How do assign a rhythm pattern to a "chord symbol"?
For example, if I enter a chord symbol in a measure and I want the "piano player" to bang that chord 4 times how do I make that happen? I have tried entering 4 slashes and still the only thing that happens is the chord is only played one time at the start of the measure. What am I doing incorrectly?
Thank you,
yetoone
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Enter the chord symbol 4 times, once for every 'bang', optionally make them invisible
In reply to Enter the chord symbol 4… by Jojo-Schmitz
IMHO, this is precisely what the user would like to avoid doing - one measure still passes, 32 or more measures is more annoying :)
I seem to have read this kind of request - valid in my opinion - a few times already - on the French forum, I am sure of that. But not in an "official" way I believe.
From a coding point of view (I have no idea about that), is it something that would be "reasonably" feasible, or would imply serious difficulties?
In reply to IMHO, this is precisely what… by cadiz1
If it were really easy it would have been part of the original design. It's not really hard, either, would just require someone to really think through all the details of how this should work in all the various cases that might come up - mixtures of regular and slash notes, notes in different voices, etc. And then implement it.
In reply to If it were really easy it… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the precisions.
In reply to Enter the chord symbol 4… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you. That works.
If I only want to hear the chords is it best to "tie" them to rests or is there some other method/notation to tie the chords to to give them "value/length"?
Also, what does making them invisible do other than making them where you can't see them?
In reply to Thank you. That works. If I… by yetoone
Making them invisible also makes them not affect the layout. If you haven't tried it then when you do you may get staves being placed farther apart or measures being made wider to make room for the chord symbols. I think their invisibility will also make it easier to read and tell where the chord actually changes for the live musician.
In reply to Making them invisible also… by mike320
How do I make the chords invisible? I am not seeing it.
In reply to How do I make the chords… by yetoone
Select one or more chords and press v. They will probably turn light gray indicating they will not print. If you don't want to see them, use View->Show invisible and they will become totally invisible.
In reply to Select one or more chords… by mike320
That worked perfectly. Thank you.
If I only want to hear just the chord symbols is it best to "tie" them to rests or is there some other method/notation to tie the chords to to give them "value/length"?
In reply to That worked perfectly. Thank… by yetoone
If you want to hear only chord symbols then mute the other sounds in the mixer. Keep in mind that if you add a chord symbol to a staff, there is a mixer channel added for that staff. Expand the instrument using the right arrow above the volume slider so you can see there is an instrument channel and chord channel. You can also change what the chord symbol sounds like here.
In reply to How do I make the chords… by yetoone
> "How do I make the chords invisible? I am not seeing it."
Isn't that the point of invisible things? ;-)
In reply to > "How do I make the chords… by jeetee
LOL
In reply to > "How do I make the chords… by jeetee
@jeetee
Ciao,
guarda il mio allegato.
Buona musica.
In reply to @jeetee Ciao, guarda il mio… by Claudio Riffero
Hey Claudio,
I'm very much aware of how to make things invisible. All I did was having a chuckle at the way the question was phrased there.
Not being an English speaker you might've missed that.
In any case, your gif indeed perfectly shows how to turn things invisible.
Hi all,
This thread is more than two years old but the title describes exactly what I was looking for today.
IMHO, to squeeze chord symbols and make part of them invisible cannot be the solution. Either you have scrammed chords or you can't see the rhythm info anymore.
A possible solution: I'm sure that Musescore is able to display a staff for a rhythmic instrument although I've never used it. Now take such a staff and instead of playing the rhythmic instrument, link it to the chords. At first glance, this should be fairly easy to implement.
There is one difficulty however that comes to my mind: anticipation. If a chord has to be played just before the beat in order to get that swing feeling, this could be handled by an articulation symbol in the rhythmic staff. What do you think?
Alexander
In reply to Hi all, This thread is more… by HunGrYforMuSiK
there was a very similar question in the German section lately: https://musescore.org/de/node/342143
My solution is indeed a dedicated rhythm line with a few invisible items - following the basic rule "if you want it played in a specific way, it should be treated as a specific instrument".
The linked thread contains a screenshot of the printout, this is what it looks like in editing mode:
![MU3_rhythm_score.png]( "MU3_rhythm_score.png")
In reply to Hi all, This thread is more… by HunGrYforMuSiK
As shown above, this is already possible and quite simple. Just add the staff and the rhythm (I'd recommend using Tools / Toggle rhythmic slash notation), then add the chord symbols. Either hide the staff if you don;t want to to see it, or keep the staff but hide the chord symbols.
As mentioned previously, you can also simply add invisible chords to the main staff, this works also if you don't want to see the rhythm.
In reply to Hi all, This thread is more… by HunGrYforMuSiK
Here is an example of what I mean. I transcribed the chords as well as the rhythm and put it on a lead sheet from a youtube video of Tony Monaco (without anticipations).
In reply to Here is an example of what I… by HunGrYforMuSiK
Oh, you already replied, which I have not seen until right now. Thank you. I will check that out.