Create SmartMusic Accompaniments

Only Finale can create accompaniments for SmartMusic, the acclaimed interactive music software for band, orchestra, and voice.

Simply open your score, Choose Export as SmartMusic from Finale’s file menu, and specify the type of accompaniment you’d like.

Students select their instrument from the resulting SmartMusic file.

Easy to Create

• Save any new or existing Finale file as a SmartMusic solo, ensemble, or assessable accompaniment
• With linked part support, educators create one file for the entire ensemble. Students simply select their individual parts when practicing. This represents a tremendous savings in time and effort compared to creating separate SmartMusic accompaniment files for every part in older versions of Finale.
• SmartMusic now accepts repeats and a great variety of notated items that were previously blocked in the Finale export process.
• Easily add Intelligent Accompaniment, “wait for note” and other SmartMusic markers with one trip to Finale’s Edit menu.

Remember: ONLY Finale can create assessable SmartMusic accompaniments. Finale 2012 is compatible with SmartMusic 2012 which will be available this summer as a free update for current subscribers. Visit www.smartmusic.com to learn more about SmartMusic interactive music software for band, orchestra, and voice.

Music Education Worksheets – Expanded in Finale 2012

Finale now includes more than 1,000 ready-made, customizable, music education worksheets, individual and classroom flash cards, jazz improvisation worksheets, ear-training worksheets, and pieces of repertoire.

New in Finale 2012

• Renaissance music, early jazz piano repertoire, intermediate piano pieces, holiday titles, manuscript paper templates, chant notation, Schenkerian analysis, and more.
• Form and Analysis worksheets that can be used with the classroom repertoire.
• New additions to the music-themed puzzles and games like Drum Bingo and the Mozart Dice Game.

Designed for K-12 students of general music, theory, band, orchestra, and choir, these educator-approved worksheets help teach basic elements of music. Here are a few examples:

Easy to Customize and Use

Classroom and Individual Flash Cards

• Classroom Flash Card Example
• Individual Flash Card Example

Jazz Improvisation Worksheets

Interactive Ear-Training Worksheets

Used in conjunction with Finale’s powerful Exercise Wizard, these worksheets provide educators with instant access to thousands of pages of printable AND editable materials for their students.

Classroom Repertoire

Exercise Wizard

Over 50,000 customized exercises. Instantly. 

You have only five minutes until your band, orchestra, or choir rehearsal begins, and you need warm-up exercises tailored to what you intend to rehearse that day.

You're in luck! You can create an exercise or multiple exercise lessons in an instant. Just select the mode, note duration, intervals, articulations, key, and range.

Look how easy it is!
Click on the following screen shots to view each page of the Exercise Wizard and you will see how easy it is to create exercises instantly.

Select the exercises (page 2 of 4)

Select Key and Articulation for each exercise (page 3 of 4)

Select which ensemble you want the sheet music printed (page 4 of 4): You can also customize your ensemble (i.e. wind ensemble, orchestra, chamber singers), select a pre-defined instrument range level, and how many copies for each.

Finale AlphaNotes™ Font – Improved in Finale 2012

Created for use with beginning music students, the Finale AlphaNotes font places note names inside noteheads.

New in Finale 2012

• Automatically place AlphaNotes wherever you wish and add accidentals in the note names.
• Choose between a “normal” and a “Northern European” mode which uses H instead of B natural and B instead of Bb.

In addition to note names, sharps, and flats, solfège syllables are also provided.

Also included are Finale EmotiNotes™, a collection of fun noteheads that include smiley faces and other emoticons to delight younger students.

Teach Composition with Studio View

With Studio View^™ in Finale, students compose, learn, and notate all at once. Then they can print the results as engraver-quality sheet music.

Students build a composition by adding to it piece by piece, line by line. Experimentation is fast, easy, and always performed in standard music notation. Changing, modifying, and improving the work is possible because Finale empowers students to make creative choices.

Students work in standard music notation at all times. There is no need to switch to separate sequencing software or learn complex computer symbols.

How does it work?
Studio View puts power at students’ fingertips, allowing them to shape compositions right before their eyes and ears. Click the steps below for examples:

1. Create
   Simply by clicking the Record button, students craft melodies and try different notes. Students see the notes appear on the staff and hear them played with superb sounds and Human Playback®.
   

   

2. Experiment
   While listening to the melody, students experiment with counter-melodies, canons, and the like. Studio View plays back these experiments, encouraging students to make choices.
   

   

3. Choose
   Studio View encourages intelligent choices. With melody and counter-melody working together, students continue to experiment with harmonies, bass lines, and instrumentation. Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing, Drum Groove, and other composition tools provide creative options. With each choice, students shape their music and make it their own.
   

   

Colored Noteheads

Colored noteheads have multiple applications and are especially popular in elementary education.

• Use them to notate Boomwhackers^® tuned percussion tubes and other instruments that use the Chroma-Notes™ colored music system.
• Assign colors to specific pitches as an aid to composition or proofing.
• Color all noteheads a single bright color for beginning readers who need help distinguishing noteheads from stems.
• Colored noteheads can be applied regionally within a piece, offer two notehead styles (with or without a “border”), and allow for user customization of colors.

Boomwhackers^® Tube Sounds

Finale even includes integrated Boomwhackers sound samples. These sounds and colors are configured automatically when you select Boomwhackers from the Setup Wizard.