Building Successful Finale 'Chops'

A practical guide to help students, musicians and music educators learn how to use Finale 2014 notation software to create their own musical compositions, arrangements and teaching materials. The book contains 21 project-based tutorials with step-by-step directions to create various types of musical scores from beginning to completion. Tutorial projects include instrumental, choral and piano scores, percussion notation, exercise sheets, lead sheets, guitar music, flash cards, worksheets, classroom music tools and how to use Finale to create SmartMusic practice files. Finale basics to intermediate and advanced topics are covered, including tips and shortcuts to save you time and increase your productivity. From the companion website, you can download support files that correlate to specific tutorial projects. This book has been successfully used as the curriculum for the author's Level 1 and Level 2 Finale workshops. It also works well as a textbook for a college/high school class or for individual study.