Ties and slurs
Hi everyone. I'm new to the MuseScore community and I'm sorry if this question has already been answered.
I'm trying to write a string of bars all tied together, containing the same note...F sharp. Now, the first bar with the sharp plays an F sharp but all the others play an F natural. There must be a way to achieve this, short of putting a sharp in front of every note! Thanks or you patience!!
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Music has rules ......if you have 1 or severals at the Key, no problem, no need a sharp, but if you have nothing at the key, a sharp or a flat only works for the measure it is
In reply to Music has rules ......if you by Raymond Wicquart
Hi Raymond. I should say that I'm a professional musician. I've been playing in a symphony orchestra for 29 years. I KNOW that a note that is sharpened in one bar then tied over to the next 3 bars WILL remain sharpened without a sharp being placed at the beginning of each subsequent bar. The piece I'm working on is in A flat major..4 flats. My score will look horrendous if I have to place an accidental in front of each note in order to carry that tied note on through the next number of bars as I require.
In reply to Hi Raymond. I should say that by SulphurDwarf
I believe you are entering slurs instead of ties.
No worry: You place all those accidentals. Then you add the ties. Musescore will remove the superfluous accidentals for you. Again: Make sure you use ties (shortcut +), not slurs (shortcut s; they look slightly different).
Or: You enter the first of the tied notes, then from the keyboard you type + to add the next one and so on to the last (if you want to tie on a different note value you type 5+ for a crotchet, 4+ for a quaver. 5.+ for a dotted crotchet etc.)
In reply to I believe you are entering by azumbrunn
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In reply to Hi Raymond. I should say that by SulphurDwarf
Sorry, I'm wrong . With tie, no need accidental each measure, but with slurs yes . One point for you !!
The easiest way to enter several measures of notes tied is to enter the first note, then make sure the note duration is the same as a measure and press the + key. This will tie a measure long note to the previous. Keep pressing the + key until you have all the measures you want filled. This will produce a correct tie with the pitch in all subsequent measures the same as the first without typing accidentals.
If you have something like a 7/16 time signature you can make the duration of the tied note to be a 1/2 note (which is the shortest duration longer than 7/16) then +. This example will fill the next measure and then leave a 16th note tied in the next. Press escape to exit note entry mode and click the 16th note and press the 6 button to fill the measure and put a 16th tied in the next measure. Continue doing this until you have all the measures you want filled. Once you have a 16th in a measure you don't want, select the measure and delete it. You can do the same thing with any other time signature. When I want to fill several measures I make the duration a longa (the 9 button selects this duration) and press +. If too many measures are filled I delete them, if too few, then I make the duration what I need to fill the rest of the measures (or keep the longa).
The + button works on chords just as well as it does with single notes.