Play different notes on different verses
I am putting show tunes onto here to play back for rehearsing, and print out and bring to a piano player at the audition. When I write the music correctly, the playback doesn't work correctly. The sheet music I make doesn't play back perfectly because different verses have different notes. Am I out of luck with current Musescore technology? The only thing I can think to do is have two versions of the song, the one which plays correctly, and the one which prints out correctly. But it is taking me so long to program the song that I don't want do two versions.
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Do you really need MuseScore to play the vocal part for you? Why not just mute that?
Also, why would you need to go to the trouble of entering those different notes for the second verse? The pianist wouldn't need them. Is it so different you from the first verse that you really need to see the notes yourself.
Anyhow, it shouldn't be difficult to remove the notes for the second verse or to simply mark them silent for playback, so if you really do need to have thise notes for some reason, generating a separate version without the extra notes shouldn't take but a couple of minutes - it's not like you'd have to start over from scratch. Just delete the extra note and save As under a different name. But again, far easier to not enter them in the first place if you don't need them (and I can't see why you would), or mute that staff for playback.
In reply to Do you really need MuseScore by Marc Sabatella
"Do you really need MuseScore to play the vocal part for you? Why not just mute that?"
I first found MuseScore for my son, who wants to write music. Once I realized it played back the music, I started using it to learn songs in ways that I couldn't learn them from soundtracks, which is how they are written. MuseScore is 95% awesome for helping me here. I just wanted to see if it could be the extra 5%, which would require being able to sound like the song exactly as written. As it is, it seems it can do both, play the song exactly as written and let me type in the song to create a perfect copy of the song that I can have after I return the score to the library. However, it can't do both from the same file, at this time. My question isn't "should I do the work"", it's "is that true that MuseScore isn't able to do both at once?"
"Also, why would you need to go to the trouble of entering those different notes for the second verse? The pianist wouldn't need them. Is it so different you from the first verse that you really need to see the notes yourself."
I am doing two things here. 1. Making a song I can rehearse with. And 2. Making sheet music for the future when I don't have time to research an audition song. I don't wish to make a file different than the sheet music. If someone like me comes along and needs this song too, I'd like them to find the song in the right form, not adjusted to suit my purposes.
". . . it shouldn't be difficult to remove the . . ."
I thought about those tricks, thanks for feedback.
In reply to I wouldn't mind if MuseScore played the vocal part by knightm7
OK, yes, it's true that certain it can't do both at the same time. That is, if you try to write two different melodies on the same staff, there is no way to tell MuseScore to play one of them the first time and one the second.
But I still don't understand why you want to hear the vocal part on playback. Wouldn't you rather hear just the piano part, so you can *sing* the vocal part? That's the way it will go in the audition, too - the pianist isn't going to play the vocal part. That's why I suggested simply muting the vocal part.
In reply to OK, yes, it's true that by Marc Sabatella
usually I have heard it on CD, but never live or on video. So I know the song only the way the guy on the cd sings it. This is often different than how it was written, so I want to audition with the way it is should be sang, not how I hear it in my head and how I've sung it for YEARS. The best way for me to do that is to hear the vocal track.
I have used MuseScore in the past to record a song multiple times, once with the vocal and once without. With the vocal track, to practice the notes, and without, to get ready for the audition.