Where we’re going, we don’t need words
July 23rd, 2010The Subcontrabassflute
July 21st, 2010Finale: doubling note values while preserving time signature changes
July 8th, 2010Here is what my situation was, and what I did to fix it:
I had a piece of music with alternating sections of 3/4 and 4/4.
To double the music I did the following:
1. Highlight the entire piece
2. Go to Utilities > Change > Note Durations
3. Select 200% and UNCHECK rebar music
4. Your piece now looks ridiculous
5. Highlight a section of music in one time signature
6. Click the Time Signature tool, set it to the correct time signature (should already be there), and make sure Rebar is checked
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each section of a different time signature
8. Since this tool fails at putting music in the same relative position (i.e. it ignores whole rests, and even if you use the plugin that fills with real whole rests it interprets them as 4 beats when seen in a 3/4 measure), you will probably have to move some of your music around using the mass move tool
9. Move your expressions to the new correct locations
Finale 2010 Swing
May 10th, 2010I can’t make a section of my piece swing. I tried everything in the manual, none of it works. Checked the Finale forums and apparently this is a known issue. So I guess I’ll have to change the Human Playback style to “Jazz” for the entire piece of music, and switch it back to “Standard” when I’m working on the straight sections. Not sure how I’ll get a recording that way. Is this what happens when your business model involves releasing a new version of your software every year without backwards compatibility?
EDIT: Composer J.R. Trimpe sent me an e-mail with a possible solution. He says that he was able to work around the problem by creating a blank misc expression that sets the swing value and assigning it to every staff. He then uses a normal expression to take care of the text. I have not tried this yet (the arrangement I was working on is finished), but hopefully it will work for anyone else with this problem!
The Cows in the Corn
April 26th, 2010LOL my name is in a Google Ad
April 22nd, 2010
Hans Zimmer scoring the Joker’s theme for the Dark Knight
April 20th, 2010No Flash Support on the iPhone?!?!
April 16th, 2010
Dreamland
April 16th, 2010He’s got a road map of Jupiter
A radar fix on the stars
All along the highway
She’s got a liquid-crystal compass
A picture book of the rivers
Under the Sahara
They travel in the time of the prophets
On a desert highway straight to the heart of the sun
Like lovers and heroes, and the restless part of everyone
We’re only at home when we’re on the run
On the run
He’s got a star map of Hollywood
A list of cheap motels
All along the freeway
She’s got a sister out in Vegas
The promise of a decent job
Far away from her hometown
They travel on the road to redemption
A highway out of yesterday — that tomorrow will bring
Like lovers and heroes, birds in the last days of spring
We’re only at home when we’re on the wing
On the wing
When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we’re only immortal
For a limited time
Time is a gypsy caravan
Steals away in the night
To leave you stranded in Dreamland
Distance is a long-range filter
Memory a flickering light
Left behind in the heartland
We travel in the dark of the new moon
A starry highway traced on the map of the sky
Like lovers and heroes, lonely as the eagle’s cry
We’re only at home when we’re on the fly
On the fly
When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we’re only immortal
For a limited time
We travel on the road to adventure
On a desert highway straight to the heart of the sun
Like lovers and hereos, and the restless part of everyone
We’re only at home when we’re on the run
On the run…
Swollen Glands + Rash = ???
April 13th, 2010I went to the doctor today because I have a swollen gland by my ear and a rash, and the doctors were baffled. Apparently the rash looked like what kids get when they have strep throat. So they thought I may have gotten a strep infection in my saliva gland, or possibly it was some kind of mono. Antibiotics for the win.