LOL - way to have fun with a click-track - love it !   Cicadas in the score...

Good morning Steve @Ripton - oddly enough, I was going through the sheet yesterday, and thought that some bass-end might be nice... so - here's a second score with 3 violas ( vla 1, 2, 3 ) and two cello parts ( Vc 4 ad Vc 5 )

Yes, I know, the part numbering may look strange, but I did it like that to keep a close connection with the already numbered Vln 1 thru 5

I have run the score through the synth, and mixed it with the click track, and it sounds OK to me.

Pierre @Fiddlerman - I'll send you the .musicxml and you can decide if you wish to include these additional parts on a more "formal" basis 🙂

By the way - the initial 8 bars or so of silence is just my count-in (there is a drum track which matches 100% with Pierre's click track)

Attached:

(1) .pdf for Vla 1,2,3 and Vc 4,5

(2) .mp3 audio file from synth

(3) The .musicxml file ( I had to rename the file extension to .txt to get it accepted for upload - to use it - change the .txt extension to either .xml or .musicxml depending on which naming convention your score editing software expects )

Amazing-Grace-Fiddlerman-project-violas.txt

**EDIT**  Yes, I just noticed, the sub-title (on the score sheet) still says "Violin 1" - ignore that, the actual parts/voices are correctly identified!!! I was clearly in a hurry (or possibly experiencing a senior moment.....)

ALSO: I have been somewhat cavalier in my approach to showing bow direction changes, fingering, slurs and ties - in fact there are NONE !!!  But you can figure it out folks !  ***

emikemcc said
Listening to the click files, am I correct that the tempo is set at 80 beats per minute?

i think I might prefer to work with a metronome.

  

First and foremost - WELCOME @emikemcc - enjoy the forum and the project !

In response to your question, I'm not going to give an answer !   It is really not a good idea to work from anything other than the click track - it is almost the only way that consistent tempo can be achieved across many people recording separately.  The issue of using a metronome is that even IF you were told the actual tempo there is absolutely no guarantee that it will absolutely match, 100%, the timing of the click track, and that would apply most specifically to mechanical metronomes - although admittedly, electronic devices would be more accurate.  Even being out by a small fraction could lead to your piece "finishing slightly earlier or later" than everyone else who are using the click track over the length of a 1 or 2 minute piece.  Any "error" in timing will be cumulative across the piece, seemingly "OK" at the start, and only really becoming obvious towards the end - which would inevitably lead to your submission being excluded from the final mix-down.

In summary, I'd strongly advise against it !