Another form of tremolo often connects two longer values—for example, whole notes, as shown here:

In this section, you’ll learn how to use the Easy Tremolo plug-in to easily create tremolo markings. It’s customary to notate the tremolo duration twice—once for each part of the tremolo. First, enter two notes/chords that combined equal the desired duration of the tremolo. For example, to create a whole note tremolo like the one pictured above, first enter two half notes. To create a half note tremolo like the one seen below, enter quarter notes.

Then continue with the following instructions.

To create a measured or unmeasured tremolo marking

1. Click the Selection tool  .
2. Highlight the measure(s) containing the notes you want to include in the tremolo.
3. Choose Plug-ins> TGTools > Easy Tremolos. The Easy Tremolos dialog box appears.
4. In the text box, enter the total number of beams desired. You can also choose to avoid accidentals on notes with stems and define the tremolo for playback. For a description of these settings, see Easy Tremolo plug-in.
5. Click Go. Tremolo markings appear on all notes in the selected region according to your settings.

To remove the tremolo marking, from the Edit menu, choose Undo (or, press CTRL+Z). If the Undo command is not available (created in an earlier Finale session), or you have added additional entries that you do not want to undo, use the Selection tool to clear the entries out of the measure and re-enter the notation.

Human Playback interprets and performs tremolos during playback automatically. See Human Playback. To hear manual changes to the MIDI playback definition of tremolos (such as those applied with the Easy Tremolo plug-in), you must first set Human Playback to None in the Playback Settings dialog box.

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