Need notation Help

• Aug 17, 2013 - 07:20

As shown in the attached image file, I need to be able to notate a "honkey-tonk" piano solo. The notation I need is the two dotted-half notes connected with the 3 bars. This is Finale's way of notating a sort of rapid "trill" that oscillates between the two note sets shown for the 3 beat count. I'm not sure what the correct terminology is, just know how it sounds...

If MuseScore can't do what is shown, I would appreciate any suggestions for alternative notation that is within MuseScore's capability.

Thanks,
safvet

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Comments

Shoichi

• Aug 17, 2013 - 07:54

I entered the second voice;
deleted rests;
overturned the stems ;
modified the note head.

is the best that came to my mind ;-)

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ChurchOrganist

• Aug 17, 2013 - 09:53

It's just a tremolo but notated in an incorrect manner.

From the typeface it looks as though it comes from the "Real Book" family of scores.

These are always riddled with notational idiosyncrasies which are not found in conventional notation, and are better avoided to avoid confusing other musicians in the same way as you have been confused here.

The correct way of entering this is thus:

Although strictly speaking you should change the orientation of the tremolo slashes to correspond to the notes they lie between which unfortunately is not possible in MuseScore 1.3.

HTH

Michael

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chen lung

• Aug 17, 2013 - 13:09

If I understand correctly, the orientation is something I've been meaning to comment on for a while.

I think 'Behind Bars' does discuss it, but it maybe too much information for a bug report. I'll see what I can come up with soon, perhaps.

Edit: I think it's already been done, but some correction maybe needed: #18897: Minim tremolo with beam styling

mjbg

• Aug 17, 2013 - 20:48

the way its notated is fine.. but i dont know if its old or not used anymore..

i had an old book with beethoven sonatas and many parts of it was notated that way

xavierjazz

• Aug 17, 2013 - 23:05

See attachment.

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mjbg

• Aug 18, 2013 - 05:36

my source book accept that

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xavierjazz

• Aug 18, 2013 - 05:41

Thank you for posting this.

musomark

• Aug 17, 2013 - 19:16

Hi Safvet,

You can use the tremolo palette (on the left of the screen). The last choice (3 slashes with no line) will recreate the example you posted.

Here's the link to the tremolo page of the handbook: http://musescore.org/en/handbook/tremolo