Tempo Markings with Sixteenth Notes or Shorter
So I'm writing a piece for marimba and it is all in time signatures where the beat is a sixteenth note (with a large majority of it being in 13/16) The tempo markings don't go any shorter than eight notes, and I would like to create a tempo marking of sixteenth note = ____ number of beats per minute. Is there a way to do this, or am I stuck with the eighth note length tempo marking?
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Be sure that you've add the correct time signature before (for example via shift+T), see: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/time-signatures#create-your-own-time-….
Then select via menu->add->text->tempo text or shortcut alt+t the tempo text (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/tempo#tempo-marking) and it should work.
note: If it doesn't work for you please attache your score.
In reply to Be sure that you've add the… by kuwitt
The issue I had is that if you make a time signature with 16th note subdivision that happens to have the same number of notes as one without 16th note subdivision (i.e. which has an even number on top), it defaults to storing the time signature internally with the larger subdivision. If you change the beaming of your time signature in the master palette it apparently doesn't do this, though, so that's how I got around it. (It's very hard to do right because the notes in the time signature section of the master palette are absurdly tiny for some reason and don't change size with the rest of Musescore's theme for some reason, though.)
If this didn't work, there might be a hack to get around it, which is look up the unicode character for a 16th note, copy-paste it into the correct place and then uncheck "follow text" in the pane that should appear on the right, and change the tempo something equivalent to what you want that's independent of the text and is the quarter note tempo (i.e. 1/4 of the 16th note tempo). Unfortunately, however, Musescore seems to be using a different character encoding than the one I could find on the internet, so music notes won't copy-paste properly either way, no matter what font is used.