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Welcome to MuseScore in Minutes A series of short videos that will quickly get
you up and running with MuseScore 2.0 I'm Dr. George Hess and in each of
these videos will look at how to use some of the basic functions of the
exciting new version of this program MuseScore is a free and open source
music notation program, that's a great alternative to Finale and Sibelius You can download it for free
at the website shown on the screen Lesson 7 – Tablature and Drum Notation We are going to use the lead sheet now,
to create a simple arrangement I have copied the music into a new score Next we’ll enter the notes for the guitar,
bass and drums in the 1st measure You can enter notes on either the standard staff
or the tab staff And since they are linked, they show up on both staves To enter notes in the tab staff, click the 1st measure Then enter the Note Input mode Choose the note value with the mouse
You can't use the shortcut here You are going to use the up and down arrow keys to move to the different strings We are going to move to the 5th string And then you type the fret number,
using the number keys To advance use the right arrow Now I'm doing this a little bit differently and notice that
I have only entered the notes on the 5th string Now I'm going to use the arrow keys
to move to the 6th string And then I'm going to place an E, an open note,
typing 0 on each downbeat Next I will enter the 8th notes in the bass,
using step entry Drum notation can be introduced using the keyboard
or the MIDI keyboard Select the drum staff, then enter Note Input mode You see the mapping of the drums
on the bottom of the screen We will enter a simple beat with hi-hat,
snare and kick drum In drum notation the hi-hat and the snare
will have the stems going up The base drum will have the stems going down MuseScore will handle this automatically We will enter the hi-hat first Enter Note Input mode and then select the 8th note You notice then in the drum map
that the hi-hat has been assigned the shortcut G So we can just type G and it will enter the note You can also type any key on the MIDI keyboard While the note is selected in the drum map,
and it will enter as well To add the snare drum,
use the left arrow key to move to beat 2 You’ll see down in the drum map,
that the shortcut for snare drum is A Hold the Shift key down and type A Then move to beat 4 and do the same thing Now for the kick drum You notice that the kick drum note is shown in green This means it will be entered in voice 2 Use the arrow key to move to beat one Type 5 for quarter note and then B Now type 4 to change that to an 8th rest and 0 Now type B again type 5 and then B one more time So now is our basic rhythm section parts entered,
we’re ready to create the rest of our arrangement
