Best practice for free time notation (solo guitar)
I'm trying to transcribe a solo guitar piece by Joe Diorio ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lf-fnDaT3g )
I need some suggestions about how to write on a score respecting both the main measure subdivision of the song, but allowing me to suff all the phrasing, that is not in time at all, with long pauses and accelerandos...
I've seen some old posts about earlier version of MuseScore, talking about setting up measures of like 30/4...
I wonder if there is some other way...
This thing will be used exported in musicXML and used as input in another application, so it would be great if in some way the phrasing timing would be maintained...
If you have suggestions, I'd be more than happy to hear about...
thanks
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In version 3, making irregular measures is now easier. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/note-input-modes#timewise. This is ideal for creating cadenzas, but I don't really see a need for this. Perhaps using the tempo changes plugin would be more appropriate. See https://musescore.org/en/project/tempochanges and https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/plugins
I need some suggestions about how to write on a score respecting both the main measure subdivision of the song, but allowing me to suff all the phrasing, that is not in time at all, with long pauses and accelerandos...
I would work the solo onto a blank score one phrase at a time (eg,. 4 measures) while referencing a lead sheet viewed side-by-side (or stacked). The durations of the solo measures can be adjusted as necessary to fit all the runs and ad lib timing. Chord symbols can be successively added to the solo as 'markers' to check the phrasing against the lead sheet melody.
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The 'free time' of that solo will be tough to wrangle into 4/4, more difficult than somthing like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6qOMZnJHnM
(which is played to a backing track.)