Quick Question? Need Help Quickly!! Please!!
Well I have 5 scores, each of the scores a different instrument (to be exact its the trombone,flute,alto sax,trumpet,and clarinet) and I need to know how to combine all those 5 muse files into one big score, but without having to type in every single note for each instrument. Does anybody know what to do, I need help please!!! Thanks alot!!
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Keep this 5 scores safe somewhere and copy one of the file. Open it, and go to Create -> Instruments, add the 4 missing instruments. Open the 2nd file, Ctrl + A, Ctrl + C (Copy). Go back to the score with the 5 instruments, select the first rest in the instrument, Ctrl + V (Paste). Do the same for the other 3 instruments.
In reply to Keep this 5 scores safe by [DELETED] 5
I tried it but its just doing what i didn't want it to do, its adding one note, thats it, just to make sure everyone got the idea: i want to not have to be adding each individual note per instrument, i want to be able to add all five instruments into one big score with just maybe a copy and paste scenario but anything that gets this notes onto the big score is okay, thats what I need!! Please help, thanks
In reply to It isnt working!! help!! by ca6715
Select all the parts (scores for the various instruments)
Open them all in MuseScore.
Select the first part and File->Save As (save it with a new filename)
Create->Instruments (or just press the [I] key) and add new instruments.
Open the second part.
Left-click (once only) on the first note then press [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[End]. Let go of the keys, right-click (whilst hovering the mouse pointer anywhere over the selected notes) and choose Copy.
Open the first part again. Go to the first rest on the stave of the instrument you want, left-click to select it and then right-click and choose Paste.
If it doesn't work then ensure that you de-select everything and try again.
In reply to Try this way. by underquark
If you post the scores here, we'd be happy to do it for you.
BTW, if you already have a piece created this way, then you will need to conmbine them, but be aware this is *not* how you would normally go about doing things. The way to create scores for a 5 instruments is to create the score first - entering the notes on separate staves within the same score - and then use the Part extraction facility to generate the individual parts for the five instruments. This works very well and almost completely automatically. Attempting to go the opposite direction as you are - from individual parts to a full score - is much more work, and it won't work nearly as well.
But the process should be simple enough:
1) create a score for the correct five instruments
2) make sure it has the correct number of measures, the correct key and time signatures, the correct pickup measure
3) load one of your parts
4) ctrl-A to select all, ctrl-C to copy
5) go back to your score
6) click the first bar of the staff corresponding to the part
7) ctrl-V to paste
Repeat steps 3-7 for each of the five parts. then you will need to go in and recreate dynamics and most other text markings, recreate any double bars, repeats, crescendos, etc, because those don't copy and paste. This is what I mean about this direction not working nearly as well as the reverse. if you start fro a score then extract the parts, you get all the markings automatically.