Drum Groove

How to get there

Select a region of the document with the Selection Tool. From the Utilities Menu, choose Add Drum Groove.

What it does

The Drum Groove utility allows you to add a percussion part to the score containing one of many available rhythms, or “Drum Grooves”. These drum grooves include percussion notation along with a corresponding percussion map.

• Style. From this list, choose the drum groove style you would like to add to the document. The drum groove you choose should correspond to the tempo and time signature of the piece. For example, Jazz Waltz should be applied section of music in triple meter. If the region selected in the score exceeds the duration of the drum groove, the drum groove will repeat until the end of the selected region. Each style in this list corresponds to a MIDI file in the Finale PrintMusic 2009/Component Files/Drum Groove folder. As noted in the dialog box, you can add supplement this list by adding any MIDI file with a percussion track (on channel 10) to the Drum Groove folder. The MIDI file’s name appears in this list. Then, when the new style is chosen, PrintMusic uses the MIDI data on channel 10 as the drum groove.

The Drum Groove utility does not read MIDI data on any channel other than channel 10. If a MIDI file contains percussion notation in a channel other than 10, open the file in PrintMusic (or another program that supports MIDI editing) and change the staff (or track) containing the percussion notation to channel 10.

• Place Music Into Staff. Select a staff from the popup menu to add the drum groove into any existing staff.
• Generate: Notation with Percussion Map · Normal Notation · Slashes. Choose Notation with Percussion Map to add drum notation in addition to a percussion map which assigns each percussion instrument to a specific notehead and staff line or space. Choose Normal Notation to add the drum groove as normal notation. If you choose this option, notation appears on the staff based on MIDI Note numbers instead of a percussion map. Choose Slash Notation to display the drum groove as slash notation in the score.
• OK · Cancel. Click OK to add the drum groove to the document based on the setting chosen. Click cancel to return to the score without adding a drum groove.