Transceribe basic drum patterns
Hi,
I'm trying to Musescore to try and transcribe my drum lessons and export them into Midi/Roland DT-1.
I seem to be really struggling with understanding the logic of note imput mode, essentially I'm trying to input a basic beat along the lines of 1,2 & uh 3, 4.
Some previous advice led to to try filling the bar with 16th notes & remove notes I don't need.
In image 1 I fill the bar
In image 2 I remove the 2nd, 3rd and 4th 16th notes from beats 1, 3 & 4.
This leaves me with almost what I want - but beat two is shown as a semiquaver and I think it should be a crochet (<< perhaps my mistake). Changing this note to a crochet wipes away the semiquavers in the rest of the beat.
Every way I try to get it to display the same as my workbooks goes wrong - please help - I'd be willing to paypal someone some cash to spend 1/2 hour on a webex with me, it's driving me crazy!
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Comments
Could you post a scan of your workbook without breaching copyright?
...even if it is of a handwritten example on some good old manuscript paper.
Anyhow:
Your attached image '4barbeat3.png' shows a semiquaver (sixteenth note) on count '2'. According to what you wrote, the timing should be '2, & uh' = quaver, semiquaver, semiquaver.
A crotchet is a full beat, so it 'wipes away the semiquavers in the rest of the beat', as you wrote.
To fix:
Click on the semiquaver in beat 2 (to select it - i.e. turn it blue), then either key in '4' (the number itself, without the quotes) - OR - click on the quaver (eighth) in the note entry toolbar.
To understand the logic of note entry, consider this (especially for drums):
Given a basic beat along the lines of 1,2 & uh 3, 4.
If, for example, all the notes are played by the snare - you'd enter crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, semiquaver, crotchet, crotchet.
Suppose, though, that you wanted the bass drum to play all the down beats - you'd enter 4 crotchets for the bass drum, then switch to another voice (for the snare) to play the semiquavers, entering rests (which can be made invisible) in the 'empty' time positions.
See:
http://musescore.org/en/handbook/voices
Regards.
In reply to A scan would be good... by Jm6stringer
Thanks for the replies, with the explanation from Jmstringer I was able to recreate it.
At the moment I'm still unsure as the best approach to take when doing this (picking voices etc) but I've had some success now.
Thanks again.
Matt
I'm guessing you need multiple voices, but it's impoosible to say without a better descritpion - or picture - of what you actually want. For example, if you want to have a crotchet but also have semiquavers that happen at the same dptime, that's pretty much the very definition of multiple voices. And if you don't want the semiquavers at the same time, then it is right that changing a note to a crotchet deletes the semiquavers that otherwise would have happened at the same time.