
I am thinking of notating a Beatles song like Helter Skelter and getting it right. Do you want slow strums? You say: "I think a 16th note arpeggiated chord sounds good enough." I think so too, for Dalo's purposes. I suggest that you take what was done so far and see how it can apply to your score. Jm6stringer - You posted a score of Yankee Doodle. Incidentally, that is good for you to bring up because if the arranger feels it needful to accelerate the tempo to achieve a desired strum, they would then have to renotate their melody. I sometimes notate something in 4/4 and then find another file that I did of the same thing in 2/4 and they sound the same. Of course, I know that different beat lengths can be used to represent the same movement in time. I just wanted to explore the topic, knowing that everyone will have some partial knowledge and experience and maybe some things will add up to something. What do you mean? As Marc suggests, would not Inspector controls over the arpeggio speed facilitate 'strum' playback?ĭalo said: "My intention is to simulate for example the acoustic strumming realguitar of musiclab" You wrote: There are other qualities I am searhing for. See attachment - (hope you are using the default MuseScore soundfont). (I think a 16th note arpeggiated chord sounds good enough.) Doing it this way, speeds up the arpeggio's execution, but keeps the score's assigned tempo intact. Above, Ziya Mete Demircan has attached examples of using various note durations for arpeggios. Make the arpeggiated chord of a smaller duration, then tie it so that it plays for the full value.

(I do realize you merely used this method to get an arpeggio to sound like a strum for playback purposes.)Ģ. but, in reality, when a player (guitar, banjo, etc.) is strumming, he keeps beat with the normal rhythm and tempo and does not rely on additional written tempo changes to execute strums. Basically we've seen two ways to speed up an arppegio to make it sound like a strum:ġ.
