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- Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:44 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can we playback an octave higher without transposing notes?
- Replies: 17
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Octave G-clef for Guitar Notation
Hi Warren, I believe you: the octave G-clef is rare, even in classical guitar music. But Finale does offer it in its "Clef-selection" window, perhaps not merely for transposition as the inclusion in guitar notation is technically correct. Attached is an example of its use in one of my pieces. The ch...
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:12 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can we playback an octave higher without transposing notes?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 21067
Octave G-Clef
I learned that even my publisher no longer adheres to the old convention of placing an 8 under the G-clef for guitar notation--to correctly indicate that the notes should sound an octave lower than written--so I think I'll go with the flow and ignore it myself. An old friend who teaches classical gu...
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:52 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can we playback an octave higher without transposing notes?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 21067
Transposition
The use of the "8" key worked nicely. Thanks. Warren, my publisher, J. Albert & Son, the largest and oldest music publisher in Australia, would respectfully disagree with you about omitting the 8 under the G-clef. But you are correct in your statement. Publishers of guitar music today generally igno...
- Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:30 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can we playback an octave higher without transposing notes?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 21067
Octaves
Hello Peter, I'll do my best to clarify the issue I have. 1. I used a regular G-clef to write my score for guitar. Since I selected "Accoustic guitar" in the Doc Setup Wizard, I figured there was no need to indicate that the music for guitar is customarily written an octave higher than it actually s...
- Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:44 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can we playback an octave higher without transposing notes?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 21067
Modify playback pitch
Hi Peter, I don't have the experience or IQ to follow option #1. So I tried the second option you kindly offer, using the Staff Tool. Below are the steps I tried without success. Perhaps you can tell me which step I may change to raise the playback pitch by one octave, while keeping the basso ottava...
- Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:38 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can we playback an octave higher without transposing notes?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 21067
Can we playback an octave higher without transposing notes?
I decided to change the regular G clef to the one with the octave "8" attached to the bottom. My score was understandably transposed an octave higher, since the guitar sounds an octave lower than written (I forgot to create a custom template for the guitar, one that shows the 8 under the clef). I tr...
- Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:51 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Windows stops working when I add a stave
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9413
Got it!!!
Miker,
Thank you so much: you have cleared up the matter for me very well. I did find another way to add single staves anywhere in a score that, for me, is more expedient. Thanks for your patience.
Thank you so much: you have cleared up the matter for me very well. I did find another way to add single staves anywhere in a score that, for me, is more expedient. Thanks for your patience.
- Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:11 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Windows stops working when I add a stave
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9413
Amazing! How do you do it?
Hi Warren, When I click on "Staff" in the upper text menu and select "New Staves" (Number of Staves: 1, Topline to Topline Distance: 1), I always get a second stave throughout the entire score, instead of just adding one stave as you manage to do. I would like to know how you do it. Regarding Finale...
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:25 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Windows stops working when I add a stave
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9413
miker, I identified part of my problem: I was trained at a music academy that adhered to the nomenclature in the Oxford Music Dictionary. In the land down-under, among classical musicians, stave is the preferred term, though we do say "staff lines" and (their) "ledgers." A "measure stack" to me conj...
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:08 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Windows stops working when I add a stave
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9413
Staff Tool
Warren, I don't doubt what you say is true. But when I select the "Staff Tool" and double click in my score--as you kindly instruct--all I get is the "Staff Attributes" window that offers no provision for adding a new stave. I may be misunderstanding you, but as an grammarian, I think not. I'm guess...
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:53 am
- Forum: Wishlist
- Topic: Fix for the ornament conflict
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3319
Fix for the ornament conflict
I had a problem getting rit. to work properly in Finale 2011. Finale tech support promptly helped me resolve the issue by suggesting I turn off the Human Playback. But then the trill stopped working with human playback disabled. Unless I'm overlooking something, Finale cannot accommodate a rit. and ...
- Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:49 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Windows stops working when I add a stave
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9413
An successful way to add a new stave.
Warren, I think you are merely quoting from the manual. When using the Staff Tool, all you get is the Staff Attributes window that does not offer the ability to add a new stave to the score: if such an option exists there, please be so kind as to point it out. Below are the steps I figured out to ad...
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 5:48 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Windows stops working when I add a stave
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9413
Windows stops working when I add a stave
Whenever I use the Page Layout Tool to "Insert System" (add a stave) in my score, I get a message that "Windows has stopped working," and I lose unsaved work. My super PC is a Pentium quad chip Asus P6T with 8 GB RAM and 3TB HDD--it runs all other apps flawlessly. So I suspect a problem in Finale 20...
- Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:55 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: How do you add naturals before key change?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2686
Courtesy accidentals
Thanks. The courtesy change worked nicely!
- Sat Dec 25, 2010 8:34 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Splitting a measure
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8080
Here are the steps for splitting a measure
Below is a section from a guide that I have put together. I hope these steps help you. __________ • Split: You may split a bar anywhere in the score. In the example, below, we will split a 4/4 measure after 3-3/4 beats then cut and place the 3-3/4 beat bar at the end of the score, leaving the 1/8th ...
- Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:17 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Display rit problem
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2884
Playback?
If you don't require playback of the Rit. and wish only to display the expression, simply use the Text Tool: 1. Click on "Text Tool" in upper icon menu. 2. Double-click in location where you wish to add text. 3. Type in what you wish to write. 4. Click once outside text field. 5. Click on handle & d...
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:12 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can the Segno symbol be moved?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2797
I figured out a solution...
I just discovered that you must double-click in the exact location where you want the 'segno' symbol to appear. It would be nice if the symbol had a handle, so that one could move it with more precision. Below is the best that I have been able to do. Insert Segno: 1. Repeat Tool (bar with repeat sig...
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:01 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can the Segno symbol be moved?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2797
Can the Segno symbol be moved?
The "Speedy Entry Tool" does not give the option to move the segno sign. I have a note overlapping the symbol. Is there another method, or must I (sigh) move all the notes in the bar over to the right?
- Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:50 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: How do you add naturals before key change?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2686
How do you add naturals before key change?
Following the convention of classical music notation, I want to add three naturals at the END of a bar, indicating the key of A is ending (key is changing from A to Am). This warning is especially useful to the reader when the bar with the double line, indicating the end of a section, appears at the...