Create Online Sample Tutorial
Finale NotePad
Objective: To create an online listening example using Finale NotePad.
Introduction: Finale NotePad is a basic notation software that lets you create
simple compositions, arrangements and etc. Key features of NotePad include a set-up wizard that lets you select instrumentation, key signature,
time signature and etc., playback controls that let you hear it as you see it, easy lyric and text entry tools, simple note entry, and
printing possibilities. NotePad files can be read by Finale and can also be saved as web pages for easy uploading to the Internet.
Skill Practice: Create an online listening example using Finale NotePad
Step 1: Download Finale NotePad - If the computer you are using does not have Finale NotePad software, it is available free from
Coda Music Technology (http://www.codamusic.com).
Step 2: Open 
. The set-up wizard will automatically appear.
Type in a title and the name of the composer. Select a paper size and orientation. When finished, click on 
Step 3: Select Instrumentation The second page of the set-up wizard will automatically appear.
Select the instrumentation that your document will contain by highlighting the instrument group, highlighting the instrument and pressing the add 
button.
Continue adding the instrumentation until you have selected the appropriate ones. When finished, click
Step 4: Time Signature and Key Signature Selection The third page of the set-up wizard will automatically appear.
Click on the time signature that you wish to use. Then scroll to select the key you want your composition to be in. Click on Finish 
Step 5: Layout Notes Using the Simple Entry Palette at the top of the screen, 
select the note value you wish to begin with.
Then using the mouse, position the cross-hairs directly on top of the place you want the note to occur and click the left mouse button. FYI: Ledger lines will appear for notes above and below the staff. Continue entering notes until you are completed.
Step 6: Add Dynamics, Slurs, and etc. Using the Smart Shape Palette at the top of the screen, 
select the item you wish to add.
Then using the mouse, position the cross-hairs directly on the note you want to add it close to and click the left mouse button. Continue until you have added all of the options that you want.
Hint: Adding or Deleting Measures To add or delete measures, view the Main Tool Palette 
and with the left mouse button, click on the measures
icon 
. If you want to delete measures,
click in the first measure that you want to delete, press and hold the shift key, and then click in the last measure that you want to delete.
Let go of both the mouse and the shift key and use the mouse click on Measures, then scroll down to Delete.
Too add measures click in the measure to the left of where you want the new measure(s) to appear. Then go up to the tool bar and use the mouse
to click on Measures, then scroll down to Add.
A small box will appear, asking you how many measures you would like to add.
Step 8: Save When your document is complete, you should save it. You also have the option of printing it, by using the
mouse to click on the word File on the tool-bar and scrolling down to Print....
Step 9: Save as a Web Page Use the mouse to click on the word File on the mail tool-bar and then scroll down to Save as Web Page....
A set-up wizard will automatically appear.
This allows you to select the options you want your students to be able to have when they view the file online.
Step 10: Upload To upload your file, you will need two files - they were automatically created for you when you saved the document as a webpage.
One file will be the name .MUS and the other name .htm. The document name.htm is the one you want the students to have access to. Upload both of these files to your server.
Make sure that when you save the document as a webpage that you select "playback" so that your students will be able to listen to the file online.