Struggling to import files from .pdf to Musescore
Have done a few different .pdf files which work fine, but this one seems to be too much for it. This is what happens when I try to upload it (check attachment for screenshot).
What should I do? I need to get it into Musescore so I can change it into tablature for the bass, otherwise I'm a little bit screwed.
Thanks, let me know if I need to provide any more information or if this should be in a different section of the forums, I'm new here.
~ Blurp
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Use Audiveris direcly rather than via that import service. This a) gives a more recent version and b) allows more control and settings and c) allows for trying again (like with different settings)
In reply to Use Audiveris direcly rather… by Jojo-Schmitz
How can I set it up? Could you forward me to a good tutorial on how to use it?
In reply to How can I set it up? Could… by Blurp123
No, sorry, I don't know any.
Alternatively, use your eyes for scanning the music and your hands for outputting it onto your mouse/keyboard directly into MuseScore.
In reply to Alternatively, use your eyes… by jeetee
Yes, that's often the faster way to get any music into MuseScore. But especially if you've got a piece that is not already handled well by the automatic conversion facility, it's almost guaranteed you could enter it by hand in less time than it would take to try to get another import program working well enough. if it's a short piece, it wouldn't take more than a few minutes to enter normally. If it's an entire Beethoven symphony, it's going to take quite a while either way.
In reply to Yes, that's often the faster… by Marc Sabatella
Well, I've recently been given a booklet which contains around 30 pieces of varying length (from a few bars to 8 pages) which I will need to learn pretty quickly. I feel that since I'm new to Musescore and I'm not very fluent at actually putting what I want down it would take longer to write each piece in than to import them.
In reply to Well, I've recently been… by Blurp123
Unfortunately, it's probably quite the opposite., An expert MuseScore user might be able to fix the many errors that the PDF importer would likely introduce, and maybe even be able to do something in slightly less time time than entering the music normally. But for a beginner, just understanding what the errors even are is going to be a significant task, then learning all the advanced editing features you'd need to correct them a monumental one - there's no almost way it would be faster than simply entering the music normally. Learning to enter notes is easy, and by the time you've entered the first few, the rest will get easier.
That said, doing the math here, if those pieces average a page each, that is 30 pages of music, and that's going to take some time - and longer for you than for someone who is already expert. So really. the most efficient way to get this done might be to hire someone to enter it for you.
You wrote:
I need to get it into Musescore so I can change it into tablature for the bass...
Without seeing your actual pdf, perhaps you can find a way to edit it by getting rid of unnecessary things like lyrics, fretboard diagrams, instruments (i.e., staves) other than the bass. A pdf with a single instrument is a better candidate for accurate OMR (optical music recognition). So try converting a simplified pdf.
Then again, if all you need is the bass line changed into TAB, simply create a new score for bass with a linked TAB staff and manually copy the notes from the pdf into the MuseScore standard staff. The TAB staff, being linked, will automagically populate with fret numbers.
In reply to You wrote: I need to get it… by Jm6stringer
How do I link two staves?
In reply to How do I link two staves? by Blurp123
When you add the staff, or at any time later via Edit / Instruments, click the staff you want to add a linked staff to, and click the Add Linked Staff button. There you can also change its type from standard to tablature or vice versa.