Finale: adding 2nd verse lyrics in a repeated section

[Chris Alpiar]

Hey Finale gurus!

 

I am currently whipping out a bunch of lead sheets for a jazz vocal session I have coming up in a few weeks and I am making lead sheets in Finale so we can easily transpose parts later for the vocalist if the keys arent working. So, I am doing up one for 'Round Midnight at the moment and I want to use a 1st and 2nd ending but include the lyrics for both verses under each other. I can only seem to add one layer of lyrics, is there some trick to adding more?

 

THanks a ton for any insight.

 

Chris

[Tyler Hughes]

I know how to do it if you are typing the lyrics into the score. All you do is press the down arrow button when you are typing the lyrics in.

[Chris Alpiar]

So awesome, thank you Tyler! I dont work with vocals very often, maybe less than 5 times a year am I adding lyrics into something in finale, so this is a situation I have never run into. Thanks again for the help!

[Chris Alpiar]

Hey Tyler, one more question I am hoping you can answer. I am making a leadsheet with [Staff 1] in a part called "Concert" and also using [Staff 1] in a part called "B Flat" but since both parts are being made up of the same [Staff 1] I cannot use the Staff Tool to edit the transposition of the part, because it effects the [Staff 1] and NOT the part called "B Flat". Is there a way to make a score, create parts from the same single staff and transpose each part where the notes and the chord changes are transposed? (i.e. Utilities > Transpose does not affect chord changes)

[Greg Brus]

I think Key Signature Tool should do the trick.

[Chris Alpiar]

nope just tried that, unfortunately everything gets applied to [Staff 1] which is what the "parts" are each made up from, the same [Staff 1], so while the Key Signature tool DOES work and does apply the new transposition to the chord changes as well, it does it to [Staff 1], the root data that each of the parts is made from (I re-used the [Staff 1] in each "part" so I could make one lead sheet and have a Bb, Eb, Concert and Bass Clef version of the same lead sheet made from [Staff 1])

 

Therefore if you use the Key Signature Tool, or edit in "Transposition" menu from the Staff Tool, it applies to the root data and affects all the parts together

[Chris Alpiar]

Its like I feel I need to make multiple [Staff 1]'s to assign a unique one to each "part" but I dont want to enter data for each one and make a "score" with the same exact but transposed parts for each instrument. I just want one lead sheet "score" that I can use to make 4 transposed parts for

like seems i need

SCORE mad up of the following four "staves"

Concert [Staff 1]

Bb part [Staff 2]

Eb part [Staff 3]

Bass part [Staff 4]

THEN: extract parts and have my four identical parts in their respective keys

 

But I feel thats a huge waste and redundant data since they are all 4 exactly the same except different transpositions. What if I want to make parts in all 12 keys for practice? What I want is ONE score leadsheet using one staff that I can then transpose into 4 or 12 or 97 parts each transposed

so

SCORE (concert part)

make parts with

CONCERT [Staff 1]

Bb [Staff 1] (transposed)

Eb [Staff 1] (transposed)

Bass Clef [Staff 1] (transposed)