Chords as lyrics is easier for a lot of people who want quick, efficient chord entry with no playback and not having to muck about with the chord tool. As lyrics you can enter any extension you want and the chord tool won't tell you it doesn't recognize the extension. The chord tool is designed for playback as well as entry, so if you try to enter a chord that hasn't been defined, it slows the process down as you define it. Lyrics run into none of these problems.
On the other hand, perhaps the finale user you are inheriting these files from didn't realize he could drag the base-line for the chord tool down to below the staff and figured chords could ONLY be entered above the staff. As for using expressions rather than articulations, playback definitions for articulations are more limited, so perhaps that was the reason. Or perhaps the person simply hadn't found creating such articulations to be very easy. In any event, these two situations you describe merely highlight the vast array of methods that Finale allows to accomplish the desired result. I think it might be this ability to accomplish the same result in a multitude of ways that scares off many new users (or prevents new users from fully realizing the potential of the program). Quite often newbies prefer being told that there is only one way to do things, so they can learn a single process and they never explore any other potential processes. Perhaps this is where the main strength lies in Sibelius -- it seems that there are pretty restrictive means of accomplishing specific tasks and that these give good results so a lot of users can take comfort in knowing they don't have to (and can't) explore the program further for additional means of accomplishing the same ends. I find that I am always searching for different means of accomplishing certain things with Finale simply so that as new situations arise I am better prepared to handle them quickly and easily. Crystal Premo wrote: > I got some work to do this weekend that involves taking over someone > else's project, a couple of new songs for a new musical, plus editing, > extracting and printing the songs already done. > > The work that has been done is quite clean and neat, but I have > encountered some things which puzzle me. Perhaps I don't have enough > experience to realize that they are the best way to handle things: > > What is the advantage of inputting chords as lyrics? Just because they > have to appear below the staff does not seem like enough reason for it. > > What is the advantage of using expressions to create rolled chords as > opposed to an articulation? > > Crystal Premo > [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
