Product Description

Everything you want to know about music notation with Finale! Master Finale step-by-step with the most complete how-to guide available. Designed for both novice and experienced users, this is your detailed resource to fully understanding and applying all of Finale's remarkable capabilities. Easy-to-follow instructions help you to: create publisher-quality music notation; learn to use the tools of Finale while writing your own music and arrangements; get started immediately with hundreds of professional templates, partially completed notation files, and libraries available on the companion website (www.FINALEBOOK.com); print transposed parts from scores automatically; write standard notation, guitar tablature, drum set parts, and more with this comprehensive hands-on tutorial. Teachers can create warm-up and practice exercises; write their own compositions, arrangements and method books; and simplify parts for students. The companion website, www.FINALEBOOK.COM, offers: * Tutorial Files * Samples of partially completed and finished music notation files for each of the hundreds of hands-on exercises in the book * Libraries of articulations and dynamics * Additional chapters * Professional Templates: Choral, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, Orchestra, Single Line and Grand Staff, Pit and Show, and Sketch and Utilities templates including a Cue Sheet for radio and TV. "This book excels at teaching Finale in an easy-to-understand, sequential manner. Rudolph and Leonard have loads of experience. Beginners and seasoned Finale users will benefit from what these two teach." - Tom Johnson, Finale Product Specialist, MakeMusic!, Inc.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #208873 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Drew Shanefield, Composer/Arranger for the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps, design consultant for the Cavaliers, freelance composer/arranger, Bands of America adjudicator and clinician
As an experienced Finale user, this is very helpful in guiding me through the latest updates/"tricks" I never new existed.

Peter Nero, conductor, arranger, composer, and master pianist
Vince Leonard is one of the most knowledgeable music educators. Beginning and advanced Finale users will benefit from his knowledge.

From the Publisher
Following-up on the popularity of its earlier Finale how-to guidebook, Berklee Press is releasing the second edition of Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation. This new book provides a comprehensive, step-by-step exploration of all of capabilities and applications of the latest versions of Finale, including its uses in the classroom.

Easy-to-follow instructions will help readers create publisher-quality music notation; learn to use the tools of Finale while writing their own music and arrangements; print transposed parts from scores automatically; and write standard notation, guitar tablature, and drum set parts, among other items.

Teachers can use this book to create warm-up and practice exercises; write their own compositions, arrangements, and method books; and simplify parts for students.

Written by music educator Thomas E. Randolph and producer and composer Vincent A. Leonard, Jr., Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation is compatible with Finale versions for both MacOS and Windows. The book comes complete with a companion Web site containing dozens of downloadable resources to complement readers' learning experiences.

Customer Reviews

Not the Final Finale
'Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation' is almost a misnomer. There is nothing easy about learning Finale! I am still using the book as a reference and probably will for some time to come. Finale has a lot of non-standard computer procedures and the learning curve is a bit steep, even for a seasoned musician and especially if he is new to scoring with a computer. So, the easier the better, especially to start off with. The book fit nicely into this category even though it probably was intended for a class workbook. The format was a bit wrong for private use. It was set up with exercises and lessons as opposed to straight text information. If you like to work through lessons step by step then the book is a good place to start.

Excellent Book!
This book is excellent. I bought it for a notation class, and it is just what I was looking for. The lessons are gradually challenging, and they present the opportunity to apply the previous material learned and learn new techniques. It is very complete, and most of the steps to follow are properly illustrated. Buy it!!!!

A Huge Help!
I have been using Finale for years, 13 now. With all of the changes over the years and the fact that Make Music refuses to have a real book for the program, I bought this. I started from the very beginning and have learned so much. My skills are better and I can input faster than ever. I have learned how to do do thing I never new were possible, and I did not have to try and look up on the useless PDF that comes with Finale. You can also get an update for Final 2006 on line. This is great to start from the beginning and work all the way to the end. You will be a pro in no time. It is fast and easy to work through.