I too know not enough about guitar notation to give a definite answer.
However, if what you're trying to do is change individual noteheads to
diamond shapes, use the Note Shape Tool in the Special Tools palette:
double-click individual notes, or dragging to select multiple ones,
after selecting a measure to work with by clicking on it. Depending on
the font and the choice of noteheads, you may need to adjust Stem
Connections (in Options - Document Settings - Stems) to align the
diamonds with the stems.
Owain
Don Hart wrote:
Hi Keith,
Unfortunately I'm not writing to help you out with your question. That's
not an area of Finale I really ever use. I'm writing to point out your
appeal for help once more.
It may be that your need can't be handled in Finale (which would be somewhat
of a rarity) or that someone got back to you off list. But what I expect
happened is your post got lost in the shuffle of the hot topic of the past 2
days or so (Happy 250th Birthday Mozart). That sort of thing seems to
happen around here more than it should.
In the past I've had difficulty expressing certain things about Finale
without being either wordy or unclear. And I'm not sure I totally
understand your question, even though that could easily be due to my lack of
familiarity with guitar notation. Do you know how to properly notate your
example and just need help with Finale, or are you wondering about the
correct notation as well? Just in case, you might want to take another
crack at the question assuming a little less knowledge from the list
concerning guitar and/or TAB.
Anyway, I didn't want to ignore a first-timer, even though I can't offer any
specific help.
Can anyone else jump in? I hope this gets you an answer.
Don Hart
on 1/27/06 10:55 AM, Keith Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First post here -I hope this works!
I'm writing an article on the use of (artificial) harmonics with the guitar
in the style of Lennie Breau, and would like to use Finale screenshots for
the illustrations. He was probably most famous for the harp-like scalar
passages he achieved, but he also employed clusters created by fingering,
say G, C, E, A (bottom up) and playing the G as a harmonic as a method of
clustering the A and the G.
I'm having trouble figuring out how to show this in Finale, the problem
being to show two or more notes in the same staff, played at the same time,
where the bottom note is a harmonic (sounding an octave higher). I also need
to show this in (yech!)TAB.
I've searched the Finale forum and see a few questions, but no replies. Can
anyone here help me?
Thanks,
Keith Smith
Calgary
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