Unfortunately, the way Finale works is to have one measure equal one measure, always. Since you have ten measures in all the parts except 8 measures in the drums, this is not going to work in the way that Finale would easily do it (say, 2/4 versus 6/8 would be easy.)
There is a way to do this, though. You should create two large measures of 16/4 or the equivalent (display as 4/4) so that each "measure" takes up an entire system, and add barlines as staff expressions. There are excellent ones included in the latest versions of Finale, in the Miscellaneous category. You will also have to open up some extra space after some of the fake barlines in order to put in a dummy time signature as an expression. It IS possible to have Finale take expressions into account for spacing purposes, but you don't want this for OTHER expressions, so I would create an articulation that is a blank character, and take ARTICULATIONS into account for music spacing. This can only be applied to a note or real rest, not a default rest. You can nudge it around as needed to get the amount of space you need. Once you do it properly for one "measure" you can copy it to other places as needed. Dennis B-K, if he is reading, knows this inside out, and will almost certainly have some refinements to suggest. Christopher On 16-Sep-12, at 16-Sep-12 3:09 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: > I have a drum part with an independent time signature (that has > been selected in the attributes for this staff), but I don't know > how to rebar the music for the drum part. > > All other parts have one measure of 4/4, 4 measures of 3/4, one > measure of 4/4 and 4 measures of 3/4 again. This adds up to 8 > measures of 4/4 for the drummer, and I want the drummer to see only > that - not to be distracted by what the other players are doing. > When I change the time signature on the drum part for the affected > measures, the 3/4 measures are changed to 4/4, but there are too > many bar lines, and too many beats. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks, > > Chuck > > > Chuck Israels > 8831 SE 12th Ave. > Portland, OR 97202-7097 > > land line: (503) 954-2107cell phone: (360) 201-3434 > > <www.chuckisraels.com> > <www.chuckisraelsjazz.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
