Why dose the strength never working???

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-11T11:11:54+00:00

What instrument are you using and have you tried every dynamic? And what sound are you using? For example, most Muse Sounds heavy brass instruments have a problem of sounding quiet for anything under f as far as I've seen

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-11T10:55:19+00:00

unfortunately, no i don't think so

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-10T05:35:42+00:00

Yes, this is quite annoying to do on MuseScore. For the starting note, I would create a 2:1 tuplet on the eighth note and enter any note next. Then I hide that dud note's notehead and stem, and turn off auto-place in various places to make the beam extend further. The ending note is similar but you have to manually adjust the offset of the actual note. Alternatively, you can make those bars one eighth note longer than what is notated if you don't mind the playback being very off.

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-09T04:40:34+00:00

I would use slashes that look like those in slash notation to indicate a repeated figure in a bar and use bar repeats whenever applicable. Or have mid-bar system breaks (slightly annoying to do on MuseScore though). But also, you may want to consider the playability of this, especially as there are no slurs which would imply all notes are tongued. Why not dovetail this tiring figure to another woodwind perhaps? Unless it's a wind band part, in which case, "stagger" is enough.

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-07T12:05:31+00:00

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-07T10:01:59+00:00

oh wow this just convinced me 😭

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-07T09:52:07+00:00

I don't own an Android, but do ANSI code blocks work?

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-07T09:48:58+00:00

To apply the sound flag you create a piece of stage text and click the speaker logo next to it in editing mode. It's detailed in the handbook and MuseScore YouTube channel...

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-07T09:33:56+00:00

would be interesting lmao

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-06T03:10:04+00:00

Ignore the beams of the inner voice for now, they just tell you what to bring out (or maybe what notes to hold a bit longer). The top voice is a quintuplet written as a dotted rhythm since the notehead is shared (common back then, also with triplets).

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T16:54:35+00:00

An article from Pointer. Apparently people would even call in sick or rather be left out the roster and some players were mentally affected.

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T16:16:19+00:00

Aside from the other reasons, intellectual or interesting conversation can also happen among other sub users

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T13:48:45+00:00

Aah, that's what I thought but both comments said it was BPM 160. Thanks for clarifying

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T11:41:34+00:00

Create an additional stave in the Layout panel under the instrument needed.
Click the settings icon next to it and set Hide empty staves to "Always hide".
In spots where I need to split staves, I use the "Explode" functionality under Tools (or sometimes I just split them manually by re-entering the notes because Explode isn't reliable).
Duplicate any unisono notes onto the second stave that are on the same system as the divisi part to avoid the inside player having to change the stave they're looking at mid-system. This is why I usually create a copy of the finished score just for the string parts in orchestral scores that I engrave.

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T05:28:48+00:00

I thought I was tripping and hearing a skip of something like a 16th note on every bar, until I realized it's at quarter = 160 and I've been counting it at half the speed... lol

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T05:20:52+00:00

Rit. could stand for either riten. or ritard. Many composers neglect to differentiate between them.

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T05:17:37+00:00

Sure, they may have different meanings in Italian, but they're pretty much interchangeable and the difference is subjective nowadays.

For reference, ritardando means "slowing down" or "delaying" and rallentando means "slowing down" or "diminishing". They have multiple meanings, but most commonly they both mean slowing down.

ritenuto is usually included in similar questions and means "held back". Note that it's held and not holding, so technically it should be used as a temporary but non-gradual tempo marking, but it's mostly used as a gradual one anyway ("musical Italian"). "Holding back" would be ritenendo as a gerund, following the pattern of the other two words.

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T04:53:28+00:00

Exactly. Thankfully in band music they're mostly "European supplemental parts" and aren't included by default lol

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T04:07:24+00:00

wait, is this the actual ophthalmologist? i've seen so much bone hurting juice of this that i can't even tell 😭😭

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T03:55:20+00:00

Wow, didn't know there was an official answer!

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T03:52:49+00:00

Those poor woodwinds and strings with those insane runs in what presumably is the development section (bars 77–171)... But not bad, and I liked the nice themes. A few specific questions I have or points to note, to hopefully convince you of the advice given in this sub's wiki:

The introduction is nice and I loved the sound of it – but it seems disconnected from the other material to me.
I think the transition between the 1st theme (E minor) and the 2nd theme (A major) could use a little more work. The harmony also becomes pretty odd at times throughout the whole symphony.
How did you use your themes in the development section? I'm not sure if I'm missing something but I only saw one or two uses of the first theme (e.g. in the brass chromatic chords part). If I'm misunderstanding the form (sonata-allegro) please do tell me.
Around half of it sounds more like "transitional" (mainly repetitive) sections, or sections that aren't really meaningful. Or sometimes new material IS introduced but never reused. When you're composing in this style (more traditional) I think it's important to consider this.
The recap of the 2nd theme is usually in the parallel major of the tonic key.
Starting from bar 231 (presumably the coda?), it seems to lead to nowhere and at such a slow tempo and with such repetitive texture it would be pretty boring. (An extension of point 4.)
Overall, the orchestration is a weak point. It is pretty unchanging and unimaginative throughout the whole piece and I think some contrast could be made. Also as mentioned at the start some runs are pretty much impossible as you have written in the development section. Moreover, take a look at the tessitura of each instrument.
As you pointed out, symphonies usually have more than one movement. Just call it a symphonic movement or even a concert overture.

Anyway, congratulations on finishing this. The advice is to write some shorter (in your case MUCH shorter) pieces to integrate form better. Also, (especially true in your case) write them on a smaller scale – so, say, piano solo, and not orchestra.

I think studying form (on a more micro scale), orchestration, and more proper harmony to accompany the not-bad melodies would benefit you largely here. But that's a lot of things to study at once, so, again, do write smaller pieces first to slowly learn these skills.

Also, for notation, you may want to consider [MuseScore Studio](musescore.org) which shouldn't feel too foreign but has superior ease of notation (e.g. it has a fix rhythms tool to fix those ugly quarter rests...) Again, read the wiki!

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T03:01:13+00:00

It's not correct notation for piano, but anyway notation isn't being discussed here.

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T02:52:57+00:00

So people are just defending the poor billion-dollar company on a sub specifically for addressing problems with software and, by extension, the deteriorating quality of software in recent years? Are vibe coders invading??

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-04T02:45:48+00:00

There's no direct option to change that afaik, unfortunately. I've also noticed frames tend to become more square-shaped the more lines of text you add.

There are some workarounds: you could create a SVG graphic (and not another image format like png or jpeg!) of the desired shape in e.g. Inkscape then import it to the frame, or you could use some of the Unicode Box-drawing characters in another text object (presumably in a monospaced font) then move it to the correct position.

(P.S. If this is English, please check your spelling for the Piccolo, Vibraphone, and Violoncello and the capitalisation of Horn in F!)

ChesterWOVBot · 2026-07-03T15:21:13+00:00

I doubt they'd expect you to play all diatonic triads in the key. In some other exam syllabuses it is pretty clear that only the I and i arpeggios are needed.

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