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I've been looking for a source for obscure scores that can't really be found in books (video game music, movie soundtracks especially). Musescore has these things, but they claim that I can only get them after paying for a subscription.
I'm totally onboard with getting a subscription if its worth it. But there are so many bait and switches out there. So I'm wondering, can anyone who has /had a muse score membership comment? If not, are there are sheet music services you like for buying / downloading sheet music?
Are they accurate? They seem to have all the musics I want and I want to learn how to read music.
Usually, good designed websites are bad and 15 year olds websites are more accurate lol, that's why I was wondering.
Not sure if this isn't some kind of prank ;).
Musescore's playback system is fine, the note is actually a G. However, the note symbol itself is offset by -0.5sp up and to the left, as visible in the inspector when you select the note, in the accord section. Thus it appears in the place you would expect an A♭.
The Accord offset is normally used to make notes more readable when they would otherwise be clustered too tightly in an accord. However, usually you'd not move it so much that the pitch is compromised.
This is definitely an error with MuseScore's playback system. I'm not too familiar with their setup, so I can't guess why this has happened, but it's a definite error.
Having checked out the original, it's clearly be A♭–G, not a repeated G. The music written there in the score is correct, so as long as you play that and not what the MuseScore playback does, you'll be fine!