How to Get Spiccato to work on MuseScore 4
Edit: I now know that "Col Legno" exists, and is a feature in MS4! And it was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you! :D
I am currently working on transcribing the song "Peacekeeper II" by Jose Pavli, from the OST for the game Project Wingman. In the intro of the song, there's a 20 second segment where the violinists are tapping their bows on the strings of their instruments, and it creates an eerie pitched tapping sound. (It can be seen here, timestamps 1:10-1:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra0Hb-IL1-4 )
I was wondering if there's any way I could not only notate this in MS4, but also get it to play back? At the moment, I'm making due with doing snare side hits, but it's just not the same.
Any help would be appreciated.
I am also willing to downgrade the song to MS3 if that's the only way to achieve the desired results, but I'm hoping there's a solution for this in MS4.
Comments
Normally spiccato notes are marked staccato with the word "spiccato" at the start. What they are playing in the video is only sort of a spiccato. Usually it involves the bow actually moving on the string. Some notes in the same bow direction. The is no spiccato sound in MuseScore. I think the closest you can come would be very soft, low staccato notes.
In reply to Normaly spiccato notes are… by bobjp
According to David Boyden and Peter Walls in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the terms spiccato and staccato were regarded as equivalent before the mid-18th century. They cite, for example, Sébastien de Brossard's Dictionnaire de musique, 1703, and Michel Corrette's L'École d'Orphée, 1738. Spiccato meant, they write, "simply detached or separated as opposed to legato."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiccato --
If they are tapping the stick on the string, that’s col legno.
In reply to If they are tapping the… by Asher S.
I just found out that there is, in fact, a col legno playback option in MS4! That's pretty cool!