Trying to learn Musescore, one question
I am working on learning how to play the piano. There is one measure I can easily play with my left hand on my piano that I am having a hard time reproducing in Musescore.
Index finger strikes F-sharp on the "and" before beat 1
Thumb strikes G with the thumb on the first beat
Thumb remains down and the pinky strikes G one octave down on beat 2
Thumb and pink remain down on the Gs through beat 3
Pinky remains down on the G and the thumb lifts up and strikes G again on beat 4
Comments
https://musescore.org/en/handbook
Look under Voices. :)
In reply to https://musescore.org/en… by xavierjazz
I had already looked through the voices sections and played for a few hours before posting and am still stuck
In reply to I had already looked through… by hendersond
Please describe in detail how you are attempting to use voices.
One way to write it, which will require the use of Voices, is to let the "G" be represented by a dotted half-note while the other notes are added around it. But, I have also commonly seen this notated using tied quarter notes. The thumb part is three consecutive quarter-note "G's," tied. The pinky-part is two tied notes. The final thumb quarter-note on beat four isn't tied. (And, to make this very clear, the third note might be shown as an eighth followed by an eighth rest. This notation makes it very clear what is happening on each beat. (The first event occurs in the preceding measure or a pickup-measure.)
This may or may not sound exactly as you want it to on playback, but a human musician should understand it.
In reply to One way to write it, which… by mrobinson
I will give this a try. Why wouldn't playback sound fine? I am not that familiar with Musescore, is this a common thing to not have playback sound at least reasonably close to what it sounds like playing the piano
In reply to I will give this a try. Why… by hendersond
Well, the program can only reproduce what you actually input, so if there is any confusion in your entries, the program will do what you wrote, not what you wish.
Did you get it figured-out?