Whether you are creating a film score for the recording studio or a band arrangement for the high school stage, your goal is to aid the conductor in any way you can.
Quick Music Notation Tips: Score System Divider
When a score has multiple systems on a page, the conductor’s eye can easily skip a system, impeding sight-reading, rehearsal productivity, and confusing performers.
Using Finale’s Staff Styles for Cutaway Scores
In a cutaway score, inactive measures are completely hidden, as in the example above. This is common in contemporary works and analysis, as well as in theater scores where the narrator needs to speak while the music pauses.
Finale Linked Parts Tip
Want to look at your linked parts AND your score simultaneously?
With the score open, go to the Window menu > New Window. In the resulting window you can navigate to any part in your score by going to Document menu > Edit Part and specifying the desired part.
Finale Blog: If It Ain’t Broke…
Being a practical guy, I generally agree with the philosophy of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” However, I make exceptions.