Haven't Met You Yet

• Feb 28, 2011 - 22:09

Here's something I've been working on for a while. It's the hardest transcription I've done to date. I have a particular chord in there that I'm not quite sure about. If you're familiar with the song you'll catch it in measures 12 and 40. If it sounds ok to you then maybe my judgement is off. If you hear it too, I would appreciate any help in correcting the problem. As it stands, though, I'm still very pleased with my work. Comments are appreciated!

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My guess for the right hand in measure 12 is (starting from the top and going down) C-sharp, A-natural, F-natural, and the left hand as it is.

Nice :)

Do you think the song is D♭ or C♯?

It's difficult to know for certain because of the other instruments. The right hand sounds more like a (top to bottom) Eb, A and F♯ chord (might not be all those notes, though). Not sure if the bass note is either Eb or D.

Not sure why, but it won't always let me play the score from the note I selected. Also, if a export a MusicXML and import it, it introduces page breaks.

In reply to by chen lung

C# and Db are basically the same key, so it would be nearly impossible to tell the difference. Personally, my mind translates sharps much better than flats so that's why I chose C#. :)

Yeah, I also have a similar problem during playback. It always starts four measures back from where you select, unless you make a change, in which case it will let you start playback where you selected. But after that initial playback, it falls back to the fourth preceding measure. I'm not sure if when I was getting familiar with the software I changed some playback setting somewhere or if it's a bug in 0.9.6.3 that just never got worked out? But if it was just changing a software setting on my end, then it shouldn't affect playback on your end, because you would have your own different software settings. That would lead me to believe that it's a score setting which *would* play back even on your end (although, it seems this happens on all my scores, making me think twice about it being a software setting). However, if, in fact, it happens t be a bug (which I would think would be fairly unlikely) it should only be present on your software if you are still using 0.9.6.3. which would mean something in my score brought it out in your software. So I'm not really sure what the issue is, as I'm not a software engineer or anything even close.

This is a fairly legitimate issue. I haven't reported it yet just because I could deal with it, but now we at least have two people with the same issue. Help anyone?

In reply to by rj45

My mind does flats better ;)

Maybe doing the score from scratch on a new version would correct it. I've had to do that sometimes - the software is still under development really. If it still happens after that, we could do a bug report.

I used 1.0 and Mac 10.4.11 to load it.

In reply to by chen lung

It might work on 1.0, but I know that at least on 0.9.6.3, it has done this on every score that I've done so far, so I'm really not sure why it happens but it seems a little odd that a bug would be present on two consecutive versions of MuseScore just because it's never been caught. I'd never really bothered reporting it, primarily just because it wasn't that big of an issue, but...

In reply to by rj45

When I export an XML from 1.0 and open it in the nightly build 3996, there's a crash. This suggests a possible inadequacy found in versions earlier than 1.0 - such as a corrupt timing bug (since fixed).

I'd recommend re-doing your score from scratch in 1.0 (via New. Don't work on the old one, or copy/paste from it - just output a PDF or something and use it as your reference) to fix things like this. Doing that may also fix the initial issue.

Perhaps there should be a warning somewhere incase there's such instances: Re-do your score every time there's a new version.

In reply to by rj45

I think David's post was a typo and he meant "shouldn't".

I'd recommend doing this one again (just this time anyway), mainly because of the crash experienced (likely suggesting a timing bug) and we want to prove the playback issue is definitely fixed.

Usually the score should open in any versions, it's just when there's key, inadvertent or small (any kind really) changes, I'm wary.

I just performed this song as a part of my spring pops concert for choir. You arranged this really nicely, but you're missing some rests. Jazzier tunes usually have more breaths in the middle of a phrase for effect. for example, the line "i might have to wait, i'll never give up" should be sang as "i might have to wait (breath) i'll never give up" with slight staccato on each word. i'm not sure exactly how long the rest would be, but i think it would be either a 16th or 8th rest.

In reply to by choirgeek2013

You're right. It does need a little more articulation as far as that goes, some fine tuning. I find myself constantly editing the small bugs out of my work (or at least my transcriptions), the kinds of things you usually don't catch unless you're looking for it. Thanks for the suggestions, and I will do my best to incorporate them into the piece. :)

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