Unrelated different instruments staff on the same score ?
Hello,
I go to a jazz school and have among other a theory course.
I record each course (with a digital recorder) and I write down each example by hand on a sheet of paper... so do my co-student colleagues
It’s an adult course (I’m a very very very old child :) ) so from time to time myself or other participants of this course cannot attend, and ask someone else to transfer the recording and the notes taken.
I do this by hand but been able to use MuseScore as some kind of « music processor » (like LibreOffice is a word processor) would be helpful especially to share my notes with people who missed he session.
I have a quite strange question :
« Is it possible with MuseScore to have on the same page (score) different, UNRELATED staff form various instruments ? »
The goal is to write down a series of examples coming form one music course
So sometimes I have a staff of treble clef with various examples, followed by a drum staff for rhythm examples, followed by.. I don’t know a staff in bass clef and so on.. all these staff been totally unrelated, to whole thing been a series of examples and not a musical piece.
Thanks in advance
Comments
This is going to work in version 2.1 with the exception of mixing drums and pitched instruments on the same staff. currently it is impossible to change from a treble or bass clef to a percussion clef, and the current 2.1 fix does not change this.
If you are only concerned about the visual, it is possible to do anything by changing note heads and so forth. There are many editions of drum music that put a bass clef rather than a drum clef at the beginning of a piece.
So if you are willing to put the drums on their own line, then you can put all the other instruments on one line with 2.1 and use mid-staff instrument changes. You just need to apply the correct clef if it changes as well as reapplying the concert pitch key signature if you are changing from something like an E-flat saxophone to a B-flat trumpet so the key will be correct. You can even have pitched percussion such as the vibes on the same line.
While 2.1 is considered an unstable release, it is actually quite stable and can be downloaded from the nighties section of the download page. All the music you write will be able to be opened in future releases of MuseScore.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/mid-staff-instrument-changes - ignore 1 and 2 in this because it has been fixed in 2.1. You just need to change clefs in needed and reapply the key if needed and all else will work as expected.
In reply to This is going to work in by mike320
Hello,
If you are only concerned about the visual
Yes, I forgot to precise this important point. I don't care if the resulting file cannot be correctly played. The goal is to get a clan and easily readable score to be printed (and/or shared as a pdf) not be be played by MuseScore.
What I'm looking for is a way to write things, with the visual as only concern .
Thanks
Luc
In reply to Hello, If you are only by lstelie
You still cannot put a percussion clef on a pitched staff or the other way around. You can use a single staff for all the pitched instruments and a staff for the percussion. Use the hide empty staves in the Style->General... dialog and uncheck don't hide staves in first system, you can get what you want. Enter all the lines of music in continuous mode, so staves don't hide themselves. To edit switch to page mode and put a line break at the end of sections with notes and the end of sections without notes that are still visible. This will give the appearance of the score being a single line of music export nicely to a PDF.
Edit: I forgot, you will want to eliminate the long and short name from the instruments to keep bogus info from showing on the score. Right click a measure and select measure properties. Delete the long and short names and press OK.
In reply to You still cannot put a by mike320
Thanks a lot Mike !!!
In reply to Thanks a lot Mike !!! by lstelie
;)
The usual way to do this right now is to use separate staves for pitched versus unpitched instruments. Enter pitched info on the pitched staff, unpitched info on the unpitched staff, then use "Style / General / Hide empty staves" so that only the staves with info actually show.