![]() ![]() I just thought of another option for adding chords mid-measure. As I see it, this is really the only significant sticking point for the sort of thing most jazz musicians would be doing regularly. You could even enter most chords under one setting of this option, then change the option setting and go back and hit the chords that didn't.īut I'd say this would make a *huge* difference in the ease of using MuseScore to create most leadsheets. It's OK if the selection made here doesn't cover every possible case - we still have the various other methods of chord positioning. I could see one option where you tell MuseScore the interval to stop at (every two beats, every beat, etc) and another where you say if that's in addition to or instead of stopping where the notes are - although I could probably live without the latter option and just choose between beat-based and note-based stops. All that is needed is an adjustment to the space bar logic while in chord entry mode so that it optionally stops at a specified beat interval in addition to (or instead of) stopping where there are actual notes. I figure MuseScore is like *this* close to being able to what I would want in terms of being able to easily enter a basic lead sheet with 2 chords per bar. It actually works to enter rests in voice 2, type in the chords, then *delete* the rests - the chord stays. Just realized that isn't so - chord symbols are attached to beat positions. Why is that?įor some reason, I had just assumed that since chord symbols can only be entered while selecting a note/rest, that the chord symbol was actually being *attached* to the chord/rest. I was finally able to get it to work using the special keyboard shortcuts to enter specific rest values - Shift-R, Shift-M to enter a half rest. The usual method of selecting a rhythmic value then hitting the usual rest shortcut does not do anything. So instead, I've been only entering the hidden voice 2 rests where needed, and flipping voice 1 stems manually, which is a lot more work,Īnyone have any alternate methods that work well for them? BTW, actually entering a rest in voice 2 after entering notes in voice 1 seems unnecessarily difficult. Seems that if voice 2 contains nothing but hidden notes or rests, it shouldn't affect stem directions in voice 1. Unfortunately, in MuseScore, these hidden rests in voice 2 defeats automatic stem direction in voice 1. That's actually my default lead sheet template in other programs, and it makes entering chord symbols a snap. When creating lead sheets with two chord symbols in the same bar but not necessarily any notes to attach them to (eg, a whole note or rest in the measure), my habit in other programs has been to enter a whole page full of hidden half rests in a second voice/layer. ![]()
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