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Any chance someone can answer my questions?

Not really answering your question but I am wondering why you are putting in all those finger numbers. Almost all of them would be obvious to any pianist, especially since there is no other fingering possible for most of it. The art of putting in fingering in piano music is knowing what to exclude....

I'm in the process of rewriting fingerings from expression tool to articulation tool for my piano piece because articulation tool can stack fingering auto in vertical positioning and exp. fingering moves from time to time... Couple of questions: 1. How to correctly align left hand fingering? Current...

Thanks for the replies. In regard to rolled chord between left and right hand, for four note chord from left hand to right hand, i used: -512,-256, -128, 0. It sounds alright but just a little bit slower than i want. How to fasten the rolled chord playback just a little bit? In articulation fingerin...

^^ Thanks guys. @Djard What do you mean by THREE NOTE, FOUR NOTE? I write music for piano. I started using the articulation tool to add fingerings. I choose, vertical positioning: above note, and ticked "Center over stem..." I encountered a problem though, when i enter fingering for one note it land...

I simply overwrite existing notes or move them about in Speedy Entry. Using the Expression tool for fingering is unacceptable to me as they drift out of position over time: I create fingering in the Articulation tool that does a better job of keeping them in place and permits positioning of the not...

For some reason finale flips back ties position after some time, how to prevent this from happening? Finale Flipped back these ties for example: flipped.png How it looked before: not flipped.png What are the rules for if a tie should be flipped or not? Are my ties position right? Btw, Any chance som...

miker wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 29, 2022 4:24 pm

How about adding (and hiding) the B and C to the bass chord?

Is there a way to make it happen without doing tricks on finale?
I'm sure finale devs thought about rolled chords between F clef and G clef. Pretty common playing technique in piano playing i would say...

Already tried. It only breaks the B to C notes of the right hand and plays the F and E as a chord. How to make finale midi playback actually play the rolled chord as intended to play, from the bottom to top (F>E>B>C)?

How to create rolled notes for a piano piece when the chord is spread between the G key staff (right hand)and the F key staff )left hand) and how to make finale midi playback play it correctly?

My own shot at it. Yes, this is it, i think, because its kind of faster to figure out the notes length when its a quarter and a half, it gives clearer indication of the beat. More pianist friendly. Btw, why all your notes are in black? Did you turn off the red color from layer 2 somehow or did you ...

Instead of a tie between Layer 1 and Layer 2, use something that works: a tie between Voice 1 and Voice 2 of the same layer . In this example only the initial quarter note is in Layer 2. All other notes are in Layer 1. The whole note is in Voice 1 (of Layer 1), whereas the two simultaneous quarters...

Yeah, but wouldn't flipping the tie of the First D cuts the second D stem? looks better than misdirected ties but still a bit off. Maybe i'm just not used to it because its less common in classical music?

Example 1 is more accepted here because both hands notes end together (two halves equals to one whole) so example 2 would not be faster to read, this is the excuse, right? Here, example 2 is better because it is free of the dot, right? Example 1.jpg Example 2.jpg Or isn't this example better than bo...

Would you say Example 2 is more accepted here as well? Example 1.jpg Example 2.jpg Yes, its not really atonal. There are plenty of odd harmony combinations that are more common in modren dissonance classical music (20th century...) and jazz fusion... Would you say its better to omit any key signatur...

Which example is more accepted professionally in terms of music writing for a piano piece? As a pianist, example 2 is faster to read for me so i tend to choose it but example 1 looks cleaner.

Anders Hedelin wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 26, 2022 7:58 pm

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I encountered something strange.
When i change bar 100 time signature from 3/4 to 4/4 bar 102 turn to a mess :-/ How to make finale work as should? Maybe i change some setting by mistake which causes this?
Bar 100 before change: Bar 102 after change:

^^ I know i can delete layer 2 in the top measure manually and write layer 1 from the beginning but i want to know how to make it work with that plugin or in other way to save time because the whole piece is divided to 4-5 voices... Bar 1 is just an example...

@Anders Hedelin Yes, i write this piece for piano. I wrote it in a coral way because it is pretty cool to distinguish between the different voices but this needs to change... So for test, i tried to move all the voices from layer 2 to layer 1 in bar 1 using JW staff polyphony but it moves only the b...

1. How to correctly display the chords in this bar as all the chord notes are played with the left hand? Not correct.jpg 2. I know layers are not voices and for bars with 4 voices i use layer 1 for the top voice in a measure and layer 2 for the bottom voice in a measure. How do you approach more tha...

I know.
I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut and if it does not exist then how to create one.

How to stop playback after space+left clicking a bar?

I tried both checked and unchecked duplicate unisons in the plugin options.
For this piece it is the only bar that keep a layer 2 note in layer 1 so not a problem to manually change one note but just curious to know how to make it work with the plugin.

Divided to two eighth rests, same.
Sample: