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Hello my name is Katie Wardrobe
Welcome to MuseScore tutorial 6
I've decided to add in an ostinato to accompany my round
so I’m going to add a bass guitar part.
I’ll press i to open the Instruments window
and then underneath Guitars I’ll choose Electric Bass
I’ll need to manually add in the key signature for my new instrument
so I’ll click on the Key Signatures palette
and drag the D major key signature into place
The bass guitar is going to play a 2-bar ostinato.
I’ll select the first bar,
press the letter N to start note entry,
and I’ll enter the notes as I did before
I’m going to include a crotchet rest here
so I’ll select crotchet by pressing number 5
and then press the press number 0 to enter the rest into my score.
Press the Escape key twice to exit Edit Mode
and to deselect the last note you entered.
Next, I’ll add in some articulation
I want to add a slur between the first 2 notes,
so I’ll select the first note and press the letter S
Again, I’ll press Escape twice to deselect the slur
so I’m free to move on to the next step.
I want to add a staccato to the low A,
so I’ll click on the Articulations and Ornaments palette.
Select the staccato and then drag it over to the note.
Make sure that you see the notehead turn red before you let go
Now that the ostinato is complete,
I can copy and paste it throughout the rest of my score,
the same way I copied my vocal parts
I want to finish my song with the bass guitar playing on its own,
so I need to add some empty bars or measures.
I can press Control+B (or Command B on a Mac)
to add bars one at a time at the end of my score
or I can go to Create - Measures - Append Measures
to add a group of empty bars all at once
Now I’ll copy and paste my bass part a couple more times
to finish off the ending to my song.