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Finale Guitar 2003 Overview

The easiest most complete notation and TAB software for fretted instruments.

Designed for the "performing" musician, Finale Guitar gives everyday musicians all the MIDI and notation tools they need to create publisher-quality scores quickly and easily.

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Features

• TAB notation features that allow users to enter music in a traditional staff and see it displayed automatically in a TAB staff or vice versa.
• An extensive library of special symbols and shapes used with notation for standard guitar or any of the more than fifty fretted instruments Finale Guitar supports.
• A feature that allows users to input notes with a MIDI guitar and see instant TAB notation.
• An advanced music scanning technology that provides a new level of optical music character recognition. Thus, musicians can more easily and quickly scan sheet music and turn it into a Finale file ready for editing, printing or posting on the Internet.
• A Rhyming Dictionary that enables songwriters to quickly search all possible English rhymes for any lyric
• Enter notes directly into TAB staves or copy from a companion Standard Notation Staff to a TAB staff and vice-versa. Specify the lowest fret to use as you paste.
• Once the music is in the tab staff, it is easy and intuitive to edit.
• Up and Down arrow keys move a selected number to other strings. Numbers automatically appear in orange when out of fret range.
• Finale Guitar's handling of stems in tablature is unequaled in ease and power. Various stem styles are easily applied. Use the Tab Styles library that comes with Finale Guitar or create your own.
• Play your guitar and notate TAB instantly. Using a MIDI guitar see your TAB instantly appear. Each string notates intelligently and automatically. With a non-MIDI guitar, it is possible to notate single-line melodies using Finale's MicNotator function.
• Bends and Shapes automatically convert when you paste between Standard and TAB staves. Notating Hammer-ons, Pull-offs, Bends and Releases is a breeze.
• User-defined defaults for guitar bends are standard. A huge library of custom Guitar specific Lines is included. Bends can effortlessly do stair steps and double bends.
• Create your own fretboards. Even though Finale Guitar comes with thousands of fret diagrams to choose from, you can easily customize your own multiple fretboards for named chords and save them in transposable groups.
• PRINT. PUBLISH. POST. Now you can create the same quality sheet music you've been buying. Why? Because this is the software that creates that sheet music. And you can publish your music on the Web for free at Finale Showcase.

System Requirements

Finale Guitar 2003 for Windows

Windows 98/2000/Me/XP

64MB RAM Minimum

128MB RAM Recommended

70MB hard drive space required

Finale Guitar 2003 for Macintosh

System 8.6 or higher

Operates under OS X in Classic Mode

64MB RAM Minimum

128MB RAM Recommended

70MB hard drive space required

Optional

MIDI interface

MIDI input and/or playback device

Printer

Scanner

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