Triplet across a bar line
Anybody know of a trick to get a triplet to cross a bar line on MS? For example the first 16th note of a triplet be the last note of a measure and then the next two 16th notes of the triplet be the first two notes of the next measure. Weird, but I'm seeing it on a pdf from imslp.org
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You will need to select the two measures and merge them using Edit->Measures->join selected measures. After you set up your triplet you can press ctrl and drag the appropriate bar line to the measure in question.
Note: this will join the measures in every staff so you will need to fix bar lines on every staff. Bar lines that do not cross the staff with the triplet can be extended by double clicking and dragging them to make extend to other staves if needed.
In reply to You will need to select the… by mike320
I tried your directions and it worked! It's a piano score so the "every staff" issue was not a problem. Thank you very much.
In reply to I tried your directions and… by hmscomp
Piano pieces are the most common with this, but I tried to cover anything unexpected. Your welcome.
In reply to You will need to select the… by mike320
In the mean time that function has been moved to Tools > Measure > Join Selected Measures. But it still works as described.
In reply to In the mean time that… by Cubaselito
Yes, a couple things changed since January 2018 and MuseScore 2.1
In reply to You will need to select the… by mike320
Tried this in Musescore 4, and find myself unable to add a correctly time-spaced barline between the triplet notes. I can add the barline on the lower stave, but it can't be made to extend back to the upper stave: the bar stops midway whether I drag manually or adjust the span parameters.
In reply to Tried this in Musescore 4,… by memeweaver
AFAIK barlines always extend downwards in MuseScore, never upwards. But if this is about an evenly split tuplet, you could just do the split in the tuplet itself instead of hacking fake barlines:
https://musescore.com/user/2605606/scores/7725047
In reply to AFAIK barlines always extend… by jeetee
Thanks for suggestion but not very practical as I have lots of these and MS doesn't support copying these elements.
I just mentioned trying the lower barline as the upper barline appears in the wrong position. Playing with offsets and leading spaces doesn't get me very far. I've hacked it with a vertical line overlaying the correctly-placed lower barline. It's fragile as hell as MS lines don't like to be vertical and bounce around if anything else changes in that system, however it has the benefit of looking exactly as needed.
In reply to Thanks for suggestion but… by memeweaver
> "MS doesn't support copying these elements"
It does, as long as you copy the entire tuplet and don't paste it on top of a barline, which with the method listed here should indeed not be an issue.
In reply to AFAIK barlines always extend… by jeetee
This was a wonderful solution! easy to read as well, thanks!