26-1 The Basics of Music Spacing (Basic)

Venture where few have gone before… welcome to Music Spacing: The Finale Frontier! It truly is a bizarre, confusing, but ultimately fascinating corner of Finale to explore. Music Spacing is something we take for granted, but as with many things in Finale, with a little bit of knowledge, you can vastly improve your understanding of the program and likely the aesthetics of your music. In this video, I’ll cover a lot of concepts related to durational widths, and measure widths, and how and why Finale flows measures from one system to the next. But I’ll also cover some useful things to know about the types of Music Spacing at your fingertips, when, perhaps, to turn on or turn off Automatic Music Spacing, and a few other practical matters to help you understand what’s possible. Most importantly, this video will lay the groundwork for the rest of the videos in this series, so even if you’re a Finale power user, I really recommend you watch this “Basic” (I’m using that term very loosely this time) video before you get any further in this series!
Finale V27.2

0:00 Introduction
0:50 Background
1:27 Music Spacing Document Options
2:22 Imperfections
5:42 Automatic Music Spacing
7:54 Manual Music Spacing
10:43 Locked vs. Unlocked Systems
16:38 Note/Beat/Time Signature Spacing
21:47 A La Carte
23:26 Loose Ends
25:08 Conclusion

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