Replacing notes/rests

• Oct 11, 2023 - 11:38

Hi, I'm very new to MuseScore. I have a score which has been imported from a midi file. It's a human performance so some of the timing isn't perfect. In the screenshot shown, the piece is in 4/4 and I want to change the value of the selected G major triad to quaver (8th note), and delete the rest. Is there a shortcut way of doing that or do I just have to delete the notes and rest, then input the correct values?

Screenshot 2023-10-11 113114.png

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• Oct 11, 2023 - 12:49

I guess it'll take time to get into the MuseScore mindset. I was expecting some sort of "Trust me, I know what I'm doing" mode where it lets me make a load of changes and then performs an audit afterwards (there used to be a pretty good shareware app called Noteworthy Composer that worked something like that) but as you say, that's not how it is. Thanks for the replies.
(edit - I just googled it and Noteworthy Composer is still around! )

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• Oct 14, 2023 - 02:28

You can also do it this way:

  1. Select the 32nd rest.
  2. Press "3". This will change the rest to a 16th and remove the dot from the dotted 16th note. (The key thing here is that now these two notes are the same size!)
  3. Press "N" to switch to "Note Input" mode.
  4. Press Shift+Right Arrow. (In "Note Input" mode, this switches the position of two notes/rests of the same size. You could also select the note and press Shift+Left Arrow; these two actions have the same effect.)
  5. Press "N" again to switch out of "Note Input" mode.
  6. Select the note (now the first character) and press "4" to change the 16th to an 8th, which also overwrites the 16th rest.

If you simply select the dotted 16th note and press "4", it will change it to an 8th note, but it will also overwrite part of the 8th note following. That's why you have to move the note to the beginning of where you want it to appear.

This seems complicated, but once you've done it a time or two you'll understand what's going on. And I agree, not intuitive, but that's how MuS is designed. Other tasks are MORE intuitive, but for some tasks the way it works, just forces odd maneuvers. Can't do everything for everybody. shrug

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• Oct 14, 2023 - 17:54

Yes, in most cases I use the right hand on the numeric keypad for the note duration and enter the notes with their names with the left hand via the keyboard - unless the notes are far outside the staff. Then I don't remember their names :-) and use the mouse. In this case the existing chord disappears when I enter the first new note and I have to remember the other chord notes. This problem does not exist with C&P.
As I wrote: it's great that there are usually multiple ways to do one thing in MuseScore.

And typing chords is rather the big exception with me, I don't know anything about it either. I'm a brass musician (beginner, started in retierement age) and don't have chords on the sheet music anyway...
I use MuseScore mainly for practice.

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• Oct 15, 2023 - 00:37

Ah. Brass player. That explains it :)
I grew up playing trumpet.
Of course it is good that there are multiple ways to do things. I seldom type chords. But it is a nasty affliction left over from my music ed degree that I manage to remember what a few of them are. In this case, the G chord is one that I managed to dig out of the heap of years of neglect. At my age, I'm lucky I remember my name. Well, most of the time....wait...um...

And I'm a mouser all the way. Don't want to remember all those shortcuts.

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