New Selection of Fretted Instruments

Choose your instrument from the Setup Wizard and enter your music. There is little left to do.

	New Feature Realtime TAB Play your guitar and notate TAB as you play with or without a MIDI guitar. Using a MIDI guitar watch as your TAB instantly appears. Each string notates intelligently and automatically. With a non-MIDI guitar, it is possible to notate single line melodies using Finale's MicNotator function.

Finale 2003 can handle notation for an amazing array of fretted instruments.

Enter notes directly into TAB staves. Or copy from a companion Standard Notation Staff to a TAB staff and vice-versa. Specify the lowest fret to use as you paste.

Once the music is in the tab staff, it is incredibly easy and intuitive to edit. For example, to change a fret number from '2' to '3', just select the note and type '3'.

Up and Down arrow keys move a selected number to other strings. Numbers appear in orange when out of fret range.

Finale 2003's handling of stems in tablature is unequaled in ease and power. Various stem styles are easily applied. Use the "Tab Styles" library that comes with Finale 2003 or create your own.

• Bends and shapes automatically convert when you paste between Standard and TAB staves.
• Notating hammer-ons, Pull-offs, bends and releases is a breeze.
• User-defined defaults for Guitar bends are standard.
• Custom Smart Shapes now contain an expanded list of Guitar Specific lines.
• Bends can effortlessly do stair steps and double bends.