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Mid-score time, key, and clef changes - Finale Tutorial
From the course: Finale Essential Training
Mid-score time, key, and clef changes
- [Instructor] While the basic musical parameters don't change throughout many scores, in music for film and TV and other forms of modern music, you'll need to know how to add mid-score time, key, and clef changes. So I've got the Time Signature Start file open if you want to follow along. And let's start by adding some more measures to this score. So I've already got the Selection Tool selected, so let's go ahead and click measure 18 and then I'm going to right-click and I'm going to drop down to Add Measures. And let's type 15. Okay, so there are several ways to add these types of changes to a score, and I'm going to take you through about three or four of them for each thing that we're going to talk about. And let's start with time signatures. So one way we can do that is to go to the Time Signature Tool, which is the one that looks like a 4/4. and I'm going to go back to my measure 18 and I'll double-click and…
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Simple entry using a MIDI keyboard7m 57s
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Entering triplets (tuplets)6m 41s
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Entering advanced tuplets7m 55s
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Mid-score time, key, and clef changes9m 28s
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Working with measure attributes5m 15s
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Ties, grace notes, and modifying note display7m 18s
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Adding repeats8m 46s
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Expressions9m 48s
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Slurs, crescendos, and smart shapes7m 38s
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