Welcome

- [Voiceover] Hi, I'm Rick Schmunk and I'd like to welcome you to Finale 2014 Essential Training. So if you're an amateur or a professional musician and you always wanted to notate and hear your compositions come to life, then this is the course for you. We'll start off with the basics of entering notes and build up to adding lyrics, chord symbols, and tablature to create beautiful lead sheets. Then we'll look at how we can use the score manager and linked parts to save you lots of time as you make changes and format your scores. We'll learn how to use the edit filter and smart find and paint to quickly copy expressions and articulations to the instruments in your scores.

Next, we'll explore how staff styles can be utilized to notate drum set and other rhythm section parts. Finally, we'll learn how to export MIDI, XML and graphics files, so that you can use your music in music production, and desktop publishing programs then share it with your friends and colleagues. If you're ready to discover computer music notation at its best, let's get started with Finale 2014 essentials.