Drum Charts 101 with Joe Bergamini

[@jamessbca]

This video is OUTSTANDING. First of all, this guy worked on Neil Peart / Stewart Copeland Books. Your drum notation resume is secure for eternity :) "Finale will do what you need it to do - have faith that you will eventually find it". Truer words were never spoken. I thought I was a nut for wanting to create my "cheet sheet" charts in finale. I was thinking *maybe* it's just not ideal for this. I was making another attempt at it, then found this video. Now I'm sold. If *you're* doing this exact same thing, at your expert level of finale use / yet also needing to be practical for the drumming you're doing on Saturday night, I'm in!!! Beautiful "working drummer chart". I hope to have some beautiful charts as well! (I'm creating charts these days for drumming at church once / month or so on Sundays - I often get the songs less than a week in advance - I want to make a chart that I could "save as" different versions - the Sunday Service edit, the "stock" version, etc. I suspect I'll soon get to where I can create these as fast as handwritten roadmap charts). One item I found that's super useful - hiding rests when using two layers (Ctrl-Select the rest, then hit "H"). This, along with your two layer approach, and I'm off and running! EDIT: You *did* mention this at 37:55. Let us know if you run for president. You have my vote, Joe Bergamini! (I was always a "stems up" guy until seeing an example online recently of bass / snare down, cymbals up can be insanely more clear in some situations - I'm now sold on using both, depending on the situation...)

[@DavidClawsonMusic]

As a beginner to Finale’ this was so helpful. Thanx Joe!

[@JoloraB]

I agree that this was a good intro to Finale. However, the seminar was billed as "Drum Charts 101." After a few drum notation-specific points at the beginning, it quickly devolved into "Finale 101." Joe kept talking about entering drum parts using Simple Entry. I iwish he had spent more time, with the document zoomed in, entering a drum part. That is what I do (use Simple Entry for everything), but I find entering drum notation to be VERY tedious. Some tips would have been nice. I've been using Finale since the Allegro days, so most of this was simple review.

[@leonardvanbiljouw5330]

For examples between text in a Word document use Tools>Advanced Tools>Graphics, draw a rectangle over the part you want to copy, then go to Graphics in the menu bar and click 'Export Selection', choose the format (JPG?) and where you want to save it. The in the Word document 'insert', choose the file where the picture is stored, double click on it and there it is.

[@vonnygenerous592]

P r o m o S M 😎