Ties and slurs

• Feb 14, 2017 - 12:32

Hi everyone. I'm new to the MuseScore community and I'm sorry if this question has already been answered.
I'm trying to write a string of bars all tied together, containing the same note...F sharp. Now, the first bar with the sharp plays an F sharp but all the others play an F natural. There must be a way to achieve this, short of putting a sharp in front of every note! Thanks or you patience!!


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Music has rules ......if you have 1 or severals at the Key, no problem, no need a sharp, but if you have nothing at the key, a sharp or a flat only works for the measure it is

In reply to by Raymond Wicquart

Hi Raymond. I should say that I'm a professional musician. I've been playing in a symphony orchestra for 29 years. I KNOW that a note that is sharpened in one bar then tied over to the next 3 bars WILL remain sharpened without a sharp being placed at the beginning of each subsequent bar. The piece I'm working on is in A flat major..4 flats. My score will look horrendous if I have to place an accidental in front of each note in order to carry that tied note on through the next number of bars as I require.

In reply to by SulphurDwarf

I believe you are entering slurs instead of ties.

No worry: You place all those accidentals. Then you add the ties. Musescore will remove the superfluous accidentals for you. Again: Make sure you use ties (shortcut +), not slurs (shortcut s; they look slightly different).

Or: You enter the first of the tied notes, then from the keyboard you type + to add the next one and so on to the last (if you want to tie on a different note value you type 5+ for a crotchet, 4+ for a quaver. 5.+ for a dotted crotchet etc.)

The easiest way to enter several measures of notes tied is to enter the first note, then make sure the note duration is the same as a measure and press the + key. This will tie a measure long note to the previous. Keep pressing the + key until you have all the measures you want filled. This will produce a correct tie with the pitch in all subsequent measures the same as the first without typing accidentals.

If you have something like a 7/16 time signature you can make the duration of the tied note to be a 1/2 note (which is the shortest duration longer than 7/16) then +. This example will fill the next measure and then leave a 16th note tied in the next. Press escape to exit note entry mode and click the 16th note and press the 6 button to fill the measure and put a 16th tied in the next measure. Continue doing this until you have all the measures you want filled. Once you have a 16th in a measure you don't want, select the measure and delete it. You can do the same thing with any other time signature. When I want to fill several measures I make the duration a longa (the 9 button selects this duration) and press +. If too many measures are filled I delete them, if too few, then I make the duration what I need to fill the rest of the measures (or keep the longa).

The + button works on chords just as well as it does with single notes.

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