Separate staff lines?
I am a new user and as my first attempt wanted to create a single page of exercises for myself (for tuba). The idea was to have each line be an ascending and descending scale in thirds, four measures long, and each line in a different key. The "score model" employed by Musescore doesn't seem to support this in any obvious way, although I've done a bunch of experimenting.
I've achieved something close to what I wanted, but it is clearly still treated as a single "score" of 24 measures (4 per line) rather than six lines (staves), each of 4 measures. For example, the first line is in C (C scale), the second is in F, the third in B-flat, the fourth in E-flat, the fifth in G, the sixth in D. At the end of each line a double bar appears followed by the new key signature. At the end of the line in E-flat, a double bar appears followed by three naturals and one sharp, and this is what begins the next line (rather than the simple single sharp of a G signature)
Is there a way for me to format the page with six independent staves -- as one would find in a typical set of exercises in a technique book? And without the "transition" key signatures at the end of the lines? I can't seem to find anything about this in the manual or the online tutorials.
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The next major release will have a feature that should help with this, although I haven't tried it. I think it's intended for for multiple movements of a composition, but the idea is to allow you to specify breaks between sections.
Meanwhile, though, you can suppress the courtesy key and time signatures at the end of the previous staves via Style->Edit General Style->Page. Or, to suppress courtesy key signature on a staff-by-staff basis, you can right click the new key signature on the lower system and select "hide courtesy signature". You can also suppress the naturals in key signatures that occur when going from more to fewer flats or sharps using that same right click menu. That's actually how I did it for this piano scale chart I just uploaded to musescore.com:
Major Scale Fingerings (Piano RH) by Marc Sabatella
Note the double bars don't have to be there - I actually added those manually as well.
[EDIT: I tried to embed my score into this post using the embed feature of musescore.com, but apparently this forum doesn't do iframe. So how did you do it for the ragtime piece you uploaded, lasconic?]
In reply to The next major release will by Marc Sabatella
Thanks. Those are perfectly fine workarounds, and they work.
In reply to The next major release will by Marc Sabatella
@Marc I think I have special rights. We will eventually sorting something out to let embed musescore.com scores.
There is no way to create independent staves but you can solve your problem easily.
- Go to Style -> Edit general style -> Page -> Hide courtesy key signature to remove the key signature at the end of line.
- Right click on a key signature and Hide Naturals