Selecting left or Right Hand Part for Playback
Is it possible when playing a piano score to select either hand for playback? It would be a help if I could do this as I would then be able to practice the hand or part I needed to work on.
PS The Musescore 4 piano sound font is just lovely.
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Have 2 pianos, one for treble clef and one for bass clef. Then you can mute/solo them individually
In reply to Have 2 pianos, one for… by Jojo-Schmitz
These are existing scores written for left and right hands in the traditional fashion. I can't find anyway to convert hands to pianos and, if I could, wouldn't the resulting score look a little odd?
I have to admit I was hoping for a straightforward system solution for something that has to be every piano student's requirement when practising?
In reply to These are existing scores… by brianejsmith
To play only one stave:
Click on the first note in the stave
CTRL+SHIFT+END to select everything in that stave
Press the space bar to start playing
In reply to To play only one stave:… by SteveBlower
Thanks Steve for replying. I tried that but it didn't work because, I think, Musescore treats the right hand (treble) and left hand (bass) parts as a single stave.
In reply to Thanks Steve for replying. I… by brianejsmith
It worked for me. I was using a version 2 import though. Perhaps there is a difference.
In reply to It worked for me. I was… by SteveBlower
Thanks for coming back.
If it's functionality that has been lost in the various version upgrades then I hope there's a chance it will be re-instated. Fingers crossed.
Brian
In reply to Thanks for coming back. If… by brianejsmith
Indeed, looking at that rather ancient score I tested, Musescore V2 seems to have treated the two staves as separate instruments. That points to a current workaround. Add a second piano instrument and cut and paste one stave from the original to the new instrument and then delete the empty, unused staves from the original and the new instruments. This then loses the instrument-wide scope of operation of dynamics, but that is sometimes (rarely though) an advantage.
In reply to To play only one stave:… by SteveBlower
FYI, this doesn't work but you don't need to select everything in that stave because MuseScore automatically mutes every thing else in the mixer when you select anything from an instrument (though it does need to be box selection).