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Notice the stems are the wrong way for the snare. You will end up with something like this: Now Enter the Bass Drum and Snare Drum by using the Note Entry Tool with the Quarter Note selected. Scroll down until you find the snare drum and change its Default Voice to Voice 2. To do this, click on the Edit Drumset button. We want the bass drum and the snare drum on the same Voice, so we need to change the snare drum. The blue notes are on Voice one and the green notes are on Voice two.

This is Important! This is what Voice they are on. Notice that a five line staff is now displayed and there are more choices for the notes at the bottom of the screen. This time select, Drum Set from the Unpitched percussion category. The procedure to set up a basic drum set part is very similar to what we did above for a single-line snare drum. Creating Simple Drum Set Parts With Musescore 2. After that you simply give it a file name and save it as a. To do this you go the File menu and select Export  PDF.

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pdf file though and print it from there so I can use it as a handout later. the Here is the final product:Īt this point you can print it from there if you would like to. This will place a text marker above the note. To do this, we are going to use the text tool. The last thing we need to do is at the R and L’s needed for sticking indications. Use CTRL-Delete to get rid of all those extra measures we don’t need. Now click on the 3rd measure and hold down the SHIFT key and click on the last measure. Unclick the Note Entry Tool so that it is no longer highlight. Now simply repeat using the B-key until you have filled two measures. Notice down in the bottom right corner of the screen, MuseScore 2.0 tells you what keys you may use to enter notes. Select the Note Entry Tool, by clicking on it or by using the keyboard short (the n – key), and select the 16th note value. We are ready to start entering music!e are going to be entering two measures of 16th notes. You may also enter a pick-up measure and specify the number of measures in your piece if you need to.Ĭlick on the Finish button. The final dialog box allows you to specify a time signature. Since this is for Snare Drum, no key signature is selected and you can simply click on the NEXT button to proceed. The next dialog box is for key signature. Click on the NEXT button to move to the next dialog. You will then select Snare Drum from the Unpitched Percussion category and click on the ADD button. The next thing you will need to do is to select the appropriate instrument. I titled this particular example: “Snare Drum Rudiment Example.” I am not going to enter everything here, but feel free to put in as much information as you want. The next screen is where you can type in quite a bit of information about your score.

To get started, launch MuseScore 2.0 and click Create New Score from the Start Center:

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MuseScore 2.0 is a powerful open source notation software that can be used for everything from simple exercises to full scale orchestra and film scores.įirst, we are going to develop a simple rudimentary exercise for the snare drum or practice pad.

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I am going to show you how to easily do this in MuseScore 2.0. If you are a drummer and/or a drum teacher, it is often useful to be able to set up basic exercises for your students or yourself.

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