RIP Finale 1989-2024

[grahambop]

Funnily enough, about a year or so ago I looked into upgrading my ancient copy of Finale (which somehow still worked in Windows 10) but it would still have cost quite a lot to upgrade it. Glad now I didn’t waste my money!

[Alter]

The only reason i can see to go for a paid program like Finale or Sibelius is if you need the advanced playback abilities and the sound libraries. For writing charts and stuff Musescore has really improved over the years and is a great program these days. I'm still using an old Sibelius version only because i know it well..

[sgcim]

Format - Style - Chord symbols - Playback.

Change it from Literal to Jazz.

Regarding the repeat symbols etc., you may be able to make them globally larger? For a lead sheet, I made all the chord symbols larger by selecting them all and adjusting the font size in the Properties panel.

When selecting a specific element, there is an option to ‘select all of the same type’ or something like that, you can then apply a change to all of those elements in one go. Really useful. So you may be able to do this with repeat signs, although I haven’t tried it.

Thanks, Graham; you're still the King of the the Internest!

[grahambop]

lol I just google everything.

[sgcim]

lol I just google everything.

Well, then you're the King of Google!

[Bop Head]

lol I just google everything.

.. . which will always bring up solutions for questions regarding Musescore -- either from the handbooks or from the forums.

[sgcim]

Last night, I finally got my derangement of Bernard Herrmann's title tune to the pleasant Scorcese movie "Taxi Driver" (where DeNiro gives himself a mohawk, and shoots up a bunch of people-all the rage today), all done on MuseScore, performed.

I had tried on a few occasions to get it played, but somehow, all of the horn parts mysteriously disappeared. The only parts left were the rhythm parts- bass, drum and piano parts, so I was too lazy to go to the trouble of going to my derangement of it on Musescore, printing the horn parts on paper my brother 'borrowed' for me from the school he teaches at, and worst of all, taping the pieces of paper together with 'expensive' scotch tape, which I paid 33 cents for at a 99 Cent store. Finally, I figured I worked on it so hard, I might as well get off my ass and print it up again.
After putting all the parts on the music stands of the players stands during the break, I waited for the leader to announce that they were going to play it, fully aware that he might choose to either forget it, or choose to play more audience-friendly music, but he announced, "Now we're gonna play something our guitar player wrote", and I marched up to the front of the bandstand to conduct my derangement.
I went over the tempo changes I added for the sax soli, and even told the story about the missing horn parts (hoping that one of the players might be shamed into making a public confession of the theft), but then was interrupted by the leader's pleasant command; "Will ya count the fuckin' thing off already", followed by an explosive round of laughter from the audience, band and myself, and proceeded to count off "one- two 'three- four".
Even though the band was sight reading it, they played the schlitz out of it, and I humbly acknowledged the audience's applause, while collecting the horn parts to make sure that someone didn't rip them off again.

[wintermoon]

"You talking to me?"

[sgcim]

"You talking to me?"

Apparently.