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Garritan Instruments for Finale

Configuring instrument playback

Choosing the appropriate Garritan sound (Player vs. Solo instruments)

Adding keyswitches as expressions

Glissandos

Moving, reshaping, or deleting a Smart Shape glissando

Defining glissando placement settings

Changing which glissando is assigned to the palette icon

Creating a playback glissando

Grace notes

Creating a grace note (Speedy Entry)

Creating a grace note (Simple Entry)

Beaming grace notes

Changing the size of grace notes

Adding or remove the slashes from grace notes globally

Adding or remove the slashes from individual grace notes

Adding a slash to beamed grace notes

Eliminating grace notes from a transcription

Creating a graphic only “slashed” grace note

Grand pause

Creating a G.P. marking

Moving or deleting the G.P. marking

Forcing a break in a multimeasure rest

Graphics

Exporting a region of music as a graphic

Exporting full pages of music as graphics (Page View)

Placing graphics into the score

Placing graphics into the Shape Designer

Assigning a graphic to one or more pages

Assigning a graphic to a measure

Scaling a placed graphic proportionally

Positioning placed graphics on-screen

Positioning page-assigned graphics (Graphics Menu)

Positioning page-assigned graphics (Graphic Attributes dialog box)

Positioning measure-assigned graphics (Graphic Attributes dialog box)

Positioning page-assigned graphics on left- and right-facing pages (Graphic Attributes dialog box)

Locating a linked graphic on your computer

Grids and Guides

Showing the grid

Creating a guide

Snapping to grids and guides

Group names

Creating or edit a group name

Positioning group names (globally)

Repositioning group names (individually)

Setting the initial font for group names

Hiding a group name (full score)

Groups

Grouping staves

Removing a group

Changing the attributes of a group

Adding staves to a group

Removing staves from a group

Configuring a multiple-staff part to collapse

Guitar

Adding hammer-ons, pull-offs and other guitar-specific markings

Adding guitar markings

Adding guitar bends

Combining notes with rhythmic notation slashes on one staff

Creating pitched slashes (note-by-note method)

Using a MIDI guitar for entry