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Title: More legato, please!
Post by: Grant on 2002-07-13 02:54 PM
My music sounds very detached and electronic. What do I adjust to create more legato in a composition?
Thanks guys!
Title: Re: More legato, please!
Post by: Fred Nachbaur on 2002-07-13 04:05 PM
Add a "legato" performance instruction (keyboard shortcut "p"). "Tenuto" does the same thing. "Staccato" makes the notes shorter, everything else restores the default "marcato" behaviour.

Also, it should be noted that slurs will accomplish the same effect (unless you've already invoked the legato performance style).
Title: Re: More legato, please!
Post by: Everett Wade on 2002-07-17 10:27 PM
It will always sound electronic, unless someone, or you yourself, actually performs it. Other than that, it will be electronic... so obviously it sounds like what it is. :P
Ev
Title: Re: More legato, please!
Post by: Marsu on 2002-07-18 01:00 PM
You can hide this ["legato" or others] performance style (you may want to hear it, but not the readers to see it).

Just in case...