On May 20, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Dan Tillberg wrote:
Hi,
I am quite new to Finale (but not to arranging), and now I try to
create a
bass part which to most part should be slash notated with chords,
but some
bars should contain notes (and possibly chords). I have added quarter
rests into most bars and attached chords to these. Some bars contains
notes. Now I want to show slash notation in all bars that contains
rests
and let the notes bars be as-is.
I earlier got this to work after some struggle, then I changed the
time
signature from 4/4 to 2/2 and now I can't make it work again. Not
sure if
this change has anything to do with it. In any case I do not want to
abandon the possibility to enter chords on quarters even though the
time
signature is 2/2.
Can anybody give me a how-to on how to achieve this and make it
reasonably
flexible?
Working with Finale 2007.
Ah.
Finale thinks that there are 2 beats in a bar of 2/2, and so only
will give you 2 slashes. You can fool it though (this trick works for
beaming 4 eighths together in 2/2 automatically, too).
The simplest way In 2007 is in the time sig tool to right-click (opt
click in Mac) the first bar, and select 2/2 (beamed as 4/4). You can
do it manually as well, using Display As... in the time sig dialogue
box.
BTW, there shouldn't be much struggle with showing staff styles and
normal notation in the same measure. Just make sure you have selected
Select Partial Measures in the Edit menu, and you will be able to
assign Staff styles to partial measures. I suggest UN-clicking Select
Partial Measure for most of your work, though, as you can screw up
your work terribly by accident if you are copying passages a lot with
this option on.
Another BTW, I gather you have discovered the Staff Style keyboard
shortcuts? This speeds things along considerably. Select the passage
with the Staff Tool and hit S for slashes, R for rhythmic notation,
and backspace (on PC) or Clear (on Mac) to remove the staff styles.
Very zippy! Right-click (opt click on Mac) is another way to
accomplish the same thing more quickly than the menu.
I usually attach chords to half-rests, unless there are more than two
chords per measure. It's just fewer entries, easier to type chords
in, and they still align perfectly with half rests OR quarter rests;
just not whole rests. You can also enter an actual bass part if you
want playback (it will be hidden by the slashes, but it will still
play.)
Christopher
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