Listening to your music to check for mistakes.
Finale’s playback feature gives you the opportunity to hear your music as you write it. This way, you can easily check for mistakes.
By the end of this lesson, you will know how to:
Note. To begin at this point, open "Tutorial 3.MUS." (This tutorial explores playback options without making any changes to the document itself). If you don't care to use NotePad's playback features, skip ahead to Tutorial 4.
The Playback Controls give you standard buttons for controlling the playback of your score.
Use the Play and stop buttons to start and stop playback. As you play back your music, you will probably find that you want to adjust the tempo. The most convenient ways to do this are with the tempo controls or with tempo markings.
The Tempo drop down can be used to change the note duration for your playback. Enter the metronome marking in the adjacent text box.
Since there’s not yet a tempo marking in this score, you can adjust the tempo in the Playback Controls and play back what you’ve just written.
To specify the playback tempo
To set the playback measure
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