
Have a comment, alternate solution, or question? Share it with us and other fellow Finale users on Facebook or Twitter. Also, if you want to control how the playback of the rhythmic hits, use the Score Manager to assign a different sound to Layer 2. You could reduce steps by entering all the notes on a single pitch above the staff. While that’s admittedly a lot of steps, we “took the scenic route” to illustrate additional options.
Move rests in layer 2: Move rests 15 steps, Click OK.įinally, choose Document > Show Active Layer Only and your layers will both appear - Layer 1 with your original notation, and Layer 2 with your rhythmic hits above the staff. Move rests in layer 1 Move rests -6 steps, Click OK, then repeat and:. Instead, choose Plug-ins > Note, Beam, and Rest Editing > Move Rests: The only remaining issue is that rests are displaced. Utilities > Stem Direction > Up to flip the stems up. In the dialog box that appears, choose All noteheads in the left hand column and Small slash (rhythmic notation) in the right hand column. Utilities > Change > Noteheads to produce rhythmic notation. Plug-ins > Note, Beam, and Rest Editing > Ledger Lines (Hide) to hide the ledger lines between the staff and your newly positioned notes. PrintMusic 2009, Lédition musicale à la portée de tous PrintMusic est un moyen rapide et facile de donner vie à votre musique. Choose a rather high pitch so that these notes are positioned above the staff and won’t collide with any of the musical information in Layer 1. To fix the pitches, select the measures with rhythmic hits, and choose Plug-ins > Note, Beam, and Rest Editing > Single Pitch…. To make sure that the next steps only affect the rhythmic hits, choose Document > Show Active Layer Only. To create this in Finale, enter the performer’s main voice in Layer 1 as you would normally, then switch to Layer 2 by choosing View > Select Layer > Layer 2, and enter the rhythmic hits there. Most typically these are notated as rhythmic notation in the space immediately above the measure. These might illustrate where kick drum hits are, that a vocalist should also be clapping a rhythmic pattern, or otherwise provide additional information to the performer. The help system uses Internet Explorer.In addition to a performer’s main voice, you may wish to notate rhythmic hits from another part. To adjust the text size in Internet Explorer, click Page, then Text Size - choose the desired size. You can remove the highlighting by clicking the button Use the text box above the content window to highlight specific text within the current topic. Select the desired topic from the list - the words used for the search are highlighted. The results are ordered by rank based on a variety of factors (number of occurrences in the topic, in the title, etc). Select the tab and enter search keyword (or multiple keywords) into the text box to search the full text of the PrintMusic manual. Enter your query in the text box to navigate to the desired entry. Select the tab to display an alphabetical list of index entries. The "Tutorials" volume includes the electronic version of the Installation and Tutorials manual. "clefs," "grace notes," "music spacing," etc.) under the "Encyclopedia" volume. Or, browse through a list of musical topics (e.g. From here you can browse through an alphabetical list of PrintMusic-specific topics (dialog boxes, tools, menus etc.) under the "Reference" volume. Select the button to show the Table of Contents. Use the TOC, Index, Search, and Browse Sequences buttons to navigate to the desired topic, or find topics using the Visual Index. The Navigation Pane appears to the left of the content window. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of PrintMusic 2009's documentation resources.
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