Unable to place First and Second Ending in trombone part

• Jun 20, 2013 - 12:47

After creating a big band score I can't print the first trombone part with first and second endings properly placed at measure 43 and I can't edit the endings, either.

Also, there is an unexplained playback pause in the very beginning that I don't understand.

Can you help.

BTW, This software has brought my writiong skills to a whole new level. Thanks much.

Bill Todd Jr

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• Jun 20, 2013 - 16:31

Generally speaking, don't add endings to any staff but the top one. They automatically export to all parts when you generate them. And attempting to add them to staves other than top causes problems in some versions of MuseScore.

Not sure what you mean about not being able to edit the endings. What do want to do? What have you tried, what did you expect to see happen, what happened instead? Have you read Volta in the Handbook?

The pause at the beginning of the file is because it's a 4/4 bar but you've only put 1 beat of music in it. Actually, I'm not sure how you pulled that off - MuseScore will normally make sure the measure is filled out. I'm guessing you did some some trial and error fiddling around trying to figure out how to create a pickup, and something you did while experimenting triggered a bug that resulted in this measure becoming corrupt.

Normally, if you want a pickup, easiest way to do that is to set that in the wizard when you first create the score. But you can create them after the fact too. Right click the first bar, Measure Properties, set actual time signature to 1/4.

In this case, since the bar seems already corrupt, I think you'll need to completely delete it (select, ctrl-del, maybe with Fn on Mac) and insert a new one first. And you will have to manually add the time signature back.

BTW, things go a lot simpler if you start from a ready-made template where available. Jazz Big Band would have set everything up for you nicely.

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• Jun 20, 2013 - 18:16

I forgot to tell I'm using ver 1.3 with windows 7

I did read Volta in the Handbook. I'll read it again.

After finishing the score,( with the Voltas in the top line) I began to print parts. Piano, Bass, Drums and Guitar printed fine but when I tried trombone the first and second endings (Voltas) at measure 43 were out of place and overlapping and I could not get them in the correct position. I tried to edit the trombone part without success. I tried editing the score without success. The trombone volta is included in 8 measures of rest. I was not able to divide it into 6 and 2 measures without inserting a double bar. The piano, bass, drums, and gtar are not in measures of rests and are OK.

The first bar with the trombone pickup was established in the last page of Create New Score setup. It worked well for a while and then, for some reason, began to pause.

I did my own template because I needed a clarinet lead in the Sax section.

Thanks for your suggestions.
Bill Todd, Jr

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• Jun 20, 2013 - 18:47

You can still start from an existing template then change individual instruments.

Regarding the voltas, yes, I do recall there sometimes if multimeasure rests are involved. The way to force a multimeasure rest to break is to right click the measure (while in full score mode, ideally before generating parts), Measure Properties, and set the appropriate option. If you've already generated the part, then temporarily turn off multimeasure rests, set the option as described, then turn multimeasure rests back on.

If you can ever repeat the sequence of steps that caused the pickup measure to become corrupted, please post about it. Copy/paste of partial measures including partial tuplets has long been a source of problems, but by now most of them have been identified and fixed. Some undoubtedly still remain in 1.3, but some of those have probably already been fixed for 2.0.

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