Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation, Second Edition

Everything you want to know about music notation with Finale! Master Finale step-by-step with the most complete how-to guide available. Designed for both novice and experienced users, this is your detailed resource to fully understanding and applying all of Finale's remarkable capabilities. Easy-to-follow instructions help you to: create publisher-quality music notation; learn to use the tools of Finale while writing your own music and arrangements; get started immediately with hundreds of professional templates, partially completed notation files, and libraries available on the companion website (www.FINALEBOOK.com); print transposed parts from scores automatically; write standard notation, guitar tablature, drum set parts, and more with this comprehensive hands-on tutorial. Teachers can create warm-up and practice exercises; write their own compositions, arrangements and method books; and simplify parts for students. The companion website, www.FINALEBOOK.COM, offers: * Tutorial Files * Samples of partially completed and finished music notation files for each of the hundreds of hands-on exercises in the book * Libraries of articulations and dynamics * Additional chapters * Professional Templates: Choral, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, Orchestra, Single Line and Grand Staff, Pit and Show, and Sketch and Utilities templates including a Cue Sheet for radio and TV. "This book excels at teaching Finale in an easy-to-understand, sequential manner. Rudolph and Leonard have loads of experience. Beginners and seasoned Finale users will benefit from what these two teach." - Tom Johnson, Finale Product Specialist, MakeMusic!, Inc.

Following-up on the popularity of its earlier Finale how-to guidebook, Berklee Press is releasing the second edition of Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation. This new book provides a comprehensive, step-by-step exploration of all of capabilities and applications of the latest versions of Finale, including its uses in the classroom.

Easy-to-follow instructions will help readers create publisher-quality music notation; learn to use the tools of Finale while writing their own music and arrangements; print transposed parts from scores automatically; and write standard notation, guitar tablature, and drum set parts, among other items.

Teachers can use this book to create warm-up and practice exercises; write their own compositions, arrangements, and method books; and simplify parts for students.

Written by music educator Thomas E. Randolph and producer and composer Vincent A. Leonard, Jr., Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation is compatible with Finale versions for both MacOS and Windows. The book comes complete with a companion Web site containing dozens of downloadable resources to complement readers’ learning experiences.