default tempo
How can I find the default tempo for a score, i.e. the starting tempo before any tempo changes are made? I just added a "rit." and would next like to return to the original tempo, but I don't know what it is. Inserting tempo text "a tempo" does not automatically restore it. All I can do is play it and count, then guess. It seems to be near 120, but wouldn't it be nice if I knew exactly what it was? Yes, I could insert a deliberate tempo mark at the beginning, but I liked the original tempo and don't want to change it. Nothing comes up in the Handbook under "default" or "tempo" or "default tempo."
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The fact that you don't know means no one reading your score would know either. So if you care about tempo, why not put in an explicit tempo marking at the beginning of the score, the way any published score would? Then the initial tempo would be whatever you say it is.
But for the record - not that one reading the score would be able to know this - in MuseScore's own playback, tempo defaults to 120 unless you have altered that via the Play panel.
In reply to The fact that you don't know by Marc Sabatella
Thanks, that's a valid point, and I will adopt that practice. I realized in the mean time that I can read the initial tempo from the Play Panel. I like to keep the slider at 100% when entering a score, and reserve it for adjusting all of the tempi in the score proportionally, so that while practicing in "music minus one" mode, I can work my way up to the target tempo, or preferably a little faster for confidence in a performance.
In reply to The fact that you don't know by Marc Sabatella
Thank you for your advices.
I have the same issue : I created a score without entering the correct tempo and now, the default tempo is 120. So the question remains : "How can I find [and amend] the default tempo for a score, i.e. the starting tempo before any tempo changes are made?"
If anyone have the answer, I would be interested. Thank you
In reply to Thank you for your advices… by jerom.gobeillsirguey
There is none, 120 BPM is the default, hard coded
In reply to There is none, 120 BPM is… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you
In musescore 4, for a 4/4 measure a quaver is 110, I think.
In reply to In musescore 4, for a 4/4… by jos.snellings
No, it's still 120 for the quarter (crotchet), at least for now. But, even more so, it's still true - and will absolutely always remain true - that if you care what tempo gets used, write it in. That goes for MuseScore and human players alike.
In reply to No, it's still 120 for the… by Marc Sabatella
O, I see. It just happened that I started a piece unaware of the tempo, and it was just right, Then one wonders :-)