Help please
In an existing document where I am testing my beginner skills:
- I somehow "broke" measure #5 I have no idea how I did it ... tried and failed a number of times to fix it.
- in measure #8, I would like the eighth rest downbeat of 4, to switch places with the up beat of 4 eighth
note. Can't do it. Musescore hangs on to rests as if they were precious metal. Every time I try to erase one
it refuses to budge or replaces itself with 2 rests of half the value. :) - I would like to know how to turn measure 1, into a pick up measure after the fact.
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At some point two "golf type" blue flags, one pointing east the other one west, were straddling a
measure. I saved this test sheet, closed it, and reopened it. The flags were gone.I have a lot to learn. I hope that I live long enough ... I am approaching 74 :)
Thank you In advance
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In reply to Select measure 5. Right… by bobjp
" 4. [...] two "golf type" blue flags, one pointing east the other one west, were straddling a
![Musescore - toggle loop playback.png]( "Musescore - toggle loop playback.png")
measure"
If you select one or more measures, you can click on the button for Toggle 'Loop Playback'. See the image below:
Then you press the Play button (or press Spacebar), and Loop Playback plays that selection over and over again, for practice purposes. But the loop select flags are discarded when you close the file.
1) If you don't specifically remember changing the duration of measure 5, my best guess is that you originally created this score with a pickup measure, and that's it. Then you inserted measures in front of that pickup. That would explain both why it is only 3/8 but also why it set to Exclude from measure count.
2) A rest is silence, you can't normally delete silence. What you really want is to replace it with sound - in this case, with the sound already present on the and of 4. So, simply select that sound (the whole chord), cut, select the new location, paste. If you are in note input mode, and the things you want to exchange of the same duration, you can also swap them with Shift+Left.
In reply to 1) If you don't specifically… by Marc Sabatella
That would explain both why it is only 3/8 but also why it set to Exclude from measure count.
Hmm... excluded from count?
Yet it is displayed with the number 5.
In reply to That would explain both why… by Jm6stringer
Weird, I would have sworn I saw that box checked, but it isn't.