The general rule I always followed was group them by beat. Musicians need to see where the beats are. If a measure is the street, then the beats are the houses, y' know?
The information was very useful, but the actual video was extremely visually cluttered. I don't need an emoji and a picture for every word to be cute and clever. I suggest you think about the clarity of the video quality the same way you think about clarity in music engraving. I hope your other videos are better. I will probably watch a few to see because the information was good. I hate to leave a negative comment, but all the pop ups were extremely distracting, and I wanted to look at the music you were referencing, not have to process a picture of Einstein.
If you think the system actually makes sense, don't compare it to English spelling I've been speaking it all my life and i still spell so many things wrong and don't understand it.
I don't see why this wouldn't work with lyrics. I'm guessing you're thinking of melismas, but they are best expressed with a slur. The basics of the rhythmic notation should be the same for all instrumentalists.
Just afraid that a string player in the string section will take "solo" as to mean "prominent part" rather than just playing its voice alone while the others play other lines or partly other lines. This may be to make a line a bit weaker or to fill in certain chord tones that would otherwise not be heard. The player or players will only play a bar or a phrase by itself, but the rest of the "solo" will be in unison. You don't want to have empty bars, right? I assume it must be better to let the staff out only after a page turn.
Note for anyone who cares about the pronunciation of "gli altri", it is pronounced like "yee altri". "Gl" in Italian get spoken as "yee" like in the English word "[Y]ellow". I'm learning Italian and I noticed that, and it annoyed me. But that's nitpicky. And besides, this video is great!
If you have two of an instrument in an orchestra, but the second is doubling another instrument, would you still put them on the same staff? For example, one staff for Clarinet 1,2 with an empty Bass Clarinet staff (hidden when its empty for a whole page), and then the first clarinet stays on that staff alone while the other part switches to the Bass Clarinet staff when they switch instruments? Or would you just keep Clarinet 1 on one staff, and Clarinet 2/Bass Clarinet on the other, even when they're playing the B♭ clarinet?
I have made my own shortcuts for 3 things so far in MuseScore. Roman Numeral Analysis, Double flat, and Double sharp. These are the shortcuts I use for them: Roman Numeral Analysis: CTRL + ALT + R Double Flat: ALT + - Double Sharp: ALT + +
This is one thing I hate about Musescore. When I’m writing a composite rhythm of eighths and sixteenths, it goes by the rhythmic rule for the eighths, *not* the sixteenths, and there’s no way to change that in time signature properties without changing the 8 eighth notes rule, which is undesirable if I’m putting in something like Brandenburg concerto no. 3 that has the eighths in the double bass beamed into groups of 4, but the little rhythmic motive of sixteenth sixteenth eighth beamed by the quarter note.
Magnificent explanation. A colleague and I have a question in which we don't know what would be more appropriate to indicate in the score: solo or soli. In our example (an orchestral work) the melodic line is at a certain moment shared by 3 instruments: a clarinet, a solo violin and a solo cello, while other instruments are just accompanying or have silences in their staves. We want to specify in the score that this passage is important for those 3 instruments, so we understand that the clarinet must have the "soli 1." indication on it's stave (shared with a 2nd clarinet that will not play). However, in the string section, we need to indicate that the melody should be played by the first violin (concertino) only, not by the entire Violin section, and also by one cello, but not all Violonchelos section. In this case, I understand that we need to specify "solo" to make sure that they understand only one of the players should play, but it seems a bit strange to me to write "soli" for the clarinet but "solo" for violin and cello, while all of them will play the same melody and no one will be really alone. What would you advise us? Should we write “Soli” on the Violins I and Cellos staffs instead of “Solo”? Or maybe indicate both (Violin Solo, Soli) so they will know that another instrument (Clarinet) will also play the same melody? We have been looking and analyzing many scores to see if we could find a similar example by chance, but we have not had any luck so far. So, we would appreciate your help. Thank you!
So four eighth notes in a bar of 2/4 can all be beamed together? Because MuseScore keeps grouping them in twos, and if I put them in fours, it changes them back.
Wait, what? What do you mean, it changes them back? If it does change it back it may be some sort of bug... You should create a new time signature, make it 2/4 and put the beaming how you want
Many thx Justin, very clear video! Just a small note: in Italian the correct pronunciation of "Unisono" has the accent on the "i" and not on the first "o", otherwise it sounds very strange...
