Incorrect Range Restrictions
Hello, I am a new user of Musescore, but not a new user of notation software. I have just imported a score from Noteflight via the XML file type and I have noticed that one of the instrument parts, Baritone Sax, has given me red notes. After a few seconds of research, I realize that red notes indicate a note that is outside the range of the instrument, however, I have confirmed the Baritone Sax's range and the notes I have in the score are well inside the range of the instrument. How do I fix this?
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In such cases it is better to attach the *.mscz file (or an example) showing the problem. Someone will be able to take a look at it.
MuseScore tells you what notes are in the range of an amateur and/or professional player. Not just the possible range of the instrument. And you can change what notes show as red.
In general, rightclick the part, select "staff/part properties" and change the usable pitch range for amateur and/or professional. But better - as mentioned - attach the score to see if something other is going wrong.
The "safe" written range of a baritone saxophone is low Bb to high F. MuseScore should not be marking any of those notes red, and doesn't for me. It's true that "some" baritone saxophones can go down to a low A, and "some" baritone saxophones have a high F# key, and "some" players can use altissimo techniques to play higher than F. So it might possible for a given player on an given instrument to play notes outside the safe range. Still, those notes would be dull yellow, not red. And on one would claim these extremes are well inside the range of the instrument. So I'm guessing that isn't what you are seeing.
Insead, my guess is that somewhere in the MusicXML export/import process, the transposition info got messed up, and the notes you are looking at are actually sounding pitch not written and are indeed way too high (eg, B in the middle of the treble clef staff is out of range). Meaning you really need to fix the transposition.
As mentioned, if you attach your score, we can understand and assist better.
Here is a screenshot of the line.
In reply to Here is a screenshot of the… by TNTMan158
Unfortunately screenshots don't usually help much, we can't tell what the transposition or other staff settings are. One thing I can see, though, is it looks like you have the octave treble clef here instead of the standard one (see the little "8" above it?), so those notes are actually all an octave different than they look. But it's an octave in the wrong direction to explain what you see, so there must be more going on here, like a bad transposition setting.
Assuming you didn't change clefs or transposition settings after importing the file, actually it would be best to attach both the score itself (the MSCZ file) and the original MusicXML, so we can see if the problem was caused by the export from Noteflight or the import into MuseScore.