Add Lyrics to a pause
Hello,
currently I need to add a second voice with invisible notes in order to add lyrics to a measure wich is completely paused (see //musescore.org/en/node/106286 ).
Is it possible to implement the feature to add text directely to paueses as well?
Thank you very much,
Michael
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Won't be a lyric if not attached to a note, would it?
You could use staff text. And change it's position, if need be
In reply to Won't be a lyric if not by Jojo-Schmitz
You are right. But I'm desperately looking for a software to help me creating lead sheets for guitar with as little effort and work arounds as possible.
I need the chord sequence of the diferrent parts, somtimes a fretboard diagramm or specific guitar lick, the text for orientation and finaly the complete song structure. But I do not need to play back theses sheets or all instruments to be in there.
So far MuseScore 2 is the closest to what I'm looking for. And there seems to be the opportunity to impact development. That's why I'm posting this request.
Thanks,
Michael
In reply to You are right. But I'm by glombi
I'm attaching instructions for the left hand of the accordeon as lyrics to notes (notes of the right hand) because it is extremely convenient: as lyric the text is automatic correctly placed.
When the right hand has a rest, I also need to use a hidden second voice to attach lyric ... so + 1 for this request ;-)
In reply to I'm attaching instructions by frfancha
this (miss-)use case would get a --1 from me...
In reply to this (miss-)use case would by Jojo-Schmitz
If you have a better suggestion it is welcome.
Or is the goal of this forum just to discourage people from using Musescore ??
In reply to If you have a better by frfancha
Use staff text. Or use a custom text style, derived from staff text.
Sorry, but is you see a counter argument in a discussion as discurraging to use MuseScore, there's not much I can to to change this, other than to say that this is neither my intention nor the purpose of a discussion in a forum.
In my opinion using lyrics to do something entirely different with them is misusing a feature. Extending the feature to allow more misuses in, in my opinions, just wrong. And it it distrubs the normal use of that feature it is just bad. I would not want MuseScore to advance to a rest when I'm inputting lyrics, pressing -, _ or space.
In reply to Use staff text. Or use a by Jojo-Schmitz
With Lyric text I attach the comments from note to note just by pressing space.
Is it also possible with staff text (then perfect) or do I have to manually select note after note for the full score (then the suggestion is not usable).
In reply to With Lyric text I attach the by frfancha
as I wrote (might have crossed with your's) advancing to a rest in lyrics entry mode via the normal space, dash or underscore is an absolute nogo in my opinion, as it is completly counter the intent of lyrics entry.
But no it won't work in staff text entry either currently. There in turn it might indeed make some sense to have a mode to advance to the next chord or rest. It won't be the space bar to trigger that though, as spaces are perfectly legal in staff text. Maybe just right/left arrow could be made to do this.
In reply to Use staff text. Or use a by Jojo-Schmitz
'I would not want MuseScore to advance to a rest when I'm inputting lyrics, pressing -, _ or space.'
Totally agree!
What we need is a way to attach text to any musical symbol without need to select each and every symbol individually.
That could be lyric text with a special option to advance to rest (shift space if not already used?) or another way, whatever.
In reply to 'I would not want MuseScore by frfancha
Ah, OK, so we're in agreement here, good. To me this is the core of lyrics entry, which I don't want to see changed.
In reply to this (miss-)use case would by Jojo-Schmitz
Fair enough. Still "misuse" has generated some of the important steps in technology...
Maybe let me put it that way: I would like to enter lyrics over a couple of measures, some of which may have an entire pause. I could misuse staff/system text or a second voice (which for the rest of my project may be empty). I agree that this shouldn't be the dafault, but it would be handy option in some usecases.
Regards,
Michael
In reply to Fair enough. Still "misuse" by glombi
The easiest way indeed might be to add a second voice in these paused measures, to set it invisible and add lyrics to it. With a fixed space you can also write several words into it.
In reply to The easiest way indeed might by MLutz
It is a possibility, but then we come back to the original question which was just to avoid that
('currently I need to add a second voice with invisible notes')
In reply to It is a possibility, but then by frfancha
Sorry, I skipped that.
But I think this is such an easy workaround, that I won't vote for introducing such a function to lyrics - even facultative -, that normally isn't needed.
Anyway I can imagine what makes such a thought interesting:
You can input text from note to note and it will automatically change the formatting of the musical text.
The latter is missing, when using other text possibilities, which could be attached to all musical signs including rests - the text will always overlap, if the distance is not changed manually. Also inputting is much more difficult.
So it could be an alternative, and this I would support, to establish a sort of musical sign text, that can be attached to all musical signs, formats like lyrics do (avoiding overlapping automatically) and can be handled in a way similar to lyrics by hopping from text to text.
And BTW, why shouldn't "note line texts", "system texts", "exercise marks" etc. have the functionality to go from one to the next occurance by cursor left and right?
In reply to Sorry, I skipped that. But I by MLutz
Yes, this would be a nice addition, and would solve this problem here too. As I mentioned further up already