Without changing the sheet music, can I change the tune when playing?

• Jul 18, 2018 - 11:50

Without changing the sheet music edited in MuseScore, can I change(mainly upward) the tune when playing?
I want to use this function for guitar music using a capotasto.

Comments

toquetaque

• Jul 18, 2018 - 11:58

I mean that "tune" is pitch.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jul 18, 2018 - 12:04

Transpose. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/transposition
That does change the score though, so just don't save it.
The iOS and Android songbook app can transpose too and without altering the score

toquetaque

• Jul 18, 2018 - 12:14

Thank you Mr Schmitz, but Transpose function changes the sheet music itself.
I want to change only the pitch not notes.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jul 18, 2018 - 12:17

A note has a pitch, changing that changes the note and so the score.
You can change the tuning via synthesizer, but I don't think that is enough for several semitones.

cadiz1

• Jul 18, 2018 - 12:17

I guess you mean this? : https://musescore.org/en/node/268639

EDIT: alternatively, but only for the two first frets (ie Capo1, and Capo 2), you can follow a different way, ie:

Select all the score (Ctrl + A) -> hit "Notes" tab, at the bottom of the Inspector panel -> Change the value of "Tuning". The 100,00 value corresponds to a semitone (= one fret/Capo1) ; the 200,00 value to a tone (= two frets/Capo2)

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jul 18, 2018 - 12:20

Which does change the score...

cadiz1

• Jul 18, 2018 - 12:27

No. Only the playback, it's the goal
(to observe this: open the attached samples in the How to)

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jul 18, 2018 - 12:38

It does change the score. Maybe not the look of it, but the content (and the sound)

cadiz1

• Jul 18, 2018 - 12:46

"Maybe not the look of it" and "change the sound"
That's it.
It's the Capo function, as expected by guitarists