How do I copy the whole staff to a different instrument?
Right now the song is played by a piano. If the goal is to change the Bass Staff to guitar, then I think the method is that we have to add an instrument:
> https://musescore.org/en/node/63216
To copy and paste the Bass Staff to the guitar, I found that the method may be
> https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/selection-modes#all-similar-selecti…
which is to click on the first note and right click to select all similar elements in the same staff, but is it true that it won't select the "rests"? Also, right now in the first measure it is a rest, so I can't click on it and select all similar elements, because it won't select the notes.
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And even if I go to the note and select all notes in the same staff, copy into clipboard, and go to guitar and try to paste it, it won't be pasted. Is there a reason why?
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The only way is to select the first element in my first measure, which is a rest, and then go to the last measure of the staff and SHIFT click the last element to select a range, and copy to clipboard, and then now it can be pasted to the guitar's staff. Is there a more direct way to select the whole staff?
Comments
> https://musescore.org/en/node/63216
does not show how to add an instrument though.
Better check https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/create-new-score#change-Instrument-…
> https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/selection-modes#all-similar-selecti…
Not quite, more a bit further up, at https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/selection-modes#range-select
In reply to > https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
thank you. to change the instrument I found a video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJPYmWOvzTI
1) Because MuseScore only allows pasting of consecutive ranges (for now). Having selected only the notes and note the rests (no blue rectangle) means there are "gaps" in your selection which the paste command currently can't handle.
Some improvement on that handling has been discussed for an upcoming version
2) Two actions isn't that indirect. But if you're mostly a keyboard user:
1. Click the first measure (or chord/rest in it)
2. Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+End
In reply to 1) Because MuseScore only… by jeetee
Thank you, ha, because I come from a computer science background, so I might think of it in terms of, if we select a word, we can expand it to include a sentence, a paragraph, a page (but makes more sense if it is graphics per page), and whole document, so if it is music, I wonder if it may work like: select a note, and it can be expanded to a measure, a staff, all staffs for the instrument, or everything (which is select all).
So you mean this can select the whole staff?
1. Click the first measure (or chord/rest in it)
2. Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+End
because mainly I am using a MacBook, so the keyboard doesn't have the Home or End button. If it is a webpage in Google Chrome, I just use CMD up arrow and CMD down arrow to go to the top or the end of the page.
In reply to haha, because I come from a… by lycha0206
You might have a Fn+ something else key combo that matches End?
Or just check Edit > Preferences > Shortcuts for what is configured for you by default and/or reconfigure it?
In reply to You might have a Fn+… by jeetee
that's right, seems like SHIFT CMD fn RightArrow would work
In reply to haha, because I come from a… by lycha0206
On almost all keyboards that lack physical End keys, Fn+Right is the equivalent. Not just in MuseScore; this is a standard shortcut across just about all programs. So in probably any text editor you've ever used, Shift+Fn+Right is the shortcut to select to end of line, or Ctrl(Cmd)+Shift+Fn+Right to select to end of document. Ctrl(Cmd)+Shift+Right (without Fn) is select word in a text editor, select measure in MuseScore. We use pretty much the exact same shortcuts as most programs, if you mentally substitute note for character, measure for word, and system for line.
In reply to On almost all keyboards that… by Marc Sabatella
I am so glad to see Marc, who answered that original question in 2015 😁👏👏
In reply to On almost all keyboards that… by Marc Sabatella
For this one:
> On almost all keyboards that lack physical End keys, Fn+Right is the equivalent
I think probably the Mac added that one after 2010 or 2013, because I remember around that time, I asked how to go to top or end of page without the Home or End button, and some people said we can use CMD up arrow or down arrow, and there was no docs that said Fn RightArrow can act as End