Tied cadence to chord
I've tried multiple ways to get a sample file or an image of this into this post but nothing is working. I'll try to explain it.
I have a cadence of four 1/16th notes (semiquavers) (like a written-out arpeggio) tied to a following 1/8th note (quaver) chord containing the same notes. In other words, the tied duration of each note in the cadence extends through the time of the following chord. I struggled trying to notate this, which is the reason for this post. Commonly to add a tie to a score, click on the first note and press T (it used to be =) or click on the toolbar tie icon. That adds the tie, or the tie and the following note if it is not already present. In this situation that works for only one note in the cadence, and places the tie on the top note. I finally found that if I click on the first note and Ctrl-click on the following note before adding the tie, it works individually for each note, meaning I have to repeat this for each note in the cadence.
Knowing that may be helpful for others.
Comments
I assume you've come across this doing a transcription. Your method is probably the only way to do it have it look the way you see. It's the same thing to tie a note over a rest. Which is basically what you are doing in the cadence. MuseScore can't playback either case.
You should be able to post an mscz file directly. But you would need to zip an image.
If you are running MuseScore 4.5.2, it's been covered several times here in the forums. Look up the let ring, or laissez vibrer tool. https://handbook.musescore.org/notation/expressive-markings/laissez-vib…
If you are running an earlier version, there's a plugin you have to use, or you can simply use multiple voices to write the durations explicitly.
In reply to If you are running MuseScore… by TheHutch
Yes. That tool makes it a bit easier to place the ties.
But playback is worse than the other method.
With lv, the notes are not tied and the second note (the one tied to) resounds.
In the other method the sound does cut off at the second note. So neither plays back the way it looks.
Just depends on the instrument used and the desired effect.