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• May 26, 2017 - 20:27

Hi there,
Does anybody have a clue how to make this in musescore?
Is it even possible?
Thanks in advance for any sensible advice ;)
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• May 26, 2017 - 21:43

Here's my "sensible" advice:

It's possible with a lot of work, but I'd suggest that you shouldn't. Let rough handwritten charts be rough handwritten charts. The point of notation programs is to *improve* on this. This chart looks the way it does because someone was took shortcuts made it easier to write out by hand, but the result is something that is harder to read. Reproducing that same result in MuseScore wouldn't be easier to write than a more standard lead sheet, it would be harder to write - and yet *also* still be harder to read. And yet, by doing it the *easier* way, you'd get a result that was also easier to read. Win/win.

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• May 26, 2017 - 22:25

Martin, that is definitely doable in Musescore. My chord charts look remarkably close to that sheet. I seldom put notes in, but it is definitely doable.

As Marc said, it would take some work. Where you have lines of "partial staves," you can put breaks in with the little invisible box stretched out (forget what the heck it's called - I just know how to do it). The big advantages are, you'd have an archived copy and you could transpose to another key in a heartbeat.

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• May 26, 2017 - 23:11

You can do the thing with the staff lines. Just have two staves - one visible and one not. Enter the appropriate info into each, then Style / General / Hide Empty Staves. But that's one of the things I'd recommend not spending time on. Same with adding the necessary frames you get the ragged right margin.

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• May 26, 2017 - 22:44

It is definitely possible. It is quite familiar to anyone who has played afro-cuban music. It's what we call a fake chart, just enough info without writing it out. Written for english speaking players as it's not in Spanish really, more like "spanglish".

It's not particularly complex if you understand it.

Do you understand clave? the piece begins in 3/2 rumba clave and stays there rather than switching. Are you familiar with notation? Are you familiar with a notation program?

Anyway:

Intro. - 4 bars piano

Then 4 bars repeated Bass line and rhythm then 4 bars with the tag (12 bars).

Solo Trumpet - 8 bars, most likely the rhythm section will underpin with the previous phrase.

Verse 1. 16 bars long, the last 2 bars as written (cierre - together) - then 16 bars again with "lick" (probably the 2 cierre bars again or else a non-notated lick).

Tumbao (montuno) - the piano montuno most likely beginning as solo, expressing the harmony using the melodic/rhythmic clave pattern which will underlay the piece then joined by the rhythm.

Then the chorus (coro), the vocal pattern sitting on the tumbao. It will serve as the response part of the "call and response" device later. most likely a 4 bar phrase repeated 4 Xs.16 bars total.

2nd verse.

2nd Chorus - 8 bars.

Then the bridge with cierre at the end. Above the bridge is the rhythm that the band will use. Clave will be "broken" so as to speak.

Verse 3 - 16 bars followed by a 8 bar section bringing in the solos (Guia - the vocal solo) and maybe others all in the call and response format using each solo voice alternating with the coro, all underpinned with the tumbao. This also sets up the ending which follows the solo(s).

Who's the composer, I can't make it out from the pic?

:)

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