Special measure, how to insert?
I'm currently working on rewriting a certain piano piece on musescore that i have in a piano book, but there is a certain measure that i don't know how to insert. can anybody help?
here is a link to an image of it on photobucket:
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Those are tremolos: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/tremolo
In reply to Those are tremolos: by xavierjazz
oh, i didn't even think of that.
thank you so much :D
edit:it doesn't sound like it is supposed to be a tremolo. i know how the song goes and it's more like a long note.
In reply to oh, i didn't even think of by Faye_D
A true tremolo doesn't vary the pitch, rather the amplitude.
In reply to A true tremolo doesn't vary by xavierjazz
i see, so in fact it is some kind of error when you play it?
In reply to i see, so in fact it is some by Faye_D
Over the years the real meaning has become distorted and some musicians think it is similar to a vibrato. It shows the amount of training, I guess.
I'm not too sure what you are asking, what do you mean?
In reply to Over the years the real by xavierjazz
that the way musescore plays it, is not how it is intended on the original music sheets
In reply to that the way musescore plays by Faye_D
It is possible you are entering it incorrectly then - posting the actual score would help. But I think you might be misinterpreting the original. You said it is supposed to be a "long note" but that is definitely not right. It is supposed to alternate rapidly between he top two notes and the bottom. MuseScore plays this if you enter it using the correct tremolo notation.
In reply to It is possible you are by Marc Sabatella
i have not yet completed the whole piece but i'd like to show what i've already got. I personally play flute so i wouldn't know if it's supposed to be a tremolo or not since we don't really have those all that often. But i know how the original piece sounds and to me a tremolo would sound a bit strange there but it is a piano arrangement nontheless so it is possible ofcourse. it is the 26th measure
https://musescore.com/user/120470/scores/2532306
In reply to oh, i didn't even think of by Faye_D
I don't know which came first, but tremolo has, unfortunately, three *different* meanings:
1) a rapid re-articulation of a single note, such as one might perform on violin by rapidly moving the bow up and down on the same string without changing the pitch at all
2) rapid alternation between two different pitches, like you might do on piano if you put you thumb onb one note, the pinky on a note an octave higher, and then rock your hand back and forth
3) a vibrato-like effect where, on a single pitch, you rapidly get louder and softer (taken to the extreme case, this is the same as 1)
The notation shown is intended to show case #2. This is one of the ways this can be notated; MuseScore normally notates it differently. You can fake this style of notation by manually changing the noteheads in the Inspector and perhaps performing other manual adjustments, but perhaps better to simply use the more modern notation MuseScore supprots directly. See the Handbook under "Tremolo" for more information.
In reply to I don't know which came by Marc Sabatella
I've never understood it to be #2, although I've known about piano "rolls". In my experience, this has always been Vibrato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrato
Again, as MS is designed to be a notation program, I would not expect it to be able to precisely duplicate a tremolo sonically.
In reply to I've never understood it to by xavierjazz
What I am talking about is different than vibrato. It is seen mostly for stringed instruments but also piano and occasionally winds and involved the alteration between two *specific* pitches. Vibrato is never notated using two specific pitches; it is left to the discretion of the performer.
In reply to What I am talking about is by Marc Sabatella
The meaning of "tremolo" (I believe from Italian tremare = tremble) seems to differ by instrument. The way I was taught (classical violin) tremolo is very rapidly alternating bow strokes (on the same pitch or sometimes double stop). As rapidly as possible with no reference to the beat. Mostly makes sense in an orchestra, i.e. when a chorus of violins (or violas etc.) play the same part such that those violins--not playing in sync for once--get mixed into one sound. Staying with the beat it is just called "repeated demisemiquavers" or whatever the note value (though it is notated like tremolo; tremolo in notation appears to mean something yet different, among other things: abbreviated way to write repeated notes).
Personally I have never heard the vibrato definition: Where does it belong? (What kind of music--and instrument--I mean).