How to create gradual tempo changes

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Each musical piece has its own "starting tempo", which we always find at the begining of the score. All the piece will go at this tempo, unless we find other indications.

It could happen that we want to assign a certain passage a progressive tempo change, for example: going from from 90 to 60 bmp throughout 2 measures.

All this indications are part of what is known in the study of music as tempo dynamics.

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Now, in order to achieve this in MuseScore 3 we must follow the next steps:

We have to download a plug-in that MuseScore offers:

https://musescore.org/en/project/tempochanges

On this page we go down until finding "Download and Install (MuseScore 3)"

Here's the link to download this plug-in:

https://github.com/jeetee/MuseScore_TempoChanges/archive/3.4.0.zip

Once downloaded, we extract the file and copy its content.

This must be pasted into:

%ProgramFiles%\MuseScore 3\Plugins (or %ProgramFiles(x86)%\MuseScore 3\Plugins for the 32-bit versions)

And in:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\MuseScore\MuseScore 3\plugins on Windows 7 and later. +

Below we'll see how this works.

Lastly, we have to load the plug-in.

When we open the software now, we have to go to Plugins label, and click Plugin Manager.

We'll see a list of plugins in a column at the left, we look for the new ones y and click them, making sure that they are "checked" ahora, y click OK.

We go back to Plugins label, and now we'll see a sub-tab available, called"Tempo Changes".

Now let's see how to use it:

Firsly, we have to select the measures we want this plugin has effect on. We do this the same way when we want to select many elements in pc (pressing alt and using the mouse)

We'll have something like this:

Now we open "Tempo Changes" plugin.

In the Staff Text box, we write the text that we want to be shown.

In the Start BMP box, we assign the value we want it to start with. We can leave this box and the value will we the starting tempo (like this case).

In the End BMP box, we assing the value that we want the measure to end with.

Lastly, we can choose between a linear or a curved progression.

In case we do not opt for a curve, like the example, we can draw a custom one.

Note: In the example I show in this post, you will see at measure 20 the indication "a tempo", meaning that goes back to the original tempo of the piece. In case you don't know how to do that, it's much easier than the above: we simply select the measure, go to Palettes , we open the Tempo tab and choose the desired value.

¡That's it! Hope you've found it useful.