Do you often experience “flashes of brilliance?”
Me neither.
But something similar occurred the other day as I watched Chris Porter, an amazing band director and Finale user, demonstrating at a Finale training session.
Finale Quick Tips: Using the Knowledge Base
Looking to create Gregorian Chant or other meterless music in Finale 2011? Need help setting up a MIDI keyboard in Finale?
Finale and Boomwhackers® Musical Tubes
Some Finale users have more complex notation needs than others. That makes sense: I would imagine that someone creating avant garde 21st century notation would push notational boundaries more than someone creating a traditional string quartet or big band score.
Finale User Spotlight: Dan Cavanagh
Composer and pianist Dan Cavanagh is the Associate Director of Jazz Studies and an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing in Finale
Finale includes dozens of plug-ins. I describe Finale’s plug-ins as “little applications that make complicated tasks easy.” One of the coolest plug-ins (and perhaps my favorite to demonstrate) is called “Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing.” This plug-in automatically harmonizes any melody, allowing you to choose from a wide variety of harmonization styles, ranging from two to six parts.