Plus signs I cannot get rid of
Help, these + signs are showing up and I don't know how to get ride of them or the measures that they show up in.
Also how do I delete a rest? Can't find that in the handbook either.
Thanks!
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Right click the measure: A pickup measure (Anacrusis), see Actual Value in Properties
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/measure-operations#properties
The plus sign is a plus (pun intended). It lets you know the measure is longer than the time signature. If it's shorted, the plus will become a minus.
In reply to The plus sign is a plus (pun… by mike320
And how can those measures be converted to normal ones? This is a problem that appears often when importing PDF sheet music into musescore files...
In reply to And how can those measures… by Jaraiz
Right-click > Measure properties, set actual duration to match nominal duration
In reply to Right-click > Measure… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you very much! And it is there any way to do apply this action to all the measures in the score that has this problem?
In reply to Thank you very much! And it… by Jaraiz
One by one...
In reply to Right-click > Measure… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks !! I still don't know how they became longer but heck, I'm happy to force it back in shape :-)
You can disable this in View > Mark irregular measures
As for deleting rests, that depends on what the rest is doing there and what you want to take up that space in the music instead, we'd need you to attach your score to understand and assist better.
In reply to As for deleting rests, that… by Marc Sabatella
I'm experiencing the same problem and it's frustrating me immensely. The measures are becoming bigger in their beat count despite my 6/8 time signature. I've notated over 5 different songs on MuseScore and this is the first time I'm having this problem. The first time it happened (during this 6/8 song I'm currently notating), I closed the program and restarted it. It seemed to solve the problem. I'm doing a piano/vocal pop song. I do the piano parts first, and then the voice part. And in the voice part, the measure is blank with a quarter, 8th, quarter, 8th rest. I've lost count how many "Undos" I've done to try again. I right-click the measure after putting in some notation only to have it ADD rests with every right-click. I've also clicked on Measure Properties to have Nominal Duration and Actual Duration be the same (as advised in a previous response). I'm stuck. Since it worked for me before, I'm going to relaunch the program to continue. I don't understand how this even started happening! Is this a 4.2 update bug? I hid the + signs that were appearing too. I'm literally trying to put a note directly where a rest is so I'm not 'adding' to the measure beyond its set meter. But when I put in a note, the rests remain, untouched, and the measure expands beyond what it's supposed to be.
In reply to I'm experiencing the same… by Jimmy Hickey
Sounds like you probably accidentally entered the special-purpose “insert” note input method. Switch back to the regular default “step-time” method by long-clicking the arrow next to the note input icon on the main toolbar and selecting step-time. Then in the future,. Don’t switch to insert unless you want extra beats.
To remove the extra beats you already added, select them and press Ctrl/Cmd+Delete.
If you continue to have trouble after doing these things, please be sure to attach your actual score, not just pictures, when asking for help.
I just performed the PDF->Musescore conversion for the first time. I noticed these plus marks all over the place. I finally narrowed it down to where the PDF scanner missed a change in time signature. For example, the piece starts in 4/4, but there are a couple of places where there is one 2/4 measure. However, the scanner missed the 4/4 signature after that, so all the following measures were seen as still 2/4, so, there being four beats in those measures, Musescore added the plus sign to show there were extra beats. Adding the proper 4/4 signature fixed the issue. Well...most of them. There were plenty of other issues.
I likely spent as much time fixing the scanned score as if I had just entered it manually.
In reply to I just performed the PDF-… by TommCarr
It also seems to happen if the bar in the pdf has a second voice, which Musescore interprets as an extra beat. For example, the pdf I imported is in 2/2 time and, in one bar, it has a single-beat rest followed by 3 single-beat notes in voice 1, and a 2-beat note followed by a 2-beat rest. Musescore interpreted this as a 5-beat bar - either as a 5/4 signature or 2/3.
Although I am able to delete the content of this bar, I am unable to delete the bar itself - even after setting the bar back to its correct time signature. In fact, I have just discovered that I unable to delete any bar! I will have to investigate that further in a different thread🙄
In reply to It also seems to happen if… by NefynIan
MuseScore doesn't interpret multiple voices as extra beats, but the third party program used to attempt to convert PDF into music does sometimes make errors and include extra beats in the resulting file it creates. To remove extra beats or measures, use Ctrl+Delete.