The notes on the staff will say do, re, mi, fa but the tone will be mi, mi, mi, mi. How can I do this?

• Mar 29, 2025 - 15:04

I want all the notes of a melody I wrote in Musescore 4 to sound like mi without changing the notes' places. In other words, the notes on the staff will be written as do, re, mi, fa but they will sound like mi, mi, mi, mi. How can I do this?


Comments

This sounds like a spectacularly bad idea, but you can do what you have described by entering E, E, E, E.

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Then select the first and, in the Properties tab (upper left) adjust its Offset down until it LOOKS like it's a C. The second, and adjust it to LOOK like a D, and so forth.

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Notice that the supposed C is missing the ledger line. I'm not sure how one could do that.

This will be a LOT of work for a melody much longer than the one measure I have written. And I'm not sure why you would want to do such a seemingly non-sensical thing.

Another way...
Use 2 instruments. One is visible and shows the do, re, mi, etc.; but, in the Properties panel, 'Play' is unchecked to mute those notes:
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The other instrument has mi, mi, mi, etc. notated and played; but, in the Layout panel, its staff is hidden (closed eye):
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You can use re-pitch mode to make all the mi's from the copy/pasted do, re, mi staff.

Here's the score (for playback):
mi mi mi song.mscz

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