jazz-style slash marks for beats?
Hi everyone... newbie here, but experienced musician. I'm looking to create some basic chord/lead sheets and my typical frame of reference is as a rhythm section player, so I'm accustomed to seeing those quarter-beat (if in 4/4) slashes, as often seen in jazz charts. I don't see this symbol available in the selection tabs, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, or need to somehow bring up an alternate symbol set. Any guidance humbly appreciated. Thanks!
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Easiest way is to download and install the Slash Notation plugin (see Plugins menu at right of this page). All ut does is automate some things you can do yourslef too. Slashes in MuseScore are implemented as a special type of notehead. So enter quarter notes, then right click and select Note Properties, where you can change the notehead to slash and also mark the notes stemless. But again, the plugin automates this nicely.
Also, for lots more on creating lead sheets, see my tutorial:
http://musescore.org/en/node/11723
Slash notation is covered in part 2.
In reply to Easiest way is to download by Marc Sabatella
Fantastic. Thanks Marc!
In reply to Easiest way is to download by Marc Sabatella
I am very confused. How do you install a plugin that has no .qml file??
Edit: Nvm found the more recent post on this. So glad this is a supported feature now!
In reply to I am very confused. How do… by zbjorklund
Indeed, for the record, under Tools. But to answer your question - in 2013 the QML format hadn't been adopted yet.
You need to enter 1/4 notes on each beat of the bar (unless you want rhythms), usually on the "B" mid line.
Right click on 1 of them, select all similar, note properties,, stemless.
Then go to the noteheads pallat and select the slash (which looks like a thin parallelogram).
I do not have the program launched right now, but when you do these in the correct order you do not need to select the notes a 2nd time, they remain selected.
This is for version 1.3, I don't know about the nightlies.
In reply to You need to enter 1/4 notes by xavierjazz
Thanks also Xavier!
In reply to jazz-style slash marks for beats? by shonun
If you plan on playing back your score, and you're doing this manually, you'll want to also be sure to set the velocity of those notes to zero, otherwise you'll hear a nice quarter-note ostinato on B there. :-)
In reply to If you plan on playing back by Jeff Jetton
The slash notes plugin turns velocity to 1, so it is really silent, but the cursor still progresses.
In reply to The slash notes plugin turns by Jojo-Schmitz
I see that 2.0 provides a checkbox "Play" so you can simply turn playback off without messing with velocity. Hopefully the plugin will be able to take advantage of this. And then hopefully a release soon after 2.0 will provide native support for slash notation...