Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation, Second Edition
Written by: Thomas E. Rudolph; Vincent A. Leonard Jr.
Editorial Reviews:
Everything you want to know about music notation with Finale! Master Finale step-by-step with the most complete how-to guide available. Designed for both novice and experienced users, this is your detailed resource to fully understanding and applying all of Finale's remarkable capabilities. Easy-to-follow instructions help you to: create publisher-quality music notation; learn to use the tools of Finale while writing your own music and arrangements; get started immediately with hundreds of professional templates, partially completed notation files, and libraries available on the companion website (www.FINALEBOOK.com); print transposed parts from scores automatically; write standard notation, guitar tablature, drum set parts, and more with this comprehensive hands-on tutorial. Teachers can create warm-up and practice exercises; write their own compositions, arrangements and method books; and simplify parts for students. The companion website, www.FINALEBOOK.COM, offers: * Tutorial Files * Samples of partially completed and finished music notation files for each of the hundreds of hands-on exercises in the book * Libraries of articulations and dynamics * Additional chapters * Professional Templates: Choral, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, Orchestra, Single Line and Grand Staff, Pit and Show, and Sketch and Utilities templates including a Cue Sheet for radio and TV. "This book excels at teaching Finale in an easy-to-understand, sequential manner. Rudolph and Leonard have loads of experience. Beginners and seasoned Finale users will benefit from what these two teach." - Tom Johnson, Finale Product Specialist, MakeMusic!, Inc.
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Summary: Best
Comment: The item is excelent and I received it on time. I appreciate you all.
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Summary: Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation, Second Edition
Comment: An excellent book...really clearly set out with easy to follow sequential steps for learning this software. Packed with clear diagrams and idiot-proof instructions. This book is a knockout!
Jan Boyle.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not the Final Finale
Comment: 'Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation' is almost a misnomer. There is nothing easy about learning Finale! I am still using the book as a reference and probably will for some time to come. Finale has a lot of non-standard computer procedures and the learning curve is a bit steep, even for a seasoned musician and especially if he is new to scoring with a computer. So, the easier the better, especially to start off with. The book fit nicely into this category even though it probably was intended for a class workbook. The format was a bit wrong for private use. It was set up with exercises and lessons as opposed to straight text information. If you like to work through lessons step by step then the book is a good place to start.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Book!
Comment: This book is excellent. I bought it for a notation class, and it is just what I was looking for. The lessons are gradually challenging, and they present the opportunity to apply the previous material learned and learn new techniques. It is very complete, and most of the steps to follow are properly illustrated. Buy it!!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Huge Help!
Comment: I have been using Finale for years, 13 now. With all of the changes over the years and the fact that Make Music refuses to have a real book for the program, I bought this. I started from the very beginning and have learned so much. My skills are better and I can input faster than ever. I have learned how to do do thing I never new were possible, and I did not have to try and look up on the useless PDF that comes with Finale. You can also get an update for Final 2006 on line. This is great to start from the beginning and work all the way to the end. You will be a pro in no time. It is fast and easy to work through.
Dewey Decimal Number: 780.148
EAN: 9780876390689
ISBN: 0876390688
Label: Berklee Press
Manufacturer: Berklee Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2005-05
Publisher: Berklee Press
Studio: Berklee Press
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Editorial Reviews:
Everything you want to know about music notation with Finale! Master Finale step-by-step with the most complete how-to guide available. Designed for both novice and experienced users, this is your detailed resource to fully understanding and applying all of Finale's remarkable capabilities. Easy-to-follow instructions help you to: create publisher-quality music notation; learn to use the tools of Finale while writing your own music and arrangements; get started immediately with hundreds of professional templates, partially completed notation files, and libraries available on the companion website (www.FINALEBOOK.com); print transposed parts from scores automatically; write standard notation, guitar tablature, drum set parts, and more with this comprehensive hands-on tutorial. Teachers can create warm-up and practice exercises; write their own compositions, arrangements and method books; and simplify parts for students. The companion website, www.FINALEBOOK.COM, offers: * Tutorial Files * Samples of partially completed and finished music notation files for each of the hundreds of hands-on exercises in the book * Libraries of articulations and dynamics * Additional chapters * Professional Templates: Choral, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, Orchestra, Single Line and Grand Staff, Pit and Show, and Sketch and Utilities templates including a Cue Sheet for radio and TV. "This book excels at teaching Finale in an easy-to-understand, sequential manner. Rudolph and Leonard have loads of experience. Beginners and seasoned Finale users will benefit from what these two teach." - Tom Johnson, Finale Product Specialist, MakeMusic!, Inc.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best
Comment: The item is excelent and I received it on time. I appreciate you all.
bye now
Philip.A.Augustine
Customer Rating:
Summary: Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation, Second Edition
Comment: An excellent book...really clearly set out with easy to follow sequential steps for learning this software. Packed with clear diagrams and idiot-proof instructions. This book is a knockout!
Jan Boyle.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not the Final Finale
Comment: 'Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation' is almost a misnomer. There is nothing easy about learning Finale! I am still using the book as a reference and probably will for some time to come. Finale has a lot of non-standard computer procedures and the learning curve is a bit steep, even for a seasoned musician and especially if he is new to scoring with a computer. So, the easier the better, especially to start off with. The book fit nicely into this category even though it probably was intended for a class workbook. The format was a bit wrong for private use. It was set up with exercises and lessons as opposed to straight text information. If you like to work through lessons step by step then the book is a good place to start.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Book!
Comment: This book is excellent. I bought it for a notation class, and it is just what I was looking for. The lessons are gradually challenging, and they present the opportunity to apply the previous material learned and learn new techniques. It is very complete, and most of the steps to follow are properly illustrated. Buy it!!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Huge Help!
Comment: I have been using Finale for years, 13 now. With all of the changes over the years and the fact that Make Music refuses to have a real book for the program, I bought this. I started from the very beginning and have learned so much. My skills are better and I can input faster than ever. I have learned how to do do thing I never new were possible, and I did not have to try and look up on the useless PDF that comes with Finale. You can also get an update for Final 2006 on line. This is great to start from the beginning and work all the way to the end. You will be a pro in no time. It is fast and easy to work through.
Technical Details
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 780.148
EAN: 9780876390689
ISBN: 0876390688
Label: Berklee Press
Manufacturer: Berklee Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2005-05
Publisher: Berklee Press
Studio: Berklee Press
