Ending a piece
I am trying to end my piece with either 1) a long 2 bar fade... or 2) a shorter one bar fade
Option 1) would require tying the two bars which I am unable to do, no matter what I try
Option 2) would require removing one of the final two bars.
What happens here is that the bar I try to remove (last or 2nd to last) stays in place as rests.)
I want the unused bar removed altogether.
Regarding the attached screen shot 118 shows what happens when I try
hitting the tie button at the top - only one note will even if I try individually tying
the other two notes.
Also the tied note does not playback as tied 
as a tied fade out in Screenshot 119.
SUMMARY:
So, as above, If I try removing one of the last two bars (thus having a shorter fade) all that happens is that the notes are deleted and I am left with an empty bar with rests.
If I try tying notes I can only tie one note at a time in a chord AND even then it does not playback as a tied note.
Off course there is interpretation here for whoever plays it and they may go with a shorter fade out,
But I'd still like to sort this 1) Tying notes across a bar. 2) deleting a bar at the end of the score.
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Comments
I guess I'm not understanding. I had no trouble writing guitar notation with the last two measures being a whole note chords. All three notes tied together, and sound for the two measures. So there must be something else going on. We need you to post part of the musescore file.
In reply to I guess I'm not… by bobjp
I have attached the end bit, which also highlights another part of the problem:
when I cut or delete it does not remove the bars, but rather the content of the bars....as you will see.
You will also notice at an earlier point before the end I could successfully tie note of smaller value. These were on the 2nd Guitar Clef, which I added recently because I wanted to have a different value for some notes in an Arpeggio and this was the only way that I could show it. (e.g. a 1/2 note when most were 1/8 notes - a Minum v a Quaver.)
In reply to I have attached the end bit,… by TruthHurts
Select the first note of the chord, hold down Shift and use right arrow left arrow to select it
press +.
If I understand: you'd like to remove measures 139 and 140 for guitar 2 only. I don't think this is possible without deleting the correspondents of the other instruments. You can make them invisible.
In reply to Select the first note of the… by Shoichi
No I have two choices for the two whole bars (both 2xGuitars and 1x TABs) I am so frustrated by this that I would accept either as a solution:
1) just remove the last bar altogether (- or the 2nd to last bar, the affect is the same in the end -) so that the final strum rings and fades for 1 bar - I can't even do this in my score!
or
2) tie the notes of the two last bars. So that the final strum rings and fades over two bars.
For some reason that I cannot discern, I am unable to do either......
When I try your suggestion which I read as
Select 1st note in chord (Bar 139).
Hold down SHIFT
Hit Right arrow
Hit Left Arrow
The end result is displayed in attached screenshot
(which is not as your display of tied notes (Which is one alternative - see above))
(NB In my last Email I attached and .mscz file which is a Musescore a copy of the bars)
In reply to No I have two choices for… by TruthHurts
In my last I too *Bis.mscz
In reply to In my last I too *Bis.mscz by Shoichi
see attached, this is what I got.
In reply to see attached, this is what I… by TruthHurts
Earlier you wrote:
If I try removing one of the last two bars (thus having a shorter fade) all that happens is that the notes are deleted and I am left with an empty bar with rests.
Instead of using the Delete key alone (which deletes the contents) hold down Ctrl, then press Delete.
See this practice score (shows ties also):
Practice_Sheet.mscz
In reply to see attached, this is what I… by TruthHurts
Here's what happened for me:
In the guitar notation or tab part, select the next to the last measure. Selecting the measure instead of the chord insures that all three notes are selected. Hit "+" sign. Or....
Delete the notes from the last measure. All three parts have rests. Select the last measure (all three parts, just to be sure). Then, Tools/Remove Empty Trailing Measures.
You should be able to do both of those. If not, we may need a little more info about your set up. Version of MuseScore and OS.