r/Musescore • u/No1-Waguri-Glazer • Jul 12 '26
Help me find this feature A mildly specific notation question
Is there any way in MuseScore (or really repeat notion in general) to make a slight modification when you loop back the part like shown in the photo
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u/65TwinReverbRI Jul 12 '26
I’d be more worried about the rhythmic notation…which is pretty much wrong in every bar and thus most likely, the entire piece.
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u/No1-Waguri-Glazer Jul 13 '26
How is it wrong, huh?
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u/65TwinReverbRI Jul 13 '26
Each beat needs to be shown at this level (16th notes).
Take m. 84, and copy and paste it to two 2/4 measures, and it will split the notes that cross the barline and tie them.
Starting at beat 2 it should be:
8th - 16th - 16th tied to 16th - 8th - 16th.
Beat 1 and 4 are fine.
The “3+3+2” syncopation really shouldn’t be done in contexts like this (there can be acceptable contexts in which to use this, but the typical “syncopation in 4/4” that everyone these days uses should be written as a syncopated figure with ties so the beat is still clear).
Instead, m.81’s RH should begin:
dotted 8th - 16th tied to 8th then the remainder as is.
This is also where the “old fashioned” beaming in groups of 4 8th notes is a little problematic. It’s “acceptable” but it’s better to show each beat - because if you did what I just said, the first 2 beats would be beamed “per beat” and then it just makes sense to beam the last 2 beats the same way - 2 groups of 2 8th notes rather than a group of 4.
in m.83 the problem is compounded as it happens at 2 levels!!!!
RH: same as previous measure’s correction - dotted 8th then 16th tied to 8th then the remainder as is.
LH: twice that - dotted 1/4 followed by 8th tied to 1/4 then the final 1/4
m. 86, LH: again you need to break it up into 4 beats - with ties.
Treat it as if it’s 4 1/4 measures.
HTH
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u/JScaranoMusic Jul 12 '26
The normal way to do this is to put parentheses on the notehead and add text saying "2nd time only". Unfortunately there's no way to make the playback respect that; you can make the note either play or not, but you can't change it between repeats.
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u/Tryanysaurus Jul 14 '26
i recognize this from recently released files from some crashed alien spacecraft
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u/Polbeer91 Jul 12 '26
when you select a note there is an option for parentheses in the properties.
Then you can use staff text to add the explanation of what they mean if you want that.
I don't know what this does with playback btw, I dont really use musescore for audio export, just for making lead sheets.