how to enter a tuple of 10 (10-let)

• Apr 27, 2014 - 11:06

I cannot figure out which values to enter in to the tuple form to get what I want.
My score is in 3/4 time. The 3rd beat of the measure needs to be a 10-let. I.e., 10 notes totaling the value of 1 quarter note, one great.
When I try to enter this into the tuple form, I have to enter the: type relation in the form of N/M
I tried 10/1 thinking that it means 10 notes per 1 beat,
and I also tried 10 /4 thinking it maybe means 10 notes per quarter note.

Neither seems to work. I will continue trying different things, but perhaps this forum post can serve as help to the next person who tries to do this.

I'm using 2.x.
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I guess you want 10 notes in the space of a quarter, and those notes should be 16th?
So select the quarter rest and create a tuplet of 10/4 (or 5/2), this will get 5 8thrests. Now enter your 10 16th

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Great thanks for the answer, Jojo. But I still don't understand the concept. What are the significance of the 3 things? 10, 4, and select quarter rest?

In the mean time, i found one of the problems. The score I was transcribing from was wrong. It has this 10-uplet written with 3 ledger lines rather than 2, as if they were 32nd notes.

In reply to by jim.newton.562

FWIW, this is not a quirk of MuseScore: it's how the musical notation works. That is, "10:4" is a standard marking; it means "10 notes in the space normally taken by 4". Four sixteenths normally take one beat, so 10:4 allows ten sixteenths to take one beat.

Personally, I'd be more likely to have used thirty-second notes if I wanted ten notes in a single beat, so I think your source has it right. There are normally eight thirty-seconds in a beat, so I'd use 10:8. Seeing ten sixteenths in a single beat just looks wrong to me, even if the 10:4 notation would make it technically OK.

Have you watched my video tutorial on Entering Tuplets?

It attempts to explain how the ratios work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJquDsYMUq0&feature=youtu.be

Incidentally, there is no such thing yet as MuseScore 2.0, just the development builds which will become 2.0 when stable.

If you are using these development builds for serious work, then I strongly advise you to make frequent backups in MusicXML format, otherwise you could lose work if the file format changes.

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