Finale Forum

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Thanks. The courtesy change worked nicely!

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 ...

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...

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...

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?

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...