Slurs, ties and dynamics

• Jul 23, 2020 - 12:53

Hi,
I am in charge of writing and the music for all the musical performances at my school. I also write a lot of scores in my free time. To find any mistakes in my scores I use the program's playback feature (I have a windows laptop ). There were two things I noticed that wasn't playing back accurately
1. Slurs and/or ties weren't always playing back together rather as separate notes and
2. The dynamics only lasted for a bar, even if I dragged the line for longer.
Does anyone have any tips because it would help me immensely?

Thank you very much,
Pentatonic5

P.S. This is my first time posting something here so apologies if this is the wrong spot.

Comments

underquark

• Jul 23, 2020 - 13:19

Welcome, Tip #1 - post the score (the mscz file) that is giving you the problems. Then someone can check the score and see where the problem might be.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jul 23, 2020 - 13:21

Tip #2: read the entire handbook at least once, front to back ;-)

kuwitt

• Jul 23, 2020 - 13:20

There is a difference between ties (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/ties) and slurs (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/slurs), tied notes won't be play back, slurred notes will.
For adjusting hairpins, if you're talking about it, see: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/hairpins#adjust-length.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jul 23, 2020 - 13:20

Ties do playback (just make sure to nur use Slurs instead). Slurs indeed don't, or have only a very minimal effect.
Don't drag hairpins to make them spanning more notes, use Shift+Right instead

bobjp

• Jul 26, 2020 - 15:46

Or, select the measures, or at least the first and last notes involved, and then add the hairpin.