Help A.S.A.P with Finale - Rythm Guitar Chords

Hey,

Using finale 2007:

I'm arranging a piece for concert band which has just basic comping from the guitar... Now, i know how to put it in 'rhythmic' notation but when i play, it still play the actual note...

For example, if when you entered the rhythm you were clicking on the E line, it'd play back E's when you hit play...

What i need it to do is to have a Rhythm which i can attach chords to but only play back the chords with the appropriate rhythm.

Can anyone help?

Thank you,

Chris :-)

I've been working with Finale for about 7 years now and I am a guitar player. Finale is now good for the guitar. What I ended up doing when I was writing a full band score for a musical which included a guitar part is to use rythmic notation like you said and then to avoid getting that constant E note sound you just go to Instrument List under the Window menu and mute the guitar part.

You are not going to get the guitar to playback the notes in the chord you want unless you put those notes in for each chord in place of your unwanted E-notes. There is a chord playback function on Finale but as far as I know it only plays on beat one and even if you could get it in the rythym you want it, it tends to pick strange voicings and ends up sounding very unnatural anyway.

So I just notate the guitar part so it is visually accurate and either live without hearing the guitar on playback or just strum along myself with the playback. Unfortunately the playback on Finale is just a limited tool and nothing more.

Thanks for the reply