Thanks Don and Owain, Actually John Knowles got back to me fairly quickly, with some ideas. I'm curious as to why his post didn't show up, as the the first one from him clearly had the list in the 'to' box.
All my examples are short (4 measures), so I do enjoy a certain flexibilty in how I show them. I ended up using 2 treble staves and 2 tab staves. The Top (treble) staff is labeled 'Played As:' and shows normal notes on layer 1 and harmonics where they are fingered with diamond heads on layer 2. The next (TAB) staff, labeled "Fingered as:" shows the fingering for staff 1 The next (treble) staff is labeled 'Sounds Like' and shows the same example at pitch. The bottom (TAB) shows the fingerings that would be required to produce the same pitches without the use of harmonics. At present, I'm just writing this for my own website ( www.samplesmith.com ). If I can get some interest from one of the guitar mags, I expect I'll have to do something to make the illustrations smaller. This article will lead up to another one about playing clusters on the guitar, utilizing open strings, stretches, and artificial harmonics, with an attempt to develop some rules or a catalog which I hope will be useful for arrangers, composers and sound designers. I'd be interested in any suggestions any one might like to make. thanks all, Keith Smith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Owain Sutton Sent: January 28, 2006 1:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] Guitar Harmonics 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
