Editing single stave
Hi, I'm a newbie here and try to create a worksheet with drum basics; in creating the score, i did not choose linked staves; but now i cannot put a repeat barline into a single bar, but it applies to all 8 staves;
I read through handbook and forum but could not find a place or command to unlink the staves.
Maybe i did not get the overall structure right and look in the wrong places...any suggestions or solutions? Even how to create a new document which does not have this problem?
Score attached....DrumBasics2
P.S:
I worked on another sheet before, where the staves were as well not linked, but not single chosen in the instrument menu, but from 1-7, it did not work there either...DrumBasics1
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Neither of these scores contains linked staves - that's something totally different.
What your scores have is a single system with 8 staves, asd if you were writing for an ensemble wiuth eight instruments. In other words, your score is only 4 measures long, with 8 instruments playing at once for those 4 measures. That's probably not what you mean. You probably really want a single staff, but 8 systems' worth of it - so there are 32 measures start to finish instead of just 4, and only one instrument actually playing. At least, that's my guess.
So when crerating your score, you should create it for only one instrument, not eight, and tell MuseScore you want 32 measures, not 4. You can then add line breaks so that there are still four measures per line if you like.
In reply to Neither of these scores by Marc Sabatella
Hi, that was quick, so its about the overall structure...
actually I want to create 8 staves with respective 4 bars each, to put an exercise in every one of them. I will try tomorrow again if it works with 32 and line breaks...
I think for beginners it could be helpful to explain 'system' better, so we do know what choices we have to make...
thanks a lot for help and so quickly!
best
Mikado
in addiction if you want to create drum patterns for a single instrument:
- use section breaks:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/breaks-and-spacers
- deselect in the menu under "style->General->header, footers, numbers" the checkbox "Measure numbers"
- add from the palette in the beginning of each line a time signature:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/time-signature