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Tony Smyles Posted
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Okay. I've looked and looked and don't see a definitive answer to this.

I'm adding a guitar part to a score. I want the chords to play a rhythmic strum.

How ON EARTH (sorry, a bit frustrated at this point) do you do this? I've typed the chord name over the staff and entered the strum pattern.....and Finale plays the chord once and ignores the chord as a strum, rather it plays the rhythmic notation as a single pitched note (I've played with rhythmic notation and slash notation).

I'd rather not have to write out the chords as individual notes every time and do cut/paste.

There's got to be a way to do this; right?

Finale 27, Mac Mojave

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J ADRIAN VERKOUTEREN Posted
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Sadly, Finale is not able to do what you had hoped. You would have to write the chords out i the rhythm you want.

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Tony Smyles Posted
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Aargh! Okay. I was beginning to realise that.

There are some things that could be handled a lot better but we just work around however we can.

The composer friend who turned me onto FINALE as the best game in town uses 4 or 5 staves for piano in order to bring out the nuances a real pianist would when playing.

Thanks! I'll stop banging my head and doing late night searches.

Hopefully they'll address those issues one day.

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MIKE ROSEN Posted
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Make 2 scores, one for print, and one for playback. On the first, just chords as normal. On the second, add the chords to every beat where you want the strum. Yes, it will be a pain, but using the filter, and copy/paste, it should make it viable. 

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Tony Smyles Posted
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Yeah... Sigh.

Thanks. For now it's just playback.

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