how to convert a bar in 3/4 to a bar in 2/4

• Dec 30, 2023 - 22:20

Happy New Year everyone,

I have a score in 3/4 (see attached) and want to convert it to 2/4. I tried the Sextuplet option, but just got into a mess. Any help most appreciated.
Regards
Pedro

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underquark

• Dec 30, 2023 - 23:05

Those are two different runs of notes. Are you saying that you want the notes in [1] to look like the notes in [2] or that when you tried to make the sextuplets they turned out as in [2] with the wrong notes or what? Posting the file you made (the mistake file, .MSCZ) could help others comment constructively,

bobjp

• Dec 30, 2023 - 23:55

Yes, hard to know what you are wanting. Untitled sixscore.mscz

Brer Fox

• Dec 31, 2023 - 12:59

Would a time signature of 6/8 give you what you want?

Pedro Casillas

• Jan 2, 2024 - 12:08

Happy New Year and thank you all for taking the time to reply to my post. Apologizes if i was not as clear as i might have been. I have found the solution i was looking for, which i will explain in a minute:
1. I have been working on classical guitar Etude VI by Leo Brouwer, which covers arpeggios. The version i have suggested that other variants on the etude are possible and includes 6 single bars which point to how the variants can be expanded. I have managed to write out the first variant and was stuck on the second, which challenges the player to take the first variant (the one on the screen marked '1', which is in 3/4) and change it to 2/4 and 2 groups of Sextuplets.
After checking all the videos i could find, i came across the solution, which is the following:
1. I changed the first bar from 3/4 to 2/4
2. I deleted all the notes and created 2 Crotchets
3. I used the menu: Add-Tuplets-Other
4. I changed the Ratio to 6/4
5. This created 6 semiquavers grouped in the time of the Crochet
6. I added the notes, flipped the direction and checked the beam was correct and that did it.

I hope this may be useful for anyone else trying to do this type of thing.
Thanks again.
Regards
Pedro

TheHutch

• Jan 3, 2024 - 20:39

An equally valid way would be to ...

Set the measure to 2/4.
Press "N" (to start Note Entry mode).
Press "5" (to set the note length to a quarter note/crochet).
Press "Ctrl"+"6" (to activate sextuplets).
Type the letter names for the first six. It will be something along the lines of: a, c, Ctrl+Up, Up, d, Up, e, d, c. (The "c" after the "a" will be an octave below what you want so "Ctrl+Up" raises it an octave. Then "Up" sharps it.)
Repeat steps 3-5 for the second six.
Then go back to the beginning of the measure.
Still in Note Entry mode, press Ctrl+Alt+2 to switch to Voice 2.
Press "5" to set note length to quarter note/crochet.
Type the letter names for the quarter notes.

Similar, but not identical to what you did.

BB,
Hutch