Thanks, just what I needed and clear explanations. I also figured out how to add strum arrows (advanced workspace, palette, arpeggios and glissando, then use the inspector to move the arrows below the score because that's where I like them)
Hi Robin, I use it a lot to create simple chord charts. I find it pretty useful for that - less fully featured for guitar transcribing than guitar pro, but much quicker to create chord charts.
Just downloaded Musescore and I'm so glad I found this video. This is very helpful to get started. One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to add a hammer-on symbol for guitar. Does this exist?
Apart from the wandering microphone at time, s this is a perfect example of how to do a video. No hideous noisy flashy 30-second introduction, a calm voice, not trying to be a chat show host, you don't whiz the mouse across the screen aimlessly and talk in a calm non-shrieky informed manner.
Thank you for this. I am not sure this is for me but your video was very interesting. What I am looking for is making not only lead sheets, which is what this is, but chord diagrams as well. I need to make chord finger diagrams for guitar, mandolin and banjo but I think I am asking a bit much from free software. I might give it a try just to be able to say I did because I can see this software can teach me a lot about music just by experimenting with it.
Also if you select a different not value (e.g. 8th note) before entering the chords, each space moves your chord entry by that value. this allwos you to enter changes that happen off the beat
I am unable to get Musescorre to open to the first page in your videeo. Basically i'm stuck on step Zero. I think once i find out how to get to the starting point i can follow your video from there but wheni start it just shows me the scores i've looked at and scores that it recommends.... Nothing about creating a new score. Can anyone help? I'm on a "smart" phone. That is because when i try to load it on my laptop it tries to load all the plugins i have and it gets stuck on waves and i can either cancel or wait. If i cancel it asks me if i want to continue without waves, so i say yes,, and then it quits.
Very nice presentation ! Will you please show how to make complex jazz chords with bass note being different that the root of the chord? Can the bass note be shown directly under the chord?
Is there a way to hear what you input in terms of a chord chart? When I hit the playback button after I insert some slash notes into my score no sounds comes out in play back mode...
musescore plays notes during playback not chords. If you want to hear them there's a good chance you'll want to chart them out within the program. I may be wrong about this.
Good day! I want to distract you with a question - how to remove unnecessary remaining empty bars in the stave The program silently moves along them. I don't have enough to remove them
Can I open a guitar blank sheet music page and place my *dots* on lines to make my own chords. other than messing around and changing just the symbols, which I can do.
Is there a way to make cord charts with only the guitar finger board chord diagrams using Musescore, without using any other musical notation, ie, staff, etc...???
Yes in the Palettes section at the bottom you can change it from basic to advanced. And at the bottom of that list there are fretboard diagrams you can insert anywhere you want.
Musescore does have this capability, with some restrictions: musescore.org/en/handbook/note-input-modes#realtime-auto Notion also does this, I have found it to be reasonably accurate with a midi keyboard, and slightly less so with an audio to midi converter like Jam origin. Have a shot with musescore's midi input and see if it's any good.
To space the bars the way you want them, make sure you have view >> palettes selected; then go all the way down to the 'breaks & spacers' at the bottom, the icon most to the left looks like an arrow right angled to the left. Click and drag/drop that wherever you want to make a separation. 🙌
Was able to do some research and what she was implying was the command to make the elements VISIBLE or not. If you weren't able to find it, it's on the right part of your screen on windows as a check box
Another point of advice is this "control K" doesn't work if you aren't selecting a note/rest element, and you'll get an error, so I suggest you DON'T make things invisible before you put in your chords.
@@michelledaley55 Why does it have to be so involved ??? I can't write this out on manuscript paper in ten minutes. Or I can do chord charts on Pages...
She's instructing the user to press the "Ctrl" (short for "Control") key (in MS Windows ) OR "Cont" (short for "Control") key - apparently the same thing as the "Ctrl" in another operating system. Then hit the "k" key to enter the letter you want for the chord. Yes, with her accent, it sounded like she said c*nt.
Not to be a butt, but: next time, please try to stay next to the mic. I’m watching on my phone while I try to watch, and the fluctuations in volume make it impossible
Really useful, thanks. Just one thing. You need to get out of the habit of moving away from the mike when you are talking. It makes it very very difficult to hear you.
Muse score IS NOT A “free bit of software”. So far as I can tell, this app IS NOT FREE because it’s critical functions are unavailable without purchase. It provides continuous monotonous options to buy a subscription, and requires email and signup for functionality (again, NOT FREE). Their homepage states, and I quote: “Completely free, no limitations.” This is untrue. It is replete with limitations, especially without purchasing an account. Typical advertising Bait and Switch.
Thanks for your point of view. I suppose it depends whether you think free means no money, or no information. Personally I've been using musescore at no cost to me for years, and if you don't want them to keep your information you can just unsubscribe from their list. I have zero links to musescore aside from using the software. I don't know if by app you mean for device, but I use the desktop version and don't get ads for subscription.
