Alternatively, you could make the time sig 1/4, and use a staff style to hide the barlines. Show other time signatures as needed. I prefer this method since you don't have to mess with barlines as expressions.
Sent from my iPad On Sep 16, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Christopher Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
