{"id":820,"date":"2019-01-09T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T08:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2019-01-09T08:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T08:22:41","slug":"recent-fun-with-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Recent Fun with Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah yes, Finale. Drag and drop notes while banging your head on the desk.<\/p>\n

I did make some good progress while working on a project for church. The goal was to make a version of “Thanks for the Memory” that was created to honor our former choir director. I wanted to keep the tune and rhythm as close to the original as possible, but I did have to make some changes. I got stuck several places, but because the project was so important I actually RTFM’d and searched for the answers online. Here’s some notes.<\/p>\n

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Quick way to add measures, one at a time<\/p>\n

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Get rid of an extra page<\/p>\n

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I want it to start playback where I was working, rather than going all the way back to the beginning.<\/p>\n

This dropdown menu also allowed me to vary the amount of swing. I wrote the melody with straight eighth notes, but it did not sound that way when sung by Bob Hope!<\/p>\n

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I wanted to use piano rather than the cheesy Vox setting they gave me when I set the staff up as “voice”.<\/p>\n

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