How to notate 16th Triolen
Hi there,
I try for hours now but notating drums in 16th Trioles is unbelievably hard to understand for me. I attached a screenshot where I put in the note in RED but I can't put it in using Musescore.
Can anyone explain what I have to change to be able to notate this? Is it somehow possible to be able to put in notes in any place where I want to put it without snapping automatically in a place which has been determined by musescore?
Hope you understand what I try to explain:-).
Here's the screenshot and thanks for your help in advance!!
Keno
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select the place (note or rest) where you want to start entering the trioLe and the voice, select the total lenght of the triole (here I guess an 8th), type Ctrl-3, this creats a triols with 3 rests (here 16th rests) and selects the first of them, enter your notes values now.
To answer your more general question, no, you can't enter notes anywhere you want. But nor does MuseScore impose some sort of arbitrary predetermined locations. Note entry simply goes left to right. It's exactly like typing into a word processor. You can't enter letters anywhere you want - you type letters and they go in left to right. In a word processor, if you want some letter further away from the one that precedes it, you types spaces first. In MuseScore, if you want some note further away than the one that precedes it, you enter rests first.
Another tip. If you have a lot of measures with the same triplet pattern (or the same of any pattern , for that matter), create the first measure of rests and then copy that measure several times. Now you just need to enter the notes/percussion to replace the rests instead of making each new entry a triplet. Particularly good for piano where the right hand is playing a melody and the left has a lot of arpeggio triplets.
In reply to Another tip. If you have a by underquark
Copy & paste is a *great* help when entering drum parts. Depending on how the part is structured, there are often a lot of two-beat passages - or one-beat passages - that are the same. I copy and paste such smaller slices of measures within drum parts all the time. But a word of warning - triplets and partial-measure copy & paste don't always get along so well. Many of the reported cases of scores becoming corrupt can be traced to this. It *should* work if the completely triplet is being copied - eg, you don't copy only two notes of a triplet - but do be careful.