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SmartMusic®

Note. View the Create a SmartMusic accompaniment QuickStart Video for an overview.

SmartMusic is an interactive, computer-based practice tool for musicians. Challenging exercises, instant feedback tools, and more than 30,000 accompaniments make SmartMusic an essential part of your practice sessions.

A SmartMusic subscription provides free access to the world's largest accompaniment library. Hundreds of new ensemble titles are being added every year, each with pre-authored assignments for every part. You can also create custom assignments from skill-building exercises, method books, jazz improvisation studies, musicals, or from a vast library of solo accompaniments.

For more information about SmartMusic, or to acquire a SmartMusic subscription, visit www.smartmusic.com.

Creating SmartMusic Accompaniments

Finale allows you to create your own assessment files to be graded for accuracy with SmartMusic’s Assessment feature. Finale also allows you to create solos with accompaniment, exercises, and warm-ups. You can save any Finale Notation File or MIDI file as a SmartMusic Public Accompaniment (.SMP file) and even include the solo notation file to be displayed in the SmartMusic interface during the performance.

Finale is capable of creating several different types of SmartMusic files. It is important to decide which type of SmartMusic file you would like to create. Your options are:

 

Creating a solo assessment file without accompaniment

Creating a solo assessment file with accompaniment

Creating a new SmartMusic ensemble file

Creating a new SmartMusic solo with accompaniment

Creating a solo assessment file from a Finale exercise

Preparing a file for SmartMusic

 

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