Applications That Support Chromatic Staff Notation Systems LilyPond I'd appreciate hearing if you folks find it unacceptable (as it really does NOT look attractive), but I can only say it sure plays back the way I think arpeggios are to be played.Alternative music notation systems are appealing in theory, but what about the practical need for sheet music? Fortunately, there are now software applications that can display and print music in a variety of chromatic-staff notation systems, easing the burden of transcribing (or “transnotating”) sheet music. ![]() the bottom stave first and then the top stave. ![]() (The 2 scores that I've saved in my account took 3 & 5 weeks respectively, and I did so much tweaking, trial-and-error and versioning.)Īnyway, I've presented my solution to this arpeggio problem a while ago ("nimbears", Sep 2, 2021.) This is an important "problem" in my mind because, heck, that IS how you're supposed to play an arpeggio, on the piano at least. it yields that "human touch." I'm a somewhat new user, but I've learned quickly how to make a piece sound "un-mechanical" with adjustments in tempo, duration, loudness, etc., which you can apply to as finite as a single note! And this is so addictive! It also takes a lot more time though-partly because I'm learning as I go. To me, MuseScore's powerful attraction is it allows me to "trick" it into playing back a piece the way I'd play it myself. Do most of you use MuseScore to create a score that LOOKS GOOD or SOUNDS GOOD ON PLAYBACK? (Electronically, I mean.) This discussion is heavily centred on how to make a 2-stave arpeggio look proper (drag or Shift/Up-Arrow), but I don't think this helps how it plays back. Watching this discussion over time brings up a question for me. This is definitely a work around, but it works and doesn't require some extra hidden staves or anything like that plus, it's good to know these things anyways :) I hope this makes sense, I'm tired and might be a little unclear. One at a time click each note and then type in the numeral value for it in the OnTime form. Apparently it doesn't encompass both clefs in one window. You have to right click into the treble clef, or whatever clef you want to be looking at and open the piano roll editor from there. For a 4-tone chord of eighth notes I get the interval of 175 from the first note being 0 and the next being 175, next 350, then 525, so you want the next note, the first note of the treble clef chord to be 525+175, and then the next note of that one to be 525+175+175, etc. ![]() Find out the OnTime values for the Bass clef chord by right-clicking in the bass clef measure and opening the piano-roll editor. There's a trick I learned from a forum member regarding arpeggios and time-stretching, and it also applies to cross-staff or two voiced arpeggios, but it takes some calculation.ġ) Make an arpeggio for both your F & G clef chords.Ģ) Hide one of them, the top one, and drag up the bottom one to fitģ) Looks fine, but as you said they don't sound right because they both trigger at the same instance rather than a continuous unfoldingĤ) Use the piano-roll editor. I do the invisible voice option often mainly because I don't like invisible staffs. You can even delete all but one staff and simply put the appropriate clef on the staff as needed for arpeggios. If you make an invisible staff, you will have to make it visible to add notes you want to hear of course, but you can put everything into voice 1 without the need to hide anything. Make this a habit, because MS will complain if there is a tuplet in the measure and you select the entire measure. Select the first beat in voice 1 in the measure you want to place the arpeggio and paste it. ![]() You should now have only the voice with your arpeggio selected. In the selection filter (F9) uncheck voice 1 and select the measure. Now make this work measure invisible by pressing V (at this point you need to make sure Show invisible is checked under the view menu). The reason I say to use the lowest staff is that it is easier to build a chord from bottom to top. Make sure the entire chord for all staffs (usually 2 but could be 3 like an organ) is on the lowest staff with the arpeggio symbol on it. If I use another voice I usually just find an empty measure somewhere and put it on the same beat as it would be in the measure I'm working on. Next you either need to make another staff with the same instrument (recommended if there are a lot of these in the song) or in an unused voice in the lowest clef staff make an arpeggio that uses all the notes from both staffs. Unfortunately you must use something hidden to make this work.įirst - enter the arpeggio the way you want it to look, then select all the notes and uncheck play in the inspector (F8) so they will be silent.
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