You’ve now learned the basics of using the Speedy Entry Tool with the MIDI keyboard. You’ve learned how to enter notes rapidly, change their values, change their pitches, add rests, insert notes, add dots, and move around the score using the right and left bracket keys.
The measure you’ve been working on now contains the pickup notes for “Oh, Susannah.” Using your knowledge of the Speedy Entry Tool, enter the next twelve measures as shown. For the moment, however, don’t enter any music past measure 13. Remember the Speedy Entry keyboard commands you’ve learned:
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Key |
Effect |
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. (period) |
Add a dot |
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4 |
Eighth note |
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5 |
Quarter note |
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6 |
Half note |
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] (right bracket) |
Go to next measure |
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[ (left bracket) |
Go to previous measure |
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Delete |
Remove a note, rest, or chord |
When you reach measure 14, you may realize that the last four bars of “Oh, Susannah” are exactly the same as measures 6 through 9. To save time, you can use the Selection Tool’s copying function to complete the melody.
In the first tutorial, you copied a measure of “Simple Gifts” by dragging one measure so that its image was superimposed on another. In some cases, however, you won’t be able to drag measures to copy them, because the dragging technique only works when you can see both source and target measures on the screen at the same time.
Now you’ll use two Finale shortcuts that can be used to copy any amount of music from one place to another, even when the source and the target are hundreds of measures apart.
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