Quisakal

Okay, thanks. I'll do that as soon as I find enough free time to boot Finale up.

From a question I posted elsewhere: If I need to elaborate, just ask.

I thought it might be better there; I'll post it now. Thanks :P!

Bump for question. Should I ask this somewhere else?

Sounds like a good idea to me. :)

Actually, Finale 2011. When setting up the score to begin composing, there are all sorts of different Percussion instruments you can choose. Choosing the general "Percussion" part and adding it to the part list gives you a number of percussion instruments, but I found that several are repeated outside of the general "Percussion" part. I was wondering what the difference was and where, for instance, I could find a suspended cymbal.

Bumping this with another, similar question: Exactly what is in the "Percussion" parts? I went through it, but I didn't understand what most of it was. And when I looked back at the part selection section, some of the instruments that I saw in the "Percussion" part were in the percussion tabs.

The horn part gets a bit high (from a high-schooler's perspective at the deep end of braces). But, of course, most professionals aren't high schoolers on the deep end of braces.

Thank you for the help, that makes much more sense. :nod:

I tried to search for it, and I haven't found it anywhere else. A few days ago I decided to start writing a brass fanfare for a competition, and I was confused by the example percussion music I downloaded to try to teach myself. Can someone please explain the dashes? I assume they're all rolls of some sort, but what do the different numbers of dashes mean? New question, repeated below: