Barbershop music (vocal) setup, and the Mixer
How do you write Barbershop (male) music such that mixer allows to control tenor, lead, Bari and bass separately. I composed this as part of Marc's harmonisation course, using the standard setup, but I can't use the mixer to isolate or vary the volume for each part. I have written a string quartet (not necessarily a good piece), and the setup there allows me, I assume because there are 4 separate staves. How do I do it for barbershop vocal music?
I am very new to Musescore, and find it an amazing tool - but I have a lot to learn....
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Comments
To have such control you need 4 staves as in your string quartet. In a barber shop quartet that means Tenor, Lead, Bari and Bass staves. You can't adjust the volume of voices 1 & 2 in a staff separately.
In reply to To have such control you… by mike320
If you use the "men" instrument you could using a staff text. It has 2 channels.
So does "women"
In reply to If you use the "men"… by jeetee
I still learn new things here.
In reply to I still learn new things… by mike320
me 2
In reply to If you use the "men"… by jeetee
I'm not sure what you mean here. What is a "staff text"?
In reply to I'm not sure what you mean… by Rod Woodhouse
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/staff-and-system-text, esp. https://musescore.org/en/handbook/staff-and-system-text#staff-text-prop… and here esp. https://musescore.org/en/handbook/mixer#mid-staff-change
In reply to To have such control you… by mike320
Thank you - I had sort-of worked that out. I took the painfully-slow route of copy-and-paste from the 2-stave file, and deleting one of the voices in each new stave of the new 4-stave file, but there must be a better way. The problem is solved now that I know not to use the Barbershop men template, but I would like to know the easy way of converting one that has already been written.
See the result attached.
In reply to Thank you - I had sort-of… by Rod Woodhouse
Try this
In reply to Thank you - I had sort-of… by Rod Woodhouse
It's easy to split the voices. Add the Lead staff under the T/L staff and the Bass under the B/B staff. Select the T/L staff (click the first note and press ctrl+shift+end) then use Tools->Explode and all of the notes from the lead will be in the second staff. Do the same on the B/B staff and you'll have 4 staves you can name appropriately in staff/part properties. You may need to fix a few dynamics but otherwise it should be almost perfect.
In reply to To have such control you… by mike320
You can, when using the barbershop template and a channel-switch staff texts T/L and B/B from the text palette. See above.