spotty
12/7/2012 9:26:56 AMDisappointed. I use printed legal sheets to make writing Finale lead sheets go more quickly but this, my first from Musicnotes, was barely helpful. It was written through-composed instead of with repeat and cued-second-verse notes. Every Rundgren vocal melisma was scored but often inaccurately. (I compare to the original audio from iTunes.) The key offered as original turned out to be an octave down. I should have realized it before choosing a transposed key, a feature I really do like BTW, but having too much faith in the printed version I just bulled ahead. Result - after typing everything from the Musicnotes sheet into Finale I went back and simplified melody to let verses repeat with only minimal layer-2 notes. I found my own vocal key and Finale made it easy to move it there. I used repeats on the refrain in the middle and again at the end. It wouldnt have been hard for the Musicnotes version to write those as repeats and I wonder why it wasnt done. Despite all this I will use this service again, but hope my next purchase will be more useful.
