Graphic note entry tool on the staff |
Graphic note entry tool [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] You will find a tool with icon You will notice that each vertical green line corresponds
to a beat of the measure. The additional horizontal lines are
displayed as a reference to add notes above or below the
staff. The red line in fact shows how long the note will be.
Release the mouse button now and the quarter note will be
validated. Watch the various transformations of that note. Now do the
same to the left, until the note has become a 32nd note. Now
elease the mouse button to have an 8th note. With this tool, you can decide the duration of the note.
You do not need to select each time a rhythmic value on a
palette or with a keyboard shortcut. When you click a new note, its rhythmic value is by
default the same as the last rhythm you have entered. So when
the music contains several notes with the same rhythm, you
just have to adjust the first and the others will
automatically be the same rhythm. You will notice that the vertical lines change their
position according to the measure content. Some notes are
graphically small with a longer duration and for other notes
it is the reverse. The vertical lines are adapted so as to
always show where the beats are, related to the notes. When you double-click and hold the mouse button down (which
means: click, release fast, then click again fast, but do not
release the mouse button after the second click), you can do
three other things with it. Here they are. These new ways of entering music are experimental. You can
always suggest us new ways to improve this function. The purpose
is to enter music more intuitively and faster. To master this
tool, you should work with it a few hours to enter music. Only
then it should show its power. At any moment, you can still use
the other shortcuts (accidental corrections, beaming,...) in
combination with this special tool. Intuitive chords entry [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] In the Composition tool palette,
you will find the intuitive chord entry tool: The red line below the chord has the same meaning as in
the tool explained previously. If you move the mouse to the
right or to the left, you can respectively lengthen or
shorten the duration of the chord. When you release the mouse
button, the chord duration is validated. The vertical mouse position specifies the upper note of
the chord. Notice that if there is no chord symbol in the
score, the chord displayed will always be C. Otherwise, as we
will see in a moment, the notes are taken from the current
chord displayed as a symbol. Of course, once you have validate a chord, you may still
rearrange its notes just by moving them up or down, or by
removing a note by dragging it outside the measure. You can specify here how the chords must be constructed.
The following options are available: As there are only two staves, Pizzicato has placed the two
additional notes on the second staff. One interesting application of this tool is for instance
the harmonization of a string, brass or woodwind section. You
can have for instance 4 staves and specify to skip one or two
notes. By adding a note to the first instrument and moving it
to hear how it sounds like, you can quickly fill in an
orchestral set of measures for a given chord progression.
Please note that this is not really harmonization according
to the rules of harmony, as Pizzicato will only display the
notes as a systematic application of the above explained
rules, with no other consideration (parallel fifth or
octaves, resolution of dissonnances,...). But it can help to
quickly have some idea of how a passage may sound. You are
free to move some notes here and there to improve the voice
leading. Viewing note colors according to chords [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] An addionnal tool in the Composition
palette is the This coloring feature may be very useful, mostly to beginners,
when harmonizing a section, as you can directly see the status of
each note in the score. Of course you can at any time change the
chord symbol and the colors will change accordingly.
in the Composition palette from
the Tools menu. This is a special tool to enter music
graphically on the staff. The idea is to combine several
movements of the mouse to specify the note characteristics. It is
designed to enter simple music, mainly with one voice per staff,
but may be combined with all other Pizzicato tools. It only
requires to use the mouse. If you copy an existing score, you can
for instance keep one finger on the original score to follow
where you are copying from, and use the other hand with the mouse
to enter the music. Its main positive point is how rhythmic
values are selected. We will explore this tool with several
examples.
tool. The score shows that we are
in a special note entry mode by coloring the staff and by
adding lines up and down each staff:
. This tool is a new way to enter the
notes of a series of chords. You should already have a series of
chords symbol in the score and this tool will help you to set the
exact notes on one or more staves, very easily and intuitively.
tool. The score contains a series
of chord symbols:
tool and the following dialog
appears:
icon. This tool is just a handy
duplicate of the coloring function of notes according to the
chords and scales present in the score. This option may also be
found in the Options, menu, Graphic options
item, in the Use of colors popup menu. When this tool is
active, the note heads will be displayed in green if they are
part of the current chord, in orange if they are part of the
associated scale to the current chord, or in red if they are not
part of either the scale or the chord. If you select it with the
above score, you will get all notes in green, as by definition
they are all part of the current chord. But if you move some
notes of that chord, you will for instance have: