How to replace the Piano Keyboard with bayan (chromatic button accordion)?
When you click on View, you have the option to view the piano keyboard. As I'm not great at reading music, this helps me save time when learning new pieces, or when trying to transpose pieces to make sure I can play them on my small bayan accordion.
I'm wondering if it's possible to replace this with accordion buttons, though? It would save even more time to learn a piece, because I'm not great at translating from the button to the accordion either.
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Which version of Musescore are you working with?
Can you say where the left notes G# , G , A are placed on the staff, or read on the score?
In reply to Which version of Musescore… by gustebus10
MuseScore 3.
I can typically remember where the E and G notes are on the treble staff, and can count from there but that takes me out of what I'm doing. The bass staff I never remember but that's not as important. I'm also getting better to recognizing which note is where on my instrument, but E is the one I'm most confident in and sometimes need to work up from there.
I mean, it's not that I can't figure things out with sheet music and the piano keyboard, it's just that it'd be a great QOL improvement and efficiency boost if I could display the notes being played on screen directly onto a bayan layout.
I mean, in the same vein, the keyboard only labels the C key. It'll tell the other notes by putting the cursor over them, but is there a way to make it label all of the notes? I don't aspire to become a great sight reader, I just want to learn some fun songs with the limited practice time I have.
In reply to MuseScore 3. I can typically… by Apimyces
Such a keyboard can be made via a plugin, if that meets your needs, but then I need to know the correct value of the notes to be pressed.
In reply to Such a keyboard can be made… by gustebus10
I'm not quite sure what info you are requesting. As in, the number of the exact note, with number? Lowest note on the layout I shared, I believe, G2 at middle left, and G6 at middle right row. Is that the info you need? I'm neither a music theorist nor a coder, so sorry if this isn't what you are asking. I would greatly appreciate any tool to be able to have this on my computer! I use MuseScore a lot to help me learn songs, because sheets for accordion are few, and I often end up taking sheets for piano or other instruments and then adapting them.
There's a small typo on your layout though, bottom row black buttons are A flat (or G sharp), not A sharp. Would maybe improve readability if notes were simplified and uniform ("B" instead of "B/H", sorry my layout had this too, capital letters for all notes, and either all sharps or all flats, probably quicker to do all sharps since most are written as sharps, except E flat). But these are minor things, just having the white and black circles alone is already great.
Not sure if the plugin uses a PNG for the layout, if needed I can provide one
In reply to I'm not quite sure what info… by Apimyces
Attached here is the Plugin. First extract the Bayan Keyboard.zip folder. Then insert the whole unzipped folder into the folder of Musescore 3.6.2 , Plugins. Then you open Musescore and then you open a score and then you go to Plugins, Pluginmanager. Then you place a check mark at Bayan Keyboard and then reload plugins and then it should be in the Plugins folder. Then click Bayan Keyboard and the plugin should appear at the bottom. greetings and have fun with it.
In reply to Attached here is the Plugin… by gustebus10
Thanks! That's really cool!
Is it possible to have it highlight the selected note, like the piano keyboard does? So if a note is clicked, it shows where that note is on the accordion, or if I press play on the sheet, I can try to follow along as the notes get highlighted? Helps figure out how I should place my hand when I select a few measures and it highlights all the keys to use.
Thanks again!
In reply to Attached here is the Plugin… by gustebus10
Mind to add this to the plugin repository at https://musescore.org/en/plugins ?
In reply to Mind to add this to the… by Jojo-Schmitz
If it can help, I could later also convert it to C-griff layout, for those with western chromatic button accordions. The eastern B-griff (Bayan) felt more natural to me (plus those instruments are easy to find on the cheap), so that's what I shared the layout for, but C-griff is more common overall I think?
I'm not a coder, I can't write any of this from scratch, but I opened up gustebus10's and it looks pretty straightforward, I think I could write up a modified layout for the C-griff users (B-griff has the buttons go from top to bottom, C-griff from bottom to top, so the A-flat is on the top row for a C-griff unlike the bayan where it's bottom row).
In reply to If it can help, I could… by Apimyces
I would love this!! Am searching the web far and away for a. C-griff layout to display midi played, so I and students can learn from that.
In reply to Mind to add this to the… by Jojo-Schmitz
I could place my Plugin for SteirischeHarmonikaKeyboard.
But do you know how to highlight notes in a score when you click on them. Described as the post above.