Treble clef 8va bassa - problems
I am creating a classical guitar score with Musescore 4.
I started by setting the clef to Treble Clef 8va Bassa which is the proper clef to use.
However, when I manually add notes, Musescore seems to think the notes are a DOUBLE octave below what is written in the score, so it highlights everything below the E on the lowest line of the clef as red, and on playback of the music it is all an octave too low.
I changed the clef to a normal Treble Clef and now it sounds fine, but that makes no sense to me since it is an octave low.
Anyone else experience this? Is there a setting somewhere to correct it?
Thanks.
Comments
Classical Guitar is a transposing instrument, 1 octave below concert pitch. It disen't need 8va bassa. If you want to use 8va bassa change to concert pitch.
In reply to Classical Guitar is a… by rothers
Thank you for the reply. I saw "concert pitch" in the status bar before not realizing it was actually a checkbox, so I thought it was already enabled. Checking it seems to have resolved the issue.
In reply to Thank you for the reply. I… by mbratch
You don't have to use Concert pitch for guitar. Be aware that there are two possible choices when creating a guitar score: either Guitar (Treble Clef), or Classical Guitar (with Treble Clef 8va Bassa, by default).
See:
In reply to You don't have to use… by cadiz1
Thank you @cadiz1 for the prompt reply.
I think what happened is that this time I selected "guitar" instead of "classical guitar" by mistake so I got the normal treble clef. Interestingly, when I followed the advice to set concert pitch, it actually fixed my problem. But now that I realize I chose the wrong instrument, I went back and changed the instrument to make it correct.