Swing notation
When you look at most professional swing charts, the text saying swing has the thing in parentheses (shown in pic) and it was possible to recreate this in MuseScore 2 by changing the text font to one of the metronome fonts (shown in second pic). As I like my charts to look professional, is there any way I can emulate this in MuseScore 3?
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Comments
See https://musescore.org/en/node/266325
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by mike320
Is there any way to do that but with text instead of a picture? It’s so annoying to format the picture and you also have to do it for every part.
In reply to Is there any way to do that… by bennyg1
There are pictures at the end of the How to you can download and use. Text is not an option due to the beamed notes in the normal notation.
In reply to Is there any way to do that… by bennyg1
There is now. The MusGlyphs font contains all the elements needed to make a tempo marking, including beamed notes and the triplet sign.
In reply to There is now. The MusGlyphs… by Trainzack
Where to get that font?
What happens to scores displayed on systems not having that font? I guess that does include musescore.,com, doesn't it?
In reply to Where to get that font? What… by Jojo-Schmitz
The font can be found here: https://github.com/dankreider/musglyphs
EDIT: It moved homes, it now lives here: https://www.notationcentral.com/product/musglyphs/
But you do raise a good point. It almost certainly won't look right when uploaded to the website, and I don't think this solution works for anyone who wants to upload to the website.
In reply to The font can be found here:… by Trainzack
Nor for anyone wanting to share the score in any form but a PDF I guess.
But certainly interesting.
In reply to There is now. The MusGlyphs… by Trainzack
If you don't mind a slightly wonky tuplet, it's also perfectly doable using the "Beamed groups of notes" and "Individual notes" sections of any SMuFL musical text font. Here is the example just using the defaults in MuseScore:
In reply to If you don't mind a slightly… by Marc Sabatella
How did you get the = into that position?
In reply to How did you get the = into… by Jojo-Schmitz
Superscript :-). Very possible there is some Unicode character or other that would have done the trick, but I was lazy.
In reply to Superscript :-). Very… by Marc Sabatella
16th barline works too ;-)
FWIW, though, this notation isn't really used in "professional" swing charts. Most professional charts simply use the word "swing" and assume professional musicians understand what that means. It's more charts for the education market that provide this notation. But indeed, once you have the graphic, you can attach it to as many scores as you like, it's as easy as entering text. not sure what you mean by needing to "format" the picture, but if it's not the right size for you already, just do that once and resave it.
Should work the same way in MuseScore 3 as it did in MuseScore 2
BTW: I've now added Jazz style versions of those images to https://musescore.org/en/node/266325