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Placement of accidentals [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] Start Pizzicato and open the Notes and
rests palette. You can observe the following tools in it: To place an accidental on a note, select the tool and click on
the head of the note. The measure now looks like this: The principle is the same for the double sharp and the double
flat. To erase an accidental, the E flat for example: Let us see the keyboard shortcuts: The plus sign (+), when applied to a note increases this note
by one half tone: Double flat => Flat => No
accidental => Sharp => Double sharp The minus sign (-), when applied to a note decreases this note
by one half tone: Double sharp => Sharp => No
accidental => Flat => Double flat To erase an accidental, use the 'X' shortcut (capital letter)
on the head of the note. To place a natural sign, the shortcut is
the star (*) key. Position of an accidental [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] The distance between an accidental and the note is fixed by
Pizzicato at the time you add the accidental. Pizzicato has automatically moved the
accidentals in such a way that they are not superimposed and
remain readable. In the case of an accidental on a single note,
the In the case of a chord with several accidentals, Pizzicato
allows to disable this automatism for the chords and let the user
adjust the accidentals position manually. In the Options menu,
select the Automatisms item
: Remove the Accidentals option and click OK. You can also adjust the vertical position of an accidental.
Hold down the CTRL key while you move the accidental and you can
adjust it vertically also, for instance to place it above a note,
in a very tight passage. Ties [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] When 2 notes of the same pitch are
connected by a curve, it means that the second note must not be
played again, but simply maintained as the continuation of the
first. Adjustment of the stem length [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] For a question of layout and readability, it is useful to be
able to adjust the length of the notes stems as well as the beams
angle. Rhythmic voices [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] Pizzicato allows you to encode up to eight rhythmic
voices per measure. The encoding
mode of the voices is visible in the top left corner of the
score view. It shows by default 1-8: This default mode means that Pizzicato
allows you to encode several voices without having to worry
about the distribution of the notes into the voices. In a new
document, introduce the following notes: These notes constitute what is called a
rhythmic voice. The added durations of these notes fill a
whole measure, here 4 beats. Pizzicato affected them by
default to voice number 1. Now add another melody, as thought
the measure was empty, to obtain: Despite the fact that the measure was
already complete, Pizzicato let you encode an additional
voice. Moreover, the notes stems previously encoded are
automatically adjusted so that the readability of the two
voices remains clear. Pizzicato automatically assigned the
additional notes to another voice. It is the automatic voice
encoding mode, indicated by the choice 1-8. In the popup menu of rhythmic voices, select item 1. The
measure becomes: Only the notes of rhythmic voice 1 are
displayed in black. The other voices (here voice 2) are drawn
in gray, to show you are working on voice 1. When you select
a number from 1 to 8 in the rhythmic voice menu, the notes
you add are placed specifically in that voice. Try for
example to add a quarter note in the measure. Pizzicato
refuses, because voice 1 is already complete for this measure
(4 beats). On the other hand, when you select choice 1-8
(choice by default) in the rhythmic voices, Pizzicato
automatically begins a new voice and decides the assignment
of the voices to the added notes. In most cases, Pizzicato
does that very correctly for measures with up to two rhythmic
voices, according to the complexity of the measure contents.
In the cases of a very intricate and complex measure
regarding the organization of the voices, you can use this
rhythmic voice menu to force Pizzicato to follow your
directives. Enter the first voice completely, then change the
rhythmic voices menu and encode the second voice
In
this manner, Pizzicato splits the contents of the measure as
you want in independent rhythmic voices. When you introduce several rhythmic voices
with option 1-8, it is strongly advised to introduce
them one by one. If you begin for example the second voice
whereas the first voice is not finished, Pizzicato may more
easily confuse the voices and make the encoding operation
more delicate. Exercises Here are some measures to encode to allow
you re-examine the concepts learned up to now. Create each
time a new document.
The Sharp,
The Flat,
The Natural,
The Double sharp,
The Double flat,
The accidentals eraser.
tool lets you
move the accidental. Add for example a quarter note in the
measure. Add a sharp, select the
tool and move
this sharp on the left, you get:
tool.
This tool lets you move any accidental.
tool.
Click on the quarter G note of the first
measure. A tie appears and joins the G note of the other
measure.
tool.
Place the mouse cursor on the stem end of the
half note chord:
tool
and place the cursor like this: