Help transcribing guitar tabs
Hello,
Sorry if this should be in the help section; it didn't feel appropriate, as it's not strictly a software issue, but an issue that in all likelihood is due to my own stupidity.
I'm not able to siteread or learn very well by ear yet, but wanted to transcribe a song across to musescore so that I can practice playing alone & etc.
I got stuck on a specific sextuplet part; could anyone explain how I am meant to correctly do this? I'd rather you explained as opposed to doing it for me and reuploading, so I can learn.
Screenshot of the original bar of the tab I am struggling with and my draft of the score attached; time signature is 4/4.
Thank you!
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First thing...
Looking at your score, measure 11 contains too few beats (observe the tiny gray minus sign at the end), so right click the measure and in Measure Properties set the 'Actual' measure duration to 4/4.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/measure-operations#duration
Now we can proceed with entering the tuplet...
1. Click on the first rest (3rd beat) and press 5 to create a quarter rest. (Specifies the full duration of the desired triplet group)
2. Press Ctrl + 6 to turn it into a sextuplet.
3. Enter the eighth note followed by the four 16th notes.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/tuplets
In reply to First thing... Looking at… by Jm6stringer
> Looking at your score, measure 11 contains too few beats (observe the tiny gray minus sign at the end), so right click the measure and in Measure Properties set the 'Actual' measure duration to 4/4.
Ah! I must have done that while trying to get it to do what I wanted... I have a visual impairment; I didn't see the minus before, my eyes were kinda watery last night.
Thanks, that's all done! The tuplet help page I had seen before was much less thorough. I'll note the handbook's link. :)