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Tutorial 1a: Simple Entry

1. yy r air f ers v a a s we You can use additional Simple Entry keyboard shortcuts to add ties grace notes articulations and even clef key and time signature changes See SIMPLE ENTRY in the User Man ual for detailed info Also while using Simple Entry right click Mac eontrol click a note or rest to invoke a context menu which allows you to hide the note change it to a rest and make other changes Or from the Simple Menu choose Simple Edit Commands to see a list of options Each of these commands can also be applied with a keyboard shortcut In addition to using the list of keyboard shortcuts 22 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry under the Simple Menu you can also refer to your Quick Reference Guide As we mentioned earlier s you can adjust the behav ior of Simple Entry by changing items available under the Simple Menu such as Check for Extra Notes Fill with Rests at a aane Eno ere End of Measure and Play sy v Check for Extra Notes on Mouse Entry Create New Measures Fill With Rests at End of Measure Launch Layer Mid Measure Playback Notes on Entry a 4 6 Use MIDI Device for Input back Notes on Entry Keyboard Shortcut Set When Check for Extra i Simple Edit C d Notes is selected this ee ne Simple Navigation Commands gt command is selected by default PrintMusic will TAB Spode C iimands consult the ti
2. bar on the two note chord Remove it by pressing delete Move the insertion bar back to the middle C note again While holding down shift _ press the 6 key on the number row not on the numeric keypad When you press shitt you tell PrintMusic you want to insert a note or rest just before the insertion bar You pressed the 6 key to add a half rest 6 is the keyboard equivalent of the half note value If you had held down a key on your MIDI keyboard while you pressed shift _ 6 you would have inserted a note instead of a rest Again to insert a note or rest you must use the number keys located on the number row or above the QWERTY keyboard not on the numeric keypad Your example should now look like this F are five beats in the mea The problem is that there e i sure the half rest and three quarter notes even though you might not see the third note With PrintMusic s rhythmic watchdog feature Jump to Next Measure turned off PrintMusic won t notify you until you exit the editing frame Press the 0 zero key to exit the editing frame PrintMusic displays a dialog box that tells you that there are too many beats in the measure Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry There Are Too Many Beats In This Measure x Do you want to Leave the measure alone Delete the extra notes Move the extra notes to the next measure C Keep moving the extra notes until all me
3. 3 C You have just placed this measure on the clipboard and can now past it anywhere you wish e Click measure 11 and Windows users press cti __ V Mac users G 3 V The music appears in measure 11 This method is particularly useful for copying music to measures on a different page Now say instead of just one copy off the source material we want to mast multiple copies 18 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry Click the Edit Menu and choose Undo Mass Paste The music in measure 11 disappears The music in measure 10 is still in the clipboard and measure 11 is still high lighted Windows users Paste Multiple preass at__ i ctrl _ V Mac Paste Horizontally 2 Times users G 36 controi C To the end of the score V The Paste Multi Paste Vertically 1 Times ple dialog box appears Enter 2 in the Cancel Help Paste Horizon tally text box and click the OK button Instead of click ing OK you could press the key in PrintMusic pressing is the same as clicking the OK button Finale pastes the music to both measures 11 and 12 To the bottom of the score Click the Simple Entry Tool Now that we ve got the right rhythms let s repitch measures 11 and 12 accord ingly Click the Repitch Tool in the Simple Entry Palette The Repitch Tool allows you to quickly change pitches of existing notes Click the first note in measure 11 The middle space B i
4. WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE This tutorial has covered a lot of ground if you ve made it to the end congratulations PrintMusic offers a lot of power and you can harness it Choose Save from the File Menu if you haven t already done so If you think you ve done enough for one session choose Exit Mac Quit from the File Menu and you ll return to the desk top If you want to go on close this document and turn to the next tutorial FOR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just covered See for example CHORD SYMBOLS LYRICS 83 Tutorial 2 Adding Details 84 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions Now that you know the basics of entering music quickly and edit ing it efficiently it s time to learn how to add the markings that make music such a rich language articulations dynamics slurs and more Open the document called Tutorial 3 in the Tutorials folder We ll use this arrangement of Oh Susannah to explore PrintMusic s fluency in the language of music By the end of this tutorial you should be able to create a score with all the necessary markings BASIC ARTICULATIONS AND EXPRESSIONS We ll start with an introduction to articulations staccatos accents fermatas and expressions Moderato mf solo e Click the Articulation Tool You must be in the same layer as Using this tool you your notes to a
5. Oh Susannah has two verses If you don t work with lyrics much feel free to skip this section If you plan to be working with vocal music though this section will show you how to add multiple verses e Click the first note of the piece The first syllable Oh should be highlighted e Press the down arrow A cursor appears below the first sylla ble You are now ready to type in verse 2 You can continue to add up to six verses this way You can use the up and down arrow keys to move between verses THE REPEAT TOOL To be truly complete your lead sheet needs a first and second ending requiring the use of the Repeat Tool In PrintMusic a repeat barline is simply a signpost that directs the flow of music playback back to another measure A repeat barline doesn t necessarily direct music backward it could make the music jump to a later measure as it does if you re 74 Tutorial 2 Adding Details using a coda sign You can build nested repeats multiple end ings even purely graphic repeat barlines that have no playback functions at all In your Oh Susannah lead sheet you ll actually need several repeat barlines one at the beginning of the score plus a first and second ending To make these endings work properly you need to amend the beginnings and endings of the music itself adjusting the lyrics and inserting the first ending measure so that the lead sheet looks like this B
6. Home Position shifts the view to the upper left corner of the page yow re working on In Scroll View it returns you to measure 1 e Click the Text Tool A The Text Menu appears and the title Auld Lang Syne sprouts a small square handle e Double click the title s handle An editing frame appears around the text and a blinking cursor appears within the frame Auld Lang Syne is enclosed in a gray box which indicates this is a Text Insert In other words this text is defined elsewhere so it can be replicated easily This would be the case if this score were created with the Setup Wizard e From the File Menu choose File Info If you wanted to change the Title Text or the Composer or Copyright you would do it here e Enter Times Gone By in the Subtitle text box e Click OK The File Info dialog box disappears and the blinking cursor is still to the left of our title e Press the right arrow key t The cursor moves to the right of the title text insert e Press Return The cursor moves to the next line Now set the font size From the Text Menu choose Size and then choose the desired font size For a subtitle a 10 or 12 point size should work well You can also set the typeface by selecting the text and choosing a typeface from the Font dialog box or submenu of the Text Menu From the Text Menu choose Inserts then Subtitle Times Gone By appears beneath the title If you want to change
7. What if you want to select half a measure or only one note e Click the Selection Tool X You don t need to change any set tings to select partial measures just learn a couple tech niques In the musical example you have on the screen for example suppose you decide that a certain passage in the Violin I part would sound better if it were up a third Scroll to measure 6 Click and hold in measure 6 just above and before the third beat Drag down and to the right until you ve selected the first two eighth notes in measure 7 When you release the mouse button the region is highlighted 6 3 3 e Hold down shift_ and press once Notice the selection expands one note to the right e Hold down shift_ and press lt J once The selection con tracts to its original size When you first select a region hold down shift_ and press lt if you want to adjust the begin 114 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores ning of the region instead of the end Hold down shift_ and Windows users ctrl _ Mac users tion to expand and con tract by full measures From the Utilities Menu choose Transpose The Transposi tion dialog box appears Choose the radio but i Use the following key commands to tons for Up and Diatoni quickly transpose a selected region cally From the Interval ca_ G34 6 Down M2 drop down list choose Third Click OK You eG 7 Up M2 return to the sc
8. From the File Menu choose New then select Document from Template In the Templates folder double click on General Templates then scroll down and select Lead Sheet Click Open The last two pages of the Setup Wizard appear We don t need to make any changes here for now Click Next and then Finish PrintMusic will open a new Unti tled file with one staff and thirty one empty measures SPEEDY ENTRY 36 Click the Speedy Entry Tool 5 If you re not using a Another menu appears the MIDI keyboard make Speedy Menu whose commands sure Use MIDI Device govern the behavior of this tool for Input is unchecked in Just to check hold the mouse but the Speedy Menu ton down on the word Speedy so that the menu drops down and make sure that there s a check mark beside Use MIDI Device for Input If you re ever stranded without a MIDI keyboard there are two ways in which you can enter music with the Speedy Entry Tool when the Use MIDI Keyboard for Input option is turned off See the User Manual under SPEEDY ENTRY for details Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry If Auto Launch is turned on the measure sprouts a rectangu lar frame If not click on the first measure In the frame you ll see a thin vertical cursor at the left side of it called the insertion bar There s also a short horizontal cursor called the pitch crossbar which indicates pitch Pitch Crossbar Editing Frame Use the up
9. MIDI hardware and software After the search your MIDI interface will appear 808 Audio MIDI Setup _Audio Devices MIDI Devices Default B aj a me w View Icon Size Configuration Add Device Show Info Rescan MIDI Test Setup Network ruz A cass wla va In the button bar click Add Device to add a new device icon to the window below If necessary drag the new icon so it isn t overlapping any others Double click the new device icon The New External Device Properties dialog box appears Enter a device name then select or enter the manufacturer and model If more options are required click the More Prop erties arrow Click Apply and close the dialog box Repeat the last four steps for any other devices Now we ll connect new devices to the interface xxi Installation for Macintosh If you are using a controller for MIDI input drag the outgoing arrow of the MIDI controller to the incoming arrow on the MIDI interface If you are using a sound module for playback drag the incom ing arrow of the sound module to the outgoing arrow on the MIDI interface If you are using a device such as a MIDI keyboard for both input and playback connect the outgoing arrow on the MIDI device to the incoming arrow on the MIDI interface and then connect the incoming arrow of the MIDI device to the outgo ing arrow of the MIDI interface Now to ensure your devices are installed properly on your computer we ll
10. click on the edge of the toolbar and drag it out into the center of the screen until you see a dotted line representation of a smaller palette Release the mouse button The palette can then be moved to any position on the screen To restore a palette to toolbar status double click For now leave the toolbars in their original posi tions The right side of the screen has a vertical scroll bar which you ll use to move the music yow re viewing up or down and across the bottom of the screen is a horizontal scroll bar which you ll use to move left or right through your piece You ll also see the Page counter this number identifies the current page on the screen To jump to any page in the score highlight the current page number then type a new number into the box and press enter This piece has only one page At the bottom of the window you ll see the Status Bar On Macintosh you ll find the Message Bar at the top of the window e Click the mouse pointer across the tools on the Main Tool Palette As the pointer touches Win or selects Mac each tool the Status or Message Bar identifies it by name and gives you the first instruction for how to use it E HEEBRaaEHASaADawe a i AaB Tutorial 1a Simple Entry If you look at your score you may notice that PrintMusic automatically fills any empty measures with a whole rest hereafter called a default whole rest That s just to save you time You ll a
11. countoff measures play this excerpt from Bach s Minuet in G Major Piano e When you re finished click the mouse Scroll back to the first measure If all went well you should have a fairly clean correctly beamed transcription 66 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe e Play back your performance click Play gt on the Play back Controls PrintMusic plays back your transcrip tion complete with your dynamics and rhythmic feel FOR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just covered See for example BEAMING PLAYBACK TIME SIGNATURES QUANTIZATION CLEFS HYPERSCRIBE TOOL MICNOTATOR 67 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe 68 Tutorial 2 Adding Details There s a lot more to music than just notes In this tutorial we ll cover how to add details key and time signatures lyrics repeats chords and more Open the Document called Tutorial 2 in the Tutorials folder We ll use this version of Oh Susan nah to explore PrintMusic s prowess in creating a lead sheet By the end of this tutorial you should be able to create a simple lead sheet CHANGING THE KEY If you use the Setup Wizard you should start off with the correct key signature for your piece every time But let s say you change your mind after entering in the music We ll change the key for our folk song Oh Susannah e Click the Key Signature Tool e Double click
12. C on the first beat of measure 10 and click Do the same for the second half note in measure 10 You can see that the stems are properly flipped Note you could also enter these notes with the Simple Entry Caret with the same results Press ait__ shift_ 1 Mac 6 extion 1 to return to Layer 1 The editing frame now displays Layer 1 and Layer 2 is dimmed at__ shift_ 1 4 Mac G3 oxtion 1 4 is a keyboard shortcut used to change the active layer while entering While using the Simple Entry Caret when you switch layers PrintMusic creates placeholder rests for you automatically so you can continue entering in a new layer at any point in the measure There is a special case you should be aware of when working with layers There are times often found in keyboard music when the second voice doesn t begin until the middle of a mea sure below right The solution is to fill up the beginning part of the measure with rests below left f r To create the appearance of a Layer 2 voice that begins in mid measure right first create placeholder rests left Use the letter h key to hide the rests Tutorial 2 Adding Details In Simple Entry c r __ eption click each rest and press the let ter h key The rest dims to indicate it is hidden and will not print now it s merely a placeholder to align the notes of the second voice Press the h key again to make the entry reap pear
13. LEGAL RIGHTS AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE 139 License Agreement 140 License Agreement 141 License Agreement 142 Index Numerics 8va markings 88 A Accents 85 Accidentals Simple Entry 23 Speedy Entry 42 Anacrusis 97 Arrow Keys 92 Articulation Tool 85 Articulations 85 Adding a single articulation Adding in Simple Entry 17 Adding multiple 91 Deleting a single articulation 87 Automatic Music Spacing 97 B Beaming 64 Joining or breaking beams 53 Beat Charts 99 Brackets 88 C Check for Extra Notes 23 Chord Menu 77 Manual Input 77 MIDI Input 77 Position Fretboards 81 Show Fretboards 81 Type Into Score 77 Chord Symbols 77 Chord Tool 77 Chords 26 42 Clefs 112 Changing the Clef in Simple Entry 29 Coda 75 Composer credits 104 Copying Music 50 Copying music 18 Copyright 4 104 Create new Measures 23 Crescendos 88 Cue staff 103 D Dates 104 Default Document 60 Deleting Measures 51 Document Setup Wizard 1 E Edit Menu Automatic Music Spacing 97 Measurement Units 99 Select Partial Measure 114 Undo 41 Update Layout 97 99 Edit Staff Attributes 112 Editing the Maestro Font De fault file 129 EDUs 63 65 Eraser 14 Erasing Music 52 143 Index Erasing music 18 Expressions 85 F Fermatas 85 File Menu Close 5 Exit 32 New Default Document 60 Document from Template 36 Document with Setup Wiz ard 2 Open x 5 77 Quit
14. PrintMusic 2008 CD DVD case If you are upgrading from an earlier version of PrintMusic your serial number has not changed and can be found in the vi Before You Begin About box of your previous Finale version under the Help or PrintMusic 2008 menu If you have a question about Remember that extensive help is PrintMusic and can t find the always at your fingertips from the answer in this book the USER Help Menu choose User Manual MANUAL or the QUICKSTART VIDEOS additional help is available Authorized owners may contact MakeMusic for customer support at www finalemu sic com support MakeMusic can also be reached by fax at 952 937 9760 or by mail at 7615 Golden Triangle Drive Suite M Eden Prairie MN 55344 3848 In addition to receiving customer support benefits authorization means you can also be notified of free maintenance updates and discounts on future upgrades and new products Please visit www finalemusic com to download maintenance updates learn about other Finale resources and find more infor mation about the Finale family of notation products Here you can also search our Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions and participate in Finale s online community through interactive forums vii Before You Begin viii Installation for Windows INSTALLING PRINTMUSIC Macintosh users skip to the next section INSTALLATION FOR MACINTOSH Installing PrintMusic onto your hard
15. XX P Page counter 8 Page Layout Menu Space Systems Evenly 102 Page Layout Tool 99 Page Numbers 104 106 107 Partial Measures 114 Pickup Measures 97 Playback 54 67 81 Scrubbing 55 Playback Controls 54 Playback During Drag 41 Printing 107 Q Quantization Settings 65 QuickStart Video Tips XXV11 R Read Me file vi Record Mode 62 66 Repeat Barlines 74 145 Index Repeat Tool 74 Resize Page 103 Staff 103 Resize Tool 102 S Saving 31 Scale View 61 Scanning Music 131 Scroll View 111 Scrubbing Playback 55 Second Ending Repeats 74 Second Verse 74 Selecting music Shift click 50 Selection Tool 91 98 114 Serial Number vi Setup Wizard 1 119 Simple Entry 9 Accidentals 23 Changing the Key Signa tures Time Signature and Clef 29 Chords 26 Eraser 14 Simple Entry Palette 9 Simple Entry Rests Palette 9 Simple Menu Check for Extra Notes 23 Create New Measures 23 Fill with Rests 23 Playback 23 Slurs 88 Smart Shape Tool 88 146 SmartScore Lite 131 Space Systems Evenly 102 Speedy Entry 36 Accidentals 42 Chords 42 Editing 40 Tuplets 44 Speedy Entry Keypad Com mands Macintosh 38 Windows 38 Speedy Menu Jump to Next Measure 39 Playback During Drag 41 Use MIDI Keyboard 36 Split into Two Staves 66 Staccatos 85 Staff Menu Edit Staff Attributes 112 New Staves 111 New Staves with Wizard 116 Staff Names 112 Staff Tool 111 116 Starting and Authorizing Finale Windows Xiii Starting Finale Macint
16. You should now see the Lowest Fret dialog box We ll talk more about this dialog box soon e Click OK The first four measures of music will now translate into tablature notation You should now have tab of the mel ody line like the example below 120 Tutorial 6 Guitar Notation In this case the fret numbers represent the pitch as played on the lowest possible fret in standard guitar tuning Now let s say you want the tab positioned farther up the neck Here s how to specify the lowest fret for any music cop ied from a regular notation staff into a tab staff The Selection Tool should still be selected Click measure 5 so it is highlighted Hold down the Shift stt_ key and click measure 8 Now measures five through eight should be highlighted Drag the highlighted region down to the tab staff You should now see the Lowest Fret dialog box For Specify Lowest Fret enter 5 We ll say you want to place all the numbers on the 5th fret or above Click OK The tab staff will now have all notes fingered no lower than the 5th fret This ability to copy music from standard notation into tab and specify a lowest fret can be applied to smaller areas of the score by selecting part of the measure To do this click the Edit Menu and enable Select Partial Measures In addition to translating standard notation directly to tabla ture you can also copy tablature directly into a standard notation staff We will use t
17. at measure 17 Scroll down so measure 17 is visible Windows users Right click Macintosh users controj click mea sure 17 For a first ending longer than one measure you would select the measure region and then context click Choose Create First and Second Ending PrintMusic places a first ending over the highlighted measure and also places a second ending over the following measure That s it This repeat is already defined to play as shown upon reaching the backward repeat bar playback will jump back to measure 2 and then the second time through skip over measure 17 to the second ending To remove a repeat barline or bracket click the Repeat Tool then click the measure Click the square handle at the bottom of the barline and press delete Don t be concerned if your lead sheet ends with a single measure stretched over an entire staff system Such layout issues will be discussed in Tutorial 4 Finally please note that PrintMusic also offers a number of text repeats such as D S al Coda These text repeats are purely graphic so they do not affect the playback of your score Tutorial 2 Adding Details CHORD SYMBOLS OPTIONAL SECTION No true lead sheet would be complete 79 enter chord symbols without chord symbols With a little without a MIDI help from your MIDI keyboard the process of adding chords can be Ciod bool Cen Eoo extremely quick You can also apply Type into Score from the similar techniques with the T
18. caret soon For now move the mouse cursor above and below the staff Notice PrintMusic draws temporary ledger lines to help you place new notes The cursor also changes to show you where you are and what will happen if you click the mouse Currently a ghostly quarter note should be floating above your music waiting for your click to place it into the score Position the mouse cursor over the D just below the staff and click Finale places an eighth note where you clicked Click just to the right of the existing note to enter the second eighth note Finale beams the eighth notes together and spaces out the pickup measure accordingly The next note is a quarter note so we ll need to change the duration Click the Quarter Note Tool in the Simple Entry Palette The cursor changes to a quarter note Position the cursor over the second line G in the top staff of measure 1 and click A quarter note appears on the second line G You could click the Simple Entry Pal ette to choose each new duration as you enter but it s much faster to use the numeric keypad Each key in the numeric keypad corresponds to a different note dura tion 3 for a sixteenth note 4 for an eighth note 5 fora quarter note and so on 13 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry 14 Press 4 in the numeric keypad This is the same as click ing the Eighth Note Tool You are now ready to continue Position your cursor on the second beat of measure one and cli
19. column The Flute instrument appears in the selection window Click on the Finish button The Wizard adds a Flute staff above our selected staff in this case the Violin I staff TRANSPOSING INSTRUMENTS But what if we made a mistake What if we really wanted to add a clarinet You could delete the flute staff and add a clarinet from the Wizard but let s say you ve already added music and you don t want to lose it We ve already seen how to change the staff name earlier in this Tutorial so we ll just cover how to change the staff from a C instrument to a transposing instrument Click the Staff Tool Double click on the Flute staff to the right of the clef and sig natures The Staff Attributes dialog box for the Flute staff appears Using the techniques you learned earlier change the Staff Names to Clarinet and Cl but don t exit the Staff Attributes dialog box Next to Transposition click the down arrow and select the Clarinet transposition Up M2 Add 2 sharps Click OK Your staff should now look like a clarinet staff complete with transposition All of the other non transposing staves have two flats in the key signature while the top staff has no flats in a Bp transposition 116 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE Close your string quartet document saving it if you want In the next tutorial we ll cover some techniques for Guitar nota tion and tablature I
20. disk is easy Before you begin installing PrintMusic make sure there s enough room on your hard disk to hold the program and its associated files For a full installation you ll need about one hundred megabytes 100 000K of free space on your hard disk You should also bear in mind that like many other software programs PrintMusic cre ates and makes use of temporary files during its normal opera tions which it then deletes from your hard disk when you exit the program We recommend having an additional ten megabytes 10 000K of free disk space for these files Because some virus detection programs can prevent certain files from installing properly we recommend you temporarily dis able anti virus programs Rest assured your PrintMusic CD does not contain any viruses If you are installing on Windows XP Professional or Vista make sure you are logged in as the System Administrator and reboot after installation The Installer sets up a folder called PrintMusic 2008 for the PrintMusic program and its associated files and folders Do not alter this setup e Insert the Install disc into your CD DVD drive e Ifthe Setup Program doesn t start click the Start Menu and choose Run e Type d setup where D represents the CD DVD drive on your machine and click OK The PrintMusic Setup pro gram starts the installation process ix Installation for Windows e Follow the instructions on the screen until the i
21. down arrow keys to move the pitch crossbar and the left right arrow keys to move the insertion bar Play middle C on your MIDI key board While holding down the key press the 5 key on your com puter keyboard If your MIDI sys tem is hooked up correctly a middle C quarter note appears If your MIDI keyboard is not sending correctly to the computer you ll see a quarter rest in which case see SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM in the INSTALLATION CHAPTERS earlier in this book To remove the rest click it and press delete To use Speedy Entry without a MIDI keyboard use the arrow keys to place the insertion bar on the pitch then press the duration number key Why did you press 5 The number keys both on the numeric keypad and on the top row of the alphabet keyboard QWERTY keyboard have special meanings to PrintMusic Be sure to press the Num Lock key if you re using the numeric keypad In PrintMusic 5 means a quarter note Take a look at these diagrams 37 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry Windows Speedy Entry Keypad Commands With Ctrl With Caps Lock 128th note Hands free MIDI input 1 2 3 4 5 6 i 8 9 0 Flip Exit o loll enharmonic Reenter measure U With Ctrl L With Ctrl With Ctrl D
22. e To customize the smallest note value for a HyperScribe ses sion first configure your Quantization Settings From the MIDI menu choose Quantization Settings For more informa tion see QUANTIZATION in the User Manual 127 Tutorial 6 Guitar Notation FOR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just covered See for example COPYING MUSIC SMART SHAPE TOOL HYPERSCRIBE SIMPLE ENTRY 128 Making the Most of PrintMusic If you ve followed the step by step procedures to this point you ve seen most of PrintMusic s tools at work You re not expected to remember all this material of course you can always re read the in depth discussions presented in this volume and consult the User Manual and QuickStart Video Tips at any time under the Help Menu But knowing which tools are at your disposal is only half the learning process Now you need to learn how to maximize the program s speed and power to produce the most music with the fewest false steps and in the shortest time EDITING THE MAESTRO FONT DEFAULT If there are items that you want to appear on every new docu ment such as a copyright at the bottom of the page you can edit the Maestro Font Default file and save it Then each time you start a new default document or begin a new document from the Setup Wizard this item will appear in the score As mentioned earlier you can also edit any document option and appl
23. entering lyrics and want to confirm your place in the music Mac users when the Playback Controls are visible simply pressing the spacebar will start playback You can play any PrintMusic document using either this Space bar click method or the Playback Controls More playback features will be discussed in chapter 6 PLAY BACK 55 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry SETTING THE INITIAL TEMPO PrintMusic offers a number of ways to set the tempo for a piece For example in Tutorial 6 you ll learn how to make tempo mark ings such as Allegro Presto and ritard actually control the play back tempo For now though we ll set the tempo the quick way e Once again from the Window Menu choose Playback Con trols The Playback Controls reappear e Double click the Tempo text box and type 200 You can also click the small up and down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number in the Tempo text box If you want the tempo to be measured in half notes per minute or any other rhythmic unit choose the value you want from the Tempo drop down list e Click the Play button PrintMusic plays your song back at a more sprightly tempo e When you re through listening click on the File Menu and choose Save It s always a good idea to save your work at the end of a session If you wish open the file Tutorial 1b and compare your results to our version WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE If you ve had enough for one sess
24. every single note Fortu nately no You can select a region of notes and tell PrintMusic to apply the same symbol to every one e With the Articulation Tool selected drag across the remain ing note stems of measure 2 A bold black box will show you which notes you ve drag selected When you release the mouse button the Articulation Selection dialog box appears 91 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions Double click the staccato mark You return to the score the remaining notes now have staccato marks e Drag a box over the first two articu Use eonral Z Mac lation handles You can now drag or amp 3 Z as a shortcut nudge both of these articulations for Undo simultaneously e Hold down the key and click or drag over additional articula tions This way you can pick and choose the articulations you want to position or edit THE NUDGE KEYS ARROW KEYS e Click the Expression Tool e Click the mf mark s handle and press the left arrow key The mf marking moves just a pixel screen dot to the left You may have to look very closely to see it move at all You can continue to reposition any marking whose handle is selected by pressing the up down left and right arrows MARKINGS THAT PLAY BACK Now that you ve put a few staccatos and dynamics in your score try this While pressing the Space bar click the first measure the shortcut for a quick playback You ll notice that you
25. holding down Alt Option and pressing 5 Then enter the two As When you are done the last note of measure 10 should be selected Now let s explore some other Simple Entry functions say we want to enter an eighth rest Press 0 zero PrintMusic adds an eighth rest The 0 key adds a rest of the dura tion currently chosen in the Simple Palette You can also press the R key to change a selected note to a rest Press Delete The rest disappears and the previous note is selected Now let s add an articulation to this note 17 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry e Press the key in the numeric keypad The Articulation Selec tion dialog box appears 10 ii e Choose the accent marking gt and click Select An accent appears on the note e Hold down ct Mac amp You ll learn more about and type Z to undo The articu how to enter lation disappears articulations and edit Now notice the 10th measure of them in chapter 3 Simple Gifts has the same rhythm as the 11th and 12th measure This is a good opportunity to demonstrate how copying music and repitching a melody can save time For the following we ll use the Selection Tool again Note that you can also use any tool that permits regional selection for copying moving and erasing music e Click the Selection Tool e Click measure 10 of the top staff The measure is now highlighted e Windows users press ci __ C Mac users
26. key four times 41 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry WORKING WITH CHORDS e Position the insertion bar on the F and use the up down arrows to move the crossbar to the third space C e Press ene There are now two notes in the chord Using the four directional arrows you can maneuver anywhere in a measure and using the key you can add a note to an existing note or chord If the insertion bar is on a rest turns the rest into a note V1 oe i oe e Try moving the crossbar up and down the notes of this chord If you hold down the up arrow key long enough PrintMusic will add so many ledger lines that the measure you re working on scrolls downward or upward if you re pressing the down arrow key e Double click the second space A of the same chord Double clicking is another way to add a note to a chord e Use the up arrow key to position the crossbar squarely on the top notehead F of the chord Press faisa Mac cear The Cea key is the opposite of enter it removes a note from a chord If there s only one note in the chord this keystroke turns it into a rest ACCIDENTALS e Position the crossbar on the C of this chord Press the plus key on the numeric keypad The note sprouts a sharp The plus key raises the note by a half step 42 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry Position the crossbar on the A and press the minus key You guessed it the minus key lowers t
27. keyboard although you can use any MIDI instrument In this manual MIDI keyboard refers to whatever type of MIDI device you are using At the very least you ll need the following equipment for an operational MIDI system not including your computer A MIDI keyboard Amplifier speaker or headphones Two MIDI cables A MIDI interface with appropriate USB cable The last item a MIDI interface is a box that translates the signals arriving from the MIDI keyboard into signals the computer understands and vice versa Interfaces can be very simple or very elaborate The most basic ones require no external power and have ports jacks for a single MIDI keyboard more expensive models have ports for multiple MIDI devices or other features Most Macs have USB Universal Serial Bus ports a standard that allows users to connect devices to their computers without needing to restart for the devices to become active e Place the computer keyboard and MIDI interface where you want them Go ahead and plug in any power cords but don t turn anything on yet e Plug one end of the MIDI interface cable into the interface if applicable Plug the other end into the USB or serial port on the back of your Macintosh e Plug one end of a MIDI cable into the MIDI keyboard port marked MIDI In Plug the other end into the MIDI interface port marked MIDI Out Plug the second MIDI cable into the interface xix Installation for Macintosh port mar
28. may seem contrary to common sense plug the In to the Out and vice versa Your connections should resemble those in this figure Computer AMPLIFIER j SPEAKER a 0000000 EEA AAAI KEYBOARD To Game Joystick port Soundcard on Soundear PANA Turn on all your equipment Installation for Windows If you discover that PrintMusic isn t responding to your MIDI keyboard check these connections again and consult the manual that came with your sound card STARTING AND AUTHORIZING PRINTMUSIC e Windows Vista Users right click the PrintMusic icon and choose Run as Administrator Windows XP users double click on the PrintMusic icon It will be on your desktop When you launch PrintMusic for the first time you will see the Authorize PrintMusic dialog box This dialog box contin ues to appear each time you launch PrintMusic until the product is authorized e Click Authorize Now to start the PrintMusic Authoriza tion Wizard Follow the simple instructions to authorize your copy of PrintMusic Or click Remind Me Later to authorize at a later time You have 30 days to authorize your copy of PrintMusic After 30 days printing and sav ing are disabled until your copy of PrintMusic is autho rized If you have Internet access and are not running firewall security or virus software that would block information from being received back at your computer simply select this option and the res
29. retain the velocity rhyth mic feel and controller information from the original sequence See MIDI FILEs in the User Manual for more details 133 Making the Most of PrintMusic Note too that PrintMusic can read files created in other music notation programs from MakeMusic including SongWriter Finale Allegro Finale Guitar and NotePad Files created in ear lier versions of any of MakeMusic s notation programs can be opened in PrintMusic directly even in the opposite platform For example files created in PrintMusic 2006 for Windows can be opened in PrintMusic for Macintosh IMPORTANT None of MakeMusic s older products can read PrintMusic files directly To share your files with others who do not own the most recent version of PrintMusic have them download Finale NotePad 2008 which is available for free at www finalemusic com and will open any file saved from PrintMusic THE NEXT PRINTMUSIC Your response to PrintMusic is extremely important to us the version of PrintMusic you re now using reflects the comments and suggestions of thousands of users Please send us your ideas and wish lists as you get to know the program We ll read and consider everything we receive PrintMusic will continue to become better faster and easier to use In the meantime you have at your disposal a musical tool of tre mendous power and flexibility You ve seen some of what Print Music can do and you ll discover other useful f
30. start with the Simple Entry tutorial to get a good introduction to navigating around PrintMusic Simple Entry is PrintMusic s most basic entry method and also one of its most powerful If you want you can simply click notes onto the staff with a mouse Or for more speed quickly type them in with your computer or play them in with a MIDI keyboard As you enter you can even enter articulations expressions and other items on the fly By the end of this tutorial you will be able to enter your nota tion into PrintMusic using the powerful options offered by Simple Entry CREATING A NEW DOCUMENT WITH THE DOCUMENT SETUP WIZARD You are probably familiar with Wizards from other appli cations such as word processors and spreadsheets This Wizard is designed to help you set up a new PrintMusic document Let s create a simple piano score If you haven t already started PrintMusic do so now When the Launch Window appears click the Setup Wizard but ton If PrintMusic is already started click on the File Menu Tutorial 1a Simple Entry and choose New then Document with Setup Wizard The Select and Ensemble and Document Style page appears Document Setup Wizard Select an Ensemble and Document Style Select an Ensemble Select a Document Style Create New En le Engraved Style yanig Handwritten Styl SATB Piano ches aE inl ved Choose Engraved Style for pean Choral Handwritten PrintMusic s standard settings Woodwind Q
31. system to select the measure The system is highlighted Press the up arrow Finale moves this measure to the previous system on the first page Similarly you can click the last measure of a system and press the down arrow to move it to the next sys tem Try it now Press to remove selection and then click measure 7 Press the down arrow to move it to the next system and then press the up arrow to move it back With any of the Fit Measures commands the layout depends on your good judgment Remember PrintMusic automatically lays out your music with as many measures as it can fit ona line you re free to override its placement decisions but the result may be measures that are too wide or too crowded By locking a specific number of measures on a system you ve created measure groups PrintMusic s system of locking mea sures within a system hence the non printing lock icon amp Be aware that once a measure has been manipulated in this way the measures are locked into this arrangement and they won t be affected by future measure rearranging commands like Update Layout or Begin a New Staff System You can Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing remove locked measure groups from the piece by choosing Update Layout from the Edit Menu while pressing shift_ PICKUP MEASURES Let s turn the first measure of Auld Lang Syne into a proper pickup measure There are several ways to do this but we ll show you the easi
32. the first measure within the staff lines to the right of the time signature The measure highlights and a dia log box appears PrintMusic displays a dialog box when it s requesting some information from you In this particular dia log box you use the scroll bar to select a new key Click the up arrow to add sharps to the key signature or subtract flats Click the down arrow to add flats or subtract sharps 69 Tutorial 2 Adding Details 70 Key Signature Major Key v Cancel CON OO BFlat Major Help Measure Region C Measure Through C Measure Through End of Piece Measure 1 To Next Key Change Transposition Options Transpose Notes Up C Hold Notes to Original Pitches C Hold Notes to Same Staff Lines Modally Click the up arrow on the scroll bar twice so that no sharps or flats appears Now look at the bottom of the dialog box PrintMusic lets you specify whether or not you want to trans pose the notes when you change the key signature Leave the settings as they are you re transposing the song up a whole step to C Now specify what region of measures you want to be affected by the new key Click the radio button for Measure 1 Through End of Piece Click OK or press erter The dialog box goes away and your piece is instantly transposed to the key of C Tutorial 2 Adding Details CHANGING THE TIME SIGNATURE If you use the Setup Wizard you should start off with the correct t
33. the typeface highlight the new text and choose a new typeface from the Font submenu of the Text Menu The title is in Arial 18 point bold If you want to change the size or style e g bold of the text you can make your selection from the appropriate submenu of the 105 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing Text Menu Now change the justification so the subtitle is cen tered beneath the title From the Text Menu choose Justification and then Center The commands in this submenu allow you to specify how you want your text aligned in the text box e Select Center Horizontally PrintMusic has centered your subtitle on the page You can also manually adjust the position of any text block by dragging its handle Auld Lang Syne Times Gone By If the text block shows an editing frame click anywhere on the page to see its handle You might want to adjust the verti cal position of your subtitle To delete a text block click its handle and press delete In addition to entering titles and special instructions to players the Text Tool can also be used to place page numbers into your score as well as the document name current date and cur rent time important features if you plan to update and reprint your score at some future time PrintMusic provides several useful keyboard shortcuts for many of these features let s explore some of them here Note that page numbers are already assigned starti
34. to these terms as you go through the tutorials But keep in mind that if you encounter an unfamiliar term while using the program you can learn about it XXVili How to Learn PrintMusic in the User Manual just look up the dialog box or menu in which it appears SIMPLIFIED ORDER OF ENTRY In general you can make the most of your time by creating your documents in the following order You may wish to refer to this list after performing the tutorials l PU OOD eS 10 See the Order of Entry in the Making the Most of PrintMusic chapter for more detailed steps after you ve learned some important PrintMusic concepts Specify the title num ber of instruments and beginning time and key signature See the Setup Wizard in Tutorial la Enter the notes Listen to your piece to check for mistakes Edit the music Put in the lyrics Add repeats and chord symbols Put in all markings dynamics nf articulations and slurs Verify that the music is spaced correctly Look the piece over Resize the page to fit more music on the page if desired Fix bad page turns or system breaks XX X How to Learn PrintMusic Tutorial 1a Simple Entry In this tutorial we ll show you the easiest ways to start a new document and get notes on the page There are three basic note entry methods so we ve divided this tutorial into three parts Simple Entry Speedy Entry and HyperScribe We recommend you
35. under SPEEDY ENTRY TO ENTER MANY NOTES OF THE SAME VALUE Music only gets entered when you press a rhythmic value key so feel free to play your MIDI keyboard as much as you like without fear that you ll inadvertently throw notes onto the screen Chords are a breeze too just hold down MIDI keyboard keys for the notes in the chord before you press the rhythmic value key You can drag any note of a chord up or down to change its pitch just as you did with a single note earlier in the tutorial If you double click and on the second click hold the button down you can drag an entire chord up and down the staff instead of drag ging one note at a time And don t forget that you can also drag any note or chord horizontally If you want to drag a note only vertically or only horizontally press shift_ while you drag your cursor will be constrained to perfectly vertical or horizon tal movements Take another look at the Speedy Entry Keyboard Commands dia grams that appear earlier in this tutorial and you ll learn about some other features of Speedy Entry For example if you position the insertion bar on the second of two notes that are beamed together pressing the slash key will break the beam pressing it again will rejoin the beam There s also a key that turns any note into a grace note and back again the semicolon Pressing the t key lower case letter t ties a note to the next note ctr __ eq
36. use Resize Staff 103 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing e Type 75 Click OK Resize Page Resize Pageto pimi Page Range C Page Through Page f1 Through End of Piece Cancel Help NOTE If you use the Resize Tool on a system or a page as yowve just done you change the measure widths When ever you perform any operation in PrintMusic that changes the measure widths you must tell PrintMusic to compensate by rearranging the layout of measures As noted previously PrintMusic performs an Automatic Update Layout for you if you have decided to turn this feature off you ll need to do it manually now THE TEXT TOOL The Text Tool is used to enter text onto a single page or multiple pages Titles subtitles composer credits page numbers copyright notices and dates are good examples For best results don t use the Text Tool for musical text like Ada gio and rehearsal letters Use the Expression Tool for these pur poses see Tutorial 3 If you create a document using the Document Setup Wizard you will be prompted for a title For this tutorial document we have provided you with a dummy title Title The word Title has 104 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing brackets around it to tell you it s special a text insert We ll talk more about text inserts later in this tutorial Now you ll add a subtitle to Auld Lang Syne Press the Home key on your computer keyboard In Page View
37. you If you decide you don t like what the Wiz ard chose you can always edit them using the techniques below We ll edit the new staves to match the appropriate clefs and names for a string quartet e Click the top staff When you click anywhere on the staff to the right of the time signature you select the staff You can also use the Staff Tool to select measures such as for applying Alternate Notation e From the Staff Menu select Edit Staff Attributes Staff Attributes For Staff 1 Staff Attributes The Staff Full Staff Name Violin 1 Attributes dialog Abbr Staff Name Vln 1 box appears You fs Transposition None can also double click the st aff Options m Break barlines pavers bracketed staves v Display Repeat Endings The full name of T Hide Staff the instrument will M Display Measure Numbers appear next to the Alternate Notation Select staff in the first eo Help system line of the piece The abbrevi ated name will appear next to subsequent systems e Click in the text box called Full Name and type Violin I e Click in the text box called Abbr Name and type Vin I Incidentally you establish the default font for staff names using the Select Default Fonts command in the Options menu this will affect all staff names for newly created staves it will not change existing staff names 112 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores You could click OK at
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39. 32 Save 32 56 Fill with Rests 23 First Ending Repeats 74 Fit Measures 95 Fret Number 122 G Grace notes 53 Guitar Tablature 119 H Help vi Hiding Notes or Rests 54 Staves temporarily 115 Home Position 51 103 105 Horizontal scroll bar 8 HyperScribe 59 144 Record Mode 66 Transcribing a Melody 63 Transcribing a Scale 61 Two handed HyperScribing 64 HyperScribe Menu Record Mode 62 Split into Two Staves 66 I Inner Voices 54 Inserting Notes or Rests 46 Installing Finale Macintosh xvii Windows ix Internal Speaker Playback 55 J Jump to Next Measure 39 K Key Changing the Key in Simple Entry 29 Changing the Key Signature 69 Setting the Key Signature 4 Key Signature Tool 69 L Layers 54 lines 88 Lyrics Type into Score 72 Lyrics Menu Type into Score 73 Lyrics Tool 73 M Maestro Font Default 61 129 Main Tool Palette 7 Measure Layout 95 Measure Tool 31 51 Measurement Units 99 Measures Adding 31 Deleting 51 Selecting Several Measures 50 Menu bar 7 Message Bar 8 Metronome Click 61 MicNotator 59 MIDI Menu Quantization Settings 65 MIDI Setup Dialog Box Macintosh xxiv Windows Xv MIDI System basics Macintosh XiX Windows Xi MIDISCAN 131 Moving music 18 Multiple Voices 54 Music Spacing 97 98 N New Staves 111 Index New Staves with Wizard 116 Notes Hiding 54 Nudge Keys 92 O Order of Entry 130 Simplified xx1x OS X Configuring MIDI with OS X 10 2 x
40. 4 on the QWERTY key board PrintMusic adds a 0 on the fourth sting below the fret number you just entered 125 Tutorial 6 Guitar Notation Hold down Mac eotion and type num pad 3 or ct__ shift_ Mac etion shift_ 3 The 0 changes to a 3 You can use the last two steps at any time first entering the string and then the fret number to create chords You can also use the up and down arrows to specify the string for an additional fret number and then hold down Mac 6 and press ene to add a note on the same string displayed on the caret Then hold down Mac eption and type the desired number on the numeric keypad Press delete to remove the extra fret number Now let s finish the measure On the QWERTY keyboard type 3 to specify the G string then on the numeric keypad type 3 and then 2 You have completed tab for the first mea sure The Caret should appear at the beginning of measure 2 Note that you can always press the left arrow key to select the fret number you just entered type a new number on the number keypad to replace the old and then press the right arrow key to continue entering To see a list of Simple Entry keyboard shortcuts from the Simple Menu choose TAB Specific Commands Type numpad 3 to enter the first fret number in measure 2 Now we ll enter a rest Refer back to Tutorial 1a for information on entering standard notation with the
41. Back Cancel Click Finish PrintMusic now presents you with a new Untitled document displaying your Simple Gifts title and containing the piano staves in the correct key and time signature with a pickup measure and a tempo marking in the first measure You could continue with this file but let s close it and open a file where we ve completed the left hand for you From the File Menu choose Close Save the file if you wish Choose Open from the File Menu Locate the document named Tutorial la in the PrintMusic 2008 Documen Tutorial 1a Simple Entry tation Tutorials folder and double click it After a moment you ll see a simple piano arrangement of Sim ple Gifts come to the screen The left hand part has been prepared for you in this tutorial you ll finish the melody Menu Bar Main Tool Palette SEGRE KR SROEREAARR Oe 8 E Simple Entry Palette Windows View Title Bar Playback Controls Document Window fem Domek SIDS He TEE P a Vertical z k Scroll Bar i Simple Gifts m 1 Py a Ey A a b a a a a nto ee Page Scroll Page Counter Horizontal Scroll Bar Tutorial 1a Simple Entry Macintosh View Menu Bar Simple Entry Palette Playback Controls ra DAR Ha m gt mii f Untitled 2 Main Tol epa Palette SSA a TTA Title Bar moves window Aa ARO
42. INOLOGY If this is your first encounter with a computer you should take some time to learn the basics from its manual If your computer didn t come with an owner s manual many excellent books are now available on basic computer usage often with insulting names like Macintosh for Complete Morons or Windows for Blithering Idiots Despite such uninviting names these books can be indispensable if you ve never used a computer before In any case you should certainly familiarize yourself with your operating system making sure that you understand important concepts such as pointing clicking double clicking dragging and opening and closing windows This PrintMusic book assumes that you know how to choose a command from a menu and how to navigate through a dialog box In addition be sure you re familiar with the parts of a window including the scroll bars the title bar the close button and the sizable frame In many applications including this one you re sometimes asked to cti_ click Mac click something on the screen That simply means that while pressing the or E key you click the mouse button then release both Once you ve mastered that principle the meanings of shit _ click and even ew __ shift_ click should be clear Because PrintMusic does some things that music programs have never done before you ll also be running into terms we re certain will be new to you You ll be introduced
43. INSTALLATION AND TUTORIALS for Wi Windows and Macintosh finale PrintMusic PrintMusic for Windows and Macintosh Copyright 2007 MakeMusic Inc All rights reserved First printing September 2007 U S Patent Numbers 4 945 804 and 4 960 031 and 5 396 828 MakeMusic Finale Finale Allegro Finale PrintMusic Finale Note Pad FinaleScript Human Playback and HyperScribe are registered trademarks of MakeMusic Inc and its licensors TempoTap is a trademark of MakeMusic Inc and its licensors ENIGMA Music Publishing Toolkit 1987 2007 MakeMusic Inc and its licensors All rights reserved The program used to install PrintMusic Installer Vise 5 5 2 1993 2007 MindVision Inc All rights reserved MetroWorks CodeWarrior 1993 2007 MetroWorks Corporation All rights reserved Portions 1984 2007 FairCom Corporation All rights reserved SmartScore and MIDISCAN are registered trademarks of Musitek Music Imaging Technologies Windows XP and Windows Vista are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders makemusic 7615 Golden Triangle Drive Suite M Eden Prairie MN 55344 3848 952 937 9611 800 843 2066 FAX 952 937 9760 Table of Contents Thank You for Choosing PrintMusic v About this Book v Authorization Getting Help v
44. LOG BOX The first time you launch PrintMusic the MIDI Setup dialog box will appear subsequently it s found in PrintMusic s MIDI Menu This is where you instruct PrintMusic which MIDI drivers you d like to use PrintMusic begins by scanning your system and find ing the MIDI drivers that are already installed On the left side of the dialog box under MIDI In the program will select the MIDI In Device that is present on your computer for example Sound Blaster MIDI Input In the right hand box the program will select PrintMusic s SoftSynth software synthesizer which is installed with PrintMusic You can easily choose a different device to enter or play back your music Any time you d like to hear the music on your computer s speakers which are con nected to your sound card you d typically choose a driver with the term Synth or Synthesizer in it If on the other hand you d like PrintMusic to play back on an external MIDI device which would require its own speaker and amplifier choose a driver which has MIDI Out in its name You can leave SoftSynth selected for the MIDI output device to play back with your computer speakers using PrintMusic s default General MIDI sounds Or choose from the available syn thesizers on your computer The following diagram shows the MIDI Setup dialog box properly configured to play back through the computer s speakers via a sound card XV Installation for Wi
45. Music shortcuts that can be used to copy any amount of music from one place to another even when the source and the target are hundreds of measures apart 49 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry SELECTING SEVERAL MEASURES BY SHIFT CLICK ING It turns out that there s a common technique for selecting large amounts of material in word processors spreadsheets and even music programs It s called shit_ clicking You can use this technique to select the four measures you want to copy It works like this Click here Scroll to the endpoint and Shift click here Everything between is selected e Click the Selection Tool then click measure 6 e While pressing sift_ click measure 9 Measures 6 through 9 are now selected COPYING MUSIC TO OFF SCREEN TARGETS Now you have to copy this music to the end of the piece Here s another keyboard shortcut This one used for copying music from one place to another in PrintMusic works like this Select the source and Ctrl Shift Mac Option Shift measures Scroll click the first of the target measures This music gets copied here You ve already selected the source measures so proceed as fol lows e While pressing cri click measure 14 Mac fton click mea sure 14 That s a very useful trick to remember eti _ click 50 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry ing qtonj clicking the target measure is the same as dragging t
46. Order lt Back Cancel Tutorial 1a Simple Entry e Click Next The Score Information page appears Document Setup Wizard Score Information Title Subtitle Composer Arranger Lyricist Copyright lt Back Cancel e Click in the Title box and type Simple Gifts When the Wizard creates your score your title will be centered at the top e Click in the Composer box and type Traditional Shaker Song e Click in the Copyright box and enter the year and your name after the symbol e Click Next The Wizard asks for the time signature key signature initial tempo marking and pickup measure e Click the button e In the lower left quadrent of the box click the up arrow once to set the key signature to G Major e In the upper right check the box next to Specify Initial Tempo Marking Set the tempo to the default 120 beats Tutorial 1a Simple Entry per quarter note This piece does require a pickup so we ll add that next Check Specify Pickup Measure and click the quarter note icon The pickup is two eighth notes which equals a quarter note duration Your Wizard should now look like the following picture Document Setup Wizard Score Settings Select a Time Signature Specify Initial Tempo Marking sefta e c8 8 8 Ea Select a Concert Key Signature Major Key v G Major Number of Measures 31 lt
47. Press a PrintMusic adds a Simple Entry Caret rest on the and of beat 1 Since rests are generally not displayed on tab staves the rest is hidden It will display as a shaded rest in the score and will not appear in the printout Now let s enter the half note on the second beat 126 Tutorial 6 Guitar Notation Hold down ti and Mac control and sift_ and then on the QWERTY keyboard type 6 Notice the note on the Caret changes to a half note The next fret number is on the same string so we can just type in the fret number e Press Enter PrintMusic places a 0 on the string You could have instead hit the 0 key on the numeric keypad Measures 1 and 2 are now complete Instead of typing the string and fret number you can also use a MIDI device to enter tablature with the Simple Entry Caret First from the Simple Menu ensure Use MIDI Device for Input is checked Then with the Caret active choose the rhythmic duration ce _ t__ and shift_ Mac control option and shift_ and the number on the QWERTY keyboard and then play the note PrintMusic will place the fret number on the appropriate string There are many additional keystrokes you can use while entering tablature using the Simple Entry Caret For a com plete list from the Simple Menu choose TAB Specific Com mands HINTS AND TIPS FOR TABLATURE For complete information see TABLATURE in the User Manual
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49. SIC SPEEDY ENTRY You ve now learned the basics of using the Speedy Entry Tool with the MIDI keyboard You ve learned how to enter notes rap idly change their values change their pitches add rests insert notes add dots and move around the score using the right and left bracket keys The measure you ve been working on now contains the pickup notes for Oh Susannah Using your knowledge of the Speedy Entry Tool enter the next twelve measures as shown For the moment however don t enter any music past measure 13 Remember the Speedy Entry keyboard commands you ve learned Key Effect period Add a dot 4 Eighth note 5 Quarter note 6 Half note 48 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry right Go to next measure bracket left bracket Go to previous measure Remove a note rest or chord When you reach measure 14 you may realize that the last four bars of Oh Susannah are exactly the same as measures 6 through 9 To save time you can use the Selection Tool s copying function to complete the melody In the first tutorial you copied a measure of Simple Gifts by drag ging one measure so that its image was superimposed on another In some cases however you won t be able to drag measures to copy them because the dragging technique only works when you can see both source and target measures on the screen at the same time Now you ll use two Print
50. Simple Gifts __Document Window IN Vertical Scroll Bar Page Counter Page Scroll Horizontal Scroll Bar Take a look around the screen Across the top you ll find the menu bar You ll be using these menus to control Print Music s behavior edit documents change the view and much more There are eight unchanging menus File Edit Utilities View Document MIDI Window and Help Also you will likely see another menu which corresponds to the tool currently selected in the Main Tool Palette Below the menu bar is the Main Tool Palette Each square tile on these toolbars contains a symbol representing its function Just about everything you do in PrintMusic will be in the context of one of these tools You ll also see the Simple Entry Palette on Windows running vertically along the left edge of the screen on Mac to the right of the Main Tool Palette All of these toolbars can be hidden providing you with more space to view your music or they can be viewed as palettes that float in front of the music To hide any toolbar select it from the Window Menu to remove the check mark Selecting it again will cause it to reappear Tutorial 1a Simple Entry Note Depending on your monitor s video resolution the toolbars may first appear as palettes on your screen On Windows the palettes are initially attached or docked to the edge of the window To turn a toolbar into a floating palette
51. always see a 0 first Press numpad 2 or while holding down c _ sit_ or on Mac ention shift_ press 2 The 0 changes to 2 124 Tutorial 6 Guitar Notation Click the tab staff on the third string If you do not have a numeric keypad directly below thie you can press to add a 0 on the caret pitch then hold down fcri _ stift_ Mac eption snift_ and type the number second note in the piece A 0 appears on the G string Press numpad 3 The second fret number changes to 3 You can use this method first clicking the rhythmic duration clicking the string and then typing the fret number to create all of your tab notation but you can also quickly enter tabla ture without the use of the mouse with the Simple Entry Caret Press the right arrow 2 key The caret is now active on the second beat of the first measure On your QWERTY keyboard type 2 Notice the Caret moves to the second B string Use numbers 1 through 6 on your QWERTY keyboard to specify the string for the fret number you are about to enter 1 is the top string 6 is the bottom Press numpad 3 PrintMusic places a 3 on the B string and the caret moves to the right Notebook users see the tip at right Press numpad 1 PrintMusic places a 1 on the same string Now lets say we want to add another note below the 1 on the second beat Hold down at__ Mac eztion and type
52. andles to edit the slur 89 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions Drag this handle to move the arc asym Drag this handle to Drag this handle to move metrically change the arc the arc asymmetrically ES Drag this handle to Drag this handle to Drag this handle to move the left end move the entire shape move the right end point point Hold down the shift__ key while editing the slur to con strain your cursor to perfect horizontal or vertical move ments e Position the cursor at the top of the arc Click and drag down ward to decrease the arc of the slur Now create another slur Scroll to the beginning of measure 3 e Position the cursor on the first note in measure 3 top staff Double click and drag to the last note in the measure Release the mouse button The new phrase marking displays its reshaping handles letting you know that it s selected The first one you drew meanwhile is no longer selected Instead it displays a single handle To select a Smart Shape that doesn t display its reshaping handles click its handle Feel free to experiment with these Smart Shapes Click and drag each reshaping handle to see what it does Try adding a crescendo or decrescendo When the Smart Shape Tool is selected every Smart Shape in the score displays a small square handle on the screen unless it s already been selected in which case it has reshaping han dles To delete a Smart Shape click the ha
53. asic layout of your piece If needed add delete or edit staves with the Staff Tool 2 Enter the music using the Simple Entry Tool Speedy Entry Tool or HyperScribe 3 Edit the music with the Simple Entry Tool Get familiar with the numeric keypad commands including duration shortcuts and keystrokes for selecting other tools Remember you can right click Mac eontrl click any entry to edit it with a context menu or cir__ click Mac ption click to select any note and use a modifier keystroke to edit the note To see a list of keystrokes from the Simple Menu choose Simple Edit Commands 4 Using the Playback Controls listen to your piece to check for mistakes 5 Put in the lyrics using Type into Score 130 Making the Most of PrintMusic 6 Use the Repeat Tool to place any repeats Add chord symbols and fretboards 8 Put in all the expression markings articulations dynamics slurs and so on 9 Verify that the music is spaced correctly if necessary use the Music Spacing commands in the Utilities Menu 10 Use the Resize Tool to specify the overall size of the music by clicking the upper left corner of the page 11 Look the piece over in Page View Fix bad page turns or sys tem breaks using the Fit Measures command under the Utili ties Menu Use the Selection Tool to move measures up or down systems as necessary using the up and down arrows 12 Add rehearsal notes subtitles and page numbers wit
54. asures contain the correct number of beats Youre offered four methods of solving the problem You could leave the extra beats in the measure by selecting the top option You could tell PrintMusic to eliminate any extra beats by removing them from the end of the measure by clicking the second radio button You could tell PrintMusic to insert any extra notes that it removes from the end of this measure into the beginning of the following measure by clicking the third radio button Finally you could tell PrintMusic to rebar the music by redis tributing notes throughout the staff until no measure contains more beats than are allowed by the time signature Click Delete the extra notes and then click OK PrintMusic eliminates the extra beat the last E quarter note and you exit the editing frame In the next section you ll create a lead sheet that begins with a pickup To complete the first measure s transformation into 47 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry the pickup measure the only task remaining is to create a dotted rhythm e Press the 0 zero key You reenter the measure e Position the insertion bar on the C and press the period key PrintMusic adds a dot to the note If you were to continue typing periods you could add several dots to a note or rest e Press the right arrow key and then press the 4 key You ve turned the last quarter note into an eighth note the pickup measure is complete ENTERING MU
55. can ner For some hints on how to prepare a scanned file from some popular scanners see SCANNING in the User Manual The scanned sheet music image should be saved as a black and white or line art graphic in TIFF format at a resolution of 300dpi To open scanned files with SmartScore Lite e Scan one page at 300 dpi dots per inch producing a black and white line art TIFF file If black and white or Line Art is not an option choose grayscale e In PrintMusic click on the File Menu and choose Scanning SmartScore Lite The SmartScore Lite dialog box appears e Click Add Files to List The Open dialog appears where you can choose the scanned file you want to translate e Navigate to your TIFF file and double click on it The file name of the file you chose will appear in the file list e Repeat the last two steps to add more files to the list Or choose several files at once in the Open dialog box if there are several files you want to convert e Click Begin Recognition PrintMusic transcribes the scanned file and opens the new file If you encounter problems please double check the limitations listed above See also Scanning in the Troubleshooting chapter e Save the file with a new name 132 Making the Most of PrintMusic e Make any desired edits Because scanning is not a perfect sci ence you will need to proofread the score and correct for missing notes ties or dots e Convert slurs to ties where needed SmartS
56. ch may have been included when you purchased your sound card If you do not have this accessory cable contact a local music store or the manufacturer of your sound card e Install your sound card or USB interface and its drivers See its documentation for instructions e Place the computer keyboard and MIDI interface where you want them Go ahead and plug in any power cords but don t turn anything on yet xi Installation for Windows xii If you are using a sound card plug the game joystick port end of the MIDI cable into the game joystick port of the sound card If you are using a USB interface connect it to your computer using a USB cable Again if you are using a USB interface consult its documentation for specific instructions Plug the MIDI cable marked MIDI OUT into the MIDI IN port on your MIDI keyboard and the MIDI cable marked MIDI IN into the MIDI keyboard port marked MIDI OUT The MIDI ports on a MIDI keyboard are usually on the back of the unit The most common problem encountered by a new MIDI user is improperly connected cables The trick is to think of the route the music data is taking The notes you play will leave your MIDI keyboard from the port marked Out and proceed to the computer through a cable or port marked In Similarly when the computer plays back your music the notes leave the computer through the port or cable marked Out and enter the MIDI keyboard through the port marked In So although it
57. ck in the next 6 notes Use the image to the right as a guide If you miss and click the wrong line or space use the up and down arrows to move the note to the correct staff position Notice you can use the left and right arrows to move the selection from left to right Finish entering 3 4 5 measures 3 through 5 shown to the right If you enter the wrong note dura tion simply hold down the key eptior key on Mac and press the correct duration key in the numeric keypad to edit the note you just entered Remember 4 eighth note and 5 quarter note e a If you ever make a mistake you can also use the Eraser in the Simple Entry Palette to remove items in the score Click the Eraser Tool and then click a notehead to remove the note Click above or below a chord to remove the whole chord Click on an accidental tuplet tie or dot to remove it Tutorial 1a Simple Entry Now although it would be fast to simply click in mea sure 6 let s use the Selection Tool to copy and paste measure 5 to a couple of other measures that require identical notation e Click the Selection Tool Si 1 v4 e Click measure 5 in the top staff The measure is now highlighted If you make a mistake click on the Edit Menu and choose Undo Or hold down the Ctrl feri Mac Command key and press Z You ve just select
58. core will attempt to convert ties based on context Are the two slurred notes the same pitch but may occasionally guess incorrectly and insert a slur Although slurs and ties are graphically the same slurs and ties are different musically Remove the incorrect slurs with the Smart Shape Tools Add the ties with the Sim ple or Speedy Entry Tools For more information see SCAN NING in the User Manual LINKS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD PrintMusic is the most well connected program you can imagine It can share its music with sequencers or other notation pro grams With the Finale Showcase you can even post your files on the Finale music website lt www finalemusic com gt and share with friends across the globe One of the most useful examples of PrintMusic s cooperation with other software is its ability to handle standard MIDI sequencer files These special files contain MIDI playback data Most sequencer programs Digital Performer Sonar Cubase and so on can generate and read them and so can PrintMusic That means that you can create your music in your favorite sequencer when it s polished and ready to be notated save it on your disk as a MIDI file and open it with PrintMusic it will turn into stan dard notation When you attempt this process you ll discover that PrintMusic offers literally dozens of options for separating and recombining the music on the various tracks of the sequencer file If you want PrintMusic will even
59. d Tutorial 4 which consists of a barbershop arrangement of Auld Lang Syne MEASURE LAYOUT For this example we ll distribute measures to 4 per line e From the Utilities Menu choose Fit Measures The Fit Measures dialog box appears Fit Measures Lock layout with Al measure s per system V Treat Multimeasure Rests as one measure C Lock selected measures into one system C Remove system locks Fit Music On Current Part or Score 7 All measures C Measure fi through Cancel Help e Make sure Lock Layout with _ Measure s per System is selected as well as whole document e 4 should be selected already If not enter 4 after Lock Layout with 95 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing 96 Click OK Finale re assigns your music so 4 measures appear on each system A fourth system is added at the bottom of the page to accommodate this arrangement You can also select a region of measures and group them ina system using the Lock Selected Measures Into One System command in the Fit Measures dialog box When we set four measures per system Finale added an addi tional system on the next page to accommodate the final mea sure Next let s move this orphan measure back to the first page Click the next page arrow at the Page bottom of the screen to advance ae ng f gt in to page 2 Notice the single mea sure system at the top of the page Click anywhere in the
60. d key is being held down when you press a number key you get a rest Hold down the D key on your MIDI keyboard and press the 5 key again then E and press 5 then F and press 5 You ve just built the first four notes of a C scale Before you could really see what you d done however PrintMusic advanced the editing frame to the next measure ready for you to play more notes Note that entry with a MIDI device using Speedy Entry is in a way opposite from using a MIDI device with Simple Entry In Simple Entry the note duration is specified in the Simple Entry Palette before playing the pitches In Speedy Entry the pitches are held down prior to specifying the rhythmic dura tion To lock Speedy Entry to a duration like in Simple Entry see the User Manual under SPEEDY ENTRY TO ENTER MANY NOTES OF THE SAME VALUE You can turn off this auto advance feature which advances to the next measure as soon as the first one is rhythmically full Press the zero 0 key to exit the editing frame or click the mouse on any blank part of the screen The editing frame goes away From the Speedy Menu choose Jump to Next Measure If you click the Speedy Menu again you ll see that Jump to Next Measure no longer has a check mark in the Speedy Menu you ve just turned the auto advance feature off Press the zero key again The 0 key also takes you back into the editing frame you were last in Now that you ve turned the Jump to Next Meas
61. d on the menu bar the Simple Menu This menu contains commands a list of keyboard shortcuts and other options that allow you to customize the way Simple Entry works From the Simple Menu uncheck Create New Measures For this tutorial all measures are already in place In the future you can recheck this option if you want to tell PrintMusic to automatically add new measures when the final measure has been filled We ll talk more about this and other Simple Entry Options later in this chapter From the Window Menu choose Simple Entry Rests Palette Repitch Whole Note Quarter Note Sixteenth Note 64th Note Dot Flat Half Step Up Tie Grace Note Tutorial 1a Simple Entry Now notice the two Simple Entry Palettes Eraser Half Note 32nd Note 128th Note Sharp Natural Tuplet EE BREEEEBEEEEEEEBBEE Fighth Note Half Step Down Double whole Note Double Whole Rest Half Rest Eighth Rest 32nd Rest 128th Rest Ss A Whole Rest Quarter Rest Sixteenth Rest 64th Rest 11 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry You can click tools in the Simple Entry Palette to spec ify the rhythmic duration and other attributes prior to entering a note The tools are divided into different groups To see a list of Simple Entry keyboard shortcuts from the Simple Menu choose Simple Edit Commands and Simple Navigation commands There are duration tools like quarters eig
62. diting work you ll need to do in PrintMusic Here s a quick review of what you ve covered in order 1 Use the Selection Edit Tool to arrange measures 2 Use the Music Spacing command to space and align notes avoid collisions of lyrics and accidentals and set ideal measure widths 3 Especially after using the Music Spacing command it s important to choose Update Layout from the Edit Menu so you can see what the final layout will be You should get in the habit of updating the layout just before printing so that you never get unexpected results when you print 4 Use the Page Layout Tool to adjust the spacing of all sys tems on the page 5 Use the Text Tool to add titles composer credits copyright notices and so on If you ve had enough for this session choose Exit Mac Quit from the File Menu If you want to go on close the document you have open 108 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing FOR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of top ics you ve just covered See for example PAGE LAYOUT SELECTION TOOL PRINTING SYSTEMS MEASURE LAYOUT TITLES TEXT INSERTS RESIZE 109 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing 110 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores It s time to learn about PrintMusic s more powerful score ori ented features If you plan to work mainly on lead sheets you may just want to skim this section But if you intend to create multi staff sc
63. e File Menu PrintMusic will open a new Untitled document If you re ready to move on go right ahead to the next tuto rial If you ve had enough for one lesson choose Exit Mac Quit from the File Menu 32 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry FOR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just covered See for example ACCIDENTALS ARTICULATION TOOL SAVE FILE MENU SIMPLE ENTRY COPYING MUSIC KEY SIGNATURE TOOL TIME SIGNATURE TOOL TUPLET TOOL 33 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry 34 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry In addition to Simple Entry Speedy Entry offers another fast and efficient method of music entry This tool is particularly useful if you plan to use a MIDI device for input You can enter music very quickly with one hand on a MIDI keyboard and the other on the numeric keypad or using the MIDI device exclusively You can also edit existing music with equal ease In this tutorial you ll explore the Speedy Entry Tool in depth and you ll get to know some more of PrintMusic s MIDI input and playback capabilities We assume you ve already read about basic navigation of the PrintMusic screen in Tutorial la Simple Entry By the end of this tutorial you should know how to get your notes on the page quickly with the Speedy Entry method A WORD ABOUT MIDI MIDI for Musical Instrument Digital Interface is an electronic language spoken by comp
64. e Selection Tool selection Or any tool that allows regional e Select the first two measures of the song You can use any of the selection methods you ve tried so far clicking one measure and then shift _ clicking the second or drag enclosing both at once Press bactspace Mac clear The measures are now empty For the purposes of this tutorial however you really didn t want to erase the first two measures of the song Fortunately you can always recover from any Selection Tool action like this one as follows e From the Edit Menu choose Undo PrintMusic restores the music MORE ON SPEEDY ENTRY Combining the speed of Speedy Entry with the convenience of Selection Tool copying as you ve just done is a quick accurate method of entering music especially with practice Eventually you ll discover even more shortcuts for example to enter several repeated notes just hold the MIDI keyboard key down continuously while you repeatedly press the rhythmic value keys you don t have to restrike the MIDI keyboard key each time As mentioned earlier you can do the opposite too You can tell PrintMusic that all the notes you re about to play are sixteenth notes and then simply play them as slowly as you wish on your MIDI instrument PrintMusic will enter them into the score You can press Caps Lock to activate this feature For instructions see 52 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry the User Manual
65. e beginning of measure 9 An eighth note appears in measure nine Press plus on the numeric keypad PrintMusic adds a sharp to the note Press minus on the numeric keypad twice The note is now flat PrintMusic alters the pitch of the note chro matically with each keystroke You can also use the Sharp and Flat b Tools in the Simple Entry Palette to specify an accidental before entering a note Click the Flat Tool gt in the Simple Entry Palette Now both the eighth note and the flat are selected in the Simple Entry Palette Press the right arrow gt key to activate the caret Type F PrintMusic places an 9 F flat on the staff Notice an F flat is actually a whole step down from the diatonic because we are in the key of G In this way the Flat Tool Tutorial 1a Simple Entry is said to be absolute not relative to the key signa ture Double click the eighth Note Tool 4 or press numeric keypad 4 twice to deselect all other tools Finish entering the measure by typing G and then A Notice PrintMusic does not add a natural on the G That s because Simple Entry s accidentals are smart In other words they apply through the remainder of the measure Of course you can always add or remove acci dentals manually where needed to override a smart accidental Now let s use the mouse to edit existing notes Double click on the Fla
66. e changes to your com puter such as replacing a hard drive Doing so will ensure a slot is open to authorize after updating your hardware When you deauthorize printing and saving are disabled until autho rization has been restored PLEASE NOTE that the User Authorization Codes are computer specific and will only work on the given computer installation Make sure that the Authorization Code is typed in using capital letters and also verify that the correct serial number has been entered If you have made a change to the computer replaced the hard drive or motherboard or installed a new operating system and didn t deauthorize prior to doing so contact Customer Service directly by phone FAX or standard mail with your serial number and the location ID for the specific installation in question and one of our representatives can clear the previous authorization from your account If the software is not reminding you to authorize when you run the program then the authorization has been suc cessfully completed e Click OK The Launch Window appears From here you can choose how you want to begin a new score continue working on an existing project or access reference materials For example choose Setup Wizard to begin a new custom document by speci fying the title staves key signature time signature and other attributes You ll learn more about the Setup Wizard in chapter la THE MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX The MIDI Setup dialo
67. eat 1 of measure 7 The same principles used for clicking also apply to typing First select the duration using the numeric keypad then specify the pitch this time using the arrow and letter keys e Press the 4 key in the numeric keypad The note on the caret changes to indicate the duration just like the mouse cursor You should now see an eighth note on the third line B beat 1 of measure 7 e Press Enter the i key and then fenter Finale enters an eighth note on the pitch specified The caret moves to the and of beat 1 The Enter key enters the note dis played on the caret Press _ The note on the caret moves up to middle line B 16 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry Press Enter again Another eighth note appears You could continue to enter the remaining notes using the arrow keys to specify the pitch but there is a faster way just type the note letter Type A F and then D Finale enters the next three notes We need to change the D to a quarter note so we ll do that next Windows users hold down Alt Mac users Option and press 5 in the numeric keypad The D at the beginning of measure 8 changes to a quarter note Notice the dura tion of the caret remains the same so you can easily continue entering eighth notes Complete entering 8 9 1 measures 8 9 and 10 Use the letter a Yo i keys to enter the G F G A and B Then change the B to a quarter note by
68. eatures as you become acquainted with it With this volume and the User Man ual as your guides you should now be ready to work on a project of your own A fascinating experience awaits you Here s hoping that PrintMusic enhances your musical productivity and creativity in ways you ve never imagined possible 134 License Agreement IMPORTANT READ THIS AGREEMENT BY INSTALLING FINALE PRINTMUSIC YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT A COPY OF THIS LICENSE AGREE MENT CAN BE FOUND ON WWW MAKEMUSIC COM IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS AND LIMITATIONS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT promptly return the entire FINALE PRINT MUSIC package to the place where you obtained it to receive a refund MAKEMUSIC INC MAKEMUSIC is licensing the FINALE PRINTMUSIC software programs contained in this disk packet and the FINALE PRINTMUSIC package collectively the SOFT WARE to you on the following terms and conditions 1 GRANT OF LICENSE In consideration of the license fee that is a part of the price you paid for this product MAKEMUSIC grants you as licensee a nonexclusive right to use the SOFTWARE on one operating system OS on one computer CPU under the terms and limita tions of this License Agreement An OPERATING SYSTEM OS is defined as a software program that manages the hardware and system resources of a computer 2 OWNERSHIP As licensee you own the documentation materials and the media
69. ed it or told PrintMusic that this is the measure you intend to manipulate Drag the measure so it is superimposed on measure 6 the first measure in the second system A dotted out line of the selected measure moves with the cursor showing exactly where PrintMusic will copy the music 1 4 2 Piano 4 pe J ja t s e a Release the mouse button Voila You ve just copied the music from measure 5 into measure 6 Alternatively you could have highlighted measure 5 pressed Win etri _ 15 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry Mac G C then highlighted measure 6 and pressed Win eti __ Mac V e Click measure 6 so it is highlighted Instead of dragging you can also use a keyboard shortcut to copy and paste this measure anywhere in your score e Windows users hold down the key Mac users ton and click measure 13 top staff The quarter notes appear in measure 13 Now let s use the Simple Entry Caret to type in some notes e Click the Simple Entry Tool again e Hold down the Ctrl key Mac users the Option key and click the second quarter note in measure 6 The note changes color indicating it is now selected e Press the right arrow key to invoke the Caret on b
70. efineTuplet Begin Tuplet Hip E A With Cul a ead Freeze unfreeze With Cul Ties to previous note Num Lock off accidental BackSpace Non A pi D Num I ro Y Showhide Tie untie Remove note Lock Break join accidental to next from chord eam to 2edental Hair step note Change note previous eee decrease torest J note J rest With Cur Continue F gt A accidental R o P 7 9 Change dd or i Up a step Flip through g Hide show remove Previous Next Flat enharmonic Half step measure note to noteorrest accidental measure measure Beam wih pon increase Z rest s pa st O J x F L f f Enter 6 Add Flat Flip stem Grace Voice 1 2 Add note to chord Next note With Cul i Wih Ceri wi note With Shift Change rest Augie With Ctrl ip oae Next layer to note measure N Flip enharmonic With Curl Shift Restores r San through tie to automatic setting Break join Maid anes Cae measure Add dot ta to Insert note or rest wMIDD With Ctrl pri Constrain dragging Add note Start End tochord of measure Curl D x Change With Shift and ith Shift Add dot i heane With Shift Insert mode tonote wt tit If you turn Num Lock on you can use the Tarnat Del note rest numbers on the keypad for note durations instead or chord Macintosh Speedy Entry Key
71. eginning 1 Oh I come from Al a rained all night the ban jo on my knee It ban jo on my knee We have provided a document called Tutorial 2a in which these changes have already been made Open this document now In either case scroll back to the beginning of the piece now you re ready to proceed The repeat tool is designed to allow you to add standard repeat barlines and endings easily using context menus By context clicking Windows users right click Macintosh eption click mea sures and selected regions you can easily and edit repeats with out taking focus off the score Now let s add a repeat with a first and second ending e Click the Repeat Tool Measure 1 is a pickup measure so you want the first repeat barline to appear at the beginning of measure 2 e Windows users Right click Macintosh users controj click mea sure 2 A context menu appears which offers several repeat options 75 Tutorial 2 Adding Details 76 Choose Create For ward Repeat Bar A EE forward repeat bar n C Create Simple Repeat he begi T Create First and Second Ending appears at the egim come from Create Ending ning of measure 2 rained all Note that you could Create Backward Repeat Bar also click measure 2 and from the Repeat Menu choose Create Forward Repeat Bar to perform the same task Now let s create the first and second ending You want the first ending to appear
72. elpful tips and tricks along the way Learning PrintMusic won t be difficult Though the program offers hundreds of features and options there s absolutely noth ing wrong with ignoring the ones you ll never use Don t have a MIDI instrument Then skip those sections of the book Don t plan to use guitar fretboards Then don t bother learning that feature You may need some of the other options another day or never depending on the kind of music you want to create that s perfectly OK To help you get a jump start we ve divided Tutorial 1 into separate entry methods If you don t have a MIDI key board you can skip Tutorial 1c After reading chapter la if you feel comfortable using Simple Entry as your primary entry method skip tutorial 1b Be sure to look at the Read Me file which the PrintMusic Installer copies to your hard disk and installs in the PrintMusic folder This document contains important information about PrintMusic that wasn t available when this book went to press AUTHORIZATION GETTING HELP Your copy of PrintMusic must be authorized within 30 days of installation after which printing and saving are disabled To access the Authorization Wizard click Authorize Now when you launch PrintMusic or from the Help Menu choose Authorize PrintMusic You have the option to authorize over the Internet or by phone fax or mail You will be asked to provide the serial number located on the interior of your
73. en triggered yet Here then are the steps to follow to per form music spacing it has not yet been performed in this score so you can see the effects e Click the Selection Tool e Click just to the left of the top staff in any staff system This is a quick way to select an entire staff with one click You ll notice that the whole line is highlighted Because we don t want to over look the bass staff while making spacing decisions we ll need to select the bass staff too e Hold down the siift_ key and click just to the left of the bass staff in any staff system Now both staves should be highlighted through the entire piece e From the Utilities Menu choose Apply Music Spacing When PrintMusic s finished you might notice that the spacing of music and barlines is much more profes sional looking Every measure is exactly as wide as it needs to be and every note is allotted exactly the right amount of horizontal space Music spaced in this way is said to have nonlinear spac ing as in published music A whole note doesn t get as much hor izontal space as four quarter notes it actually gets much less For more information about PrintMusic s three music spacing types see the User Manual under MUSIC SPACING There is one more critical behind the scenes function in action here Update Layout Again PrintMusic is configured to perform this function automatically it can be disabled by deselecting Automatic Upda
74. er Manual under CUT TIME ENTERING LYRICS TYPE INTO SCORE One of PrintMusic s greatest powers is its ability to handle lyrics intelligently If you provide the lyrics complete with hyphens between syllables PrintMusic can automatically distribute them to the melody line neatly avoiding tied over notes and rests and centering every syllable under its note Each syllable is attached to its note if the note moves horizontally the syllable moves with it PrintMusic also adds word extension underlines for melis matic passages automatically You can type the lyrics directly into the score so that you know at all times where you are in the music a feature called Type Into Score 72 Tutorial 2 Adding Details In this tutorial you ll learn how to type lyrics into the score Click the Lyrics Tool A A new menu called Lyrics appears and a row of two positioning triangles appears to the left of the staff From the Lyrics Menu choose Type Into Score if it s not already selected Click on the staff above the first melody note You don t have to click the notehead Instead click anywhere within the staff lines above it A small blinking cursor the insertion point appears beneath the first note Type Oh I come from Al a ba ma with a ban jo on my knee Each time you type a space or a hyphen PrintMusic automatically moves the insertion point to the next note in preparation for entering the next
75. est This method changes the first measure in the docu ment into a pickup measure From the Document Menu choose Pickup Measure The Pickup Measure dialog box opens where you can tell PrintMusic how long your pickup lasts Click the note that corresponds to the sum of the pickup notes In our example we have a quarter note e Click the quarter note then click OK PrintMusic hides the half note rest and the quarter note rest and only displays our pickup notes PrintMusic even fixes the measure numbers to automati cally skip the pickup measure You may have noticed that the notes are still spaced as though the half note rest were still there Never fear we ll fix the spacing in the next section SPACING THE MUSIC As noted earlier in Tutorial 1 Print Music is automatically applying Pressing ot _ G 38 4 professional publisher standard when Te EES ATE note spacing to your music as you highlighted with the go along This feature can be Selection Tool is a shortcut turned off by deselecting Automatic to Apply Note Spacing Music Spacing from the Edit Menu Automatic Music Spacing not only spaces the notes it is designed to avoid the collision of chords lyrics and other score elements In most cases you will never need to worry about this feature How ever you may encounter instances when the music does not appear to be spaced correctly usually the automatic spacing 97 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing hasn t be
76. et the Start Signal to Any MIDI Data it doesn t matter which key or pedal you hit Play a note on the keyboard PrintMusic begins to click giving you two measures countoff to get a feel for the tempo If you don t get a click you may wish to review the section called SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM in the INSTALLATION CHAPTERS earlier in this book You may also wish to consult the User Manual under MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX When the two countoff measures are up play a two octave C scale in quarter notes starting on middle C as shown below 62 As you play each measure it fills up with notehead like dots only when you ve completely filled a measure and moved on to the next does the full fledged notation appear When you re finished click your mouse anywhere on the screen The editing frame goes away Take a look at what PrintMusic did did you get your C scale If you didn t try entering a slower tempo in the Recording tempo and Click dialog box Now let s try a real melody instead of a scale Tutorial 1c HyperScribe TRANSCRIBING A MELODY e From the MIDI Menu choose Quantization Settings The Quantization Settings dialog box appears e Under Smallest Note Value click the eighth note PrintMusic s sense of rhythm is much finer than ours in fact it perceives subdivisions of rhythm down to 1024ths of a quarter note These very small rhythmic increments are called ENIGMA Durational Units or EDUs Because Pri
77. f and click Voll Ico nhou OK You return to the score key signature time PrintMusic creates a clef signature and clef change at the beginning of the changes in chapter 2 measure just to the left of the Tutorial 1a Simple Entry barline You ll learn more about clef changes in chap ters lc and 5 ADDING MEASURES Although this tutorial has the right number of measures there will undoubtedly come a time when you need to add more This can be done in several ways First of all if you are using the Simple Entry Caret PrintMusic will automati cally add a measure when you fill the last measure of the score Therefore you can simply continue entering notes and PrintMusic will create the measures for you You can also use the Edit Menu to add measures at any time To do this from the Edit Menu choose Add Measures In the Add Measures dialog box that appears type in the number of measures to be added and click OK To add a single mea sure just double click the Measure Tool Note that as you add mea i To delete measures click on the sures the final barline will Selection Tool double click to move to the last measure of select a measure stack then the score press the Delete delete SAVING YOUR WORK When you opened this document the computer transferred the song from the hard disk into its memory at this moment all the changes you ve made to Simple Gifts exist only on the screen If someone trips o
78. f you won t be notating for guitar feel free to skip Tutorial 6 FOR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just covered See for example CLEFS TRANSPOSING INSTRUMENTS EXTRACTING PARTS TRANSPOSING BY INTERVAL STAFF NAMES STAVES 117 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores 118 Tutorial 6 Guitar Notation PrintMusic offers a variety of features for notation of guitar and other fretted instruments In this chapter you will learn how to create a score with tablature and edit tab staves If you do not plan on notating for guitar or another fretted instrument feel free to skip ahead to the next chapter CREATING GUITAR TABLATURE Let s start by creating a new document containing both standard and tablature notation We ll use the Document Setup Wizard to do this Click the File Menu choose New then select Document with Setup Wizard You will now see page one of the Setup Wizard Click Next Page two of the setup Wizard appears In the left column click the Plucked Strings category A list of stringed instruments appears in the second column In the second column click Guitar and then click the Add button Guitar appears in the third column In the second column click Guitar Tab and then click the Add button Now both Guitar and Guitar Tab appear in the third column Type Guitar with Tab Click in the Composer box and type y
79. g box is where you instruct PrintMusic which devices you d like to use for MIDI functions On the left side of the dialog box you ll choose the MIDI input device On the right side you ll choose the desired output device What you xxiv Installation for Macintosh choose here will determine on which device PrintMusic will play back your music SETTING UP MIDI WITH OS X e Start PrintMusic e Navigate to the MIDI Menu and choose MIDI Setup The MIDI Setup dialog box appears e For the MIDI System choose CoreMIDI e Select the proper input and output devices from their respec tive menus If only ports are listed select the port on your interface to which your MIDI device is connected e Click OK You re all set to explore PrintMusic on your own XXV Installation for Macintosh xxvi How to Learn PrintMusic The remainder of this book contains step by step tutorials It is best to take them in order because each tutorial is more advanced than the one before it For some of the tutorials you ll be working on prepared documents that are located in the Tutorials folder within the PrintMusic folder on your hard disk In addition to these tutorials high quality sample scores are also included which offer a glimpse of Finale s capabilities PrintMusic itself contains powerful instructional tools the Status or Message Bar along the edge of the application window QuickStart Video Tips Help and the USER MANUAL At
80. g inkjet and bubblejet printers PrintMusic s output truly shines when you print on a PostScript printer PostScript is a page description language spoken by com puters and printers just as MIDI is a language spoken by comput ers and MIDI keyboards If you want truly typeset quality printing you can take your PrintMusic files on a disk to an output shop something like a copy shop graphics service bereau and have it printed on a Linotronic imagesetter a very expensive Post Script machine that creates published quality printouts Just as A B and C are characters in a standard text font notes and musical symbols are characters in PrintMusic s music font called Maestro Maestro and the other fonts that come with Print Music is provided as a Postscript and TrueType font 107 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing All text and musical symbols should look outstanding at any size However when you print at reduced sizes a non PostScript printer produces unevenly spaced staff lines slightly stairstepped eighth note beams or somewhat jagged slurs because these lines and shapes are actually graphics and not font items e From the File Menu choose Print and click OK in the dialog box that appears In a moment your printer should begin to print your score WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE You ve learned some very important concepts in this tutorial In fact these techniques and principles constitute much of the e
81. h the Text Tool 13 Use the Page Layout Tool to make final adjustments to your score and parts SCANNING MUSIC If you intend to make the most of PrintMusic s scanning capabili ties note that there are a variety of ways for you to scan sheet music and bring the results into PrintMusic You can bring your scanned files into Musitek s MIDISCAN or SmartScore software then import the resulting files into PrintMusic Or you could use PrintMusic s built in SmartScore technology to translate the scanned image The SmartScore Lite feature in PrintMusic like many music scanning products doesn t recognize articulation marks hairpins double or repeat barlines or text It will recog nize 3 accidental types 3 clefs 16 staves per page smallest note value is a 32nd note and a maximum of 1 augmentation dot 131 Making the Most of PrintMusic Because scanning is not a perfect science you will need to clean up any file after conversion Depending on the music some users will find it easier to simply re enter the music via one of PrintMu sic s traditional note entry methods Simple Entry Speedy Entry or HyperScribe Remember that to take advantage of any of PrintMusic s scanning capabilities you will need to have a properly installed scanner contact the manufacturer of your scanner if you have questions Because scanners and scanning software varies widely we can not provide instructions on how to prepare a file for every s
82. hat you want to fit three quarter notes in the time of two precisely the definition of a quarter note triplet Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry In the Display section there are checkboxes where you can specify how the triplet should look in the score Should it have a bracket Should it have a number For now the default settings are fine Click OK You ve just turned ordinary quarter notes into a triplet by clicking the first of them with the Tuplet Tool You can edit the tuplet to look any way you d like Notice the six handles that appear These handles control the various ele ments of the bracket Drag this handle to independently Drag this handle to move n bracket from the num a the angle of the T Drag this ii up or down to change the length of the hook Drag o handle to move the number relative to the bracket Drag this handle to move the entire bracket and number You can modify the triplet you made in Measure 3 too Click the first note of the triplet in measure 3 The tuplet han dles appear Drag the handles until the triplet appears the way you want it to You can create tuplets within tuplets too It doesn t matter whether you begin by creating the inner or outer tuplet 45 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry INSERTING NOTES OR RESTS 46 Click the Speedy Entry Tool Vi gt e Click on the first measure oe s s and position the insertion
83. he image of the source measures onto the target measures A dialog box appears asking how many times you want the material copied Once the default is enough e Click OK or press erter That s all there is to it You ve entered all the music for your first lead sheet DELETING MEASURES This version of Oh Susannah is seventeen measures long How ever you will remember that PrintMusic provided you with thirty one empty measures when you began this tutorial There fore you now need to delete measures 18 through 31 using the Selection Tool ry 1 Lea e Click the Selection Tool measure 18 is visible e Click measure 18 Scroll to the end of the piece siift_ click on the last measure PrintMusic automatically highlights the mea sures you specified even though you might not be able to see the end of the highlighted region 4 Now adjust your view so that From the Edit Menu select Delete Measure Stack PrintMusic deletes the extraneous measures No doubt you created the lead sheet melody with grace and aplomb Nonetheless there may be times when you need to erase some of your music Here s the quick way to do it To return to the first measure of the piece you could use the scroll bars Instead try this command e From the View Menu choose Home Position This command returns you to the top of the page 51 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry ERASING MUSIC 1 Lea e Click th
84. he note by a half step ar But what if you decide that a note has been spelled wrong enharmonically You can always flip a note to its enharmonic equivalent by using the 9 key Leave the crossbar on the Ab and press the 9 key The spelling of the note changes to G Move the crossbar down away from the two notes Press the 9 key several times If the crossbar is on a chord s stem and not on a notehead pressing the 9 key cycles a chord through vari ous enharmonic spellings For the moment cycle through until the lower note is an Ab In the next step you ll hide the accidental Position the crossbar on the Ab Press the asterisk key You ll usually want to use the asterisk key on the numeric keypad If you prefer however you can press shift _ 8 the main keyboard asterisk instead Pressing the asterisk key hides an accidental or if none is there it causes an accidental to appear The note retains its identity the note that now looks like an A will still play back as an Ab To restore the accidental press the asterisk key again PrintMusic can even put an accidental in parentheses simply press the letter p key See the User Manual under COURTESY ACCIDENTALS 43 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry TUPLETS You haven t explored PrintMusic s tuplet triplets quintuplets and so on features in Speedy Entry yet Scroll to measure 2 which is empty and try the Tuple
85. he second half of Spanish Dance No 2 to demonstrate this For this example the tablature is entered for you already 121 Tutorial 6 Guitar Notation With the Selection Tool selected click measure 9 of the tab staff Hold down the Shift sh t_ key and click measure 16 of the tab staff Now measures nine through sixteen of the tab staff should be highlighted Drag the highlighted region up to the standard staff Measures nine through sixteen translate directly into standard notation You should now have notation of the melody line like the fol lowing example starting with measure 9 In addition to changing the lowest fret while copying you can also change the lowest fret for any region of tablature with the Selection Tool To do this click the Selection Tool and high light a region of the tablature staff Then from the Utilities Menu choose Utilities gt gt Change Lowest Fret Enter the new Lowest Fret and click OK to apply your changes and return to the score CHANGING THE STRING AND FRET NUMBER You can edit tab numbers and move them between strings manu ally with the Simple Entry Tool This method gives more control over the movement of single and non contiguous fingerings If you look at measure five in the tablature staff you ll see that the fourth note is played at the fifth fret of the fourth string It might be easier to finger this passage if that note was fingered at 122 Tutorial 6 Guitar Nota
86. higher In Speedy Entry you can move notes to other pitches by drag ging them in this way If your MIDI keyboard is connected properly PrintMusic plays the note each time it changes 40 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry pitch This feature can be disabled by deselecting Playback from the Speedy Menu Click squarely on the high F s notehead With the button down drag it v1 AT slightly to the right or left The Speedy Entry Tool gives you complete con trol not only of a note s pitch but also of its posi tion in the measure If you want to drag a note only horizontally so that you can t drag it off of its pitch or only vertically so that you can t drag it left or right press the shift_ key while yow re drag ging Move the insertion bar to the third note in the measure the E Remember you move the insertion bar by pressing the arrow keys or by clicking a note Press rekete Pressing the kete key removes a note rest or chord from the score But what if you delete a note by accident Any time you re working with the Speedy Entry Tool remember that you can undo your last action by choosing Undo from the Edit Menu From the Edit Menu choose Undo or press ctr __ Z Mac G Z The note you deleted reappears To prepare for the next exercise change all four notes back to quarter notes Move the insertion bar back to the middle C and press the 5
87. hour every time you launched the program The good news is that PrintMusic lets you determine all these variables once after which it remembers your preferences for any future piece In the PrintMusic 2008 Component Files folder there s a document called Maestro Font Default This is nothing more than a blank PrintMusic document that s been customized with a dummy name page numbers at the bottom of the page specific music spacing rules and so on As long as you keep this document in the same folder as the PrintMusic program itself those parameters will always be preset when you start PrintMusic or create a new docu ment Of course you can and should create your own default document using your own favorite setup the one we ve provided is meant to serve as an example When you re finished with these tutorials simply create a new document or modify the one we ve provided and make sure you ve named it Maestro Font Default on Windows choose FTM for the file type e From the File Menu choose New then Default Document PrintMusic presents an untitled document Remember that its 60 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe format is determined by the Maestro Font Default document in the PrintMusic Component Files folder From the View Menu choose Zoom then select Zoom to 75 Now we need to make sure the settings are correct for our experiment TRANSCRIBING A SCALE WITH A CLICK Click the HyperScribe Tool If you wish to use
88. hth notes etc accidental tools like a sharp or flat a tie tool tuplet tool and grace note tool Click a duration tool to select it then click an accidental dot or tie to modify the note Notice your mouse cursor displays the tools selected in the Simple Entry palette Click a modifier tool again to de select it if you don t want to use it anymore To select any tool and clear all the other tools double click on it or press the key stroke twice EEEES vy You can mix and match the tools to build exactly the note you want to add whether it s a quarter note or a sharped tied dotted note that starts a triplet Simply click in the staff to enter the note displayed on the mouse cursor You can always select the note and edit it later using different modifier key strokes which we ll talk about soon The fastest way to enter notes in Simple Entry involves using keystrokes to select tools in the Simple Entry Palette and then enter the notes using keystrokes on your computer keyboard which we ll do now e Now click the Eighth Note Tool 3 on the Simple Entry Palette The Simple Entry Palette contains an icon for each note duration Notice the note with a vertical line 12 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry at the beginning of the first measure This line is called the Simple Entry Caret The caret is much like a cursor in a word processing program You ll learn how to quickly type in music using the
89. i Installation for Windows ix Installing PrintMusic ix Preparing for Printing x Setting up your MIDI System xi Starting and Authorizing PrintMusic xiii The MIDI Setup Dialog Box xv Installation for Macintosh xvii Installing PrintMusic xvii Preparing for Printing xviii To Set up Your Printer xviii Setting Up Your MIDI System xix Configuring MIDI in OS X xx Starting PrintMusic xxiii The MIDI Setup Dialog Box xxiv Setting Up MIDI with OS X xxv How to Learn PrintMusic xxvii Some Terminology xxviii Simplified Order of Entry xxix Tutorial la Simple Entry 1 Creating a New Document with the Document Setup Wizard 1 Entering Music with the Simple Entry Tool 9 Accidentals 23 Chords 26 Tuplets 28 Adding Measures 31 Table of Contents Saving Your Work 31 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry 35 A Word about MIDI 35 Creating a New Document from a Template 35 Speedy Entry 36 Editing with Speedy Entry 40 Working with Chords 42 Accidentals 42 Tuplets 44 Inserting Notes or Rests 46 Entering Music Speedy Entry 48 Selecting Several Measures by Shift clicking 50 Copying Music to Off screen Targets 50 Deleting Measures 51 Erasing Music 52 More on Speedy Entry 52 Playback 54 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe 59 Introduction to HyperScribe 59 Creating a New Default Document 60 Transcribing a Scale with a Click 61 Transcribing a Melody 63 Setting the Time Signature and Beaming Patterns 64 Two handed HyperScribing 64 T
90. ic is authorized If you have Internet access and are not running firewall security or virus software that would block information from being received back at your computer simply select this option and the rest is taken care of automatically Otherwise select one of the other options for Manual via WebSite FAX or mail and a window will be displayed con taining a User Code You may enter this code at www finale music com register print out this page and FAX or mail it to us or call with your serial number and User Code In any case we will generate an Authorization Code that you manu ally type in to complete the process Subsequently our system automatically sends an e mail confirmation of the informa tion If you selected the internet option but have a firewall that blocked the information from being received then you can manually type in the Authorization Code information pro vided Your copy of PrintMusic can be authorized on one operating system at a time but with an Internet connection authoriza tion can be moved from one computer to another at will Sim ply choose Deauthorize PrintMusic from the Help Menu to open up a free authorization slot Your copy of PrintMusic can now be authorized on a different computer or another OS xxiii Installation for Macintosh installed on the same computer if for example you are run ning both Mac and Windows on an Intel based Mac Also deauthorize prior to making hardwar
91. if you are working with a tab staff only or already know the tablature and not the standard notation Again we ll continue to use the same file we ve been working on to describe how to do this first 123 Tutorial 6 Guitar Notation by entering tablature with your mouse and then with your com puter keyboard Click the Selection Tool and highlight the first two mea sures of the tab staff Measures 1 and 2 of the tab staff should be highlighted Press the Backspace Mac c ar key to remove the existing tab notation from these first measures You should now see standard notation above an empty tab staff for the first two measures Click the Simple Entry Tool We are now ready to begin entering into the tab staff manually For now we ll enter tab for the existing notes in the standard notation staff In the future you could use this procedure to enter into a score con taining a tab staff only Click the Eighth Note Tool in the Simple Entry Pal ette You will need to Use the up and down arrows to move a selected fret number up choose the rhythmic value or n a string The number of the entry first so Print will adjust to reflect the same Music knows its duration pitch on the new string and how to properly space each fret number Click the tab staff on the third G string directly below the first note in the piece A 0 appears When you click directly into a tab staff you will
92. ifferent name for instance My Score could become My Score 2 unless you are sure that you won t need to reopen the file in an earlier version of PrintMusic PREPARING FOR PRINTING These instructions cover the basic preparations for printing from PrintMusic or any program If you can print successfully from other programs already skip ahead to the next section Before you print for the first time you must tell the Macintosh where to send its printing information especially if you have more than one printer TO SET UP YOUR PRINTER e Install OS X drivers for your printer If the printer is compati ble with OS X you ll find these drivers on a CD included with your printer You can also usually download the necessary drivers from the printer manufacturer s web site See the printer s user manual for additional information e Navigate to the hard drive and choose Applications Utilities and then Printer Setup Utility The Print Center dialog box appears e If your printer isn t already listed click the Add button e In the new window choose the appropriate zone from the pop up menu e Click your printer s name and click Add e Quit Print Center Printer Setup Utility xviii Installation for Macintosh SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface It s the language spoken by computers and electronic musical instruments We ll assume that you re connecting a MIDI
93. ime signature too But let s say you decide your folk song would work better in cut time 4 e Click the Time Signature Tool 4 and double click the first measure Make sure you click the middle of the measure within the staff lines There are two scroll bars in the Time Signature dialog box the upper bar controls the top number of the time signature and the bottom bar controls the bottom number e On the upper scroll bar click the left scroll bar arrow twice to change the upper number from 4 to 2 You want the meter to be 5 two half notes per measure so you decrease the upper number which governs beats per measure e Now click the right scroll bar arrow twice on the lower scroll bar The lower scroll bar sets the rhythmic pulse the lower number in the time signature You increase the value from a quarter note to a half note by changing the lower number from 4 to 2 71 Tutorial 2 Adding Details e Click the radio button for Measure 1 Through End of Piece The Time Signature dialog box looks like this Time Signature Number of Beats E 2 Beat Duration mi m e Measure Region V Abbreviate C Measure through C Measure through end of piece c ancel Measure 1 to next time change Help e Click OK or press erter That s it You ve now put Oh Sus annah into cut time PrintMusic defaults to displaying the cut time symbol for 3 If you d prefer 3 see the Us
94. ion choose Exit Mac Quit from the File Menu If you want to continue to the next tutorial close the file saving changes if you wish The next tutorial will introduce you to the HyperScribe method of entry where PrintMusic will notate as you play in real time 56 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry FOR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just covered See for example ACCIDENTALS ERASING CHORDS MEASURES COPYING MUSIC PLAYBACK DOTTED NOTES SPEEDY ENTRY 57 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry 58 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe So far you ve explored ways of entering music into PrintMusic note by note Simple Entry is useful for working without a MIDI keyboard and Speedy Entry makes good use of the MIDI key board with the computer keyboard for extra speed One of PrintMusic s most useful features however is its ability to record and transcribe a live performance in real time To do this you ll be using the HyperScribe Tool which notates your per formance almost as fast as you can play it By the end of this tutorial you should be able to get notes on the page by playing on your MIDI keyboard a method PrintMusic calls HyperScribe If you don t have a MIDI keyboard or microphone skip ahead to Tutorial 2 INTRODUCTION TO HYPERSCRIBE Each time you play a note on your MIDI keyboard the computer receives certain information via the MIDI cable which key you struck how ha
95. ion has been restored PLEASE NOTE that the User Authorization Codes are computer specific and will only work on the given computer installation Make sure that the Authorization Code is typed in using capital letters and also verify that the correct serial number has been entered If you have made a change to the computer replaced the hard drive or motherboard or installed a new operating system and didn t deauthorize prior to doing so contact Customer Service directly by phone FAX or standard mail with your serial number and the location ID for the specific installation in question and one of our representatives can clear the previous authorization from your account If the software is not reminding you to authorize when you run the program then the authorization has been suc cessfully completed Next the MIDI Setup dialog box appears Here you can choose the devices you want to use for MIDI Input and playback You ll learn how to configure MIDI using this dialog box in the next section Installation for Windows e Click OK The Launch Window appears From here you can choose how you want to begin a new score continue working on an existing project or access reference materials For example choose Setup Wizard to begin a new custom document by specifying the title staves key signature time signature and other attributes for your new score We ll explain more about the Setup Wizard in chapter la THE MIDI SETUP DIA
96. ked MIDI In and the MIDI keyboard port marked MIDI Out The most common problem encountered by a new MIDI user is improperly connected cables The trick is to think of the route the music data is taking The notes you play will leave your MIDI keyboard from the port marked Out and enter the interface through the port marked In then on to the computer Similarly when the computer plays back your music the notes go out from the computer to the interface leave the interface through the port marked Out and enter your MIDI keyboard through the port marked In So although it may seem contrary to common sense plug the In to the Out and vice versa Your connections should resemble those in this figure AMPLIFIER S SPEAKER popocecoccog CS SESESE5E5555 INTERFACE e Turn on all your equipment Your MIDI system is now configured To name a MIDI device or configure additional settings jump ahead to CONFIGURING MIDI IN OS X If you do not wish to name a MIDI device or make additional settings you can skip ahead to STARTING PRINTMUSIC CONFIGURING MIDI IN OS X You can use helper utilities already available on your computer to configure your MIDI devices by following these steps XX Installation for Macintosh Navigate to your hard drive and choose Application Utilities Audio MIDI Setup The Audio MIDI Setup dialog box appears Now we ll add new devices Click the MIDI Devices tab Audio MIDI Setup will search for
97. layback Controls are docked at the top of the screen On the Macintosh the Playback Controls are a floating palette shown below e Click the Play button gt If your MIDI system is hooked up properly you ll hear PrintMusic play the song To stop play back click either Pause or Stop 54 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry If you don t hear anything consult SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM in the INSTAL LATION CHAPTERS earlier in this manual e On Mac hide the Playback Controls by clicking on the Win dow Menu then select Playback Controls so that the check mark disappears This step is not required on Windows If you wish to use the internal speaker on a Macintosh select the MIDI Menu then Internal Speaker Playback As you re about to find out you don t have to use the Play back Controls to play back your score e Windows Users While pressing the spacebar click any measure Mac users hold down Shift press the Space bar and click any measure Once again Print Music plays back your score this time beginning with the measure you clicked Click anywhere on the screen to pause Of course this is only the tip of the playback iceberg Try this fun but useful feature e While pressing cti _ Mac option and the Space bar drag the cursor back and forth across the notes in the score This scrubbing playback feature lets you spot check any part of the score a useful feature when for example you re
98. lette appears as a toolbar on the top of the screen or as a palette on the Macintosh containing icons for slurs crescendos 8va markings lines and several kinds of brackets and lines This 88 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions palette is just like the others you ve encountered you can hide it or move it around The curves and lines this palette offers are called Smart Shapes because they behave intelligently if the measure wid ens so does the Smart Shape attached to it If a Smart Shape begins at the end of one line of music and continues onto the next it automatically breaks in two The Slur Tool should already be selected if not select it now Place your cursor on the first note in measure five top staff Double click the mouse hold the button down after the sec ond click and drag the mouse to the right until the third note in the measure is highlighted As long as you hold the button down you can move the endpoint of the slur Release the mouse button You ve just created a note attached slur Take a look Is the slur exactly where you wanted it Does it arc too high or too low Shortcuts for the Smart Shape Tool Hold down S for a slur lt for a crescendo or gt for a decrescendo A Smart Shape is easy to edit When a Smart Shape has multi ple handles it s currently selected Each slur will have six handles Here is a description of how to use these h
99. lso notice that the music is displayed as a page of sheet music If you re new to computers take a moment to click and drag while holding down the mouse button across the menu titles at the top of the screen noticing how the lists of commands drop down as you pass over each title e Click the Staff Tool icon on the Main Tool Palette Not only does the icon highlight but there is now an additional menu on the menu bar the Staff Menu Some PrintMusic menus appear only when you select certain tools so they re out of your way until you need them Now that you ve had a look around let s begin our mas terpiece Click the horizontal and vertical scroll bar arrows until measure one is visible if necessary ENTERING MUSIC WITH THE SIMPLE ENTRY TOOL PrintMusic offers many different entry methods The sim ple entry tool itself can be used to click notes onto a staff or enter notes with your computer keyboard or with a MIDI keyboard Here you ll learn how to enter notes using each of these methods Tutorial 1a Simple Entry 10 Click the Simple Entry Tool 5 addition to this The Simple Entry Palette tutorial you can also becomes active From the open the file Window menu choose Simple EntryExercise in the Entry Rests Palette to show the Tutorials folder for Simple Entry Rests Palette hands on training These palettes are shown on the next page Also another menu has appeare
100. ly You will notice the as shown values here change as you drag system Notice you can also margin handles drag this handle left or right to adjust the horizontal position of the left system margin Once you ve selected the handle you can also use the down arrow to nudge the system margin with more precision Auld Lang The spacing on the page remains the same but now there is room to move the system up before colliding with the top page margin When you do subsequent systems will reposi tion uniformly 101 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing e Click anywhere in the top system and contol click Mac drag up and to the right Keep drag Gx click and drag ging as far up and to the right as pos to move systems sible You are only able to move the independently system until it lies against the right and top page margins Notice all the systems on the page moved up accordingly PrintMusic can also automatically space the systems evenly down the page with the Space Systems Evenly command To space the systems PrintMusic adjusts the Distance Between Systems without changing the system margins Because we want to make sure our title doesn t get covered up when we space the systems later we ll make the top system margin big ger to include the title e From the Page Layout Menu choose Space Systems Evenly In the Space Systems Evenly dialog box you can tell PrintMusic which pages to space and when to skip pages s
101. me signature and not allow you to inadvertently enter extra notes in a given measure Fill with Rests will add enough rests to fill the measure if you leave the measure and start entering notes in another measure ACCIDENTALS Let s add some blues to our melody line to illustrate how to add accidentals If using the mouse or the Caret you can specify an accidental by choosing both a duration tool and an accidental tool prior to entering the note You can also specify accidentals as you enter notes by using keystrokes to apply a sharp key or flat key to the note you just entered By selecting an accidental tool exclusively you can click to add accidentals to any note in the score The Sharp Tool and the Flat Tool add a sharp or flat to the note if needed by the key signature If you use the Half 23 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry Step Up Tool 4 or the Half Step Down Tool 4 you ll raise or lower the note If the note is already sharp raising the note will add a double sharp 24 Click the Selection Tool First we ll clear a measure to show how to enter accidentals while entering notes Click measure 9 in the top staff so it is highlighted and then press fada Mac clear This method clears all entries in the selected region Ss Click the Simple Entry Tool Click the Eighth Note Tool or press numeric keypad 4 and then enter a second line G at th
102. measure which puts our piece in 4 time Select Measure 1 through End of Piece if it s not already selected e Click OK TWO HANDED HYPERSCRIBING e From the File Menu Choose New and then Document with Setup Wizard For this example we ll need to start a new default document with a grand staff e Click Next and then on page 2 choose Keyboards in the left column and then double click Piano so it appears in the right column e Click Next Next and then Finish to open the new docu ment e Click the HyperScribe Tool The HyperScribe Menu appears 64 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe From the HyperScribe Menu choose Recording Tempo and Click Since you re playing a 4piece you have to tell PrintMusic that each click should equal a quarter note Click the quarter note icon You d click the same button for a piece in 4or 7meter Click OK From the MIDI Menu select Quantization Settings The Quantization Settings dialog box appears Under Smallest Note Value click the eighth note Print Music s sense of rhythm is much finer than ours in fact it perceives subdivisions of rhythm down to 1024ths of a quarter note These very small rhythmic increments are called ENIGMA Durational Units or EDUs Because PrintMusic s perception of time is so precise the pro gram must round off or quantize each note in your per formance to the nearest eighth note or whatever rhythmic value you specify i
103. measure and the caret advances to the right A note played on the MIDI device is the same as pressing Enter or a note letter on your computer key board Simply choose the duration on the numeric key pad and then play the pitch to continue entering Tutorial 1a Simple Entry e Press 4 in the numeric keypad and then play B and A Then press 5 and play G twice Then press 6 and play G once more to complete the phrase In the future note that you can play multiple notes simultaneously to spec ify a chord Also note that Finale adds any accidentals accordingly Feel free to use a MIDI keyboard to specify pitches in place of your computer keyboard or mouse for the remainder of this tutorial If you just used your MIDI device to complete the phrase skip the next step e Non MIDI users Type B 4 B and A Then type 5 G G 6 G to complete the phrase Remember to use the numeric keypad for the duration numbers 21 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry Congratulations You ve completed your first PrintMusic melody Simple Gifts Traditional Shaker Song 4 1 P 3 4 5 A mig C r an r pe s y v Piano e DS g 7 z 6 7 8 9 10 pi 4 1 _ z z s s j a z s e gt uel ele
104. music both printed and played faster and better than ever before Take a moment to look over the contents of your PrintMusic package It should include Installation amp Tutorials Book Quick Reference Guide PrintMusic Installation Disc along with your PrintMusic Serial Number ABOUT THIS BOOK In these pages you ll learn how to start putting PrintMusic to work right away From installing the software to entering music to printing the score and everything in between we ll cover all the basics you need to know to get up and running fast The Win dows and Macintosh versions of PrintMusic are similar enough that we have incorporated instructions for both into this one book You will notice however that there are two separate ver sions of the Installation instructions one for Windows users and one for Macintosh users These chapters provide platform specific installation and setup instructions Beyond these initial chapters the book applies to both platforms any differences will be indicated by separate instructions for each platform given in parentheses The majority of these differences will involve key strokes e g ctrl_ for Windows 38 or tion for Macin tosh Before You Begin Throughout this manual you ll find tip boxes one is shown at right These tip boxes contain helpful hints and tips that relate to the text where they re found Tip boxes look like this In these boxes you ll find h
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106. n order to produce read able notation Click OK You ve told PrintMusic that each click repre sents a quarter note and you ve specified a quantization value One other parameter has changed since your first HyperScribe efforts You re using two staves now HyperScribe can split your performance onto two staves to be played by right and left hands but it needs you to specify a split point a key on the MIDI keyboard below which all notes will be transcribed onto the lower staff the note you play and all higher notes will be placed on the upper staff 65 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe e From the HyperScribe Menu choose Record Mode then Split into Split at MIDI Note Ei Listen Two Staves Now choose the point Cancel Help between the two staves you want notes to split between the left and right hand staves If you re familiar with MIDI key numbers middle C 60 you can type a key number into the text box in the Fixed Split Point dialog box that appears It s easier however to define a split point simply by playing the key Fixed Split Point e Click Listen PrintMusic asks you to play the key you want to use as a split point e Play the B just below middle C PrintMusic enters the key number into the text box Now notes played on or above the B below middle C will be placed into the top staff e Click OK At this point you re ready to go e Click the first measure of the upper staff After the two
107. n the computer s power cord at this moment all of your work will be lost and you ll be left with the original incomplete Tutorial la document 31 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry For this reason it s a good idea to save your work back onto the disk at regular intervals perhaps every 15 min utes or so To save your work on the disk e From the File Menu choose Save or press ctri_ S Mac G S Your changes have now been saved on the hard disk You still have a fresh untouched copy of this document however it s on your original PrintMu sic disc Once you ve saved a file each time you subsequently choose Save from the File menu PrintMusic will make a backup copy of the previous saved version The copy can be distinguished by both the BAK extension and different icon when viewed in Windows Explorer See the User Manual under BACKUP FILES for instructions WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE From the File Menu choose Close to close the active docu ment and all open windows on that document If you haven t saved your work PrintMusic lets you know and gives you the option of saving the changes or leaving the document as it was when it was last saved A diagram showing which keys correspond to which rhyth mic values or commands appears on your Quick Reference Guide If you want to take time out for some experimenta tion before proceeding to Tutorial 1b choose Default Docu ment from the New submenu of th
108. nd having an additional ten megabytes 10 000K of free disk space for these files e Insert the PrintMusic disc into your CD DVD drive Its icon appears on your desktop e Double click the CD DVD icon The contents of the CD DVD appear on your screen The Installer sets up a folder called PrintMusic for the PrintMusic program and its associated files and folders Do not alter this setup e Double click the Installer icon You are prompted to enter your computer administrator s password e Enter your password and click OK In a moment the PrintMusic Installer screen appears Follow the instructions on the screen until the installation is com plete The PrintMusic Installer lets you select which files you want installed and where you want them placed on your hard disk The Installer offers to create a folder called PrintMusic We recommend that you install all of the PrintMusic files into this new folder For the most part you can press Return to confirm the defaults When you open an older Finale family notation file choose File then xvii Installation for Macintosh Open and navigate to your older file PrintMusic takes a moment to convert it into the new format then opens it as an Untitled file If you save the file in PrintMusic using the same name as before you will not be able to reopen that file using an earlier version of PrintMusic It is suggested therefore that you save the file with a slightly d
109. ndle to select the shape and press the key For more information see the User Manual under SMART SHAPE TOOL 90 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions Before moving on you can choose to hide the Smart Shape Palette by deselecting it in the Window Menu Otherwise feel free to leave it on the screen SELECTION TOOL If you re flying along in the editing process and don t want to bother switching tools the Selection Tool can help speed you along Click on the Selection Tool and click on any marking Now you can move it delete it or right click Mac controf click on it for a list of other editing commands If you decide you need to do advanced editing double click on the marking to switch to the appropriate editing tool You can return to the Selection Tool at any time by clicking control shirt _ A Mac c 34 shift_ A The Selection Tool works on Measures Measure Tool Notes Simple Entry Smart Shapes Expressions Articulations Repeats Lyrics Chords Text Blocks Tuplets Time Signatures Key Signatures Clefs and Staff Names For more details see the User Manual under SELECTION TOOL PUTTING IN MANY ARTICULATIONS Let s learn some more about articulations The system you learned earlier for putting in articulations is fine for the occasional accent or staccato marking But what if you have a series of accented eighth notes Do you have to go through the Articulation Selection dialog box for
110. ndows MIDI Setup MIDI In MIDI Out i t Match Device Device On Olt MPU 401 JA SB Live MIDI Synth xl Vv MIDI In Latency 0 ms SoftSynth Settings Cancel Help The diagram below shows the MIDI Setup dialog box properly configured to play back through an external MIDI device Keep in mind that the specific driver names will change depending on what sound card or MIDI device you have MIDI Setup MIDI In MIDI Out 3 Match Device Device On Olt MPU 401 Defaut MIDI Output Device fo M MIDI In Latency 0 ms SoftSynth Settings Cancel Help For more information consult the User Manual under MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX You re all set to explore PrintMusic Skip to the next section HOW TO LEARN PRINTMUSIC xvi Installation for Macintosh INSTALLING PRINTMUSIC Windows users see the previous chapter INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS or skip over this chapter Installing PrintMusic onto your hard disk is easy Before you begin installing PrintMusic make sure there s enough room on your hard disk to hold the pro gram and its associated files For a full installation you ll need about one hundred megabytes 100 000K of free space on your hard disk You should also bear in mind that like many other software programs PrintMusic creates and makes use of temporary files during its normal operations which it then deletes from your hard disk when you exit the program We recomme
111. ng on page 2 when you start a new score using the Setup Wizard or a template e Double click in the bottom right comer of the page An editing frame appears e Type Page type a space then press cti _ Mac G 3 shift _ P This keyboard shortcut instructs PrintMusic to place a page number insert at the current cursor position You could 106 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing also select Page Number from the Inserts submenu of the Text Menu The number 1 appears surrounded by a box The box indicates that this number is not ordinary text but a dynamic insert meaning that if you created this insert on the second page of your score it would display the number 2 instead of the num ber 1 See TEXT TOOL in the User Manual for a further discus sion of inserts e Press ctr __ Mac 36 snift_ right bracket This key board shortcut instructs PrintMusic to align the text block with the right margin of the page You could also select Right from the Placement submenu of the Text Menu You have now suc cessfully entered a page number for your score We can quickly instruct PrintMusic to display your page number on every subse quent page without having to manually enter a different page number every time PRINTING BASICS There are essentially two kinds of printers that work with Print Music PostScript equipped printers suitable for professional pub lishing and non PostScript printers includin
112. nstallation is com plete The PrintMusic Installer lets you select which files you want installed and where you want them placed on your hard disk The Installer offers to create a folder called PrintMusic We recommend that you install all of the PrintMusic files into this new folder For the most part you can press Enter to confirm each screen s defaults If upon trying to install you get the error message Cannot find the file your CD DVD drive may be assigned to a letter other than D Look in My Computer to find out which letter is associated with your CD or DVD drive e Remove the Installer disc from the drive and store it in a safe place If anything happens to your hard disk you can reinstall PrintMusic from your original disc When you open any older Finale family notation file from the File Menu choose Open then navigate to your older file PrintMusic takes a moment to convert it into the new format then opens it as an Untitled file If you save the file in Print Music using the same name as before you will not be able to reopen that file using an earlier version of PrintMusic It is suggested therefore that you save the file with a slightly dif ferent name for instance My Score could become My Score 2 unless you are absolutely sure that you won t need to reopen it in an earlier version of PrintMusic PREPARING FOR PRINTING Before you can print from PrintMusic you mu
113. ntMusic s perception of time is so precise the program must round off or quantize each note in your performance to the nearest eighth note or whatever rhythmic value you specify in order to produce readable notation The following example has eighth notes in it so we selected the Eighth Note button under Smallest Note Value e Click OK You return to the score You ll try a slightly more ambitious HyperScribe experiment this time Ode to Joy e Click the HyperScribe Tool and click the first measure You don t need to erase your C scale a new HyperScribe pass overwrites whatever was there before e Play Ode to Joy as shown here e When you re finished click the mouse Scroll back to the first measure Look over your piece and see how you did Feel free to try it again anything new you record will simply overwrite whatever music is there now 63 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe SETTING THE TIME SIGNATURE AND BEAMING PATTERNS In the previous experiments you used PrintMusic s default setting of quarter note key taps In the next experiment you ll be trying a piece in 4 time which will require you to change some of HyperScribe s settings ns e Click the Time Signature Tool Double click the first measure The Time Signature dia log box appears e Using the upper scroll bar click the left scroll bar arrow once We have just specified there are three quarter notes per
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115. ore and ctr_ G 34 8 Down octave the selected region is G 38 9 Up Octave now up a third If a region including partial measures is too big to drag select e g on different pages drag select a smaller region that begins where desired navigate so the desired end point is in view then hold down shift and click to specify the end of the selection If you do want to select a whole measure double click the measure If you double click a second time and your score has more than one staff you extend the selection vertically to include the selected measures in every staff also called the measure stack The technique you just learned selecting a region then applying a command from the Utilities Menu is extremely powerful Select some music and then take a glance at the commands in this Menu to the other available options INSERTING STAVES Let s say we add a flute to our string quartet We could use the same technique for adding staves as before but this time we ll save some work and let the Wizard create them 115 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores Click the Staff Tool The Staff Menu appears We want to insert our flute staff above the Violin I staff Click on the handle of the Violin I staff The staff handle is a small box on the top staff line near the clef From the Staff Menu choose New Staves The Parts page of the Setup Wizard appears Double click on the Flute in the middle
116. ores particularly orchestral scores you will want to go through this whole tutorial By the end of this tutorial you should be able to create from scratch a conductor s score and parts If you have a document currently open close it e Open the document called Tutorial 5 This document cur rently consists of a single staff filled with music e From the View Menu select Scroll View You may find that it is easier to do all of your editing work in Scroll View where the music is laid out in a continuous horizontal band especially when working with scores that contain several staves e Click the Staff Tool From the Staff Menu choose New Staves The Staff Setup Wizard appears asking you what staves you would like to add e Click on Strings in the left column then double click Violin then Viola then Cello The three instruments appear in the right hand column e Click Finish PrintMusic has added three evenly spaced staves giving you a total of four let s imagine that you re going to create a string quartet To see more staves select a smaller view percentage from the View Menu Zoom submenu You can reposition a staff by grab bing its handle and dragging it up or down To remove a staff click it and then press delete 111 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores SETTING CLEFS AND STAFF NAMES If you use the Setup Wizard you ll have all of the clefs and staff names set up for
117. osh xxiii Status Bar 8 Staves Hiding 115 Inserting 115 Stems Layers 81 Subtitles 104 T Tablature 119 127 Changing the String and Fret Number 122 Copying Music To and From a Tab Staff 120 Entry directly into a tab staff 123 Technical support vii Templates 35 Tempo 56 Text Menu Font 105 Inserts Page Number 107 Justification 106 Placement Center Horizontally 106 Right 107 Size 105 Text Tool 104 Ties Simple Entry 12 Speedy Entry 53 Time Changing the Meter in Sim ple Entry 29 Changing the Time Signature 71 Setting the Time Signature 4 Time Signature Tool 64 71 Time Signatures 64 Titles 104 Transcribing a Melody 63 Index Transcribing a Scale 61 Transposing 114 Transposing Instruments 116 Tuplet Tool 29 44 Tuplets 44 Speedy Entry 44 Two handed HyperScribing 64 Type Into Score 73 U Undo 41 Upbeat 97 Update Layout 97 99 Use MIDI Keyboard for Input 36 User Manual xxvii Utilities Menu Fit Measures 95 Music Spacing 98 Transpose 115 Vv Verses 74 Vertical scroll bar 8 View Menu Home Position 51 103 105 Scale View 61 Scroll View 111 W Word Extensions 73 147 Index 148
118. ou can use keyboard shortcuts to change the key and meter Hold down cti _ Mac eption and click on any note in measure 1 For this example we ll select a note with the mouse In the future you can use this method at any 29 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry 30 time while entering with the Simple Entry Caret or whenever a note is selected in the score The key and time signature change appears at the beginning of the measure you are editing unless specified otherwise in the Key or Time Signature dialog box Clef changes appear at the position of the caret or to the left of a selected note Hold down at__ Mac eption and press K The Key Signature dialog box appears On the scroll bar to the right of the key signature display click the up arrow twice We ll change the key signature to A major Click OK The key change appears at the beginning of the first measure You ll learn more about the Key Signature dialog box in chapter 2 Now let s say we want to change the time signature Hold down Mac eption and press T The Time signature dialog box appears Here you can change the number of beats and beat duration using the arrows on the right For now leave the time signature set to common time You ll learn more about this dialog box in chapter 2 Click OK Now let s say we want to change the clef Hold down at__ Mac fotion and press C The Change Clef dialog box appears Select a new cle
119. our name Click Next The Wizard asks for the time signature and the key signature We ll leave these settings alone for now Click Next The Wizard asks you to specify a tempo pickup measure and default music font Again we can leave these set tings alone Click Finish The document opens with a standard notation staff above a tablature staff You are now ready to begin enter ing your music 119 Tutorial 6 Guitar Notation The document you just created is already set up to take into account the standard guitar transposition which sounds an octave lower than written Now let s learn the best way to enter music into a guitar score COPYING MUSIC TO AND FROM A TAB STAFF There are a few ways to enter into a tab staff We ll start with the most basic copying music directly from a standard staff into tab lature To demonstrate this we ll start with a document that already contains music in standard notation e Open the tutorial document called Tutorial 6 A score titled Spanish Dance No 2 appears The first eight measures con tain standard notation but no tab Here s how to create tab from existing music in standard notation e Click the Selection Tool e Click the first measure so it is highlighted e Hold down the Shift sft_ key and click measure 4 Now measures one through four should be highlighted Drag the highlighted region down to the tab staff and release the mouse button
120. pad Commands SPEEDY ENTRY KEYBOARD COMMANDS Change single Remove note With Option from chord Tie untie previous note With Option Freeze unfreeze note to rest accidental f delete backspace Remove note rest or chord clear f Tie untie Break join to next beam to note previous note a Previous Next measure measure r Add or remove accidental O s 9 Flip Half step increase VC return Down a staff With Shift Up a staff Voice 1 2 Half step decrease b With Continue accidental through measure With 9 Flip enharmonic hift With Opt and number Insert note or rest w MIDI Enter rest Constrain dragging Add note to chord through measure option Up Y Down astep astep Change Exit measure and Test pends to note Reenter measure 0 With a number 1 8 Begin tuplet 38 With Option 128th note Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry Since the MIDI keyboard is providing PrintMusic with the pitch information all you have to do to provide the rhythmic information is press the proper number key If you re holding down a MIDI keyboard key when you press a number key you get a note If no MIDI keyboar
121. r staccatos and breathmarks actually affect the articulation of the notes in playback You ll soon discover that all of the dynamic markings in the Expression Tool and some of the Articulations have been defined for playback as soon Mac users when the Playback Controls are visible simply pressing the spacebar will start playback 92 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions as you place them into your score they affect the playback in a musical way Remember you can also define playback tempo on any Expres sion WHEN YOU RE READY TO CONTINUE Choose Save from the File Menu if you haven t already done so If you think you ve done enough for one session choose Exit Mac Quit from the File Menu and you ll return to the desktop If you want to go on close this document and turn to the next tutorial FOR MORE INFORMATION Some of the entries in the User Manual contain discussions of topics you ve just covered See for example METATOOLS STACCATO MARKS 93 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions 94 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing Although Finale automatically updates the score layout as you enter music any measure staff system or page can be resized dragged or nudged as you see fit Once you learn a few basic Selec tion Tool and Page Layout procedures you ll see how easy it is to ensure a beautiful and precise layout for any score To prepare for this lesson open the document calle
122. rd symbols They ll even transpose if you change the key To adjust the distance between the fretboard diagrams and the staff choose Position Fretboards from the Chord Menu and drag the leftmost triangle up or down See the User Man ual under FRETBOARD DIAGRAMS for full instructions WORKING WITH INNER VOICES LAYERS In this example let s suppose that you ve decided to add a few harmony notes PrintMusic lets you have up to four voices independent lines of music each with its own stem per staff Most of the time you ll probably need only two voices stems up and stems down You ll find such music especially easy to notate in PrintMusic because every staff can have four completely independent layers of music You can think of them as clear plastic overlays because each layer is utterly independent each can even have its own MIDI channel for playback You can flip easily from one layer to the other and even hide the ones you re not working on 81 Tutorial 2 Adding Details 82 For Windows click the Layer 2 push button in the lower left corner of the screen For Macintosh choose Layer 2 from the pop up menu in the lower left corner of the screen You ve just made Layer 2 the active layer of every staff Click the Simple Entry Tool Click the half note icon in the Simple Entry palette or press 6 on the numeric keypad to select a half note duration Position your cursor on the A below middle
123. rd you hit it and how long you held it down But to convert your performance to standard notation the computer needs to know how each note s duration relates to the beat and the measure To address this issue PrintMusic produces a metronome click while you play HyperScribe by the way isn t just for keyboard virtuosos No matter how slowly you go HyperScribe is still an excellent means of entering music single line or simple music in particular into a score Even non keyboardists often come to prefer Hyper Scribe for quick accurate note entry With the MicNotator fea ture you can even play your favorite instrument like clarinet or saxophone to enter notes See MICNOTATOR in the User Manual for more details In the following sections you ll give HyperScribe a try For a more complete discussion of various settings and how you might 59 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe use them see the User Manual under HYPERSCRIBE TOOL or the QUANTIZATION GUIDE in the Appendix CREATING A NEW DEFAULT DOCUMENT There are hundreds of variables in published music notation thickness of the staff lines size of the notes distance between accidentals in a key signature and so on PrintMusic will let you change settings for some of these variable However you probably won t want to set up your favorite design rules each time you create a new piece Teaching PrintMusic pre cisely how you like your music to look could take you half an
124. ress 5 If youare usmga MIDI While entering chords hold device play the triad D3 F3 down and type an and A3 simultaneously to interval to add notes lower enter the next chord then than the selected pitch play C3 F3 and A3 to finish the measure You can play up to 12 notes at once to add a chord 27 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry e If you are not using a MIDI device type the following use the number row for numbers D 3 3 Then C 4 and 3 to complete the measure TUPLETS Tuplets are any irregular grouping including triplets quin tuplets and so on We ll cover tuplets briefly here see TUPLETS in Tutorial 1b for a more in depth lesson Let s enter a triplet to the second beat of measure 7 and then learn how to change existing entries to a triplet e Click on the Eraser Tool 7 then click on the last two notes in measure 7 in the top staff First we ll place the caret in the staff as if we were entering this music for the first time e Hold down fecti _ Mac extion and click the middle line Bin measure 7 The note is selected e Press enter The Caret appears on beat 2 e Type numeric keypad 4 and then A to add the first eighth note e Press numeric keypad 9 or 7 oa QWERTY 9 to begin a triplet PrintMusic adds a triplet bracket and automatically fills out the triplet with rests as shown in the image to the right The note you just entered is the first note of the triplet Now
125. ress the number that corresponds to the interval above or below the selected note to add it to the chord Let s try entering and adding chords to the left hand e Click the Selection Tool First we ll clear a measure to use for this example e Click and drag over measures 7 and 8 in the bottom staff so they are highlighted and then press backspace Mac clear e Click the Simple Entry Tool and double click the Quarter Note Tool In measure 7 click on the A top line in the left hand 26 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry Move the cursor down a third to the F line and click Now click the middle line D A chord with D F and A are added to the measure Press enter to activate the caret The caret appears Type D to enter a D on beat 2 Now you can type an inter val to add additional notes in a chord Type 4 on the number row above the QWERTY keyboard PrintMusic adds a note of the same duration a fourth above the D G Notice the G is now selected To add another note a third above G you would type 3 You can also add notes to a chord using note names Hold down and press E Finale places an E in the chord Note holding down and pressing 3 would have also added the E Print Music automatically moves the D notehead as an interval of a second to the left of the stem Now the caret should appear at the beginning of measure 8 on the bottom staff P
126. s and their associated lines control two distinct sets of margins Page margins which allow you to determine how much of the page from side to side and from top to bot tom you will use for the music and staff system margins which allow you to indent staff systems increase the space allotted to systems and so on A staff system or system for short is one line of music no matter how many instruments staves are in it As you ve no doubt already guessed the lines that run to the edges of the page are the currently defined page margins The rectangles that enclose the three systems of music are the staff system margins Each system has two handles one at the 100 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing upper left corner and one at the lower right corner To manip ulate any margin simply drag its handle You can even drag enclose margin handles or select all margin handles with control Mac 3 A To move the entire system creating more space between systems for a choreographer s note or a title simply click on the system and drag it into place The page currently appears based on Finale s default layout settings You might decide there is some extra space above the top system we ll move the music higher on the page Click the top left For precise positioning from the Page handle of the first Layout Menu choose Systems and then system and drag Edit Margins Here you can specify down about an inch spacing numerical
127. s now selected Type the pitches B B C D 1 12 C B to complete measures 11 e and 12 If you are using a MIDI keyboard note that you 19 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry 20 can also simply play the pitches You will learn more about MIDI input soon Windows users hold down cti __ Mac users and press _ Selection moves to the bottom staff Hold down ct __ G and press i_ again to select the low est note of the chord Press Selection moves to the next measure in the bottom staff Using the arrow keys you can navigate to any note in your score Windows users hold down ctr _ Mac users and click the second quarter note in measure 13 Then press 5 in the numeric keypad and then press The caret appears on the first beat of measure 14 If you have a MIDI device such as a MIDI keyboard you can use it to easily specify pitches in Simple Entry If you do not have a MIDI device skip to the step marked Non MIDI users First ensure your MIDI device is properly configured with your computer See earlier chapters INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS or INSTALLATION FOR MAC depending on the platform you are using for information on setting up a MIDI device Then continue with the following steps From the Simple Menu ensure Use MIDI Device for Input is checked If it is not select it from the menu On your MIDI device play B4 B above middle C Print Music adds a B to the
128. sers option click squarely on the notehead of the dotted quarter note press the down arrow three times until the stem direction changes PrintMusic doesn t simply flip the stem it also relocates the accent mark to the other side of the note Press the up arrow three times to move it back into place Now let s add a couple dynamic markings Click the Expression Tool For the moment let s put in a mf mark ing To add an expression while entering with the caret in Simple Entry press the X key 87 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions e Position the cursor below the first note of the top staff just to the left of the note Double click where you want the marking to appear The Expression Selection dialog box appears Expression Selection Below Staff Velocity 1 Cancel Below Staff Velocity 1 Below Staff Velocity 84 Edit Below Staff Velocity 74 Lee Below Staff Velocity 64 m Duplicate Below Staff Velocity 44 Below Staff Velocity 34 Below Staff Velocity 2 Move Down Below Staff Velocity 1 Below Staff ikek Below Staff Below Staff e Double click on mf The mf marking is now in this staff If you want to adjust its position drag its handle To delete any expression click its handle and press delete ADDING A SLUR As a quick exercise let s add some slurs to the score e Click the Smart Shape Tool The Smart Shape Pa
129. st set up Windows to work with your printer See your Microsoft Windows User Manual for details For information on printing in PrintMusic see PRINTING in the User Manual or consult TUTORIAL 3 in this volume X Installation for Windows SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM If you are not using MIDI skip this section If you re just getting started with MIDI this section provides basic instructions for connecting your equipment MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface It s the language spoken by computers and electronic musical instru ments We ll assume that you re connecting a MIDI keyboard although you can use any MIDI instrument In this book MIDI keyboard refers to whatever type of MIDI device you are using We will assume that your computer is equipped with a sound card which is designed to also act as a MIDI interface and has the appropriate driver software installed If you are using a dedi cated MIDI interface you will need to consult its documentation for instructions on setting up your MIDI system At the very least in addition to the sound card you will need the following equip ment for an operational MIDI system not including your com puter A MIDI keyboard Amplifier speaker or headphones A MIDI cable the sound card accessory which connects to the card s game joystick port on one end and has two MIDI cables on the other end The last item a MIDI cable is an optional accessory whi
130. syllable PrintMusic auto matically scrolls the music as you enter the lyrics so you always know where you are As you type there are a few things you should know If you make a mistake just backspace over it by pressing the key Mac delete If you backspace to the previous syllable PrintMusic highlights the whole syllable for you so that you can replace it all at once with anything you type If you want to change a word you ve already typed click in the staff above the syllable in question so that it s highlighted then type in your correction As you type the rest of these lyrics you ll encounter some syl lables that are supposed to be held through two melody notes knee Im goin to Lou si In such cases just skip past the sustained note by pressing the space bar PrintMusic will create word extensions for you when appropriate Use the space bar to skip past rests 73 Tutorial 2 Adding Details e Finish typing the first verse Pm space goin to Low si a na my space true love for to see space Oh Su san nah now don t you cry for me Oh I come from Al a ba ma with a ban jo on my knee The two small triangles at the left edge of the screen control the baseline of the lyrics the imaginary line upon which the bottom edges of the words sit If you drag the triangle you ll find that you can move the baseline and all the attached lyr ics up and down ADDING A SECOND VERSE As it happens
131. t Tool 44 gt and click measure 2 Click the Speedy Entry Tool While playing any MIDI keyboard key press the 5 key four times You ve just entered four quarter notes on the same pitch If PrintMusic doesn t automatically advance the editing frame to the next measure press the right bracket key Press ctr __ 3 Mac option 3 You do this before entering a triplet PrintMusic puts a tiny 3 in the upper right of the editing frame letting you know it s expecting the next three notes to constitute a triplet While playing any MIDI keyboard key press the 6 key three times As soon as the third note appears PrintMusic centers the 3 over the triplet You ve just created a half note triplet Press the 0 zero key to exit the editing frame In measure 2 you have four quarter notes in measure 3 you have a half note triplet You can modify each with the Tuplet Tool Click the Tuplet Tool in the Main Tool Palette Click the first quarter note in measure 2 The Tuplet Definition dialog box appears At the top of the screen there are various options for defining the temporal time definition of the triplet Using these drop down lists and text boxes you ll answer the question How many of what value are to be played in the time of how many of what value Look at the two text boxes at the top of the Tuplet Definition dialog box As you see PrintMusic has guessed t
132. t Tool t Only the Flat Tool is selected On the last note of measure 9 in the top staff click on the A An A flat appears next to the quarter note Click on the Half Step Down Tool 3 Click the A again A double flat appears next to the A The Half Step Up Down Tools are relative they increment the pitch up or down a half step with each click When you selected the Half Step Down Tool the Flat Tool auto matically deselected You can only have one accidental tool selected at one time Let s try a sharp now Click on the Sharp Tool Click the first note of measure 9 G flat A sharp appears next to the note Also notice Finale automatically places a flat on the second G flat because it is no longer 9 25 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry implied by the first Because this melody probably wouldn t sound too great we ll remove the sharp and the double flat e Click on the Eraser Tool e Click the Sharp and the double flat to remove them These items disappear as you click CHORDS Building chords is a snap with Simple Entry To add notes with the mouse just select the same p duration icon as the note already entered then move the cursor above or below a note Notice vertical lines appear above and below the note as shown to the right This indicator tells you that a click will add a note to the chord While entering with the Simple Entry Caret simply p
133. t is taken care of automatically Otherwise select one of the other options for Manual via WebSite FAX or mail and a window will be displayed con taining a User Code You may enter this code at www finale music com register print out this page and FAX or mail it to us or call with your serial number and User Code In any case we will generate an Authorization Code that you manu ally type in to complete the process Subsequently our system automatically sends an e mail confirmation of the informa tion If you selected the internet option but have a firewall that blocked the information from being received then you xiii Installation for Windows xiv can manually type in the Authorization Code information pro vided Your copy of PrintMusic can be authorized on one operating system at a time but with an Internet connection authoriza tion can be moved from one computer to another at will Sim ply choose Deauthorize PrintMusic from the Help Menu to open up a free authorization slot Your copy of PrintMusic can now be authorized on a different computer or another OS installed on the same computer if for example you are run ning both Mac and Windows on an Intel based Mac Also deauthorize prior to making hardware changes to your com puter such as replacing a hard drive Doing so will ensure a slot is open to authorize after updating your hardware When you deauthorize printing and saving are disabled until autho rizat
134. taff If the chord symbols appear too low or too high in your score remember that just like lyrics you can drag the leftmost posi tioning triangle up or down to move the baseline of the chords So far so good now you need to advance the cursor to the right in preparation to enter the next chord symbol To signal PrintMusic that you want to move on to the next chord you play any MIDI keyboard key above middle C Play a single note any note above middle C If you want to move backward play a single note below middle C Play three more single notes above middle C You ve just moved the ear cursor to the next downbeat where there s another chord Oh I come from Al a ba ma with rained all night the day I left Tutorial 2 Adding Details Play another C chord this time in first inversion E on the bottom This time PrintMusic writes C E a C triad with an E in the bass Continue adding the chords this way advance to the next spot by playing a single key above middle C and then play the chord If you don t play the chord in root position PrintMusic notates the chord symbol as a triad over a bass note separated by a slash You can add any chord symbols you want one example is shown here 79 Tutorial 2 Adding Details Title c C E Oh I come from Al a ba ma with a rained all night the day I left the C G G7 C ban jo on my knee Pm gow to Low si wea
135. te Layout from the Edit menu Use Time Signature Spacing in the Utilities Menu Music Spacing submenu to restore default spacing When you use the Music Spacing command you correct the spacing of the notes lyrics and accidentals of your piece PrintMusic still must calculate the effects of your respacing on the layout of the measures If you ever notice that mea 98 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing sures seem too wide or too narrow select Update Layout from the Edit Menu or press ct _ U Mac G 3 backslash THE PAGE LAYOUT TOOL The units of measurement PrintMusic normally uses are inches You can work in whatever units you feel most comfortable with From the Edit Menu choose Measurement Units from the submenu choose Inches if it s not already selected e Click the Page Layout Tool D To view your entire Your page of sheet music is page click on the View instantly covered with a series of Menu select Zoom then horizontal and vertical lines with Fit in Window handles attached Although this may appear confusing at first the function of the handles will become clear as we examine the page in depth 99 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing Page margins Traditional Scottish Top and D left system et i s A margins f Should old a cquaint ance be forgot and ne verbrought f 5 System Lock icons Bottom and System right system Numbers margins The handle
136. test the MIDI setup Click the Test Setup button on the upper right The cursor changes into two eighth notes Click the down arrow beneath a device s icon iy Your com puter sends a message to your MIDI device You see the Out light illuminate on your MIDI interface and or a sound played on the MIDI device Click the Internal Speaker icon in the upper right corner of the finder and drag the slider near the top to ensure the vol ume is up as shown here Play a note on the external MIDI device The external MIDI device sends a message to your computer You see the In light on your MIDI interface illuminates and or hear a beep from your computer s internal speaker Quit Audio MIDI Setup Now that you have set up MIDI with OS X skip directly to STARTING PRINTMUSIC xxii Installation for Macintosh STARTING PRINTMUSIC Double click on the PrintMusic icon on your Desktop When you launch PrintMusic for the first time you will see the Autho rize PrintMusic dialog box This dialog box continues to appear each time you launch PrintMusic until the product is authorized Click Authorize Now to start the PrintMusic Authorization Wizard Follow the simple instructions to authorize your copy of PrintMusic Or click Remind Me Later to authorize at a later time You have 30 days to authorize your copy of Print Music After 30 days printing and saving are disabled until your copy of PrintMus
137. the A new menu appears on internal speaker on a the menu bar called Hyper Macintosh select the MIDI Scribe where you ll make Menu then Internal Speaker your transcription settings Playback From the HyperScribe Menu choose Recording Tempo and Click In the Recording Tempo and Click dialog box you specify a start signal set a tempo for recording by default shown on the Playback Controls In the Tempo box enter the desired tempo If you are fairly proficient at the keyboard you might want to try a tempo of 96 Beginner keyboardists might prefer a tempo closer to 60 for the following example Your default setting for Beat should be a quarter Recording Tempo and Click MPD gt Beat equals an i l D D Cancel Click OK That s it PrintMusic is now ready to provide you with a metronome click 61 Tutorial 1c HyperScribe From the HyperScribe Menu choose Record Mode Make sure Record into One Staff is selected Click the first measure A dotted frame surrounds the mea sure you clicked indicating that PrintMusic is ready for you to begin It doesn t matter whether you play staccato or legato short or connected notes HyperScribe expands any note you play to the beginning of the next note or beat so that you won t find scattered sixteenth rests cluttering your music when you re finished PrintMusic is waiting for you to send a signal that you re ready Because we s
138. the end of each tutorial you ll find a short section called FOR MORE INFORMATION which directs you to some how to s in the User Manual that relate to the topics you ve just covered If you don t read any other tutorials do take a look at Tutorial la e The Status Bar Win or Message Bar Mac shows you the name of each tool you click and tells you what your next step should be On Windows it also displays a description of each menu or e Help provides context sensitive help Click the Help button or press F1 Win or Help Mac in any dialog box to show a discussion of the dialog box e QuickStart Video Tips are a series of videos that run on your computer and give you step by step instructions on the use of many of PrintMusic s tools and features The Video Tips which can be accessed through the Help Menu are designed to enhance and support these tutorials Feel free to use these Tips at any time to review any of the procedures outlined in this book e The User Manual is the most powerful and comprehensive of the instructional tools available to you Here you will find detailed descriptions of each of PrintMusic s tools dialog boxes and other features as well as step by step instruc tions on how to perform any task in PrintMusic It is highly xxvii How to Learn PrintMusic recommended that you take a few moments to familiarize yourself with this tool Select the Help Menu then choose User Manual SOME TERM
139. ther it was dry The sun so hot I C G G7 c c7 a n my true love for to see froze to death Su san nah don t you cry F G 10 Oh Su san nah now don t you cy for Oh Su san nah now dont you cy for G7 c C E me Oh I come from A ila ba ma with a L come from A la ba ma with a C G G7 Cc L ban jo on my knee It ban jo on my knee You ll find that PrintMusic has no problem transcribing the G7 in measure 5 You can play seventh chords ninths aug mented diminished and even more complex chords and PrintMusic will have no problem understanding you 80 Tutorial 2 Adding Details If you make a mistake choose Undo from the Edit Menu click the note and play the chord again Here s how you tell Print Music that you re finished entering chords e Click any blank part of the screen Go ahead play it back Click Play gt on the Playback Controls You ll discover that PrintMusic plays the chord symbols wherever they occur You can also disable the playback function of chords if you like see the User Manual under CHORD SYMBOLS Now suppose yow re just about ready to print when you find out that this Oh Susannah is going to be a piece of popular sheet music with guitar fretboard diagrams above the staff No problem e From the Chord Menu choose Show Fretboards PrintMusic instantly places full blown fretboard diagrams underneath the regular cho
140. this point you d return to the score where the first staff s name would now appear However as long as you re at it you may as well set up the other staves e From the staff drop down list at the top of the Staff Attributes dialog box choose Violin Staff 2 The contents of the dialog box change to reflect the staff attributes of the second staff in the score e Rename this staff Violin II and enter Vln II as its abbreviated name then click OK e Double click the bracket handle A small box at either end of the bracket The bracket attributes dialog box appears e Click where it says Violin II in the Staff drop down list Select Violin I to include the Violin I staff in the bracket Bracket Attributes Staff Through Cello v Bracket Style Cancel Help e Click OK Your bracket should now surround the staves of your entire string quartet 113 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores SELECTING PARTIAL MEASURES TRANSPOSING A REGION Up to this point you ve done all your manipulation of music in one measure increments Using the Selection Tool you ve clicked a measure to select it drag enclosed several whole measures clicked the first measure and shift clicked the last measure or clicked in the left margin to select an entire staff But selecting a measure at a time is like selecting a word at a time in a word processor it s a nice shortcut but sometimes you need to select in smaller units
141. tion the tenth fret of the fifth string Simple Entry makes this task easy Click the Simple Entry Tool While pressing the ct Mac fton key on the fifth mea sure click the 5 on the fourth string and drag it down to the fifth string You will see that this fingering has moved to the new string and fret and the number has changed accordingly You can also use the up arrow and down arrow to move selected tab numbers between strings or the left arrow and right arrow to move selection between fret numbers horizontally You can also easily change the fret number The Simple Entry Tool should still be selected While pressing the cri _ Mac gution key click any fret num ber in the tab staff The tab number changes color to indicate it is selected In the Numeric Keypad or while holding down ct__ snift_ or on Mac eption shift_ type a new number You can now use the numeric keypad numpad to enter any one or two digit number Hit the or key to raise or lower the fret number by one Remember that when you change the fret number you are effectively changing its pitch To ensure the standard notation accurately represents the tablature drag the tablature up to the standard notation staff with Selection Tool ENTRY DIRECTLY INTO A TAB STAFF In addition to copying from a standard notation staff you can also enter tab directly into a tab staff This comes in handy
142. ttach anything to can click on above or them such as lyrics below a note it doesn t articulations expressions or matter PrintMusic s artic chord symbols ulations are smart they jump into place centered on the notehead automatically 85 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions e Click the dotted quarter note in the Trombone 2 staff in mea sure 3 The Articulation Selection dialog box appears Articulation Selection Incidentally some symbols such as have been defined to flip upside down automatically when a note s stem direction changes as a result of a transposition for example Articula tions with an associated upside down symbol appear side by side in their selection square e Double click the accent mark top row third from left Dou ble clicking an Articulation in this dialog box is the same as clicking once then clicking Select When you return to the score you can see that PrintMusic not only centered the accent on the notehead but it also knew which side of the note top or bottom to use You can over ride PrintMusic s placement decision of course to move the 86 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions mark drag its handle You can also delete a mark by clicking its handle and pressing delete So that you understand what s happening behind the scenes try this experiment Click the Simple Entry Tool Windows users ctrl__ click Mac u
143. ual Mac ootion equal ties a note to the previous note You can tie all notes of a chord at once by positioning the cross bar on the chord stem and not on any notehead And if you re working on a score with several staves pressing shift_ down arrow Mac return moves the editing frame down to the next lower staff pressing shift_ wp arrow Mac shift_ return moves it back up 53 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry Finally if you ever want to hide an entry a note or rest just position the insertion bar on it and press the letter h key the entry appears lightly in the score and will not print Also when you begin working with PrintMusic s four transparent staff layers called Layer 1 through 4 you can flip through the layers by pressing shift_ apostrophe Mac shift_ down arrow or shift _ wp arrow There s no need to learn all of these key commands now But it might be useful for you to keep the Speedy Entry Keyboard Commands diagram handy If you ever add too many augmentation dots press the appropriate number key to return the note to the original duration PLAYBACK Yow re about to discover that your folk song masterpiece Oh Susannah not only looks good it sounds good too It doesn t matter which tool is currently selected e From the Window Menu choose Playback Controls if they re not already on the screen The Playback Controls appear On Windows the P
144. uch as pages only two systems full The default settings are fine so just click OK Voila All of your systems are spaced evenly between the top and bottom margins of the page THE RESIZE TOOL You ve already experimented with the Zoom command in the View Menu This command and the options on its submenu allow you to zoom in to and zoom out from your document magnify ing or reducing your view of it During the entire process however the actual size of the music the printed image remains precisely the same The Resize Tool however can resize the music itself For this example use the document called Tutorial 4 that you ve been working on to this point and scroll to page 1 102 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing Click the Resize Tool The amount of music to be resized depends on where you click on the screen Press the Home key Or scroll to the top left of the page Click to the left of the top staff The Resize Staff dialog box appears asking how much to resize the staff Resize Staff Resize Staff to 100 Staff System Range C System Through System f Through End of Piece Cancel Help Type 80 and click OK You ve just created a cue or rehearsal staff at 80 of the normal staff size Click the upper left corner of the To resize a system using page The Resize Page dialog box Resize Staff System you appears must have more than one staff otherwise
145. uding renting the SOFTWARE and CPU together to other users 5 COPY RESTRICTIONS You may make one copy of the SOFT WARE solely for backup purposes The backup copy automatically becomes the property of MAKEMUSIC and is subject to this License Agreement You must reproduce MAKEMUSIC s copyright notice on the backup copy 6 AUTHORIZATION You have 30 days from date of installation of the SOFTWARE to authorize each copy of the SOFTWARE The first time you launch the SOFTWARE you will be prompted to authorize the SOFTWARE via the Internet phone fax or mail If you choose not to authorize you will be prompted to do so each time you launch the SOFTWARE If authorization is not completed within thirty days print ing and saving are disabled until you choose to authorize 7 SUPPORT AND UPDATE POLICY MAKEMUSIC is not responsi ble for maintaining or helping you to use the SOFTWARE except through MAKEMUSIC s CUSTOMER SUPPORT SYSTEM From time to time MAKEMUSIC may update the SOFTWARE By register ing the SOFTWARE with MAKEMUSIC by any of the various meth ods permitted you will be able to use MAKEMUSIC s CUSTOMER SUPPORT SYSTEM In addition you will receive information regard ing updated versions of the SOFTWARE Future upgrades will be made available to licensees who have registered the SOFTWARE with MAKEMUSIC and paid an Upgrade Fee 136 License Agreement 8 TERMINATION This License Agreement is effective upon installa tio
146. uintet Title Subtitle Composer Arranger String Quartet and Copyright inserts are included Orchestra String Small Concert Band Brass Trio European Engraved Brass Choir Woodwind Trio Woodwind Choir Score Page Size Letter 8 5 x11 7 Portrait C Landscape This page lists ensembles and document styles you can use to customize a new document For now we simply need a single staff score in the standard Engraved style so we ll leave the Ensemble list as is and use the Engraved Style which is already selected e Click Next The Add or Delete Instrument s page appears e In the first column click on the word Keyboards A list of common keyboards appears in the second column e Inthe second column click on the word Piano click Add Now the third column contains the piano you intend to use in this score You should be aware that the order in which the instru ments appear in the third column is the order in which they will appear from top to bottom in your score If Tutorial 1a Simple Entry you are creating a multi instrument score and the Doc ument Setup Wizard incorrectly orders your instru ments you can use the small up and down arrows to move the instruments around in the list until they are correct Your Wizard should now look like this Document Setup Wizard Select Instrument s Page 2 of 4 Plucked Strings Percussion Marching Percussion Add gt lt Remove M Score
147. ure feature off how will you move from measure to measure 39 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry e Press the left bracket key on your keyboard PrintMusic moves you back to the first measure The left and right bracket keys move the current editing frame one measure to the left or right respectively e Now press the left arrow and right arrow keys on the key board a few times The insertion bar moves by one note or rest each time you press the right or left arrow key You can also move the insertion bar by clicking a note with the mouse EDITING WITH SPEEDY ENTRY e Position the insertion bar on the first note middle C and press the 4 key In PrintMusic 4 means an eighth note so your middle C quarter note has just changed duration rhyth mic value In PrintMusic if you enter a rhythm incorrectly there s no need to delete the note and reenter it simply line up the insertion bar with the note and press the desired duration key Whenever you change a note s duration or enter a new note the insertion bar moves to the right ready for you to enter a new note or rest or to change the rhythmic value of an exist ing note e Press the 4 key three Vi more times You ve now changed all four a notes in this measure to eighth notes They re automatically beamed e Position the mouse pointer squarely on the last note s note head Click and drag this F to the F line an octave
148. uters and MIDI devices Most MIDI devices are keyboards but there are also guitar string wind per cussion and even voice MIDI controllers As mentioned earlier the term MIDI keyboard will be used to refer to whatever MIDI device youre using If you need help hooking up your MIDI device look at the section called SETTING UP YOUR MIDI SYSTEM in the INSTALLATION CHAPTERS earlier in this book If you begin this tutorial and find that your MIDI keyboard isn t operating correctly you may want to consult the User Manual under MIDI SETUP DIALOG BOX Remember a MIDI keyboard isn t required for Speedy Entry CREATING A NEW DOCUMENT FROM A TEMPLATE PrintMusic comes with more than 30 different kinds of templates piano vocal scores choral setups chamber orchestra scores and so on to help you get started Not sure what size to make your 35 Tutorial 1b Speedy Entry concert band score so all of the instruments fit vertically on a page Use the template Occasionally write a pop lead sheet that doesn t use classical formatting Use the Lead Sheet template If you find you use a particular template every single time you may wish to make it your default file the template the Setup Wizard uses We ll start this tutorial with the Lead Sheet template and create an arrangement of the folk song Oh Susannah If you haven t already started PrintMusic do so now Close any documents that may be open or cancel out of the Wizard
149. utorial 2 Adding Details 69 Changing the Key 69 Changing the Time Signature 71 Entering Lyrics Type into Score 72 Adding a Second Verse 74 Table of Contents The Repeat Tool 74 Chord Symbols Optional Section 77 Working with Inner Voices Layers 81 Tutorial 3 Articulations amp Expressions 85 Basic Articulations and Expressions 85 Adding a Slur 88 Putting in Many Articulations 91 Markings that Play Back 92 Tutorial 4 Layout amp Printing 95 Measure Layout 95 Pickup Measures 97 Spacing the Music 97 The Page Layout Tool 99 The Resize Tool 102 The Text Tool 104 Printing Basics 107 Tutorial 5 Working with Scores 111 Setting Clefs and Staff Names 112 Inserting Staves 115 Transposing Instruments 116 Tutorial 6 Guitar Notation 119 Creating Guitar Tablature 119 Copying Music to and from a Tab Staff 120 Changing the String and Fret Number 122 Entry Directly into a Tab Staff 123 Making the Most of PrintMusic 129 Scanning Music 131 iii Table of Contents License Agreement 135 Index 143 THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING PRINTMUSIC PrintMusic is a powerful integrated program for music transcrip tion notation playback and publishing Incorporating elements of a word processor a graphics designer a sequencer and a page layout program PrintMusic has all the power you need to create beautiful looking sheet music and a quality Audio MIDI performance This program has the potential to help you produce more
150. y it to the Maestro Font Default Here s how e From the File Menu choose Open Navigate to the PrintMusic Component files folder On Windows from the Files of Type drop down list choose FTM e Double click the file Maestro Font Default A new default file opens e Make any desired changes For example from the Document Menu choose Select Default Fonts to change default fonts for various document elements e From the File Menu choose Save e On Windows from the Files of Type drop down list choose Fianle Template File Mac users skip to the next step 129 Making the Most of PrintMusic e Name the file Maestro Font Default and click save You replace the old Maestro Font Default with your new one Now the settings you made apply for new documents Note that you will only be able to use this feature if the Maestro Font Default file is located in the PrintMusic Component Files folder If this file is removed from the Component Files folder PrintMusic will open a completely blank unformulated one mea sure score when you choose File gt New gt New Default Document or begin a new score with the Setup Wizard ORDER OF ENTRY In general you can make the most of your time by creating your documents in the following order Save your work frequently The list below is just one possibility you may find a different order suits your style better 1 Use the Setup Wizard or a template to define the instruments and b
151. you can type the letter names to fill the triplet with notes e Type F and E to complete the triplet The cursor advances to the next measure You can also use the mouse to change an existing note to a triplet 28 Tutorial 1a Simple Entry To click a tuplet onto the staff with your mouse choose the rhythmic duration and the Tuplet Tool in the Sim ple Palette and click to create the tuplet Then simply click the rests to fill in the tuplet PrintMusic will ignore attempts to create a nested tuplet with the Simple Tuplet Tool If you want nested tuplets ratios or other fancy tuplets see the TUPLET TOOL in the User Manual Now we ll change the first three eighth notes in mea sure 2 to a triplet Double click the Tuplet Tool on the Simple Entry Palette Only the Tuplet icon should be highlighted in the Simple Palette Click the first beat on the top staff measure 2 The existing eighth notes are now enclosed in a triplet bracket To enter more advanced tuplets hold down Mac option and press numeric keypad 9 when using the caret Or hold down shift _ and click the score The Simple Entry Tuplet Definition dialog box appears where you can specify more advanced tuplets such as quintuplets septuplets and the like See SIMPLE ENTRY TUPLET DEFINITION DIALOG BOX in the User Manual for details CHANGING THE KEY SIGNATURE TIME SIGNA TURE AND CLEF While entering with Simple Entry y
152. ype into Chord Mena Score feature which doesn t require a keyboard If most of your work won t require chord symbols you can skip this section keyboard click on the This section assumes that you ve completed the Oh Susannah lead sheet up through the last section If not choose Open from the File Menu open the document called Tutorial 2b which is complete to this point e Scroll to the first measure of the piece if necessary e Click the Chord Tool The Chord Menu appears The top two commands in the menu are chord input options Type Into Score functions in the same way as the corresponding Lyric option and MIDI Input which has you play the chord on the MIDI keyboard e From the Chord Menu choose MIDI Input If you don t have a MIDI keyboard don t despair it s almost as easy to put chord symbols into your score without MIDI See the User Manual under CHORD SYMBOLS for instructions e Click the first note of the second measure A little ear appears above the staff It indicates that PrintMusic is ready for you to play the chord 77 Tutorial 2 Adding Details 78 Play a C triad root position on the MIDI keyboard It doesn t matter how the chord is voiced or what octave it s in just make sure that the bottom note is a C d I come from Al a ba ma rained all night the day I PrintMusic puts the chord symbol C above the s

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