Transpose a pattern in every key
Hi everybody, I'm pretty new to Musescore so I beg your pardon if this question has already been asked.
I'm learning some saxophone phrases for improvisation, extrapolating them from various tunes and tracks: when I find one suitable to be learned, I write it down in Musescore then I have to transpose it in all keys by hand, which is really annoying.
I'd like to have a way (using a plugin?) to select a particular number of bars and then ask the program to translate all of them in any key automatically, so to minimize the effort.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks for all the replies.
Comments
Copy and paste the phrase as often as needed, then select the notes a phrase and transpose it (see: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/transposition), and if desired, insert the corresponding key signature to the first measure of the phrase (see: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/key-signatures).
I'm not aware about a plugin, that will transpose a phrase to all key signatures in one step.
A somewhat less effortful method would be to press "R" to repeat the phrase, press "Up" to move it up a half step, then "R" again, Up, R, Up, etc. Except you might not like the enharmonic spellings in some cases. So maybe better to use Down instead, which will spell using flats.
In reply to A somewhat less effortful… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the help.
Would it be difficult to write a plugin for this in order to automate it?
In reply to Thanks for the help. Would… by Riccardo Santato
I'm not familiar with writing plugins. At least there seems to exist a plugin named "Transposer", which transposes a score for a Bb-instrument (I don't using it). Maybe play around with that code (inside the plugin-editor) for your purpose and if necessary ask inside the plugins forum.