Scoring for an Irish jig
I know that an Irish jig is traditionally in 6/8 time, but I can't work out a way to score a piece so that I get the proper "feel" of an Irish tune. Musescore flattens the duration of the notes, whereas in real life the playing is much looser. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to more closely approximate the way a jig is played?
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Does anyone have a suggestion for how to more closely approximate the way a jig is played?
Consume a wee bit more Guinness? It works for me. :-)
As you say: ,,,in real life the playing is much looser.
;-)
On the other hand...
If you want the synthesizer to play a written score with "feeling", you must explain to it what you mean by "flatten the duration of the notes" (or unflatten, as you prefer). (Note pitches normally are "flattened", not durations.)
One way to explain to the synthesizer how much "looser" you want it to play, or how you want the note durations to not be "'flat" (whatever that means), is by using the Piano Roll Editor to micromanage each note as to how "loose" (or how "tight"?) you want durations played.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/piano-roll-editor
Alternatively, you can create (record) an actual performance as a midi file and import that into MuseScore. MuseScore will precisely notate durations such that the printed score can appear to have been written by a Guinness infused score writer - depending on how rhythmically "loose" the transcribed performance was. Such a score may be difficult to be read and played by a human musician, but easily read/played by a synthesizer.