Tom Harrison is a busy musician, composer, producer, orchestrator, and arranger. He is also the author of the recently published “How to Become a Film Composer” on Centerstream.
Pianists! Perform the “Stars and Stripes Forever” This Veterans Day
Last November, the Finale blog highlighted pianist Cliff Habian.
This past summer Cliff refined his arrangement of the Stars and Stripes Forever as part of his annual 4th of July celebrations.
Using Band-in-a-Box to Create a Big Band Rhythm Section in Finale
By day, I am a test engineer on the Finale development team. Outside of “work” hours, my focus is on big band jazz.
Unearthing Hidden Treasure in Finale
Finale includes a vast collection of music education worksheets and repertoire. To find it, go to Finale’s File menu and choose Open Worksheets & Repertoire…
If you’re not a music educator, you might just ignore the whole collection.
Playback in Finale
One question that new Finale users frequently ask is; “Why does my music always playback from the beginning of the piece?” In this post, we’ll show you how to control where playback begins, give you a quicker way to playback any measure you wish, and share a new trick to quickly navigate to any measure.