Adding Staves

• Feb 13, 2017 - 17:30

I have created a teaching page with a 13-measure treble staff. After massaging it to get the look I wanted, I decided to add two more staves with a slightly different look.
I am familiar with computers (Apple), but a newbie to MuseScore, and although I have searched the manual and the menu bar, I cannot find a way to add staves to the page I have already created.
This has to be a no-brainer, but I really do need a bit of guidance here.

Comments

Jojo-Schmitz

• Feb 13, 2017 - 17:41

2 more staves? Press I or use the menu Edit→Instruments
Or 2 more measures? Press Ctrl+B twice or use the menu Add→Measures→Append one measure
Or more measures to fill 2 more systems? Press Alt+Shift+B or use the menu Add→Measures→Append measures

GerryC

• Feb 13, 2017 - 20:17

Maybe I did not describe the problem clearly enough.
Adding Instruments does add a staff, but the staff is added connected to the original staff, as if it is part of the same 13-measure figure.
I want to add a totally new staff, maybe a third of the page down. On this staff, I can illustrate a variation of the figure on the first staff.

Then, I would like to add a final staff on the last third of the page. The figure on this staff would illustrate another variation. This way the student could look at one single page and see the three variations compared against each other.

Shoichi

• Feb 13, 2017 - 20:25

see: https://musescore.org/en/node/46576
Note: in 2.0 adding a section break takes care of the above 2 steps
HTH

Jojo-Schmitz

• Feb 13, 2017 - 20:47

So you dont want to add 2 staves, but more measures, to the 1st and only staff, one of the options I mentined, separeted from that by system (or section) breaks.

Marc Sabatella

• Feb 13, 2017 - 21:40

To clarify some terminology as used by MsueScore (but not *just* MuseScore - it's actually standard) - the following shows five *systems* of three *staves* each:

Flute------
Oboe-----
Bassoon----

So, a *system* is the term for each group of staves meant to be played simultaneously. Sounds like your systems have only a single staff. So indeed, you don't want to add more *staves* to each system, but instead, to add more systems. To do that, simply add more measures, possibly including manual line breaks if you don't really want lots of measures on each system.