Creating Triplets
I'm trying to create a triplet. When I did, I got an eighth note, and two sixteenths and a sixteenth rest. How do I change this to a simple eighth note triplet.
Craig
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https://musescore.org/en/handbook/tuplets#instructions
In reply to https://musescore.org/en… by xavierjazz
Thanks for this xavierjazz. I've got it sorted now.
In this way first select the duration, for example for a triplet of three eight notes, choose a duration of a quarter note before, press ctrl+3 (if you select a duration of an eight note and press ctrl+3, you'll get three 16th notes for the triplet).
In reply to In this way first select the… by kuwitt
Thanks Kuwitt. Very helpful.
Is there no way to select three already-created, adjacent notes, e.g., three eighth-notes, and make them a triplet of the same kind of note, e.g., three triplet eighths, amounting to making the total duration 2/3rds of what it previously was? (Anticipating the 'complaint' "How's the program to know that something more complicated, like the first three notes of a sixteenth-note quintuplet, isn't intended?" OK, strictly-speaking, this would be a "convenience feature," but as it seems, to me at least, like the most likely intended result of such an action, I would opine that it amounts to a rather obviously-desirable UI feature.)
In reply to Is there no way to select… by OlyDLG
There is no way to do make three notes into a triplet in the current version of MuseScore. This doesn't mean it's impossible, just not implemented. If you are entering notes in order it is more logical to tell MuseScore you are going to enter a triplet - then enter the triple rather than enter the notes and then say, "By the way, those were a triplet," or in the same idea "That was a 13th-let consisting of a mixture of 32nd 16th and 8th notes," - which you can see could get quite ugly.