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Entering and editing notes using a mouse

Entering and editing notes using a mouse - Finale Tutorial

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Entering and editing notes using a mouse

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- [Instructor] After creating a score, you'll want to add notes, and the easiest way to get started is to use the computer mouse. Let's set up a new score and try it out. I've got Danny Boy Notes open, and we're going to use this as an example in a second. But let's start by creating a new score. So let's go up to the File menu and to New, and let's choose Document from Template. Now, once we're in the Templates folder let's go to the General Templates subfolder, and you'll see that we have two options for lead sheet. We've got engraved, and we've also got handwritten. I'm going to select handwritten and click the Open button. Once we've done that, it's going to kick us into the wizard. And so let's add some of our score information. So the title should be "Oh, Danny Boy," and I'm going to tab a couple times to Composer, and let's put in Irish Traditional, since we don't know who wrote this. And then down to Lyrist, I'm…

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