Adding measures to an exsisting song
I need to add some measures to the end of a song, but when I use CONTROL+B it squishes all the other measures in that line. SO my question is how do I add normal sized measures?
(Please understand that I'm very new at this)
Also can someone explain how to start a new document with nice big measures (instead of the really tiny ones) I have tried changing the time signature - but no matter what I put (even 16/16) in the measures are so small... what am I doing wrong?
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See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/breaks-and-spacers
or: Edit/Tools->Add/Remove Line Breaks
Happy New Year ;-)
In reply to See: https://musescore.org… by Shoichi
Thanks for the reply... but these instructions show to manually stretch each measure..... there has to be an easier way.
I think my mistake is when I'm setting up the new document.... seems to help a little bit if I adjusted the "pick up measure" to 30.... but then it only gives me on line of measures that have enough space... and if I add more it squishes them.
Please tell me how to set up a NEW document to where I will have more space in each measure without manually adjusting each one...
In reply to Thanks for the reply... but… by northfrost
I would like an entire sheet of measures the size of 18-22..... how do I get that? (Measures 1-18 are too small)-- and even if you add notes they are still really tiny.
(I know it's probably a really stupid question)
In reply to I would like an entire sheet… by northfrost
See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/page-settings
The Scaling property allows you to increase or decrease the size of your score.
The questions are never stupid, the answers sometimes ;-)
In reply to I would like an entire sheet… by northfrost
As you add notes, MuseScore automatically stretches the measures according to standard principles of engraving. So don't worry about anything until you are all done entering notes. if after that you feel you'd like to adjust things to have wider measure (or, in other words, fewer measures per line). then you can increase stretch or add line breaks. As described above. But it is counterproductive to try doing this before your music is closer to being done, as it is likely you will not make very good decisions without seeing everything in context. And remember, the defaults should be good according to standard engraving principles, so you really shouldn't mess with without specific reasons.
In reply to Thanks for the reply... but… by northfrost
Create a new score as explained here
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/create-new-score#create-new-score
As in a text processor.... adding notes will adjust the spacing.
In reply to Create a new score as… by Shoichi
Thank you guys so much! That really helped a lot!!