#Finale 2014.5 measure repeat symbol series

To enter a series of notes/chords of the same duration using a MIDI keyboard:

See the Finale® blog for a step-by-step videos demonstrating use of the explode feature when arranging.

'00333300' would discard the top two notes ('00'), put a default note in each staff and up to four 'extra' notes ( 3333) in the third staff.

'12223300' would put a default note in each staff, one extra note in the top staff ( 1), three extra notes in the second staff ( 222), and two extra notes in the bottom staff ( 33), assuming there are that many notes in the original chord.

For an example, if exploding a chord into three staves: Leading zeros tell Finale how many of the top notes to discard.

Since you can type up to 8 digits, you can control the placement of up to 8 notes. Each digit in the Distribute edit box represents an 'extra' note a non-zero value specifies the staff in which it is to be placed.Finale will always explode 'up' in this mode, regardless of the Explode Direction setting.With the Distribute option, it would probably be more accurate to say At Least One Note Per Staff.

First of all, check One Note Per Staff, even if you will designate more than one note to appear in some staves.

This allows you some control as to how a chord explodes into a different number of staves than there are notes in the chord. The Explode Music options work pretty much as you would expect, but Distribute To These Staves is a little funky. Remebering this can avoid some frustration when editing pre-existing drum parts. Therefore, the percussion map only affects notes keyed or played in, not those dragged from a different vertical position. The difference is that the high B was dragged until the proper sound/pitch was heard, and the others were keyed in. In the following measure, all of the notes produce the same 'cabasa' MIDI sound: Weirdness: Dragging notes vertically defeats the Percussion Map. You can put cue notes in Layer 3, for example, then use View Active Layer Only to change Separate different instruments into layers as necessary, and hide some of the rests for readability. In addition, checking the View Only Named Notes box makes the list a little less cluttered when scrolling through the note assignment list box.Īs far as entering the drum part itself, use the keys defined in your percussion map and the notehead and vertical placement will be automatic. When done, select the entire line and select Mass Edit | Music Spacing | Note Spacing to evenly space the measures.Ĭheck the Highlighted Notes box, and click either All Named Notes or All Notes.

If you need to put two of these sections on the same staff line, use the Mass Edit Tool to cram all the measures up there, and then use Mass Edit | Copy Measure Items | Text attached to measures to copy the text frames to the new section.

Select all measures except the last one with the Measure Tool, double-click the region and choose Invisible barline.

Assign it to the first measure of the region as before. Type 'Play 8' (or whatever) in the text box.

Click again over the first measure of the region with the Text Tool, choose Text | Font., and select Jazz Text, Regular, 20 pt.

(By assigning it to a measure, you can copy/paste it much easier to other areas of the part.) Right-click on it for the Frame Attributes, assign it to the first measure of the region and specify the staff name. (or Shift+D, which is a shake articulation in Broadway Copyist font) You will need to raise and center it over the measure region. (also Broadway Copyist font) Type Alt-0134 in the actual text box.

Click over the first measure of the region with the Text Tool, choose Text | Font., and select Jazz, Regular, 36 pt.

ALTERNATIVE to below: Broadway Copyist font, Shift+D (shake articulation).

Select all the measures in the region using the Staff Tool, right-click and select 'Blank Notation'.

Select all the measures in the region using the Mass Edit Tool, then hit backspace to clear all entries.

Unfortunately, I lack the time and expertise to answer individual questions about Finale®, so please don't email them to me.

They always get back to me with a day or so and have saved me many hours of useless flailing about. I strongly recommend you use a legal version of the software, because MakeMusic has great tech support. The good news is that most of the core features of Finale don't change much between versions, so you should still find this helpful with newer versions. 25.5.0.290), and while I've updated some tips, most are written for the older versions, so some of these techniques here have been incorporated or made obsolete by newer versions of Finale. Most of these tips were written for versions 2003a and 2010 (I currently use v.

Note Entry using MIDI controller, including MINILAB USB.