Inserting notes or rests
- Click
the Speedy Entry Tool .
- Click
on the first measure and position the insertion bar on the two-note chord.
Remove it by pressing Delete.
- Move
the insertion bar back to the middle C note again. While holding down
,
press the 6 key on the number row, not on the numeric keypad. When
you press , you
tell Finale you want to insert a note or rest just before the insertion
bar. You pressed the 6 key to add a half rest—6 is the keyboard equivalent
of the half note value. (If you had held down a key on your MIDI keyboard
while you pressed -6,
you would have inserted a note instead of a rest.) Again, to insert a
note or rest, you must use the number keys located on the number row (or
above the QWERTY keyboard), not on the numeric keypad. If you’re inserting a lot of notes, you can
switch to the Insert mode. From the Speedy menu, choose Insert Notes or
Rests. When you’re done, select Insert Notes or Rests again to deselect
it.
Note: To insert rests in Speedy Entry without
a MIDI keyboard, hold down + + the number
key while in Insert mode. (Mac: + + the
number key.)
Your example should now look like this:
The problem is that there are five beats in
the measure —the half rest and three quarter notes (even though you might
not see the third note). With Finale’s rhythmic-watchdog feature (Jump
to Next Measure) turned off, Finale won’t notify you until you exit the editing frame..
- Press
the 0 (zero) key to exit the editing frame. Finale displays a dialog
box that tells you that there are too many beats in the measure.
You’re offered four methods of solving the
problem. You could leave the extra beats in the measure (by selecting
the top option). You could tell Finale to eliminate any extra beats by
removing them from the end of the measure (by clicking the second radio
button). You could tell Finale to insert any extra notes that it removes
from the end of this measure into the beginning of the following measure
(by clicking the third radio button).
Finally, you could tell Finale to rebar the
music by redistributing notes throughout the staff until no measure contains
more beats than are allowed by the time signature (see Rebarring
Music).
- Click
“Delete the extra notes,” and then click OK. Finale eliminates
the extra beat—the last E quarter note—and you exit the editing frame.
In the next section, you’ll create a lead sheet
that begins with a pickup. To complete the first measure’s transformation
into the pickup measure, the only task remaining is to create a dotted
rhythm.
- Press
the 0 (zero) key. You reenter the measure.
- Position
the insertion bar on the C and press the period (.) key. Finale
adds a dot to the note. If you were to continue typing periods, you could
add several dots to a note or rest.
- Press
the right arrow key, and then press the 4 key. You’ve turned the
last quarter note into an eighth note; the pickup measure is complete.
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