Pentatonic Scales
I would like MuseScore to either:
1 - highlight the lines and spaces for writing only notes from the Major Pentatonic Scale on a staff or
2 - block/darken the lines and spaces that correspond to notes not included in this scale.
The same for the Minor Pentatonic Scale.
How do I do this?
Tyfyt!
Comments
This is not a terrible idea, but has a lot of problems. Which pentatonic scale do you want MuseScore to show? There are 24 of them (at least) including major and minor modes. American folk music has a history of pentatonic music with most other modes as well.
I think implementing this would go hand in hand with previous requests for dulcimer music with it's unusual strings and fret positions which limit the number of notes playable in an octave.
As far as marking excluded notes, I would think it would not be difficult to modify the color noteheads plugin to color only notes in or not in a specified pentatonic scale.
In reply to This is not a terrible idea,… by mike320
Only C major and C minor Pentatonic Scales, for the moment. Even if I needed other major or minor pentatonic scales, having these two highlighted (or the notes not included grayed-out) would also work - I would just have to temporarily transpose the song to C (which is quite easy) - because I just need this for doing a simple composition.
I will try out the noteheads plugin (Thank you for the suggestion! It will be the first time I use a plugin.), but feel free to add any comment that could help me in this quest.
In reply to This is not a terrible idea,… by mike320
Oh! I guess you were saying someone would have to make changes to the color notes plugin for this effect, am I right? I just tried it and it currently only adds color to notes that are already there and doesn't color the note from the cursor according to were it is placed. :-(
In reply to Oh! I guess you were saying… by yomuse
Indeed, and no change to the plugin would cause it to color notes thast get added after the plugin ran
In reply to Oh! I guess you were saying… by yomuse
You could comment out the notes not needed for the pentatonic scale. You need only add // (that's 2 slashes) the beginning of all of the lines you want to keep black.
In reply to You could comment out the… by mike320
I don't think so, you need to keep that array complete and need to change the #RRGGBB values to #ffffff, AKA black (or was it #000000? Just try it...), for those pitches you want black
In reply to I don't think so, you need… by Jojo-Schmitz
I finally figured out how to find the plugins that come with MuseScore. #000000 is black.
In reply to I finally figured out how to… by mike320
Yes, no color -> black, all colors at full throttle -> white, I should have though about that before writing ;-)