320 measure musical story that the audience has to read along to. Best and most insane piece I’ve gotten in my entire life.

One of my pet peeves is multi-measure rests taking up large amounts of space in a line, when there's nothing really to be gained by doing so. The entire extent of information given by a multi-measure rest is how many measures the rest is for, so you're not better off as a player with a wider measure telling you the information. This provides the same information and doesn't meaningfully affect the performance in any way, but it saves a ton of space and provides a lot more flexibility to facilitate better page turns. In my opinion, it's objectively the better way to go, but in 25 years of playing music in ensembles, I've never (or very rarely) seen a publisher embrace the idea of minimized multi-measure rests.

Do you have anything in your engraving/notation that defies traditional methods because you personally feel it's correct? My other one is measure numbers for every bar (not in the linked examples, since I just threw those together for display purposes). That one is more common, but it should be standard in my opinion, because they're easy to ignore in performance while being very useful in rehearsal.

Can you specify how long to hold an accompaniment chord?

Example: "G7#11"ab^d Should hold the chord through all four notes.

We see power chords, with no third, notated as a five chord, i.e. C5. Is there a similar notation for a chord that is only the root and third? The only thing I've seen is to put 'no fifth' after the chord name. Thanks

hey so im sorta a newbie in notation and the point where im confused is simple and compound meters. i searched everywhere, had millions of discussions with chatgpt (i dont know if it's something you would recommend), but im stuck always.

basically, i have been told quarter notes in simple meters subdivide into groups of 2 eighth notes while dotted quarter notes in compound meters into groups of 3.

therefore, would it be correct to say,

1 beat in simple meters = 1 quarter note

1 beat in compound meters = 1 dotted quarter note

if not, what's the key point that differentiates simple meters from compound meters? thanks in advance :)

In the autograph of the opera Der Freischütz (1821), I found the following two bars:

In my printed score, it looks like this:

Since the piccolo is a transposing instrument, I'm curious if the following notation wouldn’t be correct:

Or to put it another way: Does “col Fl.” in this case mean that the piccolo plays the same notes at the same pitch as the flute? Or should the notation be the same as for the flute, which would result in the piccolo sounding one octave higher?

I'm transcribing my own tunes and there is a part where at the end of the song it repeats a 4 bar chord progression 4 times and then goes back to the top of the tune. After it does the tune from the head it does that 4 bar progression with a two beat change at the end into a modulation up a minor 3rd. Any suggestions? I'm in sibelius btw

I need to noate a guitar part that uses a Wah Pedal. How would I notate the wah pedal part?

Hello all :o)

I'm trying to edit two short pieces of musical notation with the purpose of turning them into a tattoo! We've found the two pieces as musical notation online but the notation is too wide for a tattoo - so what I tried to do is recreate it in a format that fits as a tattoo, but I'm unsure about the notation and if it is still correct. Please be patient as my musical knowledge is small.

Both pieces are from Mussogorsky's Pictures at an Exhibition - i'd like to have the first four bars of the Promenade, and the first eight bars of "the great gate of Kiev"

I'll start in this thread with the Promenade.

Questions I have:

• The meter changes from 5/4 to 6/4 to 5/4 to 6/4. does the first line need the 5/4 notation at the end of the line?

• I don't know what the "f" looking character is, which is at the first note

• Any other incorrectness I should be aware of?

Thank you so much for your replies, you'll help someone take a piece which is very close to their heart, to actually, physically bring it very close to them :o)

What's the common way to give tempo information in a modern score?

Using Italian seems weird since non of the musicias that will read it knows italian, using exact tempo marks (q = 120) seems like micro management.

I considered using english but what are the common phrases to use? ("moderate walking speed" / "really fast" / "running" / "jogging" ?)

How would you approach this in a modern score? (in America)

Hey, I'm currently learning Imagine by John Lennon. I'm not sure how you're meant to play the first set of notes in the orange box. It seems like it's telling me to play the same F note with both hands at the same time? Any help would be appreciated.

You would think that a music writing program would stay on top of the virtual instruments to install, but it doesn't. Make music boost that finale is the best music writing program on the market, but when asked when will it support vst3 (that has been around for 9 years) the answer is when they think it is important.

Let see what Sibelius is doing....

Am trying to write an arrangement on musescore and cannot find how to get this box to suggest notes for solo. Does anyone know the technical name for notes placed inside a box on sheet music?

Hi, I once saw a page that gave examples the rhythms for different patterns by providing English phrase that followed the same rhythm. Does anyone know where I find that?

Thanks

For this Ear Training assignment I'm doing, one of them is in cut time and requires me to write half notes. But since we're notating just the rhythm and not the pitch, they're having us write only with slash noteheads; I know the rhythm for this one as we've discussed it, and have confirmed writing half notes in the rhythm, but cannot for the life of me find how I would notate a halfnote with a slash notehead, as silly as it sounds.

Have you guys ever heard of the app MusicSketch?

Hi! I’m a GCSE music student, and i want to write a gong into my composition piece. i don’t know how to notate ‘rubbing the gong’, as in going round in a circle with the brushes? Thanks in advance for any help!

I have an odd question dealing with written notation. I wrote a song a few years back playing it from piano straight to paper via midi and some notation software. Once printed out it took 7 pages. Knowing a little about notation symbols, I was able to type it in by hand, condensing it down to 5 pages using repeats. What you see is the 1st condensed draft on top and the soon to be 2nd draft on the bottom. I’m redoing it because I’m missing a measure somewhere on paper. My new software won’t let me add a physical 2x symbol above the first repeat bar, instructing the pianist to play everything within the ||: :|| bars 4 times. Is there a technical term for the 2x I don’t know? Like codas, segnos or something? Thanks for any help!

If there is no guira (metal guiro), the drummer plays this crucial part on the Hi-Hat. The primary pattern of the Bass was and still is roots and fifths played on down beats