Different time signatures
An interesting one I've never been faced with before. I am learning a new song with my Vocal Coach, an Art song called The Cherry Tree. The score is written with the piano in 6/8 time, but the vocal is in 2/4. I'm struggling to score this in MuseScore, as it changes the the time signature across all staves, not allowing me to change just one. Anyone help?
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Insert the time signature while pressing "ctrl".
Hold ctrl while you drag the time signature to change it in one of the instruments. The instrument you do this to will not allow copy and paste.
In reply to Hold ctrl while you drag the… by mike320
Shouldn't this behaviour to be changed? ???
I can understand the copy/paste restrictions if the two different time signature are absolutely incompatibles (which I have never seen), but... In this case...
6/8 and 2/4 are, basically, the same thing (two hard beat times per bar). The difference is the internal division of the beats (3 against 2).
It is a very common situation in Jazz music, where the percussion is in n/8 and other instruments are in n/4 (what some people try to do with the "Swing" style).
Just an idea...
In reply to Shouldn't this behaviour to… by jotape1960
The problem is that MuseScore uses tuplets for the local time signature (the one you ctrl+drag) and MuseScore does not allow you to copy and paste part of a tuplet.
Version 3.1 has some internal improvements that may allow this to change in the future. We'll have to wait and see what happens next.
In reply to Shouldn't this behaviour to… by jotape1960
6/8 and 2/4 are entirely different. Even mathematical.
In reply to 6/8 and 2/4 are entirely… by Jojo-Schmitz
If you think about 6/8 as a two beats per bar (each one = quarter + dot note), then... It is audible the same.
Fabulous, thank you very much!!