Creating one part for percussion.
I'm in the process of transcribing a full band arrangement and I'm currently working on the percussion part. Is there any way to add different percussion instruments when editing the drumset? I want to put tambourine, congas, wood blocks, and splash cymbal in the same staff. However, wood blocks aren't included in the drumset even though they definitely exist in MuseScore, and as far as I'm aware, using the drumset is the only way to include more than one percussion instrument in the same staff. Is there some sort of solution to this or will I just have to make a separate part for each instrument?
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See: https://musescore.org/en/node/272554#comment-836307
HTH
In reply to See: https://musescore.org… by Shoichi
In that comment it says "You can then add the instruments to the staff, assign note heads, lines voices and so on for all of the unpitched instruments," but I can't figure out how to add new instruments. I can assign names and shortcuts to the different notes, but I don't see a way to actually assign an instrument to them.
In reply to In that comment it says "You… by Logan Madson
Text Palette->Change Instrument https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/mid-staff-instrument-changes
if that's what you're looking for.
See: to use more than two voices on drum parts https://musescore.org/en/node/174541
In reply to Text Palette->Change… by Shoichi
What I'd like to do is to be able to have two different percussion instruments, such as tambourine and wood blocks, in the same staff and playing at the same time. Basically like what you're able to do with the drumset but with all of the percussion instruments instead of only some of them. So instead of making a beat with snare and bass drum, I could do it with any percussion.
In reply to What I'd like to do is to be… by Logan Madson
This is exactly what the Edit Drumset dialog allows, You just need to do a web search to find the General MIDI chart to tell you which MIDI pitch you want (e.g., wood blocks are 76 and 77) then choose the line, voice, and stem direction you want for those pitches.
In reply to This is exactly what the… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks a lot, I never would have thought of that.