Re: [Finale] Mark Johnson's Finale 2014: A Trailblazer Guide -- a bookworth considering!
Hey David, With your suggestion, I sat down with Mark's opus (Finale 2012 A Trailblazer Guide) in hand to learn how to use the Score Manager. There is no item in the table of contents about the SM so I looked in the index. There are 3 citations there, but they only talk about the SM to solve some very specific tasks. I wish there was a comprehensive chapter on the Score Manager. It is such a new concept for Finale that it deserves a more thorough treatment. Finale remains very much a teach yourself program! Chordially, John A Finale user since 1998 - Original Message - From: David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 10:03 AM Subject: [Finale] Mark Johnson's Finale 2014: A Trailblazer Guide -- a bookworth considering! Remember when Finale came with real, printed manuals? Don't you wish it still did? I just wanted to point out that people who are upgrading to Finale 2014 or purchasing Finale for the first time might want to purchase Mark Johnson's Finale 2014: A Trailblazer Guide to assist with the upgrade. Mark has been publishing these books for the past few upgrades and I have found them immensely helpful in navigating around the pitfalls of each new upgrade. Notable potential pitfalls are the ScoreManager (still -- many people haven't gotten used to how this works compared to the older Instrument List dialog) and the newly redesigned percussion dialog. These books are great for new users as well as long-time users who may have gotten entrenched in older workflows which have changed with these newer versions. It's especially helpful for people who haven't upgraded for a long time. You can order it from MakeMusic when you order your upgrade (or separately) or you can order it from amazon. [Disclaimer: Mark is a friend and he's using a quote from me on the cover, but other than that I have no business association with the sale of this book and don't make any money from the sale of the book, so this really is a friendly suggestion and not a ploy for me to earn money.] -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Mark Johnson's Finale 2014: A Trailblazer Guide -- a bookworth considering!
One of the reasons I went back to 2011 is because I couldn't get my head around the score manager...so I need a chapter that I can read and digest as if I was learning the program from scratch. Mike G. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:24 AM, John Witmer wit...@nctv.com wrote: Hey David, With your suggestion, I sat down with Mark's opus (Finale 2012 A Trailblazer Guide) in hand to learn how to use the Score Manager. There is no item in the table of contents about the SM so I looked in the index. There are 3 citations there, but they only talk about the SM to solve some very specific tasks. I wish there was a comprehensive chapter on the Score Manager. It is such a new concept for Finale that it deserves a more thorough treatment. Finale remains very much a teach yourself program! Chordially, John A Finale user since 1998 - Original Message - From: David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 10:03 AM Subject: [Finale] Mark Johnson's Finale 2014: A Trailblazer Guide -- a bookworth considering! Remember when Finale came with real, printed manuals? Don't you wish it still did? I just wanted to point out that people who are upgrading to Finale 2014 or purchasing Finale for the first time might want to purchase Mark Johnson's Finale 2014: A Trailblazer Guide to assist with the upgrade. Mark has been publishing these books for the past few upgrades and I have found them immensely helpful in navigating around the pitfalls of each new upgrade. Notable potential pitfalls are the ScoreManager (still -- many people haven't gotten used to how this works compared to the older Instrument List dialog) and the newly redesigned percussion dialog. These books are great for new users as well as long-time users who may have gotten entrenched in older workflows which have changed with these newer versions. It's especially helpful for people who haven't upgraded for a long time. You can order it from MakeMusic when you order your upgrade (or separately) or you can order it from amazon. [Disclaimer: Mark is a friend and he's using a quote from me on the cover, but other than that I have no business association with the sale of this book and don't make any money from the sale of the book, so this really is a friendly suggestion and not a ploy for me to earn money.] -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Mark Johnson's Finale 2014: A Trailblazer Guide -- a bookworth considering!
I purchased the Berklee Press 3rd edition of their book Finale, an easy guide to music notation, and went through each chapter from the beginning of the book to the end and found many sections illustrating the many ways of using the score manager in real situations. I use this manual as a reference work for the many parts of Finale. Take a look at it in a book store and see if it might help. I learned a lot and am grateful for them making it available to the rest of us. I began with Finale 3.2 and found this to be the next best book beside the regular manuals. I also find the online help to be very useful. Michael Mathew mmathew_musicp...@yahoo.com` http://www.musicengravers.com/cgi-bin/engravers.pl http://oregonmts.com/mathew/ On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 11:40 AM, Mike Greensill m...@mikegreensill.com wrote: One of the reasons I went back to 2011 is because I couldn't get my head around the score manager...so I need a chapter that I can read and digest as if I was learning the program from scratch. Mike G. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:24 AM, John Witmer wit...@nctv.com wrote: Hey David, With your suggestion, I sat down with Mark's opus (Finale 2012 A Trailblazer Guide) in hand to learn how to use the Score Manager. There is no item in the table of contents about the SM so I looked in the index. There are 3 citations there, but they only talk about the SM to solve some very specific tasks. I wish there was a comprehensive chapter on the Score Manager. It is such a new concept for Finale that it deserves a more thorough treatment. Finale remains very much a teach yourself program! Chordially, John A Finale user since 1998 - Original Message - From: David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 10:03 AM Subject: [Finale] Mark Johnson's Finale 2014: A Trailblazer Guide -- a bookworth considering! Remember when Finale came with real, printed manuals? Don't you wish it still did? I just wanted to point out that people who are upgrading to Finale 2014 or purchasing Finale for the first time might want to purchase Mark Johnson's Finale 2014: A Trailblazer Guide to assist with the upgrade. Mark has been publishing these books for the past few upgrades and I have found them immensely helpful in navigating around the pitfalls of each new upgrade. Notable potential pitfalls are the ScoreManager (still -- many people haven't gotten used to how this works compared to the older Instrument List dialog) and the newly redesigned percussion dialog. These books are great for new users as well as long-time users who may have gotten entrenched in older workflows which have changed with these newer versions. It's especially helpful for people who haven't upgraded for a long time. You can order it from MakeMusic when you order your upgrade (or separately) or you can order it from amazon. [Disclaimer: Mark is a friend and he's using a quote from me on the cover, but other than that I have no business association with the sale of this book and don't make any money from the sale of the book, so this really is a friendly suggestion and not a ploy for me to earn money.] -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
