How do i do this?

• Feb 25, 2017 - 16:16

Look, i am not that professional in making sheet music, but i have experienced it, mostly by musescore, now im replicating a sheet music in musescore, and i have come across this chord, its 2 half notes, with 2 triplets beside it, i know how voices works, what my problem is the triplet, everytime i put a quarter note in the triplet, it just ruins the triplet, help?

Comments

mike320

• Feb 25, 2017 - 16:51

I'm not sure, but I think you need to set the duration of the triplet (before changing it) to a half note, then turn it into a triplet. If I started the measure with the half notes already in it I would select the first note and press the following

N
ctrl-alt-2 (for voice 2)
6 (for 1/2 note duration)
ctrl-3 (for 1/4 note triplet)
F (1/4 note should be default duration)
G + (for 2 tied 1/4 notes)

The 1/4 and 1/2 notes are offset and the voices are identified by the stem direction so the musician(s) will know that the up is one voice and the down is the other. The offset would not be there if the top line were 1/4 notes and bottom line were 1/8 notes because the heads would be the same so they could sit on top of each other without causing misunderstanding.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Feb 25, 2017 - 16:43

N 6 Ctrl+3

worldwideweary

• Feb 25, 2017 - 23:08

Aside: a simple Chord Horizontal offset in the Inspector of ±0.50sp (depending on which note is shifted) may be required for the first half/quarter combination to be buttressed as shown in the image.