drag notes
hi, was not there a way to drag the note in bar 1 and 6(and the barline) to the left to make them look more like upbeats?
I tried to click and drag them but it does not seem to work (anymore?)
thanks in advance!
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double-click, then right arrow to move them, see http://musescore.org/en/handbook/edit-mode
For measure one - the pickup / anacrusis, the solution is not to have entered three beats of rest then hide them. Instead, right click the measure, Measure Properties, set "actual" time signature to 1/4. That's also the better way of handling the repeat endings - except here you would want to split the measures into a bar of 1 and a bar of 3 ("actual" time signature; "nominal" remains 4/4). That way, the voltas and repeat signs will appear on actual barlines and will then play back correctly, as well as being spaced correctly.
I would question, though, why you want your volta to start in the middle of a measure. That is *extremely* non-standard, to the point of being unheard of in my 30 years of experience as a professional musician. And completely unnecessary in this case, since both endings show the same notes in that partial measure. Your volta could have started with the next full measure and saved a lot of trouble and been easier to read too. If the notes had been different in that partial measure, though, the usual way to notate it is to nonethless put the volta around the full measure, even though the first few beats are the same in both.
In reply to For measure one - the pickup by Marc Sabatella
something like this
In reply to something like this by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks!
Yes like that.
(i think i remember i used to drag them though)
Setting "actual" time signature is a great idea. I will try that...
As discussed before things one does not hear of in 30 years of experience as a professional musician do exist :)
In reply to thanks! yes like that by aeLiXihr
Indeed, but the advice stands - if you are planning on giving music to human musicians to read it behooves you to do so in ways that actually resemble how the *vast* majority of published music is printed. I conduct ensembles professionally, and can tell you through painful experience that the less common any particular notational device is, the more likely it will be be performed correctly. So any time you have a choice between two ways of notating something - one way that we see every day, and another way that shows up once every 31 years - you are virtually always better off choosing the one musicians see every day.
In reply to Indeed, but the advice stands by Marc Sabatella
i finished it.
the "actual counts" changing works great!
thanks all,
In reply to i finished it. the "actual by aeLiXihr
It appears to me the more obvious way of notating this would not have a 4/4 measure with 3 beats followed by a measure of 1 beat at the beginning of each ending. The single notes in the first measure of each ending are the same so why not put them in with the prior 3 beat measure to make it 4/4? This gets rid of the odd times in the 2 bars.