Saving specific TAB fingering
G'day.
Firstly let me say how impressed I am with MuseScore.
I use it both as a teaching tool and for personal work.
There's one little niggle I have that you might be able to help me with.
If I save a score and transpose to another key, I sometimes have to alter the TAB to suit fingering position.
Easy done and no worries there, but when I return to that transposition later, the fingering has resorted to the original default changes.
I like to give my students the same exercises in different keys and thought one score with the ability to transpose was a bonus, but if students have to alter the TAB each time they transpose, they may be put off.
I know I could transpose and save each score as a separate file, but this seems to defeat the purpose.
I've encouraged my students to download MuseScore in an effort to have some continuity and to ease the burden on my preparation time.
Is there a way to save a transposition with altered TAB without having to write a separate file for each key?
Thanks.
Les.
Comments
Do you mean you want your students to learn to do the transposing, or that you want to create exercises in different keys but in the same file for them to play? If it's the latter, you can use section breaks between each key: see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/breaks-and-spacers#section-break
In reply to Do you mean you want your… by Brer Fox
Thanks Brer.
Not what I had in mind. I'll try to detail the process a bit better.
I create an exercise in one key - notation and TAB.
When transposed to another key the auto TAB suggested, might be a bit awkward to finger, so I adjust it to a different fingering.
Now I switch back to the original key and the saved TAB is as it was - all good.
Returning to the transposition, reveals that the TAB has reverted to the awkward fingering, rather than the fingering I replaced it with.
I'm wondering if my adjustments can be saved within that transposition (in the same file), or whether I have to produce separate files for each key.
Thanks.
Les.
In reply to Thanks Brer. Not what I had… by LesR
It can't.
Transposing isn't showing a different view of a score all with its own settings. Transposing is an action that changes what is there and forgets the previous contents. When transposing "back" there is no information to return to. That in itself is just a transposition as if when you would've started from the score in that key and transposed it to a new key.
That that new key than happens to be a key you've somewhere in the past already once transposed to, is information MuseScore doesn't track.
Now as for workarounds:
Add more instruments, one for each transposition. You can copy-paste from your first exercise to the others, then transpose those instruments and fix their fingering as you please.
Create a part for each instrument and your students when opening the file then just have to click on the part tab with the wanted transposition to switch between those.