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Your sample file is correct - most pianists can read a G below the staff. Moving it to the bass staff is wrong, gimmicky and amateurish.

Make a copy of the file and enter the slower tempos. Make as many copies and different tempos as you like.

motet wrote: ↑

Fri May 29, 2020 6:11 pm

The expression has no playback effect.

Edit the expression's playback tab to set the tempo of the quarter to be the same as the previous dotted quarter. Doesn't that work?

This notation is used when going from a dotted quarter beat to a quarter beat, say from 6/8 to 2/4.

Dorico does this automatically. They call it "messa di voce", a term I've never heard before in my 35 years in the business. It's commonly called a "swell", which is swell by me.

Do you have Illustrator? I bet it has a function or plugin that turns a straight line into a circle. Just enter the notation in Finale, convert to PDF, open in Illustrator and press the button. Yeah, right. The square sounds like it may be easier. Either circle or square, you're probably going to ha...

Just curious - what is the reason for resizing noteheads and not accidentals? If it's to make the music larger, it's better to resize the entire staff for parts, or the system size for scores.

Anna Crusis and the last bar. Anna's heavy night of drinking.

Type D###.

This is how Dorico does it, in my opinion the correct way. Unlike Finale, no manual adjustments and nice spacing.

robertstiffler wrote: ↑

Wed May 20, 2020 2:21 pm

If you have a friend in a big Baptist church he might give you a Finale file for an individual hymn.

No! The proper way is to contact LifeWay Publishing and ask to purchase the needed hymns.

Please see the topic "Simple Entry Laptop Set" on the following page:
https://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Fin ... Clicks.htm

When in doubt, first search in the User Manual!

How would I do that in Simple Entry, no MIDI keyboard? Someday, I hope that entering percussion is as straightforward as entering notes. If I understand and if I'm not wrong, you set up the Percussion Map for "Side Stick" sound on MIDI Note #37. Then you can enter with Simple Entry by whatever mean...

Go to the Score and delete what's there having to do with score/part names and enter a new "Part/Score Name" insert from the Text Menu. That should be it.

Running the line through the wedge without masking looks fine to me. You wouldn't normally mask a barline in a piano part if a wedge passed through. Using the text cresc. might be better still - no need for any mask.

What music font are you using? It's not a Finale font. As an experiment, change the music font to Maestro, the standard Finale font (Document Menu > Change Default Music Font). If that doesn't work, attach a small sample file (those 2 measures)

When the scores I work on use the directive marcato , it may or may not be clear where the style is to be "turned off" and is almost never notated. I think non-marcato makes it crystal clear. I agree that ord . may not be familiar to wind players. It's rarely if ever used in the band and jazz world ...

Did you shut down and restart the computer after installing?

I wouldn't use the multimeasure bar for the single measure rest. You can edit the MM rest to show as a symbol, which is the usual whole rest (Right Click > Multimeasure Rest > Edit). This seems to be standard.

(non-marcato) in parens could be used to cancel at the appropriate location.

It will work but Human Playback should be turned off, otherwise the program will crash. The complexity of the music doesn't matter.

Perotinus wrote: ↑

Mon May 11, 2020 8:19 pm

Gratias tibi, N.G. Ego hoc cognovi, sed numquam legi illum articulum de Vicipedia.

Voluntas mea fiet.

Perotinus wrote: ↑

Sun May 10, 2020 7:53 pm

That's the wildest, craziest Latin translation of the lyrics of the Messiah that I've ever seen !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

With the Key Signature Tool, highlight the measures that are "stuck". Hit Enter, change the key if necessary and hit enter again.

Here is Peter's 2 text box suggestion. You can replicate the example you picture but you might have to spend a few hours of self-instruction mastering Finale's limitations and developing a workflow. There is a Finale file attached with some tips.

Quit Finale and restart (?)