Create riffs by splitting measures? Then lines?
Beginner.
What I would like to do is march through a simple tune with lyrics and break it into riffs
With one riff per line.
The split measure feature seems close to what I want.
But I want to vary the split based on the lyric--with each split unique.
If understand the split utility it creates a global split, and this is not what I seek.
For example.
Say, for riff / line one: "Take me out to the ball park"
and for riff / line two: "Take me out to the crowd
and for riff / line three: "Buy me some peanuts"
and so forth.
Part of this need springs from my learning style.
Part of this need springs from visual limitations.
To the second, Have the developers considered offering specific tools / packaging sets of tools for formatting scores for specific visual needs?
If so is there any discussion of these in the docs or forums?
Examples
yellow on black, reverse contrast, and so forthl
A bundle of font size increases?
Microsoft and Linux offer such packages. I have yet to deploy them
Thanks for any suggestions and guidance.
Comments
You might be interested by https://musescore.org/en/tutorials/modified-stave-notation
Regarding "one riff per line", split is probably not what you are looking for. You can just select a bar line and press Return at the end of a riff.
In reply to You might be interested by by [DELETED] 5
My hope was to split a measure that ends one riff then starts a new one.
I cannot figure out how to paste a bar from the score here.
So, an improvised example. .....
|take me out the | crowd ..Buy | me some...
Is is possible to split a measure like this, between crowd and Buy?
The large print page looks very interesting. Thank you for it.
In reply to My hope was to split a by mikeincousa
Yes. Select the first note that should be the start of the new measure/riff, then go to
Edit > Measure > Split Measure Before Selected Note
In reply to My hope was to split a by mikeincousa
You can't paste here, but you can attach files. See the "file attachments" link right below where you type your post. Just attach the actual score. Or, a picture of a handwritten example.
"Take me out with the" doesn't require splitting a measure - it's exactly two measures. So simply put your line break on the barline after "the" if that's what you want.
Similarly, "crowd" and "buy" are also already in separate measures - no need to split anything.
Not sure why you'd want to split up "Buy" and "me" = it makes no musical or lyrical sense - but that would indeed require a measure split since they are in the same measure. Click the note above "me", then Edit / Measures / Split. This will create two measures - the first will have just the single beat of "Buy", the second will have the two beats of "me some". Again, this doesn't make sense, but it's what you appeared to be showing in your example.
In reply to You can't paste here, but you by Marc Sabatella
Thanks all. I have this score working the way I envisioned.
FYI. This format is very narrow-field-of-vision friendly.
That makes for better concentration and faster learning, for me anyway.
Instead of "riffs" maybe I should have called them "cadences"?
I think of them as subsets. Breaking like this, I hope, will help me commit them to memory faster.
I hope I have this right
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