Until recently, guitarists had to invest in the most sophisticated and expensive score writing packages to get access to the guitar-specific features that they needed. Finale Guitar collects all of the essential tools for creating accurate, attractive guitar notation, without all the unnecessary features used by orchestral arrangers and engravers.

This makes for a streamlined, easy to use package, with hundreds of useful guitar functions at your fingertips, at an incredibly affordable price.

MAC and Windows version in same box, current version 2003

Getting Started
Choose from over 50 fretted instruments, hundreds of keyboards, percussion, brass, voices and more, using the easy to use set-up wizard

TWEAK
Easily edit all MIDI data.

LISTEN
The ultimate way to proof. Every nuance of your performance plays back. Tempo variation, crescendos, staccatos and attacks all play as your music scrolls.

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, the world's gathering place for sharing great sheet music.

KEY FEATURES

1. Enter notes directly into TAB staves, or between a companion Standard Notation Staff and a TAB staff. Specify the lowest fret to use as you paste.

2. Once the music is in the TAB staff, it is very easy and intuitive to edit. For example, to change a fret number from ‘2’ to ‘3’, just select the note and type ‘3’.

3. Up and Down arrow keys move a selected number to other strings. Numbers appear in orange when out of fret range.

4. 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. Create your own fretboards

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Bends and Shapes automatically convert when you paste between Standard and TAB staves. Notating Hammer-ons, Pull-offs, Bends and Releases is a breeze.

8. Even though Finale Guitar comes with thousands of fret diagrams to choose from, you can easily customise your own multiple fretboards for named chords and save them in your own transposable groups.

• Learn by watching on-screen videos.
  
• Easy score set-up with "Setup Wizard."
  
• Choose from 100s of instruments — over 40 predefined fretted instruments.
  
• Over 50 predefined score templates.
  
• Create up to 32 staves of orchestration.
  
• View from 5% to 1000%.
  
• Choose from ten predefined clefs.
  
• Five predefined staff brackets.
  
• Easily copy and paste between standard and TAB staves.
  
• Edit full or partial measures.
  
• Insert, copy, clear and delete music.
  
• Multiple Undo, even past the last "Save."
  
• Play back via MIDI device or internal computer sounds.
  
• Scroll music on-screen during playback.
  
• On-screen Playback Controls play any range of measures, volume and tempo.
  
• Easily assign a MIDI channel or patch and play/solo/mute setting for each staff.
  
• Play back repeats, dynamics, tempo changes and chord symbols.
  
• Play score as notated or original MIDI performance.
  
• Edit individual MIDI events in a graphic window.
  
• Program "swing feel" for playback.
  
• Record/play with a resolution of 1024 pulses/quarter note.
  
• Save multiple MIDI/instrument setups.
  
• Accurately notate tuplets and jazz rhythms.
  
• Notate a double-whole note to a 128th note.
  
• Diatonic or chromatic transposition.
  
• Easily notate alternate tunings.
  
• Notate dulcimer and other diatonic instruments in tablature.
  
• Input from MIDI guitar.
  
• Import/Export scores from/to any Finale notation software.
  
• Read and write standard MIDI files.
  
• Re-quantize any notes entered.
  
• Export TIFF or PICT files.
  
• Import scanned music files.
  
• Create/edit chord symbols including alternate bass.
  
• Choose from over 1,000 pre-defined fretboard diagrams or create your own.
  
• Easily add Slash and Rhythmic notation.
  
• Play chords for automatic analyzing.
  
• Chord symbols and fretboards auto-transpose when keys change.
  
• Play back chord symbols via MIDI .
  
• Create any text. Mix fonts, sizes and styles.
  
• Type lyrics directly onto the score.
  
• Select/position markings, text and dynamics.
  
• Full page layout capability.
  
• Separate time signature’s display and beaming.
  
• Apply articulations w/auto-positioning and stem direction.
  
• Hide key and time signatures.
  
• Add rehearsal marks and measure numbers.
  
• Auto-optimize score removes resting instruments.

File compatibilty

• Read and write Standard MIDI files
  
• Instantly convert Encore (3.0 and higher) and Rhapsody files
• Open scanned music directly from Musitek's MIDISCAN® and SmartScore products
• Share files between Allegro, Finale, and PrintMusic! (same version level and lower ie 2003 reads 2003, 2002 etc.)

  Finale, Finale Guitar, Allegro and PrintMusic offer a full range of power and price to suit your sheet music and notation needs. And best of all, you'll never outgrow the Finale family.

Files created using products of the same version number can all be shared. For example, users of Notepad, PrintMusic!, Allegro, and Finale can all share files with each other.

So when you're ready to move up to Finale for more power and flexibility, everything you've learned and created is instantly usable. No data is lost, and you don't have to learn a new program from scratch just the additional features of Finale.