Moving rests created in the middle of measure from decreasing note duration?
Hi guys. In musescore, if I take a quarter note and turn it into and eigth note, it adds a rest. The problem is, when I do this to a string of notes that I want to remain together, I don’t want that rest to be stuck in the middle. I also don’t want to have to retype the notes that I’ve already imputed due to me having to move all notes to the left to remove the rest. I am unable to click and drag the rest to the end of the measure. Is there a way to keep this from happening or alleviate the issue?
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Select the following notes, copy and paste on the rest.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/selection-modes#shift-click-selection
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In reply to Select the following notes,… by Shoichi
Sometime when I try to select the notes, via using shift and draw the rectangle, to try to paste them on top of the rest that musescore created because I changed the note duration, it either selects the rest as well (even though I try over and over different widths of the rectangle to not include it) or, if I am able to select the notes, it doesn't allow me to paste. Am I missing something?
In reply to Sometime when I try to… by friends4ever
Ranges selections - used in copy/paste - by definition include both notes and rests. That's how things stay in sync time-wise. You cant copy the notes in a range with the intervening rests - that wouldn't make musical sense, as that would.change the rhythm.
But FWIW, dragging is an awkward way to make fine selections. Better to use Click / Shift+Click or any of the other standard selection methods.
See also my previous reply below.
It sounds like you are trying top enter your music using all quarter notes first and then add the correct durations later. The best advice I can give is, don't do that :-). MuseScore just doesn't work that way. The way to alleviate the issue is to simply enter the correct rhythms in the first place. So if you've already entered a song this way, I'm afraid it will probably be easier to start over. Or if it's just a few notes, then it would be easiest to simply re-enter those notes.
In reply to It sounds like you are… by Marc Sabatella
Yes, it's kinda like making a lego model entirely out of 2x4 bricks then swapping them later and wondering why your creation falls down. But...
That said (and said in other threads), a method of entering pitches without duration and then of adding duration later with the notes all shuffling along would have wide appeal to many who compose music. I realise that such a feature would require MuseScore to cut all the notes after the changed note, paste everything in the new place and then redraw everytihng and that this could dramatically slow down the creation of a large score or one with many instruments but I think that the majority of the time the user who wants this is thinking of a much simpler tune for one or two instruments / voices.