Changing notes from 16th notes to 16th note tuplets

• Mar 25, 2018 - 22:47

So I've transcribed an exercise for guitar that was played in 4/4 as 16th note sixtuplets. I accidentally wrote it out as straight 16th notes in 3/4. So, my hope is to: (1) change the time signature from 3/4 to 4/4 (which I have done) and then (2) select six note groupings and have musescore notate them as 16th note sixtuplets. Is there a way to do this, or would I have to rewrite the entire piece? I have included the way I incorrectly transcribed it (Titled Steve Morse Arpeggio Exercise), as well as what I am looking to change it to (Example1) as a reference.

Thanks for your help!

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Comments

What is your goal? Proper display as in your example? Proper playback? Both?

There is a way to get proper display without proper playback but it's a bit convoluted. Otherwise you will need to start over and you won't be able to copy and paste either.

In reply to by Nick Gasser

You can change the time signature to 6/4. Right click the time sig and select time signature properties and change the beaming to groups of 6 and the displayed time signature to 6/4. You now only need to put the 6 on the sextuplets. The easiest way to do this is to create a custom workspace. Add a staff text that consists only of the number 6 and move to to the correct position above the notes. Once you are happy with this, press ctrl+shift and drag the 6 to a palette in the custom workspace (maybe text or a new palette). You can then select several notes at a time to add the 6 to. Select a note, ctrl+click to add to the selection then double click the 6 you put in the palette. You may need to move a few of the 6's, and it's possible you may need to move all of them on a singe line. If this is the case, you can select several of them using ctrl+click and move them in the inspector. BTW, I would not start by putting the 6 on the first line. Since there is a time and key signature the measures will most likely be different than the rest of the lines and will therefore need to be moved.

Like I said, it's a bit convoluted but it will display correctly and go much faster than starting over, especially if the etude is very long.

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