Parentheses around several (pickup) notes?

• Mar 14, 2024 - 21:47

I have a jazz "lead-sheet"-related question.
In the old "Real Book", there was a convention where at the end of a tune's form, they would have the pickup notes - the same ones that often started the tune - displayed with parentheses around them.

This served the purpose of showing you that these were not the last notes of the tune, but rather the pickup notes for when you wanted to play the head on the way out of the tune.

In Musescore 2 and 3, I sort of was able to make these parentheses with the "lines" palette by creating a tie, and then dragging it so it was vertical, and I could make two of them and enclose the pickup notes at the end of the form. However, I've noticed that in Musescore 4, it's become harder to maul these ties into a nicely curved vertical shape.

I'm aware that in the "noteheads" palette, you can make little parentheses for individual notes, which is nice for showing ghost notes and such - but this isn't that. I'm looking for larger parentheses that can enclose groups of notes and can be made tall enough that they encompass the whole musical staff.

Does this exist somewhere in Musescore? Thanks in advance for your help.


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Add symbols from Master Palette.
MaseterPalette, select Symbols and search for Parenthesis. Tripple-height Parenthesis should be anough for fhole staff.

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