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Sorry about this. I was inactive at the forum for a few months. There's one option that could work: I notate the arrangement in Sibelius, save as pdf and share.

If I'm not mistaken that basically means the left hand should play the notes the line points to. Basically, you play the A, G#, A, E, C#, A, G notes part with the left hand. The right hand plays the major 6th dyad (E & C#) and later the A, G# notes.

It's pretty much done but I need do some things I can't do in Finale Notepad. I asked for help in the help section of the forum but no one helped me. So I would have to buy a better version of Finale to finish it (and I don't have that much money right now), unless someone actually decides to help me. There's ofc the piracy option but that's not an option for me.

The $99.95 sale for Finale 2012 is going again. Don't miss it.

Where can I find the sale?

I don't thinks he's an MRA. In the regard of gender equality he's pretty sane as he sees issues on both sides and obviously has noticed how issues on the male side tend to be ignored.

- Male circumcision shouldn't be done unless the male is adult and can decide himself. Putting babies at such medical risk and removing a part of their body should be strictly forbidden unless it somehow can save their lives (which I doubt but I don't know alot on the topic).
- Well, maybe prostate cancer isn't as dangerous etc. but it's more common and overall gets too little funding.
- Advertisement is advertisement, it likes to play on stereotypes. Feminism sees much advertisement as not "politically correct". They also generally dislike how women are portrayed in movies, video games etc. but it's pretty silly in the end. So he might have given advertising too much focus in his video but it at least portrays that advertisers play on the stereotypes of both genders.
- The problem is domestic abuse against men isn't taken seriously. Just watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlFAd4YdQks
- I agree with the other issues you listed. Another issue, at least in Sweden and Britain, females are getting advantages in the work place to make things more "equal" by hiring females because they are females, not because of the skills the person has or doesn't have for the work position. Watch this to see what I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaU8b0MO2rU . The older (compared with the other) woman in the debate with the program leaders has some sane things to say about this work place situation while the younger is an obvious radical feminism and thinks women should get certain jobs just because they are women. Also, father's rights compared with mother's rights is another issue.


I know, I know, there is feminism and there is also men's right movement and both have their points and share of good people but I've seen major flaws on both sides. The main issue is that any ideology is flawed because people get blinded by the ideology and don't consider what's good for others outside the ideology but rather focus on what's good for them or their ideology. When you are bound to an ideology you don't see the World for what it is, you see the World for how you want to see it. Since we are on the topic of gender equality and feminism lets take a few examples from feminism: A more or less extreme feminist might (I've heard of such examples) for example:
- Blame gender inequalities on an imaginary partiarchy or even worse, on "rape culture", insulting not only women, men but first and foremost actual rape victims (by making including lots of trivial things into their definition of "rape culture"). For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geQyrBGS_60
- Ignore any biologically proven gender differences such as difference in strength or ability to do well in sports etc. Instead they blame it all on social constructs.
- Hating men, wanting female supremacy, ignoring or even protesting against the idea of males being discriminated too. For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYyGTmcP80
- A worldview in which everything seems to be sexist against women.



And finally by making something called gender equality or something like that it would accomplish two important things:

- Getting rid of the extremists on both side of the gender "debate" and making the debate more sane.
- Making society realize that there are issues of discrimination on both sides and if we want gender equality we have to approach it from both sides simultaneously.

In general I've been thinking this thought: If there's discrimination in one direction there's often discrimination in the other direction too.

 @Jub3r7, I suppose you didn't really watch the video. The issue is not caused just by a few extremist women but by our current society. Things like prostate cancer research (even though prostate cancer is more common) don't get nowhere as much funding or media attention as breast cancer research. That's just one example. And besides feminism should be both renamed (to gender equality or something like that) to get rid of the "fem" and focus on both male and female issues.

So, anyone who will help me?

I don't like feminism, I like gender equality. Basically feminism focuses mostly on women's issues and ignores most male issues. See this explanation:

So I've been arranging this:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/yuae3cedulxz5u5/Greede%2C_the_Capital_of_Freedom.mus

However there are a couple issues I have due to the limitations of Finale Notepad and I hope someone here can correct them. To begin with I want the tempo direction to be "Andante con moto (quarter note=c. 102)" rather than the standard tempo that is there now. Secondly I can't seem to be able to edit the Company copyright Year thing at the bottom. It should be "Level-5 Copyright 2010". Also the fermatas slow down the whole bars which is pretty wierd, I just want the fermatas (short fermatas if available) to take effect on the places they are notated (obviously). Another thing needing to be fixed is that I want a poco rit. rather than rit. at the few last bars. Finally, is there a way to add pedal in Notepad and is it ok if I keep the text describing the pedal usage or should texts describing the playing be avoided?

Also, a question: Which version of Finale is good enough to handle all the things needed for these sort of arrangements?

They did that on Breaking Bad once.

Did what?

Moral of the story: If there's nothing to break, you can't break it.

I thought the video you linked was some kind of parody or so before I saw it was on the Nintendo channel. 2DS sounds so awkward and wierd, thought it was a joke.

A re-exam in linear systems and transforms tomorrow. Hopefully I will pass it this time (it at least feels I have a better understanding of the subject now).

I still firmly believe that if you don't play a real piano, you don't play the piano. Keyboards are great and all but only as a supplement.

A real piano? Digital pianos do count, they do most things better than uprights at least. And smaller grands have a fair share of issues so the only good "real piano" option is a good (concert) grand, which costs lots of money. Unless someone is slightly rich or just very dedicated I doubt that person will buy one.

Greede: It takes forever but I'm at least done with the transcribing part (figuring out the notes in the different voices by ear) and have started doing the piano arrangement (which might take some time as I'm new to notating in Finale Notepad, I typically use Sibelius, but nevertheless should go pretty quickly). There might be some mistakes in the notes though, it was pretty hard to figure out things in some places.