Multi measure rests

• Dec 20, 2024 - 01:56

I do saxophone transcriptions of jazz solos. So first I write out the melody as played by the artist then I transcribe the solo that the artist plays. After the saxophone solo there might be a trumpet solo,then a piano solo. I don't transcribe these solos. So for example if the sax solo is 64 bars I write that out but now the trumpet player takes a solo I just want to put a 64 bar multi measure rest. or for however long the trumpet solo is. Then I do the same for the piano, So what I am asking is HOW CAN I MAKE MULTI MEASURE RESTS IN DIFFERENT GROUPINGS? For example I just finished a Cannonball adderley solo on the tune "Work Song" Cannonballs solo is 48 bars long then there is a coronet solo that is 48 bars long. I don't transcribe that but in the chart I want to show there is a 48 bar rest. Then after that a 48 bar piano solo wich I will show with a 48 bar multi measure rest. After that the melody is played I transcribe that and the tune ends.
Can someone help me with this. It was a very simple thing to do in FINALE. What happens now is I go to Musescore i- Format-Style- Rests- I activate "multi measure rests" and all the empty bars become one large multi measure rest in the Cannonball tune I get a 96 bar multiple measure rest, What I want is two seperate 48 multi measure rests. ANY HELP IS MUCH APPRECIATED. respond to this post or email me at brooklynbrassreed@gmail.com


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So, create your main score for sax, trumpet, piano, and any other instruments. Leave empty measures for instruments that are not playing while other(s) are playing. When you are done with entering all the notes for all the instruments in the main score, you can open individual parts which will display multimeasure rests where the instrument is silent.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/parts#opening-a-part
...and watch the animated gif where you will observe the multimeasure rests appear in the part for a single instrument (Violoncello in the gif).

On the other hand, if you are writing each instrument part separately (each as a different MuseScore file) then leave blank measures and only activate multimeasure rests when you have finished entering the notes. Multimeasure rests can be toggled on/off with the keyboard shortcut M (prior to 4.4), Ctrl+Shift M (as of 4.4, Mac: Cmd+Shift+M),
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/measure-rests-and-multimeasure-rest…

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