piano keyboard chords
i am very new to musescore. i want to use the piano keyboard to hear a chord, not just one note, and then maybe to add the chord to my score. Can someone tell me if either is possible and if so how to do it; if possible please email me at oddsanends@earthlink.net with your response as i am not sure i can figure out how to find a response in the forum (maybe you can tell me how to do that also!). thanks, Philip
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You should get email notification about this response. And you can find responses to your threads or any others by going to musescore.org and clicking the "Forums" link.
Anyhow, it isn't clear what you mean by "hear a chord, not just one note". You can add as many notes to your score as you like, and MsueScore will play them all back. See the handbook under "Note Input" to learn the various ways of entering notes and chords. If there is a particular part of the instructions you still have trouble with after that, then maybe attach the score you are having trouble with (using the "File attachments" link below) and describe in more detail what you are are having trouble with.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/preferences#note-input
There you can enable that during note input the whole chord plays rather than just the current note
Thank you for your help. Maybe i didn't express myself well as i am a beginner with computers and musescore.
I am using the virtual piano keyboard. I can put the cursor on one key and hit enter and hear the key. I would like to know how i can hear a chord.I am not yet concerned with writing a chord, just hearing one by using the virtual keyboard.
Maybe its necessary to actually write the chord and have it played back, but i would like to avoid that and just be able to play it on the keyboard and hear it if that is possible.
Please let me know how to do this if it is possible. Also pleaseemail response to me at oddsandends@earthlink.net
thanks again, Philip
In reply to Thank you for your help. by Philip Ellis Foster
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/note-input#virtual-piano-keyboard for entering chords using the virtural piano.
As you add notes to the chord, the new chord plays back, so it will always end up a little arpeggiated as you enter them, but in the end the final chord will sound. Unfortunately computers only support one mouse, so the virtual keyboard can only enter one note at a time.
In reply to Thank you for your help. by Philip Ellis Foster
Realistically, the keyboard built in to MuseScore isn't meant for that sort of random experimentation but is optimized specifically for note input. Probably better to find a third party keyboard app, or just buy a cheap electronic keyboard, for playing around.
In reply to Realistically, the keyboard by Marc Sabatella
do you know that it is not possible to play and hear a chord on the virtual keyboard or are you assuming that?
alternatively, is there another virtual keyboard that could sound a chord that can be linked to musescore?
In reply to do you know that it is not by Philip Ellis Foster
I know there is no way that doesn't also rely on actually entering the notes as described above.
In reply to do you know that it is not by Philip Ellis Foster
Check http://vmpk.sourceforge.net/