Before moving into this position, I was responsible for supervising music engraving for SmartMusic. My name is Mark Adler, I am the Finale Product Manager/Sr. Some of you may be familiar with my posts on the Finale Blog, but as this is my first appearance on the SmartMusic blog, a brief introduction is in order.
#Finale 2014.5 tempo how to
If you’d like to create your own SMPX files from Finale 2014.5, here’s a short video that demonstrates how to create a SmartMusic file with audio accompaniment, and another, broader overview video on creating SMPX files.Īre you using SMPX files? Let us know how by clicking on “Comments” below, or come and chat with me in person at the MakeMusic booth at the 2016 TMEA convention, February 10-13. These are just a few examples made possible with Finale’s new functionality. I imported a solo trumpet track recorded at a reasonable tempo (not too fast) for someone learning the piece, giving them room to work on incrementally speeding up. I transcribed the piece featured in the famous portrait of Bach’s trumpet player, Gottfried Reiche, for piccolo trumpet in A. While I would typically play this for students in their lesson, I also want them to be able to hear it when they practice at home and be able to practice along with the recording.Įxample 4 is a file I made for a more advanced student who wanted to learn the Fanfare Abblasen, familiar to those that watch CBS Sunday Morning. In example 3 I have imported a recording of one of Arban’s easier rhythm studies. This next file will be familiar to anyone that has used the Arban Method. Band-in-a-Box provides a great means for easily creating backing tracks for virtually any style of music and the audio they provide is recorded by top notch musicians. The audio for these files was created using Band-in-a-Box, then imported into Finale.
I suggest that students start at a slow pace, working on playing very evenly, then challenge them to slowly increase the tempo, always striving to play as evenly as possible. For examples 1 and 2, I have created SmartMusic files for two common Clarke studies which incorporate backing tracks that make these much more enjoyable to play and help to keep younger students engaged. While I may enjoy playing these everyday as part of my warm-up, some of my students might be less excited at the prospect, thinking them rather dry and boring. Most brass players are familiar with Herbert L.
#Finale 2014.5 tempo zip file
zip file of the four examples described below. I’d like to share some of the SmartMusic files I’ve created for students that demonstrate how I use this new feature in my studio. Now when I create an SMPX for a trumpet student, I can incorporate audio that will inspire them to be a better musician. While you could certainly create great SmartMusic files, sometimes the audio quality was lacking.
Previously, when you made your own SmartMusic files you were restricted to using general MIDI sounds. MakeMusic really needs to fix debilitating, illogical bugs like this.We recently added an exciting new SmartMusic feature to Finale 2014.5 that lets you create improved SmartMusic accompaniments (SMPX files) that can include the sounds of your favorite sound libraries, like Garritan, and/or live recorded audio. So the bottom line is: if your expression tempo is being ignored, make sure that the staff that it is attached to (mostly likely the top staff of your score) IS NOT MUTED, else Finale is likely completely ignoring it, even though this makes NO earthly sense that it should do that. Finale should NOT IGNORE THE TEMPO EXPRESSION, simply because IT IS ATTACHED TO A MUTED STAFF.īut that's the bug Finale has, that I reported long ago, and that persists to this day. Thus, my tempo expression attached to that MUTED top staff IS IGNORED.Ĭlearly, logically, a tempo expression SHOULD ALWAYS BE OBSERVED BY FINALE. But because I'm working on the piano part, I have the TOP STAFF MUTED (via the mixer). It was because I have piano/vocal score, and the tempo is "attached" to the top staff. So, my symptoms are that expression tempo is ignored, only the "playback control" tempo is used. It has driven me crazy in the past, and I just wasted 90 minutes on it now again, until I remembered this particular bug (and it is a bug, no mistake about it). I will tell you one bug that I reported to them long ago, but that they still have not fixed.
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