Note Properties
I have a piece of music which has notes that I only want to play in the second pass of a repeat. Where do I set the note not to play in the first pass of the music.
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You might copy and paste the phrase a second time and edit the second phrase to include the new notes? That is how I would do it.
For the human players that would play your score, you would just add staff text saying "play 2nd time only" or "1x tacet" or similar.
But there is currently no way to make MuseScore only play notes on the second pass, as far as I understand.
Here is another guy asking the same question:
https://musescore.org/en/node/92581
In reply to For the human players that by AndreasKågedal
The standard way to do this is is to work with voltas. From the note where the deviation occurs you start volta 1 which extends all the way to the repeat sign. Then you typeset the second volta starting from the same point.
This is also the best way not to confuse humans who may be expected to play the music.
If your deviation occurs right at the beginning of the section you'll have to swallow hard and typeset the whole section twice. Luckily for you you don't have to write it out by hand; you may copy/paste the bulk of the section.
BTW the thread you quote is similar but not the same.
This is a major failing of MuseScore. I often have a piece with something like a 32-measure verse for 7 instruments that repeats 5 times and requires instruments to alternate on the first, third, and final repeat. Unrolling the repeats appears to be the only way to accomplaish this in MuseScore which could turn a 32-measure repeated verse into a 160-measure section which would be ridiculous to print out for reading. The result is that I have to prepare two copies of the whole piece, one to play back and one to be printed. And of course that means any corrections will tend to make the two versions drift apart. A way to adjust the playback levels based on repeat number should be easy to implement and would add much functionality to MuseScore.
In reply to This is a major failing of… by psl
> should be easy to implement
Almost spoken like a true manager ;-)
In reply to > should be easy to… by jeetee
Ouch!
Watch your language!
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