Shortcut question
New user with a shortcut question.
I have top & bottom staff/measure selected. (not sure of terminology yet)
Is there a shortcut key to move to next or previous measure ? ( or could I set one )
I looked though the shortcut list but did not see anything (tab did not work)
Will try to attach image.
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ctrl+arrow left/right, see also: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/keyboard-shortcuts#score-navigation.
In reply to ctrl+arrow left/right. by kuwitt
Great ... thank you !
In reply to Great ... thank you ! by lacogada
Had a chance to try ... but that shortcut does not do anything. does not move my selected measure over.
Looked in shortcuts. but do not see where I can add that.
In reply to Had a chance to try ... but… by lacogada
It's impossible to have only the top and bottom measures selected. ctrl+arrow will move to the previous/next measure if you have several measures in a system selected, but the first beat of the next measure in the bottom staff will be selected.
In reply to It's impossible to have only… by mike320
Thanks for the reply. but I do not understand.
Seems I have a top and bottom measure selected in image I posted above.
In reply to Thanks for the reply. but I… by lacogada
Ah, there are only two staves. In that case you can still select the top and bottom staves. From you picture pressing the right arrow will move the selection to the first beat of the next measure in the bottom staff. To expand your selection to include the next measure press ctrl+shift+right arrow.
In reply to Ah, there are only two… by mike320
Thanks mike320 ... it works as yo say.
Was hoping to move from measure to measure, as a selection ... not add to existing selection or choose individual note.
Any way to do that ?
In reply to Thanks mike320 ... it works… by lacogada
No. Why do you want to do that? Perhaps there is a way to do what you want.
In reply to No. Why do you want to do… by mike320
I would select a measure ... view the notes on piano (P) use as a learning tool.
I could setup my external foot pedal with the keyboard shortcut and move forward or backwards through the score.
Thanks for reply
In reply to I would select a measure … by lacogada
The measure properties box does allow changing the selected measure. Unfortunately (for your case) it also means having a dialog open up, which in turn means that the piano keyboard isn't updated until that dialog is closed again.
Now that new selection possibilities have been exposed to the plugin framework, as well as measure-based traversing; perhaps starting with the upcoming 3.3 release a plugin could be constructed to behave in the desired manner?
In reply to The measure properties box… by jeetee
Thanks for the reply jeetee.
I'm using an old laptop near my piano running Win 7 and no internet connection.
I tried installing ver 3 but got error message about missing dll.
Probably something with this older computer an win 7 updates.
Anyways, installed MS 2 with no problems.
... and even if I cannot get what I was asking about to work, this program will still help me a bunch.
In reply to Thanks for the reply jeetee… by lacogada
The missing DLLs is most like some MS Visual Studio runtime stuff, see #281750: File api-ms-win-crt-heap-I1-1-0.dll missing
In reply to The missing DLLs is most… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for the link and I will check it out.
But being a newbie, I'm really liking MS 2.
In reply to Thanks for the link and I… by lacogada
Esp. for a newbie, better get started with MuseScore 3, don't waste your time learing MuseScore 2
In reply to I would select a measure … by lacogada
I'm not sure I understand how having every note in a measure displayed on the keyboard would be useful. In many measures is would be impossible to play all of them and you would rarely want to play them all at once if you could. I guess your simple example might be an exception and of course it is learning...pardon my thinking out loud with my keyboard. The more I think about it the less useful I see it to be. What would be useful, and has been suggested a few times, is to show which piano keys are lit up one note at a time (I thinks it's called scrubbing). This would show you which keys would be pressed at any given time. You could then use your foot pedal to move forward one note at a time
In reply to I'm not sure I understand… by mike320
I see what your saying ... though I could highlight one measure, maybe the bass staff,
and will show just those notes.
I will use the method of one note at a time with foot pedal ... very helpful
My real problem is notes outside the staff.
Thanks for your replies.
Are you trying to move these measures to next measure?
In reply to Are you trying to move these… by Ziya Mete Demircan
No ... just trying to move the blue selection box from measure to measure.
I would like to use MuseScore as a learning tool.
I have a measure selected and have the piano open to show me the notes.
Thanks for reply.
In reply to No ... just trying to move… by lacogada
Shift+Ctrl+right-Arrow adds the next measure to the current selection.
But I guess there is no special shortcut for what you want.
In reply to Shift+Ctrl+right-Arrow adds… by Ziya Mete Demircan
Thanks !