Enter instrument tuning
Hello,
I would like to enter tuning instructions of an instrument (a double bass in this case) in form of a small staff with notes corresponding to actual sound of empty strings. I don't care how is it played by the software, my concern is about the notation only.
In the attached image, a tuning is displayed in the top-left corner. By the way, I couldn't find a way to make a tremolo look exactly like in the original piece (a little bit wider than a default appearance).
Greetings,
Jacek
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"Ossia", you will find several useful answers
http://musescore.org/en/node/18597
...for your particular case would probably be to drag an image (.jpg or .png) of what you want into the score.
See:
http://musescore.org/en/handbook/image
Attached is a 'child' .png file and it's 'parent' MuseScore .mscz file.
You can use the .png by dragging it directly into an opened score, or you can open the .mscz file in MuseScore, modify it however you like (eg. language, background color), take a screenshot (or 'save as' a .png file using MuseScore) and then use any image editing software to crop the image.
FWIW, to create the MuseScore file:
1. Create a blank score with 2 measures - time signature 4/4
2. Enter your 'open string' tuning into the second measure (use 4 quarter notes) and you won't have to 'hide' the time signature as you...
3. Delete the first measure ('Ctrl' + 'Del')
4. Use 'staff properties' (right click on a blank area of the staff) to make staff and notes 'small' and 'stemless'
5. Use 'note properties' (select all notes) and change the 'Note Head Type' to 'whole'.
Welcome aboard...
In reply to The easiest way... by Jm6stringer
Thanks,
I embeded the tuning thingy as an image. The better choice is to export into an SVG, though. You can edit it in Inkscape and drag into musescore, which renders (and prints) it as a scalable vector graphics.
Cheers,
Jacek.
In reply to Thanks, I embeded the tuning by gajatko
Images formatted with .jpg or .png can be resized, up to a point, in MuseScore by double clicking and dragging the handles. I had used Microsoft Paint to create the image - which can neither open nor save images as .svg.
To be sure, scalable vectors, as you mention, are a better option although a caveat in the Handbook states: 'MuseScore currently does not support SVG shading, blurring, clipping or masking' - which probably would not apply to this particular case.
Regards.