Visual swing marking (Triplet feel)
I am new to MS and I just love it, but the workaround to incorporate visual swing markings is killing me.
As a jazz drummer, I use swing markings A LOT, and I am surprised there is no palette dedicated to this.
Can we put it on the wishlist?
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See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/palettes#custom-palettes
Also see: font MusGlyphs https://www.notationcentral.com/product/musglyphs/ if it can be useful to you.
In reply to See: https://musescore.org… by Shoichi
Thanks. Is there something like a "custom palettes repository" where people can share their custom palettes?
You can add the one from the howto to your own palette for reuse.
In reply to You can add the one from the… by jeetee
This is the awkward workaround I mentioned. I still wonder why there is no premade palette for this... I come from Guitar Pro and I just have to press a button there...
In case you haven't figured this out, you don't need that picture at all. Jazz musicians don't need it and find it vaguely insulting - the word "swing" all by itself is sufficient. So just add that from the palette, no need to all add the picture. Unless you want - like if you are writing music to be read by people who aren't jazz musicians. And in that case, as mentioned, just add it to your palette for easy reuse.
In reply to In case you haven't figured… by Marc Sabatella
Well, I find it fundamental to know whether the composer wants swing to be applied to eighth notes or sixteenth notes. Hence, the importance of those pictograms.
In reply to As a drummer playing a lot… by RetroLord
Understood, but again, published music in the jazz world doesn't usually do that Eighths are assumed, if sixteenth swing is needed it would just say that in words as well (eg, "Swing 16ths"). Meanwhile, the picture given in the "how to" article can easily be added to your palette as mentioned. FWIW, I also made one as text, using the "Special Characters" palette to build up the symbols. For example, try copying and pasting the following into a staff text or tempo marking:
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Probably looks like gibberish here in the forum of course because your browser's font presumably doesn't include the SMuFL music symbols, but it will paste just fine into MuseScore or any other SMuFL-compliant program.
In reply to Understood, but again,… by Marc Sabatella
Geesh, I am so used to the "triplet feel notation" that I never thought I could simply write "Swing 16ths" or "Swing 8ths"!
Thanks Marc!