Specific amount of bars rest neede to be displayed
HI. I'm trying to copy out a Trombone part for the Grieg Piano concerto and the music is requiring me to show 10 bars rest, then I come to letter A. I then need it to show 12 then another 12 bars rest. Normally Muscore would show that as 34. I've got around the first 10 by putting a double bar in, but I can't do that all the way through.
Is there anyway I can get it to display 10, then 12 then 12 then I come to letter B.
Brill program, I've only been using it two days and I'm getting to grips with it.
Thanks
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I'm using Version 1.1 in ubuntu 10.04 so behaviour in your version might be different but here's what I do:
Create an empty piece in 4/4 time with, say, 100 bars all containing minim rests. In Style->Edit General Style->Score check "Create Multi Bar Rests"*. Count along to the eleventh bar and click on the first rest in that bar. Then press [Ctrl]-M to bring up a section label box and type [Shift]-A to label it as Section A. Count along to the thirteenth bar after that, [Ctrl-M], [Shift]-B, count along again etc. Now you have labelled your section but each bar shows individual rests. To turn them in to multi-bar rests you select the empty bars and press [Delete]. The multibar rests are split whenever anything is entered in a a bar, be it a double-line bar end, a Section label (as here) or even a section label that you make invisible.
*To save time I created and saved a blank piece like this for Bb Cornet, called "Solo_Cornet_100Bars" and made the file read-only. Then I open it whenever I need to do a new piece for cornet (or other single instrument - just change the settings) and save the composition under a new name.
In reply to Multibar rests, then break, then more rests by underquark
@underquark (and unrelated to the OP's problem):
If you save it in the templates folder (and delete all bars first, I think), you can use it as a template for new scores in the 'New Score Wizzard', saves even more time.
In reply to @underquark (and unrateled to by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you. It is, of course, logical and sensible to create a template for something that one will use repeatedly. In my case I just do File->Open Recent->filename as I have usually used the blank piece recently. I do have templates for Brass Band Score, Small Brass Ensemble etc., however, since I am less likely to have one of them in my recently-used files list. Many ways to achieve the same goal in MuseScore which is good because flexibility is key to productivity.