capo on one guitar part of a trio
I'm fairly new to MuseScore. I've written a guitar trio arrangement in C major (guitar) concert pitch but want the top part to be played with a capo at 5th fret, which will mean transposing the reading to G major. Can anyone advise how best to do this? Also I want to extract the parts from the score and don't yet know how to do this. Would it be best to extract the parts and then just transpose guitar 1? Any advice would be very welcome!
Pete Stokes
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See the sections about "local key signatures" in https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/key-signatures and see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/applying-capos.
Here's an example: Guitars 1, 2, and 3 are playing the diatonic chords of the G major scale: third, root, and fifth, respectively. Think of it as Guitar 1 is playing B phrygian and Guitar 3 is playing D mixolydian if that helps. However, Guitar 3 has capo 2, so is playing the shape of C mixolydian.
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In reply to See the sections about … by TheHutch
Thanks Hutch! Your links are very helpful. I used to have an old version of Sibelius years ago, with an actual BOOK the size of the Bible to look things up in. Sometimes it feels like a labyrinth of rabbit holes going through a new system online!
In reply to Thanks Hutch! Your links are… by peterstokes86
I always recommend that new (or "new-ish" :-) users take an hour or two and simply read the entire MuseScore 4 Handbook. Don't try to memorize it! Just skim through it and familiarize yourself with the contents. But read it all!!! Then you'll have an idea where to find things when issues come up in the future. "Didn't I see something about that in the Handbook?"
Welcome aboard and best of luck!!!
In reply to I always recommend that new … by TheHutch
Thanks, I will do that! 👍