All, this is certainly an interesting discussion. And I tend to agree with both sides - earlier I have not done anything else to the drum part than making it look good and try to compress similar measures as far as possible. Perhaps 8 or 12 bars per system or whatever - the main thing is that all musicians and perhaps especially the drummer get a good view over the chart. I do prefer this way of designing my charts and specifically the drum part.
But I was explicitely asked to do a compressed version and I said that I'll try. Another Finale challenge...why not try at least? What I did was to extract the drum part, erasing measures and do some text editing. It was pretty straightforward and did not take too much time but I can see three distinct drawbacks with this approach: - Later editing will be troublesome. I might have to redo the entire part or at least make changes in two places - Measure numbers - forget it - It is totally up to me to make the number of measures etc correct. Great risks for human err! If anyone is interested in the results I have the original drum part downloadable here: http://www.tillberg.org/download/Finale/Example_Normal.pdf and the "compressed" version: http://www.tillberg.org/download/Finale/Example_Compressed.pdf Anyway my two original questions remain: 1) how to achieve the "compressed" version in a reasonably clever way with Finale (I got a tip from Robert Patterson on the list yesterday, I will try that in a few moments). Not using the extract part option. 2) Why edits to MM rests do not persist. When having document option | Multimeasure rests | Update automatically turned on then just e. g. switching between parts and score makes any edits disappear. When having the option turned off, then they persist until I execute a "Multimeasure rests | Create for parts/score"... Thanks /D _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
