Deleting barlines
I want to turn 24 bars' worth of bass ostinatos I wrote for "All Blues" (M. Davis) into a more-correct 12 bars. Is there a way to delete barlines, before rewriting the note values?
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Apply a new time signature with double the duration of your old one?
In reply to Apply a new time signature… by jeetee
Yupper, that worked but now it's not the correct, original time sig. I wrote the thing in 3/4, which gave me a chorus of 24 measures; original is in 6/8 and 12 bars - a standard blues form. But changing from 3/4 to 6/8 doesn't change the number of bars, whereas changing to 12/8 does as you said - thank you! - but it's not "authentic." I thought that since you can alter barline types easily enough, you could just delete them as well, and then correct note values.
Jeetee if you're still with me the .gif below shows what I need; the musescore chart is what I have: double the measures, double the note values. Of course it won't kill me to just rewrite the thing from scratch, just wondering about those barlines . . .
Thanks again!
In reply to Yupper, that worked but now… by basstorius
Okay.. So you actually don't want to remove barlines, you want to halve every duration. So:
Done
In reply to Okay.. So you actually don't… by jeetee
Or change the time signature to 6/4 which is doubling its duration to 6 quarters or 12 eighths, whereas 3/4 and 6/8 are both 3 quarters or six eighths.
In reply to Or change the time signature… by SteveBlower
That was the original proposed fix yes; but then it wouldn't match up anymore with the rest of OPs score ;-)
In reply to Or change the time signature… by SteveBlower
Steve that works but I'll need the chart - and all subsequent basslines - to be in 6/8, as per the original. Thanks.
In reply to Okay.. So you actually don't… by jeetee
Yeah, and halve the measures from 24 to 12.
Yoweee that works, jeetee, just have to alternate Paste Half Duration with Paste. Thank you interminably!