Can't enter drums!!!
I love MuseScore. It is smart and easy to use and IT DOESN'T LET ME ENTER DRUM BEATS!!!!! You click with a note, but it just ignores you. No drums. Why in the world not? What use is a "music-writing" program where you can't enter drum-beats? What in the world is going on??????
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I have looked everywhere. It's not in the toolbar. It's not in Help. None of the menus say a word about it. Doesn't it bother the rest of you, to use a music-writing program with no drums? I can't understand it!
In reply to I have looked everywhere. It… by MATT6288
OK, by sheer luck and thrashing around in the program I discovered that if you double-click on a drum staff, a little menu appears at the bottom. You have to choose a note from the menu and then click it in. Who knew?
In reply to OK, by sheer luck and… by MATT6288
The people who read the handbook knew ... See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/entering-and-editing-percussion-not…
In reply to The people who read the… by SteveBlower
And at the risk of wasting my breath, I almost never write drumkit parts in MuseScore. I hate the drum palette. I too just want to enter notes on the drum staff, like other notation software. I use a mouse. The drum palette seems to have been developed for pc keyboard users. Great for them. No amount of editing the palette helps.
Mouse used for drum entry, see:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/entering-and-editing-percussion-not…
Regarding the second mouse entry method mentioned in that link...
Different from entering notes for a single instrument like, for instance, the flute where one clicks into the staff to place the 'pitch' of a pre-selected duration, a drumkit includes multiple 'unpitched' instruments -- and so snare has one 'location' (not a pitch like flute) on the staff, bass drum has another, etc.
Since the note/head locations on the staff are pre-defined for a drumkit, all that's needed is to double-click with the mouse on the chosen drum-instrument, and its notation will appear on the staff.
(It's not necessary to click into the staff, as 'pitch' is not relevant.)
In reply to Cannot the mouse be used for… by Jm6stringer
I understand the principle. But for my needs, the palette is just in the way. I only need a third of the sounds in the palette. Even when I edit out the sounds I don't need, it doesn't help. All I want to do is mouse over the first space and single click a kick drum note. It isn't about pitch. It's about placing a note at a particular place on the drum staff. Which is the same procedure involved in placing a note on a piano staff. Where I click produces a particular sound. Be it a pitch or a drum. Click on the middle line and you get a "B". Click on the middle line of a drum kit staff and you get a snare. That's all I need. I realize that there are those that need something more involved.
I also realize that the palette renders hands and feet notation. Which is not universal.
Anyway, I know nothing will change. I use the palette when I have to, but not happily.