Link notes from one stave in another as a reference
Not sure of the proper name for this, but I'd like to include notes from one staff on one or more other staffs as a reference. I've seen this on scores where the reference notes are shown using a smaller scale and/or in grey to distinguish a clear difference. I would use this where multiple measures of rests exist in a part to help that player follow the score more reliably.
Also, if the source notes could be linked to other staffs so changes in the source automatically appear in the other staffs that would be very helpful.
This may be a current feature but I can't find it. Knowing what to call it would be a start!
TIA
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After some more digging through the menus and handbook, I found I can select one or more notes and then change the size of the note head to Small and the color of the note, stem, and beam (each element having to be changed separately) to grey. That's OK, but tedious to make multiple changes for every passage that needs to be reproduced in multiple parts.
Is there a way to save the combined note format (small grey note head, grey beam, grey stem) as a new style?
After some more digging through the menus and handbook, I found I can select one or more notes and then change the size of the note head to Small and the color of the note, stem, and beam (each element having to be changed separately) to grey. That's OK, but tedious to make multiple changes for every passage that needs to be reproduced in multiple parts.
Is there a way to save the combined note format (small grey note head, grey beam, grey stem) as a new style?
Are you talking about cue notes? If so, then you have the basic process down - copy the passage, use Inspector to them. It's not really clear how you are trying to change them - why gray, rather than small which would be more standard? That can be done all at once and takes only second,s so not that bad to update if you make changes later. But indeed, an automatic way to link them would be nice some day. And if you do have some special need to use gray, probably a plugin would automate that better.
In reply to Are you talking about cue… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc. I now know the proper term for what I was trying to describe. If smaller notes are accepted practice for cue notes, I can live with that, but small and grey just makes them easier to recognize. I wasn't aware of Musescore plugins, and while I haven't written code in a long time, I'll check them out.
In reply to Thanks Marc. I now know the… by napochan
There is already a "colornotes" plugin preinstalled, all you would need to do is change all the colors to grey.
But FWIW, it should also work to just select the range and set the color everything at once. It will get stems, beams, etc, also any other markings (unless you exclude them with the selection filter).
Most publishers print only in black, which is why gray isn't a thing.