Maybe you can play with the ghost notes in: "Note inspector", set velocity to "user" and "velocity" to 50. To get the small note head under Chord check the "small". That's my workaround, hope it helps. Cheers!
I am a 19 year old guy who graduated from an academy in Italy, and I have been approaching teaching for a while. I guess there's nothing better than being able to pass on your skills and ideas to kids. With this great tutorial, you make my life easier. Congratulations and thanks for these basics of the program, I will definitely check out the channel 🙌
42:04: this is an invisible element visible only to you when you write the program. When printing, this element disappears. All it does is keeps the two measures together if there is ever a staff break. This is actually very important in the very niche moment this matters (42:26) Here are some extra hot keys: * When repeating multiple cluster of notes, one can simply repeat them by pressing the R key, which will automatically repeat that phrase on the next rest. This will even ignore time signatures and measures, and super useful and much better than Ctrl + V in some instances. * One does not have to select the notes every time to input a note. You could instead press the 1,2,3,4 etc keys to input a whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note, etc. * To make a note dotted, one can simply press the dot key to make the note dotted. * To place accents above the stem, hit X on the keyboard, and MuseScore will align the accent above the stem. This will be true for any element connecting to notes (accents, lyrics, etc.)
Thanks a million for the in-depth analysis of the drum notation tools. I appreciated it a lot. With rhythm expressions I might suggest looking at the takadimi system - Tá ka di mi replaces 1 e & a and triplets are expressed as Tá di mi. You can look up the full explanation online but I find it helps expressing rhythms a bit easier. The symbol you deleted at 42:06 tells musescore to keep that bar grouped with the preceding measures so it doesn’t format to the next system if the line gets too full. Basically a fail safe to make sure that when you see it you know exactly which bars are repeated. Could be an issue if that appears at the end of a page and the repeat shows up at the top of a new page that requires a page turn.
I'm shocked at how much knowledge you managed to share in 45 minutes! You've saved me hours of learning time. Thank you so much! And your teaching style is just brilliant.
This was a wealth of information. I especially liked the tip to change all the voices to voice 1. The automatic voice 2 for the bass drum was making it very tedious.
So glad I ran across your video! I gave up on this program a while back. And now you have helped me understand this thing better than any other tutorial I have watched about this. Thank you very much!!!
Open Hi-Hat Hack: Edit Drumset > Open Hi-Hat > Change staff line to the same line as your closed Hi-Hat (I use -1). Then use the Open Hi-Hat together with the "Plus" and "Circle" articulations as explained in this video . This will allow you to see the Hi-Hat on the same line no matter whether open or closed and also hear it when you press play! And for accents, copy + paste works for me only, my software doesn't recognize when I want several accents above the notation... don't know how you did it! :'D All in all, aweseome overview really, thank you so much!!! Saved me a lot of time and I'm so happy to write better drumsheets!!!!
LEVELED UP! Thanks for the tip! Never heard of Aered but I agree once you get good at the hot keys and know the tricks in Musescore it's the best! Please consider texting the Drumming For All number (610-200-9110) to get info on the non-profit and 50 free tickets win drum gear in our next raffle. Thanks!
Exceptional tutorial!!! Tried Musescore last night…didn’t know where to start. Watched your tutorial, and scored an entire song today (including flams) start to finish!! Excellent instructions.
I am sure you mention these things elsewhere but thought I would chime in anyways. Well done on the video by the way, only recommendation would be to bring the volume level up on the MS4 playback. 5:30 - This is just an FYI for folks not a criticism. The difference in notation for pointing down and point up is pointing down is supposed to identify playing with feet or with hands, as you mention later it also applies to the High Hat(Pedal), though not sure why it's for the floor tom other than its lower staff. While you are correct that it is not normally so anymore. 19:30- Another option here that I like to use is to Copy and past. You can do this multiple times if it is something being repeated much like the "AAAAAA" for whatever note duration you select. 27:30 - Something I do here when I need audio but not the music itself or in this case the audio different from the music. Write 2 lines, 1 staff that is visible for the Drummer but muted, then the second staff for the audio track but hidden. This way during the playback you get the sound that you need while the student is seeing the notation as it should be. Ok but now to my main reason to respond. My playbacks since moving on to Ver4 do not play the entire set on a single staff. Are the voice selections and flags a reason for this? I have laid out a full score, Piano, strings, Drums, horns etc. In order to get the Drums to play back I had to separate the different drums to their own Drumline style staff. This of course also meant I had to use Orchestral Percussion in place of an actual set. Wondering if you have encountered this and if this is the fix for it.
42:02 That is a "Keep measures on the same system" element. You can find it on (Layout > Keep measures on the same system). That makes sure that both measures stay together on the same line so if the measure is on the far left or right it will either move both measures down or squeeze the whole line and keep both measures up. Its a layout element so it doesn't show when exported (just like the big rectangle around the title)
Best musescore tutorial ever. It is a nuisance sometimes when the autoscroll jumps you to a new stave and you don't know where you are. It's like trying to write music in a windstorm, but it probably wouldn't help me if they fixed it (or added a "paperweight" function) because I try to never update anything anyway.
Fantastic. I finally got to understand how to write flams properly. I think some of the things explained here, were missing even in the official Musescore documentation. Thanks a ton!
Thanks heaps for this, but Musescore seems dreadfully awkward for entering drums. I'm just copying stuff out of tutor books and I'm probably making a lot of mistakes. But even so, the program so often will not put the note at the right place even when it highlights that position. One thing I wish it could do is switch off its automation until I get what I want typed in and let me OK it when I'm ready. I suppose everyone has these troubles to start with, but it's definitely harder typing in drum parts than other instruments, isn't it?
What I've kwarned to do is use a separate score as what I call a "scratch pad." When I get a difficult bar or two right in the scratch pad I paste them to the real score.
I'm still learning a lot about Musescore in general, but the stuff at around 33 minutes made perfect sense to me. I guess a life of drumming on my tum has really tuned me in to beats. It's funny you mention Dave Grohl, 'cause his fill-ins before each of the choruses on "Oh George" from the first album all make me laugh. Especially the third one where it's five hits, five more and then a double hit at the end. I don't know why that's so funny, maybe I'm just weird.
My absolute pleasure, man! If you ever want any more help I do very cheap zoom calls to troubleshoot any issues you may have - by cheap I mean donate any amount to my drumming charity and we can take as much time as you need 🙂 CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com
how do you show sextuplets within one beat? cus it beams it as two separate groups of triplets. Also I learned that the minim is used to notate the Back stick. how do u notate bsck stick, rimshot, and on the rim of drum. Cus rimshot and rim of drum is two different techniques
Rim shots are a bit of a different story, but for 16th triplets, put a quarter rest in the spot you want than hit Ctrl-6. It'll give you a quarter notes worth of space for 6 notes.
Yes a lot of computer written parts use stems up but it's bad writing..... written music is just a tool to help the musician to play something they've not played before and is not to test sight reading, the more user friendly you make the better, stems up for cymbal parts and stems down bass drum and snare just make it an easier read as you can instantly see what's going on in both parts , mashing then together is fine for the simple example rhythm you used but gets less instantly decipherable the more complex the groove becomes, especially any subtle variation in the hihat part, these are far more instantly recognisable when hihat part is separated out by the stems up and down system...... It's the same reason why if you were writing a piano part you would try and show the melody separately from the accompaniment instead of mashing it all up together...... same thing when the band has a phrase to play , just write the phrase, don't try and put all the little fills that drummers put around a phrase, drummers should know what to do with it and all the extra notes just make it harder to see the phrase
I hope you don't mind me disagreeing but I think everything you just said is opinion more than fact. If somebody says that to them it is easier to read with all stems up it immediately eliminates your argument. For example. If there is a kick on the a of 3, and 8th notes on the hat, visually I think it's easier to figure out that the kick goes between the hats on the +of3 and 4 rather than having to interpret all of the rests on the kick line to figure it out. Matter of opinion. Not fact. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@DrummingForAllProgram here's an exercise to prove my point , write out the 1st solo from Jim Chapin's book (page 8) in all stems up format ...... You only have to look at this stems up version to the original to see which is most user friendly (which is the most important thing when the thing has to be sight read , not just a situation where you are learning something and have time to work things out ) ...... And that example is only using ride and snare .....yes the example of an & after 3 isn't to hard to decipher against a 8th note hihat but in a real life working band drum parts aren't always going to be simple examples like the ones which you are citing..... The pattern in any bar has to instantly recognisable and as you don't have the luxury of the thinking time to work out where a bass drum comes in relation to the 5th hihat note
@ I make sure my students are aware that they have to be able to read music with different stem positions and more advanced students work with more advanced music, which sometimes has that. For eight-year-olds who can barely sit and focus all the way up to casual learners of all ages, stem up is better - in my opinion.
@DrummingForAllProgram so here's where the confusion has come in , the video sounds like you are talking about written drum parts in general, that's very different from something to be used by 8 year olds or students who aren't yet good at reading, that's a world away from what the video implied
You should be able to hear it, I think the audio is a little low on those parts though. Let me know if you're able to hear it with headphones when you bring the volume up, thanks!
Great stuff man!! And thank you for speaking the truth about stems all facing up 😂 couldnt agree more, adds so much unnecessary confusion for new players. Preach on bro 🙌🥁
Crazy right! I understand why it used to be that way and I think once you get better at reading that it is a fun challenge and helps you understand it even more but NOT for beginners!
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@@DrummingForAllProgram nope, but I like being able to do these things on my own to have more customized teaching, especially when trying to simplify a song
Great video, first time I hear and see all note stems are pointing up. Guess it will be a matter of time before that makes it's way to europe as the standard. As you are a big fan of keystrokes....why don't you use the letter R? R will repeat what you have selected. So acts similar as CTRL+C + CTRL+V but instead it is just one keystroke. Another trick, you can default the accents being placed above the notes. Insert one accent, select the accent, open the properties panel, change placement to Above, click the 3 dots and set it as standard for this score. After this when you enter new accents they will automatic appear above. And if you save the score as "your template" after making the custom changes (like the drumset changes, the default accent placement), then it will be automatically used for the next score. I would even advise to actually copy the "template" score into the templates folder, so that you can just use your own template in the new score wizard as well. But copy the existing file and create a new one works as well. Last cool trick, is about entering triplets. If you have just entered a triplet and want to do the same on the next beat, just select the 3 notes and press R. No need to first change the beat into triplet.
Heck yeah dude! Thanks so much for the additional tricks! I'm going to try those right now haha. Also, not sure if you caught the promo at the end but this channel is for a non profit that pays for drum lessons and gear for kids around the world that can't afford them. If you are interested in following the program we use a texting system to keep everybody informed about everything from new students to raffle winners etc. Just text your name to 610-200-9110 and you'll automatically get 50 raffle tickets to Febs raffle. Thanks!
YES!!! Haha thanks! I'm going to fiddle with it more - I don't like that it's in the second space. But certainly a game changer! Also, not sure if you caught the promo at the end but this channel is for a non profit that pays for drum lessons and gear for kids around the world that can't afford them. If you are interested in following the program we use a texting system to keep everybody informed about everything from new students to raffle winners etc. Just text your name to 610-200-9110 and you'll automatically get 50 raffle tickets to Febs raffle. Thanks!
This is a great tutorial! I have a question at the 15:30 marker, when i apply the 16th note Bass drum, it puts the bass drum in Layer 2 and inputs it at the beginning of the measure? I'm following the steps exactly but must have a setting incorrect perhaps? Any help from anyone here would be much appreciated as i'm losing my mind with this step 🤯
Nice!@@kingkonzschoolofmusic9127 Sorry for the delay - if you have any other questions I've been setting up zoom meetings with people - it's easier and we can cover more ground!
@@DrummingForAllProgram Awesome thank you, you have a wealth of knowledge on your channel, i just need to listen carefully and not be impatient :) If i get stuck i will reach out for the zoom meeting, are they in groups?
Great tutorial.. but personally I'm an advocate of the two voice approach - kick and pedalled hi hat staying as voice 2 with downward stems at the bottom, which saves getting your hats, ride and other parts of the kit mashed up when you have heavily syncopated kick patterns.
Hey thanks for this! 1. Instead of copy/paste into the next beat or measure, just type "r" and it'll repeat whatever is highlighted. 2. For open hats, I have it set to a different shortcut than the G for closed hats, but still on the G space. After you've entered everything, right-click an open-hat G, then Select > More > Same Pitch. Now all your open hat notes are highlighted and you can add the ° symbol to all of them at once. 3.Another style of counting triplets you might check out is the one from Richard Hoffman's Takadimi system. You should google it, but basically the downbeat is always Ta and the + is always di. 8th note triplets = Ta ki da. 16th note triplets = Tavika didama. Quarter note triplets = Ta da ki. MUCH easier than this text description is making it sound. 😆 4. I also despise the old "hands are upstemmed, feet are downstemmed" convention. A third option is to write the hat (or ride) groove with upstems and the kick/snare with downstems. Makes it SUPER glance-able. Thanks again!
Great video! Not sure why but I am trying to add some snare comping hits below a line of ride cymbal spang-a-lang and even with clicking shift beforehand, the snare note I am trying to add displaces the ride cymbal note above it rather than adding it below the ride cymbal figure. When the snare note appears, the ride cymbal note above it disappears. Same thing with trying to add rests to the snare line below the ride cymbal line...I use the Shift key but the rest I am trying to add on the snare line displaces the cymbal note above it... the ride cymbal note disappears as soon as the the rest appears. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Hmmm. I'm not sure what the fix would be, would you like to set up a zoom meeting and I can walk you through a few troubleshooting ideas? Email me if you're interested, we can set it up CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com
Very Good! Thanks for this. I have a question about formatting page. As a model use page five in Stick Control. How can you attach the line numbers in the front of each stave? And how do you break up the page to create the 24 different lessons on a single page?
I feel like it would be easier to show you, I've been offering a free zoom meeting to anybody who has more questions if you want to set that up - CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com
@@DrummingForAllProgram ok thanks for the offer. I don’t do zoom or FaceTime, sorry. What I did is just put a text box above the first note. That will work for my purposes. Moving the stave over and putting a text box in front of it is not necessary and seems considerably more work. Thanks for the offer, though. I appreciate it! Take care!
Hello, excellent video! Could you explain how to upload a pdf drum sheet music to a musescore file? I have many drum scores, but I can't edit them with musescore.
Here you go! "To import a PDF file, launch musescore and select “Import PDF” from the “File” menu. This will take you to a dedicated site for uploading. You upload your PDF file here. Once you press “Download”, you will be able to download the score that has been converted to a format that can be edited in Musescore."
This is the video I've been looking for! Thank you so much!. I assume so, but does the drum staff behave the same if you have other instruments on the score?
First I want to thank you for your helping video! Unfortunately, the acciaccatura-grace note with the flam doesn't work properly. Depending on the tempo, the distance of the note to the main note is either increased or decreased. I haven't found a way to fix this issue so far. Do you have any ideas?
Hi, thanks for taking the time to make this video. With flam notation, how do you represent a flam across two drums, for example, the small note on a tom, and the main note on a snare? Currently Musescore, if using the grace notes, shows both small and main notes on the same drum.
Overall a good video introducing numerous shortcuts based upon your experience with Muscore. Do you have a method to designate the simultaneous striking of the Same drum (a single tom for example) by both the right and left stick? The only method that I have found is utilizing Voice 1 for one stick and Voice 2 for the other stick on the same beat and note. Thanks in advance for your help in this matter.
@@denniswilliams1989 🤯. What a cool question! I’m really not sure though. Your multi-voice method makes sense or adding an additional note - so the tom - and then adding a second tom to the same stem, same voice. It’ll displace the note oddly, so they will be on either side of the stem, but it stands out enough. Make sense?
I’d like to upgrade my review comments about your video: the tips and shortcuts presented are absolutely terrific, time saving, and most of all extremely practical. After reviewing your reply to the question of simultaneously hitting a single drum (i.e., tom) with both the left and right sticks), the best method is as you demonstrated in the video of selecting the note (drum) of interest, pressing shift + A for snare OR B for bass, and then using the up/down arrow keys to relocate the added note to the note first selected. This does result in a double note head, one to the left of the stem and one to the right of the stem, all in Voice 1, which was my original objective! Thanks again for making an old drummer think and for teaching an old dog new tricks! Great job Carlos!,,
@ thank you so much for the nice comments! I didn’t know how this video would be received. I just knew how much I loved this program and how tough it was for me to figure out these shortcuts :-)
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Hey, when I try to add a dotted crotchet bass drum to a quaver open high hat, it turns the quaver open high hat into a dotted crotchet, how do I fix this?
THE best Musescore 4 drum set tutorial.... but still lacking. I'm trying to write Jim Chapin's "Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer". Dotted notes, swing patterns, adding "X" (hihat) to bass drum on 2&4... have been a nightmare for a entry level user. I'm wondering if limb independence focus may cause a problem. If there is a link to demonstrate how to write these I would be very appreciative.
Good question! I personally always write my swing in triplets but you can make 8th or 16th notes go swing in any score by going to Format - Style - and the first option is score, all the way down there is a swing option.
Hi! Thanks for this video. Clear and easy. But, im trying to wrhite drags and Ruffs and I cant find where in Musescore 4. You know how to do it? Thanks!!
Wow, I missed one!!! No my friend I don't, what a great catch! I will do some research and get back to you! Do you know about the Drumming For All Program? We pay for drum lessons and gear for kids around the world that can't afford them. If you text the word DRAG to 610-200-9110 you'll 50 tickets to the next raffle and it'll be easier for me to reach you when I figure out the answer to your question! Thanks!
@@DrummingForAllProgram Enter a drag by clicking the sixteenth grace note twice....and add a tie like you do with the flam.....hope that is what is meant by a drag
My Drum Input Palette dissapear after update to 4.4.1 and pressing N didn't work. I already reset to factory settings but no luck. ¿Any sugestions? : (
What a fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much! I have a question: Time signature is 6/8. But is played as a shuffle bit, not on all the notes, but some of them. So I do control 3 to turn an 1/8 into 1/16 triplex (3 beats of 1/16) and I silent the second stoke. But than the program writes it funny, bridging that 3rd 1/16 of one triplex to the 1st 1/16 of the triplex after. That is not how it should be written. Any ideas? I would appreciate any help. Thank you!!!
Can you write w/a drum pad/midi like you can w/keyboards? MS4 can write the note & value as you play. I can barely read drum notation & I'm trying to write drum charts w MS4. If I could tap on a midi drum pad to enter values that would be quite useful.
the playback audio should be louder. I think what you hear on your phones is barely bleeding onto the listener's speakers. I didn't really hear/see how you "write" a roll after the double beat.
Not sure I understand exactly what you mean - can you elaborate? I've never seen it at the top. Or email me and we can set up a zoom meeting and I can show you. CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com email me!
Insane video and pretty necessary to teach new drummers and composers, I just would like what you mean by 'modern music is using stem direction up' with the kick and Tom because it seems odd by the fact most of transcriptions and notations are made stem direction down instead of up and teaching this way with few information about it doesn't feel alright imo
Another thing i've noticed: the flam drum isn't the second of the selection of the grace notes? The first one is acciaccatura that is the distance between 1-2 semitones and the correct I think is appoggiatura that goes with the same note where is attached
@@umu5037 About the flam - both notes are treated as one note but one is quieter and the other accented so the way it's written is to use the louder, second note as the main note and attach everything to it etc. Makes sense?
Thanks! About your question - there is no WRONG way of doing it, but drummers these days prefer writing all of the notes attached. It makes things more organized on the page, not as many rests needed and is definitely easier to read.
This is an utterly fantastic overview. It could not have fit what I needed to know better. Although, I'd love to hear about ruffs and drags too!
Thank you!! I'll figure out the drags I promise! haha
Maybe you can play with the ghost notes in: "Note inspector", set velocity to "user" and "velocity" to 50. To get the small note head under Chord check the "small". That's my workaround, hope it helps. Cheers!
I am a 19 year old guy who graduated from an academy in Italy, and I have been approaching teaching for a while. I guess there's nothing better than being able to pass on your skills and ideas to kids. With this great tutorial, you make my life easier. Congratulations and thanks for these basics of the program, I will definitely check out the channel 🙌
È fantastico sentirlo!
This is the best guide to Drum Set input into Muse Score I have seen yet. Nice Going.
Thank you!!
42:04: this is an invisible element visible only to you when you write the program. When printing, this element disappears. All it does is keeps the two measures together if there is ever a staff break. This is actually very important in the very niche moment this matters (42:26)
Here are some extra hot keys:
* When repeating multiple cluster of notes, one can simply repeat them by pressing the R key, which will automatically repeat that phrase on the next rest. This will even ignore time signatures and measures, and super useful and much better than Ctrl + V in some instances.
* One does not have to select the notes every time to input a note. You could instead press the 1,2,3,4 etc keys to input a whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note, etc.
* To make a note dotted, one can simply press the dot key to make the note dotted.
* To place accents above the stem, hit X on the keyboard, and MuseScore will align the accent above the stem. This will be true for any element connecting to notes (accents, lyrics, etc.)
Thanks a million for the in-depth analysis of the drum notation tools. I appreciated it a lot.
With rhythm expressions I might suggest looking at the takadimi system - Tá ka di mi replaces 1 e & a and triplets are expressed as Tá di mi. You can look up the full explanation online but I find it helps expressing rhythms a bit easier.
The symbol you deleted at 42:06 tells musescore to keep that bar grouped with the preceding measures so it doesn’t format to the next system if the line gets too full.
Basically a fail safe to make sure that when you see it you know exactly which bars are repeated. Could be an issue if that appears at the end of a page and the repeat shows up at the top of a new page that requires a page turn.
I'm shocked at how much knowledge you managed to share in 45 minutes! You've saved me hours of learning time. Thank you so much! And your teaching style is just brilliant.
THANK YOU!!!!
Hands down the best tutorial I've seen! Quick, but clear; full of gems. You truly want to share your considerable knowledge - Thank you!
You're very welcome!
This was a wealth of information. I especially liked the tip to change all the voices to voice 1. The automatic voice 2 for the bass drum was making it very tedious.
I know right! That was a total game changer for me.
So glad I ran across your video! I gave up on this program a while back. And now you have helped me understand this thing better than any other tutorial I have watched about this. Thank you very much!!!
Thank you! I really love these comments - so glad I did this video.
Open Hi-Hat Hack: Edit Drumset > Open Hi-Hat > Change staff line to the same line as your closed Hi-Hat (I use -1). Then use the Open Hi-Hat together with the "Plus" and "Circle" articulations as explained in this video .
This will allow you to see the Hi-Hat on the same line no matter whether open or closed and also hear it when you press play!
And for accents, copy + paste works for me only, my software doesn't recognize when I want several accents above the notation... don't know how you did it! :'D
All in all, aweseome overview really, thank you so much!!! Saved me a lot of time and I'm so happy to write better drumsheets!!!!
LEVELED UP! Thanks for the tip! Never heard of Aered but I agree once you get good at the hot keys and know the tricks in Musescore it's the best! Please consider texting the Drumming For All number (610-200-9110) to get info on the non-profit and 50 free tickets win drum gear in our next raffle. Thanks!
Exceptional tutorial!!! Tried Musescore last night…didn’t know where to start. Watched your tutorial, and scored an entire song today (including flams) start to finish!! Excellent instructions.
I love hearing that!!! I'm working on more videos as we speak, looking forward to your thoughts on those too!
I am sure you mention these things elsewhere but thought I would chime in anyways. Well done on the video by the way, only recommendation would be to bring the volume level up on the MS4 playback.
5:30 - This is just an FYI for folks not a criticism. The difference in notation for pointing down and point up is pointing down is supposed to identify playing with feet or with hands, as you mention later it also applies to the High Hat(Pedal), though not sure why it's for the floor tom other than its lower staff. While you are correct that it is not normally so anymore.
19:30- Another option here that I like to use is to Copy and past. You can do this multiple times if it is something being repeated much like the "AAAAAA" for whatever note duration you select.
27:30 - Something I do here when I need audio but not the music itself or in this case the audio different from the music. Write 2 lines, 1 staff that is visible for the Drummer but muted, then the second staff for the audio track but hidden. This way during the playback you get the sound that you need while the student is seeing the notation as it should be.
Ok but now to my main reason to respond. My playbacks since moving on to Ver4 do not play the entire set on a single staff. Are the voice selections and flags a reason for this?
I have laid out a full score, Piano, strings, Drums, horns etc. In order to get the Drums to play back I had to separate the different drums to their own Drumline style staff. This of course also meant I had to use Orchestral Percussion in place of an actual set. Wondering if you have encountered this and if this is the fix for it.
42:02 That is a "Keep measures on the same system" element. You can find it on (Layout > Keep measures on the same system).
That makes sure that both measures stay together on the same line so if the measure is on the far left or right it will either move both measures down or squeeze the whole line and keep both measures up.
Its a layout element so it doesn't show when exported (just like the big rectangle around the title)
Thanks!!
You're a life saver!! I almost gave up writing on this app because it's so overwhelming to start, but you made it so simple. Thanks for the video!
19:45 cracks me up. "If you got really good eyesight" 🤣🤣
Thank you so much! I didn't know about the whole shift + key ordeal! Thank you for your teaching!
My pleasure!!
you are a natural born teacher bro!!
Wow man, thank you!! I absolutely love it. I love it so much I teach for free as well 😆. Do you know about the Drumming For All program at all?
Best musescore tutorial ever. It is a nuisance sometimes when the autoscroll jumps you to a new stave and you don't know where you are. It's like trying to write music in a windstorm, but it probably wouldn't help me if they fixed it (or added a "paperweight" function) because I try to never update anything anyway.
Great sense of humour, you make it easy for the info to soak in!
Thanks!
Very comprehensive man, this is great!!
Much appreciated!
Fantastic. I finally got to understand how to write flams properly. I think some of the things explained here, were missing even in the official Musescore documentation. Thanks a ton!
My pleasure!
Thank you! Learned several neat tricks from this. Like how not to waste 2 hours fixing a scores measures / time signature.
Thank you for this great overview and tutorial, I really appreciated the great work and effort you put in. Thanks!
Thanks man that was great! No telling how many hours you saved me!
Thanks heaps for this, but Musescore seems dreadfully awkward for entering drums. I'm just copying stuff out of tutor books and I'm probably making a lot of mistakes. But even so, the program so often will not put the note at the right place even when it highlights that position. One thing I wish it could do is switch off its automation until I get what I want typed in and let me OK it when I'm ready. I suppose everyone has these troubles to start with, but it's definitely harder typing in drum parts than other instruments, isn't it?
What I've kwarned to do is use a separate score as what I call a "scratch pad." When I get a difficult bar or two right in the scratch pad I paste them to the real score.
I'm still learning a lot about Musescore in general, but the stuff at around 33 minutes made perfect sense to me. I guess a life of drumming on my tum has really tuned me in to beats. It's funny you mention Dave Grohl, 'cause his fill-ins before each of the choruses on "Oh George" from the first album all make me laugh. Especially the third one where it's five hits, five more and then a double hit at the end. I don't know why that's so funny, maybe I'm just weird.
I think your spot on! 🤣
I remember Iris! Saw them live in Missoula MT with No Doubt and another cool ska band acrobats? Thanks for the great help on this!!!
Well... This tutorial is more that i expect! Thanks a lot! 🙃
My absolute pleasure, man! If you ever want any more help I do very cheap zoom calls to troubleshoot any issues you may have - by cheap I mean donate any amount to my drumming charity and we can take as much time as you need 🙂 CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com
how do you show sextuplets within one beat? cus it beams it as two separate groups of triplets. Also I learned that the minim is used to notate the Back stick. how do u notate bsck stick, rimshot, and on the rim of drum. Cus rimshot and rim of drum is two different techniques
Rim shots are a bit of a different story, but for 16th triplets, put a quarter rest in the spot you want than hit Ctrl-6. It'll give you a quarter notes worth of space for 6 notes.
@@DrummingForAllProgram Thank you!
Your shorcut to add instruments using only a voice is awesome. Thanks.
Yes a lot of computer written parts use stems up but it's bad writing..... written music is just a tool to help the musician to play something they've not played before and is not to test sight reading, the more user friendly you make the better, stems up for cymbal parts and stems down bass drum and snare just make it an easier read as you can instantly see what's going on in both parts , mashing then together is fine for the simple example rhythm you used but gets less instantly decipherable the more complex the groove becomes, especially any subtle variation in the hihat part, these are far more instantly recognisable when hihat part is separated out by the stems up and down system...... It's the same reason why if you were writing a piano part you would try and show the melody separately from the accompaniment instead of mashing it all up together...... same thing when the band has a phrase to play , just write the phrase, don't try and put all the little fills that drummers put around a phrase, drummers should know what to do with it and all the extra notes just make it harder to see the phrase
I hope you don't mind me disagreeing but I think everything you just said is opinion more than fact. If somebody says that to them it is easier to read with all stems up it immediately eliminates your argument. For example. If there is a kick on the a of 3, and 8th notes on the hat, visually I think it's easier to figure out that the kick goes between the hats on the +of3 and 4 rather than having to interpret all of the rests on the kick line to figure it out. Matter of opinion. Not fact. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@DrummingForAllProgram here's an exercise to prove my point , write out the 1st solo from Jim Chapin's book (page 8) in all stems up format ...... You only have to look at this stems up version to the original to see which is most user friendly (which is the most important thing when the thing has to be sight read , not just a situation where you are learning something and have time to work things out ) ...... And that example is only using ride and snare .....yes the example of an & after 3 isn't to hard to decipher against a 8th note hihat but in a real life working band drum parts aren't always going to be simple examples like the ones which you are citing..... The pattern in any bar has to instantly recognisable and as you don't have the luxury of the thinking time to work out where a bass drum comes in relation to the 5th hihat note
@ I make sure my students are aware that they have to be able to read music with different stem positions and more advanced students work with more advanced music, which sometimes has that. For eight-year-olds who can barely sit and focus all the way up to casual learners of all ages, stem up is better - in my opinion.
@DrummingForAllProgram so here's where the confusion has come in , the video sounds like you are talking about written drum parts in general, that's very different from something to be used by 8 year olds or students who aren't yet good at reading, that's a world away from what the video implied
Yo! What a GOD video! Thank you so much!
Haha thanks!!!
Best video on the topic! Well done! I write marching percussion and this helped alot!
Suuuuch a good video. Thank you! It's detailed and well edited.
Thank you!!!
Awesome video mate. Thanks for putting it together.
Great job... perhaps it is something I'm doing or not doing but, you have head phones and I don't hear what you listening to on playback?
You should be able to hear it, I think the audio is a little low on those parts though. Let me know if you're able to hear it with headphones when you bring the volume up, thanks!
Brilliant video!! Clear and handy!
Great stuff man!! And thank you for speaking the truth about stems all facing up 😂 couldnt agree more, adds so much unnecessary confusion for new players. Preach on bro 🙌🥁
Crazy right! I understand why it used to be that way and I think once you get better at reading that it is a fun challenge and helps you understand it even more but NOT for beginners!
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You got it bro! I really dig the concept of what you guys are doing and will donate when I am able!🙌@@DrummingForAllProgram
Thanks so much for this! I teach and gig so this will help out a ton, God bless!
thank you!!!!! I'm teaching drums to a kid and I needed this so much :)
You're very welcome!! Do you teach online?
@@DrummingForAllProgram nope, but I like being able to do these things on my own to have more customized teaching, especially when trying to simplify a song
Great video, first time I hear and see all note stems are pointing up. Guess it will be a matter of time before that makes it's way to europe as the standard.
As you are a big fan of keystrokes....why don't you use the letter R? R will repeat what you have selected. So acts similar as CTRL+C + CTRL+V but instead it is just one keystroke.
Another trick, you can default the accents being placed above the notes. Insert one accent, select the accent, open the properties panel, change placement to Above, click the 3 dots and set it as standard for this score. After this when you enter new accents they will automatic appear above.
And if you save the score as "your template" after making the custom changes (like the drumset changes, the default accent placement), then it will be automatically used for the next score.
I would even advise to actually copy the "template" score into the templates folder, so that you can just use your own template in the new score wizard as well. But copy the existing file and create a new one works as well.
Last cool trick, is about entering triplets. If you have just entered a triplet and want to do the same on the next beat, just select the 3 notes and press R. No need to first change the beat into triplet.
Heck yeah dude! Thanks so much for the additional tricks! I'm going to try those right now haha. Also, not sure if you caught the promo at the end but this channel is for a non profit that pays for drum lessons and gear for kids around the world that can't afford them. If you are interested in following the program we use a texting system to keep everybody informed about everything from new students to raffle winners etc. Just text your name to 610-200-9110 and you'll automatically get 50 raffle tickets to Febs raffle. Thanks!
This video was SUPER helpful! Thank you for uploading.
Great tutorial! Informative and helpful.
Thanks Carlos!
🥁🎵🎶
You're very welcome!
Hi, you can change the notation of the open hihat in Edit drumset /notehead group (change for a circlrd cross) and change the line in staff line.
YES!!! Haha thanks! I'm going to fiddle with it more - I don't like that it's in the second space. But certainly a game changer! Also, not sure if you caught the promo at the end but this channel is for a non profit that pays for drum lessons and gear for kids around the world that can't afford them. If you are interested in following the program we use a texting system to keep everybody informed about everything from new students to raffle winners etc. Just text your name to 610-200-9110 and you'll automatically get 50 raffle tickets to Febs raffle. Thanks!
Great video!!
This is a great tutorial! I have a question at the 15:30 marker, when i apply the 16th note Bass drum, it puts the bass drum in Layer 2 and inputs it at the beginning of the measure? I'm following the steps exactly but must have a setting incorrect perhaps? Any help from anyone here would be much appreciated as i'm losing my mind with this step 🤯
I watched the tutorial again and found a few things still on Voice 2 so all is fixed now, thanks again!!
Nice!@@kingkonzschoolofmusic9127 Sorry for the delay - if you have any other questions I've been setting up zoom meetings with people - it's easier and we can cover more ground!
@@DrummingForAllProgram Awesome thank you, you have a wealth of knowledge on your channel, i just need to listen carefully and not be impatient :) If i get stuck i will reach out for the zoom meeting, are they in groups?
Great tutorial.. but personally I'm an advocate of the two voice approach - kick and pedalled hi hat staying as voice 2 with downward stems at the bottom, which saves getting your hats, ride and other parts of the kit mashed up when you have heavily syncopated kick patterns.
Hey thanks for this!
1. Instead of copy/paste into the next beat or measure, just type "r" and it'll repeat whatever is highlighted.
2. For open hats, I have it set to a different shortcut than the G for closed hats, but still on the G space. After you've entered everything, right-click an open-hat G, then Select > More > Same Pitch. Now all your open hat notes are highlighted and you can add the ° symbol to all of them at once.
3.Another style of counting triplets you might check out is the one from Richard Hoffman's Takadimi system. You should google it, but basically the downbeat is always Ta and the + is always di. 8th note triplets = Ta ki da. 16th note triplets = Tavika didama. Quarter note triplets = Ta da ki. MUCH easier than this text description is making it sound. 😆
4. I also despise the old "hands are upstemmed, feet are downstemmed" convention. A third option is to write the hat (or ride) groove with upstems and the kick/snare with downstems. Makes it SUPER glance-able.
Thanks again!
I have a question, how do you add more staves in sheet.
Thanks for the hand , also instead of copy paste (control c and then control v) to repeat just highlight and hit "r" for repeat of the highlighted bit
28:30 Flams. Hope this helps for anyone :D
Very good overview. Using the software to transcribe a song bc it doesn't exist anywhere online.
the double escape doesn't work for me ? it just stay in place
Email me - we can set up a meeting - I'll help you troubleshoot it! CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com
Awesome tutorial mate! Cheers for that
Great tips here, thanks very much - from a non drummer.
Great video! Not sure why but I am trying to add some snare comping hits below a line of ride cymbal spang-a-lang and even with clicking shift beforehand, the snare note I am trying to add displaces the ride cymbal note above it rather than adding it below the ride cymbal figure. When the snare note appears, the ride cymbal note above it disappears. Same thing with trying to add rests to the snare line below the ride cymbal line...I use the Shift key but the rest I am trying to add on the snare line displaces the cymbal note above it... the ride cymbal note disappears as soon as the the rest appears. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Hmmm. I'm not sure what the fix would be, would you like to set up a zoom meeting and I can walk you through a few troubleshooting ideas? Email me if you're interested, we can set it up CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com
Very Good! Thanks for this. I have a question about formatting page. As a model use page five in Stick Control. How can you attach the line numbers in the front of each stave? And how do you break up the page to create the 24 different lessons on a single page?
I feel like it would be easier to show you, I've been offering a free zoom meeting to anybody who has more questions if you want to set that up - CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com
@@DrummingForAllProgram ok thanks for the offer. I don’t do zoom or FaceTime, sorry. What I did is just put a text box above the first note. That will work for my purposes. Moving the stave over and putting a text box in front of it is not necessary and seems considerably more work. Thanks for the offer, though. I appreciate it! Take care!
Thank you so much man, this helped me a lot 🙌🏻
Hello, excellent video! Could you explain how to upload a pdf drum sheet music to a musescore file? I have many drum scores, but I can't edit them with musescore.
Here you go! "To import a PDF file, launch musescore and select “Import PDF” from the “File” menu. This will take you to a dedicated site for uploading. You upload your PDF file here. Once you press “Download”, you will be able to download the score that has been converted to a format that can be edited in Musescore."
RE Adding text: This looks like the way to add sticking (R,L, etc), am I correct? Thanks.
Ctrl T is for text above the measures, Ctrl L is for lyrics or R, L sticking 🙂
This is the video I've been looking for! Thank you so much!. I assume so, but does the drum staff behave the same if you have other instruments on the score?
I'm not sure - sorry!
Great info, thanks a lot!
Thanks for all your efforts
First I want to thank you for your helping video! Unfortunately, the acciaccatura-grace note with the flam doesn't work properly. Depending on the tempo, the distance of the note to the main note is either increased or decreased. I haven't found a way to fix this issue so far. Do you have any ideas?
I'm having trouble with that too! I think it has something to do with the updates because it was working before.
Hello, do you have a tutorial on how to do this by importing drum midi file and to clean up?
Hi, thanks for taking the time to make this video. With flam notation, how do you represent a flam across two drums, for example, the small note on a tom, and the main note on a snare? Currently Musescore, if using the grace notes, shows both small and main notes on the same drum.
Click on either flam note and hit up or down on your keyboard 🙂
@@DrummingForAllProgram Thank you! Works perfectly.
Overall a good video introducing numerous shortcuts based upon your experience with Muscore. Do you have a method to designate the simultaneous striking of the Same drum (a single tom for example) by both the right and left stick? The only method that I have found is utilizing Voice 1 for one stick and Voice 2 for the other stick on the same beat and note. Thanks in advance for your help in this matter.
@@denniswilliams1989 🤯. What a cool question! I’m really not sure though. Your multi-voice method makes sense or adding an additional note - so the tom - and then adding a second tom to the same stem, same voice. It’ll displace the note oddly, so they will be on either side of the stem, but it stands out enough. Make sense?
I’d like to upgrade my review comments about your video: the tips and shortcuts presented are absolutely terrific, time saving, and most of all extremely practical. After reviewing your reply to the question of simultaneously hitting a single drum (i.e., tom) with both the left and right sticks), the best method is as you demonstrated in the video of selecting the note (drum) of interest, pressing shift + A for snare OR B for bass, and then using the up/down arrow keys to relocate the added note to the note first selected. This does result in a double note head, one to the left of the stem and one to the right of the stem, all in Voice 1, which was my original objective! Thanks again for making an old drummer think and for teaching an old dog new tricks! Great job Carlos!,,
@ thank you so much for the nice comments! I didn’t know how this video would be received. I just knew how much I loved this program and how tough it was for me to figure out these shortcuts :-)
Thanks man very helpful!!
You're very welcome!!!
thank you so much for this video!!!
My pleasure! Please subscribe if you haven't already - we are a charity for young drummers and we've got a lot of cool videos coming soon, all of which help us get drum lessons to kids around the world that can't afford them!
The video doesnt say this i think but how do you add like the suspended cymbal or gong to the drumset
Hey, when I try to add a dotted crotchet bass drum to a quaver open high hat, it turns the quaver open high hat into a dotted crotchet, how do I fix this?
You'd have to create a second voice, I believe. Do you know how to edit the drum set? Email if you have more questions! CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com
Great tutorial! Is there a way to add or create a two-line percussion clef in MuseScore 4, I haven't found it yet. Does anyone know? Thanks!
You'll get tehe dotted quarter notes if you work primarily in compound time or writing in Cut time 2/2
THE best Musescore 4 drum set tutorial.... but still lacking. I'm trying to write Jim Chapin's "Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer". Dotted notes, swing patterns, adding "X" (hihat) to bass drum on 2&4... have been a nightmare for a entry level user. I'm wondering if limb independence focus may cause a problem. If there is a link to demonstrate how to write these I would be very appreciative.
How do you add swing? Like making a shuffle beat? Do I have to write the hihat notes in triplets?
Good question! I personally always write my swing in triplets but you can make 8th or 16th notes go swing in any score by going to Format - Style - and the first option is score, all the way down there is a swing option.
@@DrummingForAllProgramAWESOME!! Thanks buddy!🔥
Hi! Thanks for this video. Clear and easy.
But, im trying to wrhite drags and Ruffs and I cant find where in Musescore 4. You know how to do it? Thanks!!
Wow, I missed one!!! No my friend I don't, what a great catch! I will do some research and get back to you! Do you know about the Drumming For All Program? We pay for drum lessons and gear for kids around the world that can't afford them. If you text the word DRAG to 610-200-9110 you'll 50 tickets to the next raffle and it'll be easier for me to reach you when I figure out the answer to your question! Thanks!
@@DrummingForAllProgram Enter a drag by clicking the sixteenth grace note twice....and add a tie like you do with the flam.....hope that is what is meant by a drag
My Drum Input Palette dissapear after update to 4.4.1 and pressing N didn't work. I already reset to factory settings but no luck. ¿Any sugestions? : (
@@R_Ultraloud email me! carlosplazadrums@gmail.com, we can discuss some options!
Insert of Ctrl+B on windows to add bars.
I hit Ins!!
Great stuff, thanks
Thank you so much! 👍👍👍
What a fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much!
I have a question: Time signature is 6/8. But is played as a shuffle bit, not on all the notes, but some of them. So I do control 3 to turn an 1/8 into 1/16 triplex (3 beats of 1/16) and I silent the second stoke. But than the program writes it funny, bridging that 3rd 1/16 of one triplex to the 1st 1/16 of the triplex after. That is not how it should be written. Any ideas?
I would appreciate any help. Thank you!!!
Saw your email! Yes let's set up that meeting!
Excellent! Looking forward to it! @@DrummingForAllProgram
Great video, thanks a lot.
Hi how do I add new page to the current score I am making ?
how can i make the ghost note more quiet? T_T
So you've already written it as a ghost note meaning you've got it in the parenthesis?
I cannot access the drum input pallet
Do you know how to add brushes on Musescore 4? Someone was talking about the mixer but I have no idea how.
Yup of course i remember that cool 6/8 Iris song 😜
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls such a timeless classic!
Agreed! Love that song!!
Can you write w/a drum pad/midi like you can w/keyboards? MS4 can write the note & value as you play. I can barely read drum notation & I'm trying to write drum charts w MS4. If I could tap on a midi drum pad to enter values that would be quite useful.
Wow I'm not sure!! I have 0 experience with MIDI, sorry!
Thank you for sharing! How can I write hi hat and snare drum in one note? When I put hi hat, snare drum is erased...
Hit shift first! Hold shift, then hit G for hat or A for snare and it'll add it, not replace it.
the playback audio should be louder. I think what you hear on your phones is barely bleeding onto the listener's speakers. I didn't really hear/see how you "write" a roll after the double beat.
Thank you!!
is there a way to force the flam "connection line" to the bottom instead of the top?
Not sure I understand exactly what you mean - can you elaborate? I've never seen it at the top. Or email me and we can set up a zoom meeting and I can show you. CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com email me!
i figured it out dw@@DrummingForAllProgram
great job thanks !!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!
Insane video and pretty necessary to teach new drummers and composers, I just would like what you mean by 'modern music is using stem direction up' with the kick and Tom because it seems odd by the fact most of transcriptions and notations are made stem direction down instead of up and teaching this way with few information about it doesn't feel alright imo
Another thing i've noticed: the flam drum isn't the second of the selection of the grace notes? The first one is acciaccatura that is the distance between 1-2 semitones and the correct I think is appoggiatura that goes with the same note where is attached
@@umu5037 About the flam - both notes are treated as one note but one is quieter and the other accented so the way it's written is to use the louder, second note as the main note and attach everything to it etc. Makes sense?
Thanks! About your question - there is no WRONG way of doing it, but drummers these days prefer writing all of the notes attached. It makes things more organized on the page, not as many rests needed and is definitely easier to read.
@@DrummingForAllProgram neat, ty !
You're welcome! @@umu5037
Thanks!!! 👍🥁🥁🥁
I'm not hearing the flam after entering what you did. Any reasons why it's still sounding like a regular straight shot?
I had the same thing. I used the "slur" articulation , instead of "tie", and it worked.
I tried again using the "tie", and it worked correctly. I don't know?
Coda’s?
28:59
THANK YOU
You're very welcome! I'm curious - was there something specific you were looking for or was it a general tutorial? Thanks
how do you do the buzz notes / rolls?
Do you know how to get to the tremelo pallette? It's there, it's the one with the Z. If not email me! CarlosPlazaDrums@gmail.com
@@DrummingForAllProgram yeah i figured it out, thanks!
Great! Thank you a lot!!!!
Thank you!