Sharing MuseScore scores with other choir members
I have prepared over eighty MuseScore scores, which I have distributed to fellow members of my male voice choir. I send these via email, which means members must first install musescore.org on their computer. They then have an excellent system on their device, and can change sound levels for each voice part for example. All this is for free.
The problem is a lot of the choir members are either not computer literate or do not have a computer.
How do I share these scores so that members can access them on their phones, make adjustments to sound levels for each voice part, for example and do all this for nothing. i.e without having to pay for a musescore pro subscription.
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Just upload your scores to musescore.com and share the links to them with you choir members. They can view and play the scores on musescore.com in a browser and device of their choice. Free accounts are sufficient for that.
In reply to Just upload your scores to… by Jojo-Schmitz
I have tried sharing scores in musescore.com which the members can play. Unfortunately they can’t adjust the volume levels for each voice part to help with their practising at home.
In reply to I have tried sharing scores… by r.sivel@sky.com
The mixer on musescore.com seems to be a Pro feature. But IIRC only on the provider side, i.e. your's.
Edit: no, on the users's side :-(
So back to square one: have them install MuseScore (Studio) on their PCs
If you have used separate tracks for each voice, use the mixer to raise the volume of the featured track, and lower the others. This way, your singers will hear their part emphasized, while still hearing how it fits with the other voices. You can also pan that voice to one side, with the other voices to the other side. Export this track as an MP3. Repeat for each voice. Then you can either send them to each singer, or post them to Dropbox, or somewhere, and let the singers download their part.
I haven’t done this in MuseScore (yet) but I have done this for hundreds of scores (thousands of tracks) for a choir I sing with.
In reply to If you have used separate… by mikey12045
And if you have 2 voices per staff, a closed score SATB, then you'd have to stick to Mu3 to be able to change the volume of the voices in the mixer...
Only one of many, but also the main reason, why I haven't yet migrated to Mu4...
In reply to And if you have 2 voices per… by Jojo-Schmitz
Can’t you explode the staves, to get one voice per staff?
In reply to Can’t you explode the staves… by mikey12045
I guess I could, but I don't want to, I want to keep my closed score SATB.
In reply to I guess I could, but I don't… by Jojo-Schmitz
Explode a copy of the score, and do the part-predominant on that. You still have the closed score for distribution, and either trash or keep the exploded.
In reply to Explode a copy of the score,… by mikey12045
I could certainly do that, my choir members cannot, way to complex for them.
Far easier to stay on Mu3...
In reply to Can’t you explode the staves… by mikey12045
I always explode the staves where applicable, and always present the score in a TTBB format with separate staves for each voice part. At the moment those members who have installed musescore.org (version 3) on their computer can easily play the pieces and adjust the volume to make their voice more predominant. If I save this online in musescore.com they can play the full score on a mobile device or computer but can't adjust the volume for their voice part, without having to pay for a PRO licence. I don't want to have to go down the path of saving five scores for each song (1st tenor predominant; 2nd tenor; baritone; bass and full score).
In reply to I always explode the staves… by r.sivel@sky.com
As you wish. It isn’t that big of a deal to do the part-predominant thing. It just means that you do 15 minutes of work, instead of everybody in your group having to get the program, learn how to use it, and separate their parts out themselves.
In reply to As you wish. It isn’t that… by mikey12045
Many thanks for your help. I have done what you suggested in the past but felt it impinged on the work done by our pianist who records individual voice parts on the piano and distributes to members. I distribute the musescore.org files and was wondering if members could have the flexibility they have with my tracks (i.e. listen to full score, their voice part or anything in between) in the online musescore.com.