No experience with Sibelius, but I find my method (much the same as Christopher’s) pretty damn quick. It takes me far longer to think of what I want than to enter it in Finale, but maybe I’m a slow thinker.
I also have keyboard shortcuts to toggle between coping everything and copying only chords, and that is invaluable. > On May 7, 2017, at 12:41 PM, Martin Nickless <mnnickl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks > Shame finale can't be like Sibelius when it comes to entering changes quickly > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 7 May 2017, at 20:34, Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> >> wrote: >> >> I write a lot of jazz, and I never was able to get that to work properly. I >> would have to play the chord in the exact same voicing every time for it to >> work, and it’s hard to remember (and finger!) all those extensions. Plus, >> there are always chords that I don’t use very often and would have to stop >> and figure out a never-before-played voicing for them. I only have five >> fingers! Your method works okay up to 7th chords. >> >> I generally type into score. When I have a chord suffix with stacked >> extensions, I have a Postit on my monitor with all my most-used suffixes and >> their numbers. Say 7(#11b13) is suffix number 103, then I type C:103 and get >> the proper suffix on a C. If I ever forget (or don’t know) a suffix number, >> I type C:0 (zero) and the suffix selector box pops up, where I choose my >> suffix. The suffix number is right there in the niche. >> >> Christopher >> >> >>> On May 7, 2017, at 3:27 PM, Martin Nickless <mnnickl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi there was wondering if anybody that predominately writes big-band charts >>> Do they enter the changes by playing the cord on a midi keyboard ? >>> May I ask if they have built up a library of the complex chords e.g. flat >>> 13 sharp 11s etc >>> Thanks >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu Chuck Israels cisra...@comcast.net (360) 201-3434 8831 SE 12th Ave. Portland OR 97202 <chuckisraelsjazz.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
