Ties on repeat bar
I'm working a sax quartet score, example attached. Throughout the score I want to tie the last note in a 1st time bar to the note it repeats to.
So In the attached example of the baritone saxophone part, how do I notate a tie from the last quaver in the 1st time bar to the dotted crotchet it's repeating to in the first bar of the repeated section?
As a side issue which I'm not bothered about, but out of curiosity, why are the low As showing out of range? All modern baritone saxes have low A.
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See https://musescore.org/en/node/267614
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for your swift and helpful reply. As always, I checked the manual before coming into the forum to ask and I read through the part you've posted for me to refer to, but that's not what I'm talking about, (I thought I might have trouble explaining what I mean!)
In the example I posted, in the repeated section I want the last quaver of the 1st time bar to be tied back to the dotted crotchet in the first bar of the repeated section. If you play the example it is not tied. The last quaver of the 1st time bar sounds separately from the dotted crotchet it is repeated back to. My question is how do I tie those two notes?
I apologize for the poor explanation , but I don't know how else to ask it.
In reply to Thanks for your swift and… by Peter B
I can do this by altering the properties of a normal tie into the 2nd time bar. This will indicate to the player that the note is tied back to the repeat, but on playback the notes are still not tied, and in this case the low A in the 2nd time bar doesn't play at all.
In reply to I can do this by altering… by Peter B
If you write like that, you get what you want.
There must be the same tie where you come back. (Actually, you don't have to, but if you want it to be that way.)
OK, in the absence of an answer to this issue can I assume this is one of the very few things that can't be notated in Musscore?
In reply to OK, in the absence of an… by Peter B
You can't notate is in a way that on the second time of the repeat the A won't play. But visual you can create something like attached in example 1 (activitate inside the Menu "show invisible" to see the hidden notes). I inserted here an appogiatura and a grace eighth after. In this way the A inside the second Volta will be played back.
If you want to have a correct playback, you've to notate it like in the second example.
In reply to You can't notate is in a way… by kuwitt
Btw. the A isn't shown as "out of range" for the instrument (then it would be colored red) rather than difficult to play for an non-professional (dark yellow).
In reply to Btw. the A isn't shown as … by kuwitt
Ah, I didn't know that. Thank you.
In reply to You can't notate is in a way… by kuwitt
That's excellent, thank you. I did think of using the appogiatura solution suggested in the manual but because there happened to be a low A in the second Volta I tied to that and altered the tie properties to drag it back but that messes up playback. Your second solution is good too and I might just do it that way for all four of the quartet parts. Thanks again for your help - very much appreciated.
In reply to OK, in the absence of an… by Peter B
Everything can be notated in Musescore.
But you can't hear everything you notate :)