears.
In the Items to Display section, uncheck Measure Numbers. 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 Numbers again. Click OK. Youve just 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 Measure Number dialog box. For more details, see MEASURE NUMBERS in
the User Manual.
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THE SHAPE DESIGNER
Every now and then, youll run across a musical situation for which theres no standard notation. Maybe youll want to insert a diagram into your score, for harp pedaling, 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 youll really find out what it can
do.
If youve ever worked with a graphics program, youll feel right at home in the Shape Designer.
To acquaint you with its features, in this exercise youll create a special diagram as part of a note
to your flutist.
Scroll to measure 20.
Click the Expression Tool y and double-click above measure 20. The Expression Selection
dialog box appears.
Proceeding through the dialog boxes, click as follows: Shape (radio button); Create; Select;
Create. You arrive in the Shape Designer.
Use this popup
menu to zoom
in or zoom out.
These H (horizontal) and
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.
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The Text Tool creates

text objects.
The Selection Tool
selects, stretches,
and moves objects.
The Multiline Tool creates

multiple-segment lines.
The Curve Tool makes

smooth arcs with no taper.
The Bracket Tool creates

a bracket or brace.
The Graphics Tool
allows you to import
graphics.
The Polygon Tool
creates enclosed
straight-sided shapes.
Using the Rectangle

The Hand Grabber
or Ellipse tools, drag
moves the entire
diagonally to create a
drawing within the
rectangle or ellipse.
window.
The Slur Tool draws curves
Using the Line Tool, drag
with tapered ends.
to create a straight line.
Lets say that you want a special effectyou 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. Youve just set the measurement units to Points.
If no grid points appear in the drawing area, from the Shape Designer Menu, choose Show,
and then Grid. 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 be in the score.
Click the Rectangle Tool S. Youre about to draw a tall thin rectangle that will represent the
flute itself.
Starting on 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 its too thick to look like a
flute. Thats easily remedied:
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Click the Selection Tool c, and then click the flute rectangle. Black handles appear. From the Shape Designer
Menu, choose Line Thickness then choose Hairline. Hairline thickness is .25 points.
In the next step, youll create a curved arrow to indicate
that you want a rotation.
Click the Curve Tool V. Starting to the right of the rectangle, click and drag down 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 c. Click on the curve that was just created.
Three handles appear that govern the positions of the curves endpoints
and the arc of the curve itself. Drag these handles until the curve looks
like this:
To change its line thickness, click the line once and then, from the
Shape Designer Menu, choose Line Thickness and then select a different thickness.
Next, youll 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 Selection Tool,
click one object, then d-click the other. From the Shape Designer Menu, choose Group.
From now on, these two objects will be locked together as though theyre a single object
until you choose Ungroup from the Shape Designer Menu, of course.
As a final step, make a textual notation to the hapless flutist:
Click the Text Tool [. Click to the left of the flute, and type Tilt
flute straight up.
If you want the text to wrap onto two lines, as shown above, press
j after the first two words. To change the type style, select the
entire text block using the Selection Tool, and choose Select Font
from the Shape Designer Menu.
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Tilt flute
straight up

While pressing ! (Mac: a), click OK. Then click OK and Select. 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, harp diagrams, enclosures, logos, 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 Musiteks MIDISCAN or SmartScore software, then import the
resulting files into Finale. Or, you could directly acquire sheet music from you scanner, and
translate it to a Finale file using built-in SmartScore technology. The SmartScore Lite feature in
Finale, like many music scanning products, doesnt recognize articulation marks, hairpins, double or repeat barlines, or text. It will recognize 3 accidental types, 3 clefs, 16 staves per page,
smallest note value is a 32nd note, and a maximum of 1 augmentation dot.
Because scanning is not a perfect science, you will need to clean up any 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 scanner 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. The scanned sheet music image should be
saved as a black and white (or line art) graphic in TIFF format at a resolution of 300dpi.
Place a sheet of music on your scanner. Ensure it is placed squarely on the scanners bed, and
the staff lines are not slanted on the page. Do not use hand-written or photocopied scores. If
you have already scanned and saved TIFF files (or want to use our demonstration TIFF file),
from the File Menu, choose SmartScore Scanning Lite, and then TIFF Import (and skip the
next three steps).
From the File Menu, choose SmartScore Scanning Lite, and then
Acquire is not an
Acquire. Finale opens your scanning software. In most cases, all the set- option on Mac. Open
tings you need to properly scan the file for Finale import are configured. scanned TIFFs from
Scan the first page of your score. After the scan, click Yes to scan addi- the SmartScore Lite
dialog box.
tional pages. Click No once all your pages have been scanned.
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Click OK. The SmartScore Lite dialog box appears.
Click Add Files to List. The Open dialog box appears. If you just scanned, you files appear in
this list. Click the first file in this list and then hold down Shift and click the last file to selet
all of them. Then click Open (and skip the next step). If you want to import the demonstration TIFF file we have provided, continue with the next step.
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 window.
Click Begin Recognition. Finale will translate the image into a Finale document. 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.
You can also import a .FIN file you have saved in SmartScore. Heres how:
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 information, 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.
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.
Click Drums in the first column. Double-click Drum Set in the second column. Click Next
twice then Finish to select the default settings and create a blank drum score.
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Click the Simple Entry tool 4. Click the Quarter Note Tool 5 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, from the Simple Menu, choose Simple Entry Options, check Playback on Mouse Entry
and click OK.
Because different drum instruments will often appear on the same staff but with different
rhythms, youll need to use layers for each instrument appearing at the same time. For example, youd normally notate the bass drum rhythms on the same staff as the snare drum.
Next click 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: press numpad (minus). Click on the note in question. You should now hear a snare drum sound.
As an exercise, lets enter the following passage:
y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y
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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. Remember to get a snare drum sound, youll need a sharped note. Try
using the Sharp Tool m 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. You could also choose Layer 2 from the layer selection in the lower left corner of
the screen, or hold down @ and d (Mac: a and b) and press 2.
Play it back by hitting Play 1 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.

If you worked through all of the Finale tutorials, congratulations! Youve 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 Manual and QuickStart Video Tips are available under
the Help Menu.
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Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics youve just covered. See:
PERCUSSION
QUANTIZATION
SCANNING
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SELECTING MUSIC
SPLIT POINTS
TABLATURE

If youve followed the step-by-step procedures to this point, youve seen most of Finales tools at
work. Youre not expected to remember all this material, of course; you can always re-read the
in-depth discussions presented in this volume and consult the User Manual and QuickStart
Video Tips at any time (under the Help Menu).
But knowing which tools are at your disposal is only half the learning process. Now you need to
learn how to maximize the programs speed and power to produce the most music, with the fewest false steps, and in the shortest time.
WORKING FROM TEMPLATES

Its a good idea never to build any score configuration more than oncesave 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 Finale/Templates folder
on your hard disk. Youll 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:
From the File Menu, choose New, then Document from Template. The Open dialog box
appears, allowing you to choose a template folder, then document.
Double-click the template you want to open. When the document comes to the screen, its
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, youve been using a template since you began learning Finale: the Maestro Font
Default document. This special document duplicates itself every time you start Finale (or
choose the New Default Document option from the New submenu of the File Menu), bringing an
untitled copy to the screen.
EDITING THE MAESTRO FONT DEFAULT

If there are items that you want to appear on every new document, such as a copyright at the
bottom of the page, you can edit the Maestro Font Default file and save it. Then, each time you
start a new default document, or begin a new document from the Setup Wizard, this item will
appear in the score. As mentioned earlier, you can also edit any document option and apply it to
the Maestro Font Default. Heres how:
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From the File Menu, choose Open. Navigate to the Finale/Component files folder. On Windows, from the Files of Type drop down list, choose *.FTM.
Double-click the file Maestro Font Default. A new default file opens.
Make any desired changes. For example, from the Options Menu, choose Document Options.
Any settings you change here, such as the font size for any item, music spacing settings or
any of the other options will apply each time you open a new document.
From the File Menu, choose Save.
On Windows, from the Files of Type drop-down list, choose Fianle Template File. Mac users
skip to the next step.
Name the file Maestro Font Default and click save. You replace the old Maestro Font
Default with your new one. Now, the settings you made apply for new documents.
Note that you will only be able to use this feature if the Maestro Font Default file is located in
the Finale/Component Files folder. If this file is removed from the Component Files folder,
Finale will open a completely blank unformulated, one measure score when you choose File >
New > New Default Document or begin a new score with the Setup Wizard.
SAVING NEW TEMPLATES

In addition to saving a new Maestro Font Default, you can also save other templates that can be
used for starting new documents over and over again.
On Windows, open any document and make the desired settings. For example, if you plan to
compose a multi movement flute piece, you might add some flute staves and create a flute quintet template. When youve setup your score, from the File Menu, choose Save. Then, from the
Files of Type drop-down list, choose Finale Template File *.FTM. Name the file whatever you
wish and save it to a memorable location, such as the Finale/Templates folder (which opens
automatically when you choose File > New > Document From Template). Note that you can save
the .FTM file anywhere, and anytime you open it, Finale will create a duplicate copy and leave
the original template alone.
On Macintosh, open any document and make the desired settings. For example, if you plan to
compose a multi movement horn piece, you might add some horn staves and create a horn quintet template. When youve setup your score, from the File Menu, choose Save. Name the file and
save it to the Finale/Templates folder. Then, when you want to use the file, from the File Menu,
choose New > Document from Template, and double-click to open the file. To open a file as a
template, you must choose New > Document From Template from the File Menu. In fact, on
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plate. Using File > Open, will not create a duplicate file, and will save over the original file when
you choose Save from the File Menu.
ORDER OF ENTRY
In general, you can make the most of your time by creating your documents in the following
order. Save your work frequently. The list below is just one possibility; you may find a different
order suits your style better.
1. Use the 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, or HyperScribe.
3. Edit the music with the Simple Entry Tool. Get familiar with the numeric keypad
commands, including duration shortcuts and keystrokes for selecting other tools.
Remember, you can right-click (Mac c-click) any entry to edit it with a context menu, or
!-click (Mac b-Click) to select any note and use a modifier keystroke to edit the
note. To see a list of keystrokes, from the Simple Menu, choose Simple Edit Commands.
4. Using the Playback Controls, listen to your piece to check for mistakes.
5. Put in the lyrics using either Type into Score or Click Assignment.
6. Use the Repeat Tool or one of the Repeat Plug-ins to place any repeats.
7. Add chord symbols and fretboards.
8. Put in all the expression markings: articulations, dynamics, slurs and so on. Assign your
most frequently used markings to Metatools.
9. Verify that the music is spaced correctly; if necessary, use the Music Spacing commands in
the Mass Edit Menu.
10. Use the 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. Use the Mass Edit Tool to move measures up or down systems
as neccessary using the up and down arrows.
12. Optimize systems, if necessary, by choosing Optimize Staff Systems from the Page Layout
Menu.
13. Add rehearsal notes, subtitles and page numbers with the Text Tool.
14. Use the Page Layout Tool to make final adjustments to your piece.
SPEED TIP: MINIMIZING SCREEN REDRAWS

Finale is a vast, graphics-intensive program; like any such program, it pushes the computer to
its processing limits.
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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 youre not working
on.
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 diagonallyYou 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 } (on the Main Tool Bar) to move diagonally within your score in a single movement. Even betterinstead of changing tools just to adjust your view of the music,
press the right mouse button (Mac: a-b), and drag the music. Release the button, and
resume working with whatever tool was selected.
Eliminating background redrawsYou can further speed up your work by selecting

Redraw Only the Active Window. 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 document (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 canAnother way to cut down on the amount of image-processing
Finale must do is to hide the elements of the music youre not working on. These options,
too, are in the View Menus Redraw Options dialog box.
Deselect any items (Music, Lyrics, Chord Symbols, etc.) you can do without for the time
being. If youre editing notes, for example, it may be OK for Finale to hide the lyrics. The
less Finale has to draw, the faster you can work.
USING KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

Many of the most commonly-used Finale commands and functions have keyboard shortcuts. You
may have noticed that pressing !-A (Mac: a-A) is the same as choosing Select All from
the Edit Menu, !-D (Mac: a-D) is the same as choosing Redraw Screen, and pressing
!-U (Mac: a-backslash) is the same as choosing Update Layout.
You may find it especially useful to select Finale tools without having to use the mouse. In Windows, you can assign any Finale tool to one of the function keys F2 - F12 (F1 and F10 are
reserved by Windows). To assign a tool to a function key, select the tool to be assigned, then
press d and type a function key. To switch tools, type the tools function key. In Macintosh,
you can assign a Finale tool to one of eight keys (F, G, H, J, K, L, semicolon [;] and apostrophe
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[]). To assign a tool to a key, press b-c 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 c
and type the tools key. To assign a keystroke to any menu item, use the TGTools Menu Shortcuts plug-in.
And while it doesnt actually qualify as a keyboard shortcut, Finales power-OK and powerCancel techniques can save you a lot of time. Any time youve 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: a) key. Youll return directly to the score.
MACROS
The built-in keyboard shortcuts described above and Metatools 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 75%, click Page Layout
Tool, indent first system, click OK) that you perform often?
If youre even a moderate efficiency demon, you should try the FinaleScript plug-in. This plug-in
was designed to provide an easy way to automatize repetitive tasks, so a series of commands can
be run once for any number of documents, instead of over and over again manually. For example, instead of opening, changing the spacing, transposition and layout of many documents manually, this plug-in allows you to run the same set of commands to all of these documents at once.
A series of commands can also be applied to a single document. To access the FinaleScript plugin, from the Plug-ins Menu, choose New Plug-ins for Finale 2006, and select FinaleScript. Also,
see FINALESCRIPT PLUG-IN in the User Manual.
In Addition to the FinaleScript plug-in, you might also consider linking Finale up with a thirdparty macro program. A macro is a series of stepsdragging, choosing menu commands, typing,
and so onthats been automated and programmed to execute itself when you press a certain
keystroke.
Macro programs let you perform any such sequence with a single keystroke. QuicKeys (CE Software: 1-800-5CE-SOFT), or Tempo Shortcutter (Affinity Microsystems: 1-800-367-6771), for
example, can make your life with Finale easier. If youre unfamiliar with a macro program, youll
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 overevery 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 ten). For example, you may decide to use !-T to switch to the Text Tool. For
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Windows users, check out the Menu Shortcuts Plug-in for another built-in Finale macro program.
LINKS 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, or other notation programs. With the Finale Showcase, you can even post your files
on the Finalemusic 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. Most
sequencer programs (Digital Performer, Sonar, Cubase, 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
its polished and ready to be notated, save it on your disk as a MIDI file and open it with Finale;
it will turn into standard notation. When you attempt this process, youll 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 2006 can read files created in other music notation programs from MakeMusic, including SongWriter, PrintMusic!, Finale, Allegro, Finale Guitar, NotePad and
MusicProse. Files created in earlier versions of Finale, as well as any of MakeMusics notation
programs, can be opened in Finale directly in the opposite platform. For example, files created
in PrintMusic! 2002 for Windows can be opened in Finale 2006 for Macintosh. You can also
read older cross-platform files, including those from Allegro, Finale Guitar, PrintMusic, NotePad and MusicProse. IMPORTANT: None of MakeMusic's older products can read Finale 2006
files directly, including those saved as ENIGMA Transportable Files (ETFs). To share your files
with others who do not own the most recent version of Finale, have them download Finale Notepad 2006 which is available for free at www.finalemusic.com and will open any file saved from
Finale 2006. Also, you can use the Music XML plug-in to save files in XML format which can be
opened by older Finaleversions (back to Finale2000) using a special third-party Dolet Music
XML plug-in (developed by Recordare) installed to the plug-ins folder. See the User Manual
under MUSIC XML EXPORT PLUG-IN. See also IMPORTING in the User Manual for more details.
In addition to the plug-ins available with Finale 2006, there are also a number of additional
plug-ins available created by third-party developers that can improve efficiency and automate
tasks. For example the TGTools and Patterson Plug-ins Lite options under Finales Plug-ins
menu are samples of the full TGTools collection available at www.tgtools.de and the Patterson
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Plug-in collection available at www.robertgpatterson.com. There are also a number of other
plug-in available. See www.finaletips.nu for a list of several.
In addition to third party plug-ins, you can also use music fonts created by third party vendors.
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 youre 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. Well read and consider everything we receive;
Finale will continue to become better, faster, and easier to use.
In the meantime, you have at your disposal a musical tool of tremendous power and flexibility.
Youve seen some of what Finale can do, and youll discover other useful features as you become
acquainted with it. With this volume and the User 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 youve never imagined possible.
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Index
Numerics
6/8 meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
8va markings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Beat Source . . . . . . . . 47, 49, 51, 171

Bend Hat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Block rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Accents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Accidental Mover Tool . . . . . . . . 175
Accidentals
Check for Extra Notes . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chord Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Adding Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Advanced Tools . . . . . 106, 139, 173
Anacrusis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Apply Note Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Apply Staff Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Articulation Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Articulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Adding a single articulation . . . . . 74
Adding in Simple Entry . . . . . . . . 13
Adding multiple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Deleting a single articulation . . . . . 74
Deleting multiple . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Automatic Music Spacing . . . . . . . 94
Simple Entry
Speedy Entry
B
Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Beam Angle Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Beam Extension Tool . . . . . . . . . 177
Beam Stem Adjust Tool . . . . . . . . 177
Beam Width Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Beaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 173
6/8 meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Joining or breaking beams . . . . . . .
50
41
Beat Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Edit Learned Chords . . . . . . .

Manual Input . . . . . . . . . . . .
MIDI Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
One-Staff Analysis . . . . . . . . .
Position Fretboards . . . . . . . .
Show Fretboards . . . . . . . . . .
Two-Staff Analysis . . . . . . . . .
Type Into Score . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 66
65, 69
65, 66
. . . 65
. . . 69
. . . 69
. . . 66
. . . 65
Chord Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chord Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 31
Clear Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59, 178
Clefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Changing the Clef in Simple Entry . 19
Click and Countoff . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Click Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Coda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Composer credits . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Compound meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Continuous Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Copy and Replace . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Copying Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Copying music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 104
Create new Measures . . . . . . . . . . 15
Crescendos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Cue notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Cue staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Custom Stem Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 177
201
Index
D
Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Default Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Delete Staff Systems . . . . . . . . . . 101
Deleting Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Document Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . 1
Dot Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Double/Split Stem Tool . . . . . . . . 175
E
Edit Learned Chords . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Edit Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 59, 62
Edit Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Edit Menu
Automatic Music Spacing . . . . . . . 94

Partial Measure Selection . . . . . . . 40
Select All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Select Partial Measure . . . . . . . . 114
Select Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Special Part Extraction . . . . . . . . 123
Undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Update Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 95
Edit Staff Attributes . . . . . . . . . . 111

Editing the Maestro Font Default file
Templates
Editing the Maestro Font Default
..
189
EDUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 147
EPS file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Eraser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Erasing Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Erasing music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Expression Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Adding in Simple Entry . . . . . . . . 13
Copying and Pasting . . . . . . . . . . 88
Creating Expressions . . . . . . . . . . 81
202
Defining Playback .
Multimeasure Rests
Tempo Marking . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 153
. . . . . . . . . . . 85
. . . . . . . . . . 156
Extract Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
F
Fermatas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
File Menu
Close . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Close All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Extract Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
New
Default Document . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Document from Template . . 25, 189
Document with Setup Wizard . . . . 1
Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii, 4, 65
Open Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Print Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Revert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 43
Save Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Fill with Rests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

first and second endings . . . . . . . . 63
First Ending Repeats . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Fit Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Frame Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Fret Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
G
Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO) .
131
Grace notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Graphics Menu
Export Selection
Place Graphic . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 106
. . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Index
Graphics Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Guitar Bends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Guitar Tablature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Instrument Definition dialog box 128

Instrument List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Internal Speaker Playback . . . . . . . 42
Hammer-ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Hand Grabber Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Hiding
Jump to Next Measure . . . . . . . . . 29
Notes or Rests . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Staves (permanently) . . . . . . . . .
Staves (temporarily) . . . . . . . . . .
. 41
118
115
Home Position . . . . . . . 40, 102, 104
Horizontal scroll bar . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Human Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
HyperScribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Transcribing a Melody . . . . . . . . . 49
Transcribing a Scale . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Two-handed HyperScribing . . . . . . 51
HyperScribe Menu
Beat Source . . . . . . . 47, 49, 51, 171

Playback and Click . . . . . . 47, 171
Tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49, 51
Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 171
Split into Two Staves . . . . . . . . . 52
K
Key
. 19
. 55
..2
Key Signature Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Key Velocities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . 192
Kontakt Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Changing the Key in Simple Entry
Changing the Key Signature . . . .
Setting the Key Signature . . . . . .
L
Layer Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Expressions
Staff Styles
Lyrics
Inner Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Insert mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Insert Page Break . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Insert Staff Systems . . . . . . . . . . 101
Inserting Notes or Rests . . . . . . . . 35
Installing Finale
Windows
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Click Assignment
Type into Score .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Lyrics Menu
Click Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Edit Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 59, 62
Shift Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Type into Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Lyrics Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Installing SongWriter
Macintosh
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
203
Index
Copying MIDI Tool data . . . . . . .

Removing MIDI Tool data . . . . . .
Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Maestro Font Default . . . . . . 46, 189
Main Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Mass Edit Menu
Clear Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59, 178

Copy and Replace . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Fit Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Music Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Apply Note Spacing . . . . . . . . . . 94
Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Unlock Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Remove Stem Changes . . . . . . . 179
Mass Edit Tool 10, 59, 88, 92, 94, 114

Measure Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Measure Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Measure Tool 20, 26, 39, 91, 95, 179
Measurement Units . . . . . . . . 96, 178
Measures
Adding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 26
Deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Selecting Several Measures . . . . . . 38
menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Message Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Metatools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Metronome Click . . . . . . . . . 48, 171
MicNotator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
MIDI Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Articulations
Expressions .
Tuplets . . . .
MIDI Setup Dialog Box

Macintosh
Windows
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
MIDI System basics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
MIDI Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Macintosh
Windows
204
152
152
MIDI Tool Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
MIDISCAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Moving music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Multimeasure Rests . . . . . . . . . . 121
Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Multiple Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Music Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Music Spacing Options . . . . . . . . . 72
Music XML
see Dolet Music XML plug-in
Musica ficta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
N
New Staves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
New Staves (with Wizard) . . . . . 116
Note Durations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Note Position Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Note Shape Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Notehead Position Tool . . . . . . . 174
Notes, Hiding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Nudge Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
O
Open Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Optimizing Systems . . . . . . . . . . 118
Options Menu
Click and Countoff . . . . . . . 46, 170

Document Settings
Layer Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Music Spacing Options . . . . . . . . 72
Internal Speaker Playback . . . . . . . 42
Measurement Units . . . . . . . 96, 178
Playback Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Quantization Settings . . . . . . . . . . 51
Index
More Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Order of Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Simplified
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
OS X
Configuring MIDI with OS X 10.2.x
xv
Overwrite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
P
Page Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Page counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Page Layout Menu
Delete Staff Systems . . . . . . . . . . 101
Fit Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Insert Page Break . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Insert Staff Systems . . . . . . . . . . 101
Optimize Staff Systems . . . . . . . . 119
Space Systems Evenly . . . . . . . . . 100
Systems
Edit Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Page Layout Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Page Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . 104, 105
Page View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 118
Part Extraction
Print Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Special Part Extraction . . . . . . . .
Splitting into Separate Documents
122
122
121
Partial Measures . . . . . . . . . . 40, 114
Pickup Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Playback . . . . . . . . . . 42, 53, 68, 127
Scrubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Playback and Click . . . . . . . . 47, 171
Playback Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Playback During Drag . . . . . . . . . . 30
Playback Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Print Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Program Staff Set . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Pull-offs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Q
Quantization Settings . . . . . . . . . . 51
QuickStart Video Tips . . . . . . . . xxi
R
Read Me file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . 48, 52, 171
Redraw Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Rehearsal letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Remove Stem Changes . . . . . . . . 179
Repeat Barlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Repeat Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Repeats
first and second endings
. . . . . . . . 63
Repitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Resize
Note . . . . . .
Notehead . .
Page . . . . . .
Staff . . . . . .
Staff System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Resize Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Revert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
S
Save Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Scale View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 46
Scanning Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Scroll View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 111
Scrubbing playback . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Second Ending Repeats . . . . . . . . . 63
Second Verse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Secondary Beam Angle Tool . . . . 177
Secondary Beam Break Tool . . . . 177
205
Index
Select All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Select Notes on Entry . . . . . . . . . . 15
Select Staff Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Selecting music
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Serial number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Set Default Name Positions . . . . . 112
Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 161
Shape Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Shift Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Show Staff Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Simple Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 19
Accidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Select Region
Shift-click . .
Changing the Key Signatures, Time Signature, and Clef . . . . . . . . . 19

Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Eraser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Overwrite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Repitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Repitch Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Simple Entry Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Simple Entry Rests Palette . . . . . . . 7
Simple Menu
Check for Extra Notes . . . . . . . . .
Create new Measures . . . . . . . . . .
Fill with Rests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Select Notes on Entry . . . . . . . . . .
15
15
15
15
15
Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Slurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Smart Shape Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
SmartScore Lite . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Space Systems Evenly . . . . . . . . . 100
Special Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Accidental Mover . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Beam Angle Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Beam Extension Tool . . . . . . . . . 177
206
Beam Stem Adjust Tool . . . . . . .

Beam Width Tool . . . . . . . . . . . .
Custom Stem Tool . . . . . . . . . . .
Dot Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Double/Split Stem Tool . . . . . . .
Note Position Tool . . . . . . . . . . .
Note Shape Tool . . . . . . . . . . . .
Notehead Position Tool . . . . . . .
Secondary Beam Angle Tool . . . .
Secondary Beam Break Tool . . . .
Stem Direction Tool . . . . . . . . . .
Stem Length Tool . . . . . . . . . . .
Tie Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
177
177
177
178
175
174
174
174
177
177
175
175
177
Special Tools Menu
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Speed Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Speedy Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Accidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Tuplets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Show Handles
Speedy Entry Keypad Commands

Macintosh
Windows
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Speedy Menu
Insert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jump to Next Measure . . . . . . . . .
Playback During Drag . . . . . . . . . .
Use MIDI Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . .
35
29
30
26
Split into Two Staves . . . . . . . . . . 52
Staccatos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Staff Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Staff Menu
Apply Staff Style . . . . . . . . . . . .

Edit Staff Attributes . . . . . . . . . .
New Staves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
New Staves (with Wizard) . . . . .
Set Default Name Positions . . . . .
Abbreviated Staff Names . . . . .
Full Staff Names . . . . . . . . . . .
Show Staff Styles . . . . . . . . . . . .
118
111
111
116
112
113
113
118
Index
Staff Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Staff Sets
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Staff Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Staff Tool . . 111, 115, 116, 118, 123
Start and Stop Times . . . . . . . . . 145
Programming
Selecting . . .
Starting Finale
Windows
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Starting SongWriter
Macintosh
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Staves
Hiding .
Inserting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115, 118
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Stem Direction Tool . . . . . . . . . . 175
Stem Length Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Stems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70, 173
Changing Length . . . . . . . . 175, 177
Custom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Flipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Swing Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Systems
Indenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inserting or Deleting . . . . . . . . .
. 98
101
Tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49, 51
Tapping a Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Saving new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
On Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . .
On Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Working from . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
190
190
190
189
Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 156
Tempo Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Text Menu
Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Frame Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inserts
Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Center Horizontally . . . . . . . . .
Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
104
105
105
105
105
105
104
Text Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Ties
.................9
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
TIFFs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107, 186
Simple Entry
Special Tools
Speedy Entry
Time
Changing the Meter in Simple Entry
19
. . . . 56
. . 2, 50
Time Signature Tool . . . . . . . . 50, 56
Time Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Transcribing a Melody . . . . . . . . . 49
Transcribing a Scale . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Transposing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Transposing Instruments . . . . . . 116
Tuplet Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 32
Tuplets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Speedy Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Changing the Time Signature
Setting the Time Signature . .
T
Tablature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161, 172
Changing the String and Fret Number
164
Copying Music To and From a Tab Staff
162
Entering with a MIDI Guitar . . . .

Entry directly into a tab staff . . . .
Hammer-ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Pull-offs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
169
164
169
169
167
207
Index
Two-handed HyperScribing . . . . . 51
Type Into Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
U
Undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Unlock Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Upbeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Update Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 95
Use MIDI Keyboard for Input . . . . 26
User Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
V
Verses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 62
Vertical scroll bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Home Position . . . . . . . 40, 102, 104
Page View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Program Staff Set . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Redraw Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Scale View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 46
Scroll View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 111
Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
W
Window Menu
Advanced Tools . . . . . 106, 139, 173

Cascade/Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Instrument List . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
New Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Tile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Word Extensions . . . . . . . . . . 58, 63
Z
Zoom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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I N S TA L L AT I O N A N D T U T O R I A L S

FINALE 2006 FOR WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH

7615 Golden Triangle Drive Suite M

Installation for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii

Installation for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

How to Learn Finale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

Tutorial 1b: Speedy Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Tutorial 1c: HyperScribe - Notate As You Play . . . . . . . . . . .45

Tutorial 2: Adding Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Tutorial 3: Articulations and Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Tutorial 4: Layout and Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

Tutorial 5: Working with Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Tutorial 6: Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

Tutorial 7: Guitar Tab and Fretted Instruments . . . . . . . . .161

Tutorial 8: Other Notation Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Making the Most of Finale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Before You Begin

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Tip boxes look like this. In

Learning Finale wont be difficult. Though the program offers

Before You Begin

Remember that extensive help is

Installation for Windows

The Installer sets up a

If upon trying to install, you get

Installation for Windows

PREPARING FOR PRINTING

SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM

Installation for Windows

Turn on all your equipment.

Installation for Windows

Installation for Windows

Installation for Windows

Installation for Macintosh

Finale 2006 will not disturb an

When you open an older Finale family notation file (choose

PREPARING FOR PRINTING

Installation for Macintosh

TO SETUP YOUR PRINTER:

SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM

Installation for Macintosh

Turn on all your equipment.

Installation for Macintosh

Installation for Macintosh

Installation for Macintosh

THE MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX

SETTING UP MIDI WITH OS X

Installation for Macintosh

Click OK. Youre all set to explore Finale on your own.

Installation for Macintosh

How to Learn Finale

How to Learn Finale

SIMPLIFIED ORDER OF ENTRY

See the Order of Entry in the

Specify the title, number of instruments, and beginning