![]() Creating great-looking scores quickly AND easily is what Finale is all about. Now your staccato appears on only the quarter notes in the measures you specified!īoth these tips are great timesavers and are easy as well. Under Apply Articulation to select Notes within the range of durations and indicate the shortest note on top (in this case a quarter) and the longest note you wish to impact on the bottom (in this case a quarter too), then click OK.Click Select then double-click on the desired articulation (in this case the staccato).With the Articulation tool chosen, drag-select the desired region of your score – the Apply Articulations dialog box appears.Let’s say you want to put a staccato on all the quarter notes in several measures of your piece, but not on the eighth notes. In the upper right-hand corner of each box is the shortcut key, so if you forget that “8” is the key to press for tremolo (“t” was already taken for trill), you can always look it up here. Here every articulation appears in its own little box (kind of like the Hollywood Squares without Paul Lynde). To learn the shortcut key for any articulation just double-click on a note (when in the Articulation tool) to get to the Articulation Selection dialog box. That’s it, there’s no step two! Of course the “s” stood for staccato, right? The epiphany comes when you realize there are probably other common-sense shortcuts too, like “a” for accent, “t” for trills, “u” for upbow, and “f” for fermata. Voilà – a staccato immediately appears over them all. A list of common keyboards appears in the second column. In the first column, click on the word Keyboards. The Add or Delete Instrument (s) page appears. The Select and Ensemble and Document Style page appears. With the Articulation tool selected, hold down “s” while you click and drag to surround some notes. If PrintMusic is already started, click on the File menu and choose New, then Document with Setup Wizard.But get to the point where they’re adding staccatos to several notes in a row and it’s laborious – one dot at a time. ![]() It’s fun to see how they quickly intuit how to enter notes and more. If you have already entered a pitch and need to change the note duration, hold alt (or option on Macs) and use the numpad 1-8 in the same way as adding a note. ![]() Occasionally I get a chance to see folks use Finale for the first time. When you are entering notes, choose the note duration on your keyboard before you select the pitch as discussed above. Today, for number six, I have some articulation entry tips which, if they’re new to you, should save you a bunch of time and will likely make your top ten list as well. I’m delighted when someone’s face lights up as they realize how a specific tip is going to radically simplify their workflow, and it’s been my plan to share a top ten list of those tips that most often get this kind of OMG reaction.īack in September I shared the first three of my top ten tips, and then a few weeks later added number four (on QuickStart Videos) and number five (on SmartFind and Paint). See the Maestro Character Set for a full list of keystrokes and characters.In the course of my travels I talk to Finale users almost every day, and I love sharing the tips I’ve picked up along the way. The main difference is the width of the notation noteheads in the Maestro Wide font, which are displayed below. The character sets for the Maestro and Maestro Wide fonts are very similar. Caesura, pause, grand pause, or railroad tracks
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