Cannot remove excess notes from a bar

• Jan 21, 2025 - 02:53

I tried the built in PDF Import feature and it did a pretty good job on a simple part, except it messed up a triplet starting on the 2nd 8th note. I figured out how to fix that with the quarter note> command 3, and just move the existing pitches (which were transcribed as quarters) into the 2nd and 3rd 8th note triplets of that beat. Easy enough. But now I'm stuck with 3 extra 8th notes in the bar and a grey-out + over the end of the bar. I know that bar has too many beats. But I cannot figure out how to get rid of those three extra 8th notes. It's in bar 19 of the attached file. Thanks for your help figuring this out. -mm

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• Jan 21, 2025 - 09:35

I don't know what your template shows. I assume you can select the three eighth-note rests in the middle and press Ctrl+Del.

If you want it to be different somehow: Attach the PDF or a snippet of it.

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• Jan 21, 2025 - 16:37

Ha! I had tried control+Del, but nothing happened. BUT on a Mac, command+Del. does the trick. Thanks. I couldn't locate that keystroke command in the handbook. Good to know! One learns MuseScore by having these types of issues. I recently read how to make all note stems go the correct direction when transposing or changing instruments without the need to manually change each offender. (command+R). Really saves a lot of time.

(Thank you Hildek! This community is a great resource when one is stuck- much faster than many software companies' paid tech support!)

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• Jan 22, 2025 - 01:55

Thanks! I wasn't looking in the right place. Good to know there is a menu item that does that as well. It is a little nerdy how that is written, and just when you really need to use it. Seems like the program would do more than provide a + that you have too many beats in the bar, (or does that + only occur with imported scores?) and removing a rest isn't as easy as removing a sounding note, which becomes a rest (although I get that now.). In the past I have abandoned some imported scores that had an extra beat somewhere that I couldn't figure out how to remove, and those were marked by MS when trying to import as corrupted, which they probably were, but were perhaps salvageable after all.

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• Jan 21, 2025 - 16:56

I spoke too soon-
Well, it worked in the spot I was trying to fix. BUT I had the same situation in bar 25 and was able to easily remove an extra 8th rest, but then it left me with a quarter rest left over which would NOT go away, na matter what I've tried, including command+del. which worked to remove an 8th note in the same bar! It is in bar 25 in the attached revised file. Thanks again (sigh). A bug, perhaps?

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• Jan 22, 2025 - 01:13

I didn't use a template- just generated this MuseScore file from a PDF I did years ago with Encore. But it seems like if the file is now within the MuseScore format, all of the controls should still work. It's a mystery. Maybe it's some kind of a crash- it let me easily remove one rest, then does nothing on the remaining one.

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• Jan 22, 2025 - 01:24

Well. Apparently it WAS some kind of a crash (and/or bug), because I closed the file, re-opened it, went to the offending rest, selected it and did a command+del and it instantly removed the extra beat permanently. This is likely why another person on this thread was able to do it with the same file with no problem. That gave me the idea that when the file is first launched it seems to be free of that bug, and, in my/my file's case anyway, it behaves as expected. Another MS lesson learned. Thanks again, everyone.

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