Finale: A Musician's Best Friend

Finale is the world's leading professional music notation application for composers, arrangers, music educators, their students, music copyists, conventional and self publishers, and amateur musicians to accomplish a host of creative and other music-related tasks. This workbook contains a graduated series of activities and projects that introduce and review the program's most popular and useful features. Topics include: several modes of note entry (Simple, Speedy, Hyperscribe) and editing; adding various expressive markings; page layout; adding lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar fretboards; setting up lead sheets and small/large scores; scanning in music; more realistic playback; working with percussion instruments; creating worksheets, exercises/drills, music games, etc. for use in music education; exporting music as a graphic image; and importing/exporting MIDI, audio and XML files.