Tempo Marking: How to Change Default # of Beats
As novice MuseScore2 user, to enter Tempo Marking, I followed directions on P.175 of Mastering MuseScore2. While in Note-Input mode, I clicked on first note in score and entered [Alt]-T. This entered default Tempo Marking of 1/4 note = 80. I then tried to change the # beats, but can't figure out how to do it. Initially I positioned the mouse after the 80 and tried to backspace so I could enter the # of beats I wanted. This -- and everything else I tried -- cause the entire tempo marking contents to be blank. Then I tried dragging a quarter-note from the Tempo Palette, thinking I could re-enter the whole thing from scratch. That didn't work either.
I'd be very grateful if anybody could offer gory details on EXACTLY what I'm doing wrong and how to do it correctly. OpSys = Windows 7 Pro. (Btw, kudos to all for a really well designed and documented piece of software. I realize that the more fully featured the program, the longer the learning curve. My immediate need is to transpose voice+piano scores for two upcoming performances. So far I'ver been able to eventually figure out MOST things via the manual. I'm really looking forward to using MuseScore2 once I've mastered all the basics.)
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See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/tempo#edit-tempo
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks. Link was very helpful, since it reminded me of the magic words to enter edit mode: [Ctrl]-E. (Somehow, on a different score where the initial tempo marking was entered from the tempo specified when I initially created the score, I was able to edit the tempo without the [Ctrl]-E. )
I'm at the stage of learning when it seems as though the simplest thing i try to do requires a lot of flipping through pages of the manual. (The on-line handbook is great once you find the right page, but finding that page -- at least for me -- ain't that easy [g].
In reply to Thanks. Link was very… by MandyWh
Double click works too to get into edit mode
In reply to Thanks. Link was very… by MandyWh
@ MandyWh, for convenience, you can download the handbook as PDF and then use Crl+F for the search.
In reply to @ MandyWh, for convenience,… by Shoichi
Wow! Thanks! You answered my question (below) before I even finished typing it.
See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/tempo#edit-tempo
Double-click on the Tempo Marking and enter the text;
From Inspector set the BMP
In reply to See: https://musescore.org… by Shoichi
Thanks for help. As noted above, [Ctrl]-E solved my tempo editing problem. But can you tell me how to INVOKE the Inspector? The only references I can find in the index for the manual aren't helpful at all. And when I try to search the on-line handbook for "Inspector", nothing relevant turns up. (In fact, the search of the on-line handbook seems pretty useless. No matter what keywords I enter to search for, it seems to display the same topic entries.) The reason I've been mostly relying on the "Mastering MuseScore2" manual is that I've been having great difficulty finding the page[s] I want in the on-line handbook. Is there a secret to effective searching that's eluding me?
In reply to Thanks for help. As noted… by MandyWh
F8
In reply to Thanks for help. As noted… by MandyWh
The Inspector is there by default unless you closed it yourself. To bring it back, see View / Inspector or the shortcut F8. Note "Mastering MuseScore" has an index, you can use that to look up Inspector, and the first reference there shows how to open and close it.
FWIW, your "mistake" here was not leaving note input mode before adding the tempo marking. I guess it probably isn't sufficiently clear in my book, but really. pretty much everything after the chapter onte note entry is meant to apply when not in note input mode only. So, leave note input, then proceed with the steps on p 175 - click the note, Alt+T, edit the tempo. You won't even need to double-click or press Ctrl+E - the text will already be in edit mode. But once a text marking (not just tempo, but any text - see the chapter on Text) is entered, you can edit it later by double-clicking it. Ctrl+E is available as well but never needed - it's mostly there for the sake of people who might have difficulties with double-clicking (or who just prefer using the keyboard where possible).