Finale: A Musician's Best Friend

by Scott Watson

Finale is the world's leading professional music notation application for composers, arrangers, music educators, their students, music copyists, conventional and self publishers, and amateur musicians to accomplish a host of creative and other music-related tasks. This workbook contains a graduated series of activities and projects that introduce and review the program's most popular and useful features. Topics several modes of note entry (Simple, Speedy, Hyperscribe) and editing; adding various expressive markings; page layout; adding lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar fretboards; setting up lead sheets and small/large scores; scanning in music; more realistic playback; working with percussion instruments; creating worksheets, exercises/drills, music games, etc. for use in music education; exporting music as a graphic image; and importing/exporting MIDI, audio and XML files.

116 pages, Paperback

Published March 23, 2014