Marimba Rolls

• Nov 4, 2024 - 19:19

I've been using MuseScore for a couple years, and really love how I can notate almost anything. As a percussionist, I can do professional-looking exercises and transcriptions for myself and my students. However, there are a couple areas where the notation I need isn't available. The attached image shows some examples. I would like to be able to show an arpeggiated chord across all four voices on a grand staff (currently, I can only see how to show arpeggiation on one system, but not across both systems, as is necessary for marimba notation. Also, I would like to be able to show unmeasured rolls in each hand. In the example, a one-handed roll is shown by an oval across the stem, and arpeggiated rolls are shown with an elongated "S". Thank you for your consideration.

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Comments

DanielR

• Nov 5, 2024 - 13:49

MuseScore follows the Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL). Here is the SMuFL page for Tremolos:
https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/tremolos.html
This page includes a couple of rolls:
- U+E234 Double lateral roll (Stevens)
- U+E233 One-handed roll (Stevens)

If you can identify by name any roll symbols which are missing, it would be worth asking SMuFL to add the missing symbols. This SMuFL page explains how you can submit a request: https://www.smufl.org/contribute/

zeichner42

• Nov 5, 2024 - 14:36

Thank you! I found the symbols & was able to drag them into the tremolos palette. I may end up making a request from SMuFL, as I think the symbols should be tilted slightly, as with standard tremolos, but otherwise, this is what I was looking for.