Now that came in in the wrong octave so I'll left arrow back over to that and Shift, down arrow, that into the right octave. And enter that last note which is going to be a B-flat. It puts the A in can arrow over the next note, press a four. Again, that opens up the simply entry tuplet definition and I'll change that again to three eights in the space of two-eights, and click OK. And again we're on a quarter note and eight note mixed tuplets, so I'll hold down my shift-key and click.
So I'll hit the plus to raise that a half a step. Now, on that B, I need that to be a B natural.
And then I'll press D C Plus, to add the sharp, another D. And I'm going to need to arrow up a little bit to get my cursor in the right octave. So, I've got the four selected for eighth notes and I've still got the Tuplet Entry enabled, which is going to allow me to just enter a string of triplets without actually activating that Tuplet tool again. Then we've got a string of triplets to enter. And now I'll just arrow over to the next note and I'm going to need a four there, so, I'll type four, I'll enter that B flat. The first note comes in in the right duration and the tuplet is the right duration as well. So, I want to click that dropdown and I want to choose 3 8ths in the space of 2 8ths, and then I'll click OK. But, my first note is a quarter note and that would be incorrect. And what this is saying, it's going to add tuplets, three of the current value in the space of two of the current value. This is going to allow me to shift click that first note in and when I do that it opens up this simple entry tuplet definition dialogue. So I'll type a five for a quarter note and this time I'm going to come over on the tool bar and activate the tuplet tool before I enter the next note. Notice that it is still an eighth note triplet, but the first, no it's a quarter note. Now, the next one is a little bit more complicated. And if I put in the next note, it will be in the wrong octave too, so I'm going to shift down to get closer to where I need it to be, and now I'll type nine again, to tell that it is triplets and then press a and c again. Notice tha tit came in in the wrong octave, so I'll arrow back over and I'll shift arrow down to get that in the right octave. So I'll type A and C, and then I'll type in another F. That puts a bracket around it and now I can add the other two notes to replace those two rests that you see.
And then I'll press f on my computer keyboard, and now I'm going to press the number nine on my num pad, to tell finale that I'm actually in the process of entering a group of triplets. To enter triplets, I can simply enter the first note, and I'm going to put my cursor just a little bit closer to that f we need so that it actually comes in the right active.
You can do the same thing on a PC by pressing control and clicking into the measure. And that puts my cursor into the measure without actually adding a note. My cursor came in the first measure there, so I'm going to hold down on my option key and click in that first open measure. So to enter triplets I'm going to go ahead and select the simple entry tool. And I've tiled them, and I've put them both in scroll view as we've done in past videos.
So I've opened up the 05_02 start file, and the 05_02 Tuplets Example. An addition to triplets includes quintuplets and sextuplets. A triplets are included within a type of rhythm referred to as a tuplet, and that's defined as any irregular division of a rhythmic duration.
In this video, we'll learn how to enter simple triplets and triplets of mixed note durations. Up to this point, we've learned how to enter basic note durations.