Tied Notes Play Again in Musescore

Some workarounds to ensure correct notation and improved playback of ties leading to a Volta 2nd catastrophe.

The case beneath testify part of a score where the last chord earlier the volta section is tied to the first chord of both the 1st and 2nd time endings:

Information technology is easy to create ties leading to the 1st catastrophe, but the ties leading into the 2nd ending require a special workaround.

A series of solution are given below in order of complexity. Chose the 1 that is most appropriate to your needs. You can use the post-obit instance score, if desired, to test run the solutions:

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You tin inspect the original layout of the example scores ("reverse-engineer" them, so to speak) by selecting all ( Ctrl+A ) and resetting: Ctrl+R (or the card command, Layout→Reset)

Solution ane: Use special characters

Annotate: This method is simple and flexible merely fixes the layout only. Yous can easily re-create and paste the tie characters to other parts of the score; or add them to a custom palette for futurity utilize.

1. Click the note then add together a fingering element (LH Guitar fingering seems to be the best fit, positioning wise)
2. Double-click the fingering chemical element to edit the text
3. Delete the current text
4. Employ the toolbar (MuseScore 3: Inspector) to change size to 18pt
5. Printing F2 to display the Special Characters palette
6. Double-click the advisable symbol (concluding two in palette)
7. Position manually equally desired (MuseScore 3: disable autoplace if need be)

Solution 2: Avoid leading ties

Comment: This workaround is quick and like shooting fish in a barrel, involves no "tricks," and give perfect layout and playback.

• Increase the lengths of the voltas to span a futher one or more than measures, and so that in that location are no leading ties going into the repeats.

An example is given in the post-obit score:

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Solution three: Utilize invisible grace notes

Comment: The following fixes layout and gives good playback in many cases (meet the notes below for caveats).

1. Add an acciaccatura/appoggiatura before each of the notes to be tied in the 2nd catastrophe;
2. Add ties from the acciaccatura/appoggiatura to the notes in the chord;
3. Hide the notes, stalk, slash and flag for the acciaccatura/appoggiatura;
4. Uncheck playback of the acciaccatura/appoggiatura in the Inspector;

5. Adapt the chord horizontal offset of the acciaccatura/appoggiatura, until the ties are the desired length.

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Notes: (i) Playback is just correct if the tied to notes in either volta have the same duration (in this particular case, playback in 2nd volta is also brusk, and the dotted half note is shortened to a half note, merely similar the 1st volta). (2) If your score uses lyric text with a melisma that extends into the voltas, you cannot create the melisma continuation in the 2nd volta using an acciaccatura or appoggiatura, as these grace notes do non support lyric text. For tied notes that include lyrics, see Solution 4.

Solution 4: Utilise invisible ties

Comment: This fixes layout and gives good playback in many cases (but see notes below for caveats).

1. Add a tie from the terminal note in the 1st ending with same pitch as the notes to be tied;
2. Move the notes in the 2d ending to the right, if desired. (Horizontal offset in Inspector);

3. Adapt the shape and direction of the ties. (At minimum, you need to select the necktie via double click, select the left handle and move information technology into the 2nd ending.)

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Notes: Playback of the 1st volta is too long, a whole notation rather than a half note. Depending on the Instrument, this may laissez passer unnoticed. Because of the manipulation of the ties, this method is sensitive to subsequent changes in layout: anything that changes the altitude between the tied notes will upshot in usually undesirable shifts in the manipulated ties. If y'all create parts, you will need to manipulate the ties on any parts that contain them.

Solution v: Use invisible voice and ties

1. Insert notes in the 1st ending, using a unlike vocalisation, with the aforementioned pitch as the notes to exist tied;
2. Add together ties from the extra notes to the notes in the 2nd catastrophe;
3. Hibernate the inserted notes;
4. Uncheck playback for the inserted notes;

5. Adjust the shape and management of the ties. (At minimum, yous need to select the tie via double click, select the left handle and move it into the second ending.)

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Downside: Playback of the 2nd volta is too curt, the one-half annotation from 1st volta rather the dotted half from 2d volta. Depending on the Musical instrument, this may laissez passer unnoticed. Playback is only right if the tied to notes in either volta have the same elapsing. Because of the manipulation of the ties, this method is sensitive to subsequent changes in layout: anything that changes the distance betwixt the tied notes will result in usually undesirable shifts in the manipulated ties. If you create parts, you will demand to manipulate the ties on any parts that comprise them.

Solution 6: Add together extra measure

Comment: This is the only method that gets the playback 100% correct, but depending on the note durations and the instruments used, the other methods may exist adept enough.

1. Insert an boosted measure just before the 1st ending.
2. Motility the tied note into the new measure by deleting it from its original location and recreating it in the new measure.
3. Change the actual duration of the new measure to match that of the note you lot moved into it. For example, if the new measure contains a single eighth note, change the actual duration of the measure to 1/8. And so reduce the actual duration value of the measure out that originally contained the tied note by the amount used for the new measure. For example, if the measure that originally contained the tied note had an actual duration of four/4, and yous moved a tied eighth annotation to the newly-created measure, change the bodily duration from 4/4 to 7/8.
4. Hide the barline separating the new measure out from the preceding measure using the Visible holding in the inspector panel.
5. Adjust the scope of the 1st ending to encompass the new measure. To do this, remove the existing 1st ending volta, select the new measure along with the measures of the original 1st ending, and add a 1st-ending volta to this grouping of measures. And then double-click the volta and elevate the left-side bracket handle to to the right so that the volta does non appear over the new mensurate. The result should match the visual appearance of the original 1st-ending volta.
6. Insert a new measure before the start of the 2d catastrophe, and insert notes that friction match the pitch and duration of the tied notes that lead into the 1st ending. Tie the notes to the notes that brainstorm the following mensurate. Hide the notes in the new first measure out of the second catastrophe while leaving the ties visible.
7. Adjust the scope of second ending to encompass the new measure, using the method previously described.
8. Hide the barline separating the new measure in the 2nd ending from the balance of the 2nd-ending measures. Adjust the shape and direction of the ties.

9. If the tied notes include lyric text with a melisma, you can continue the melisma in the second ending. To do so, add a placeholder graphic symbol to the lyric text under the subconscious notes at the showtime of the 2nd ending. And then enter a Basic Latin unicode space (0x00020) followed by the underscores used for the melisma. Remove the placeholder character so that only the unicode space graphic symbol remains at the starting time of the melisma. The resulting melisma should appear as an underscore with no preceding text. (The relevant text appears under the tied note preceding the 1st ending.) Run across special characters for information on entering unicode characters in text fields.

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Source: https://musescore.org/en/node/267614

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