Add ability for stemless notes in drum sets
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
I'm trying to add new "notes" to the drum set notation to be able to create drum notations like this:
These include
- Slash notation to mean "just keep time here"
- Rhythmic notation
- Horn cues
All of these are quite possible, except the first one. There's no option for "no stem" when editing a drum set.
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Comments
Which version of MuseScore are you using?
You can make any note stemless with right click -> Note properties -> stem less
or via the inspector in MuseScore 2.0 beta 1
The context is here: http://musescore.org/en/node/38441
It's not about how to create the notation by removing stems after the fact. It's about the ability to define a drumset that includes a stemless note by default. Right now, I don't think that's possible. The drupdown for stem has three options - default (listed as "s"), up, and down. The request is to add a fourth option: stemless. Then one could define a drum and shortcut to allow slashes to be created in a single keystroke.
2.0b1.
It's not that I can't go in after the fact and make the note stemless, it's that I can't add a stemless note to the drum set so that I don't have to go into the note properties afterwards and make it stemless.
Does this make sense? I'm trying to add a "/" note to the drum set which indicates "continue to keep time". I can add a new notation to the set with a "/" and a stem, which can be up, down, or auto, but there's no option to make it stemless. This would require me to enter a bunch of notation, and then go back to remove the stems. With the feature I'm proposing, there'd be no stems in the notation to begin with.
I started a discussion in the "Tech Preview" forum asking whether or not I should file a feature request, and Marc Sabatella said that I should do that... so I did :-)
Here's the discussion there: http://musescore.org/en/node/38441
I thought *I* was quick with my reply!!! :-)
I was indeed missing the context. Thanks for the link.
Upvote this!
This issue was from 2014, before MuseScore had built-in support for slash notation. You no longer need awkward workarounds like manually adding stemless notes - just use the slash commands in the Tools menu to create slash notation quickly and easily, including both beat slashes on the staff to fill the measure and rhythmic notation above the staff. See the Handbook section on slash notation for more info. And if you have further questions, please ask in the Support forum on musescore.org.
In reply to This issue was from 2014,… by Marc Sabatella
That's great when filling the whole measure with slashes is what you want, but when slashing the kick/tom and notating cymbals (or vice versa) this is not a solution.
In reply to That's great when filling… by mmcclung
Did you read the Handbook section? This is easily doable. Again, if you have questions about how to do this, please ask on the support forum - this issue tracker is retired, and in any case, this capability already exists so this report should have been closed a decade ago.
Yes, I reviewed all pages referenced when searching for "slash."
No, they do not address my issue. Did you look at the example I included? If you did, and there is somewhere in the Handbook that explains the workaround, please provide a page number and I promise I will read it until I understand it (even though there seems to be nothing in the UI that supports this on first, second, and even third glance -- I do not resort to forum posts so easily.)
Also: in general, it's a pretty bad UX/XD practice to have to direct people to documentation, but I will let that slide for the moment.
Yes, I looked at the example. As I said, that type of notation trivially easy to do - you just need the two commands in the Tools menu (one for filling the measure with beat slashes, the other for the rhythmic notation above the staff). Crude hacks like hidden options in a hard-to-discover dialog (which is what this issue was requesting) are not the way. Again, if you have a question about how, just ask on the Supprot forum - that is what it is there for. Don't think of it as a last resort; it's certainly far better than responding to to a decade old issue that should have been closed when the slash features were introduced in 2015 and then arguing with the people trying to help you.