Fingered tremolo resembles a trill, but often with a larger interval between the fingers. The notation shows the tremolo marking between two notes rather than intersecting stems, or directly under or over a whole note. The convention is to show the full value of each of the notes in the tremolo pair.
Fingered tremolo is very straightforward to create in both Finale and Sibelius:
FINALE 2011
Select two notes to connect with a fingered tremolo, or an entire passage:
From the Plugins Menu, select TG Tools > Easy Tremolos…
The Easy Tremolos is included with recent versions of Finale at no charge. If you are using the full version of TG Tools, select it from TGTools main menu, then Music>Tremolos…
A dialog will open up to allow you to set options such as playback (the full version of TG Tools has additional control options):
OK (Go). The region you selected will be processed:
If you have the full version of TG Tools, you’ll have some additional controls over final output.
That’s it! Easy Fingered Tremolos in Finale.
SIBELIUS 7 & SIBELIUS 6
Select two notes to connect with a fingered tremolo, or an entire passage:
Select the 3rd Keypad Layout, then press 3, ENTER. The keypad should look like this:
The region you selected will be processed:
That’s it! Easy Fingered Tremolos in Sibelius.
for Phil Kelly