In addition to copying from a standard notation staff, you can also enter tab directly into a tab staff, either with your mouse or your computer keyboard. Now, copy using the Selection tool and edit with the Simple Entry tool to add the tablature from measure 5-8.If there were notation in the accompanying staff, you would need to be sure to adjust the notation accordingly.
Remember that when you change the fret number, you are effectively changing its pitch. You could also press the + (plus) or - (minus) key to raise or lower the fret number by one (chromatically). Click measure 2 in the tab staff and drag to the staff above. The music updates automatically.Just copy the tab up to the standard notation staff. Fortunately for us guitarists, no thinking is required. Laptop users, press the + key until the fret number reads "0." Since we've changed the pitch of the tab, we also need to modify the notation in the staff above. You will see that this fingering has moved to the new string and fret, and the number has changed accordingly (to "-12" indicating the pitch is 12 chromatic steps, or one octave, too low for the open string). Press the UP ARROW twice to move it up to the fourth (D) string.Let's move this up an octave so the performer plays the note on the open D string. OPTION+click the first note in measure 2 to activate it.All other numbers will be from the number pad. For the purposes of this exercise, QWERTY numbers will be specified as such. When using Simple Entry on TAB staves, the keyboard commands are slightly different than with standard notation staves and will use both the number pad numbers and the QWERTY numbers on your keyboard to accomplish various tasks. This method gives more control over the movement of single and non-contiguous fingerings. You can edit tab numbers and move them between strings manually with the Simple Entry tool. In order to play this passage, this pitch will need to be changed. This is how Finale displays a note that cannot be played with the current lowest fret or tuning. Look at the first beat of measure two and notice that this number displays in yellow. If you wish for a particular passage to be played further up the neck, you can specify the lowest fret for Finale to use.įinale now displays the fret numbers representing the pitch as played on the lowest possible fret in standard guitar tuning. In order to correctly place the notes on the strings, Finale needs to know what fret to use as the lowest. The fret numbers appear in the tab staff. Select measures 1-4 in the Guitar staff and drag-copy them down to the tab staff.We’ll start with the most basic, copying music directly from a standard staff into tablature. There are a few ways to enter into a tab staff. Delete the piano pedal markings by clicking them and pressing DELETE.Press COMMAND+C, then click the first measure of the Guitar staff and press COMMAND+V.Press SHIFT+END to highlight to the end of the score.Click to select measure 1 of the piano bass clef Piano staff.Choose Edit > Use Filter to uncheck it (if it is checked).Choose Document > Display in Concert Pitch to turn off Display in Concert Pitch.The Staff Style bar disappears along with the slash notation. Click the horizontal gray bar above the Guitar staff and press DELETE.To prepare our tutorial musical example for tab entry: Also, we'll copy the left hand piano music to the guitar staff as our guitar part. To prepare for the following steps, we'll remove the slash notation Staff Style we added earlier and view the score with staff transpositions (to view the transposed guitar notes properly - up one octave). Click the icon to the left of the Guitar row to select it.From the Window menu select ScoreManager.If you haven’t already, return to Scroll View ( View > Scroll View).The example you have already created includes a standard notation guitar staff, so the first thing to do is to add a standard notation tablature staff to go with it. To begin at this point, open "Tutorial 10.MUS." Adding a tab staff Finale comes with many of these tab staves available as options in the Setup Wizard and also allows you to customize or create your own. Tablature (tab) staves come in many varieties, such as those for different tunings, instruments and numbers of strings. You are here: Finale Tutorials > Tutorial 10: Guitar > Tablature TablatureĬreating a tab staff and adding fret numbers.
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