Multiple Voices In Percussion Staff?
Firstly, I'm still using 2.0 (on Windows) because I don't have admin rights and thus haven't installed 2.1 yet.
Anyway, in a piece I'm working on, I can't seem to add a second voice to the Drumset staff. Every time I select voice 2 and try to enter the note, the program switches back to voice 1 and replaces the original first-voice note as if I'd never hit voice 2. The first voice isn't (or doesn't seem to be) very complicated, so I don't see a reason for limiting the staff to only one voice.
I'm not sure if it's a bug, but I thought it should be brought to attention.
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See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/drum-notation
In reply to See by Jojo-Schmitz
Sorry, but it still doesn't seem to help...
I first thought it might be because I was trying to enter "upstem" notes on the second voice, but even entering bass drum notes doesn't solve the issue. It probably has to do with the settings I have, but I'm not sure which ones should be changed.
There's also the fact that my drumset palette only has about half as many note options as the one pictured at your link. I wonder if that could have something to do with it?
In reply to Sorry, but it still doesn't by Dirge Of Dreams
In order to do more than guess, we'd need you to attach your actual score, not just a picture of it. But from the picture, it appears your score may have been created with an earlier version of MuseScore, or perhaps started with a non-standard template, or imported from some other program that organizes its drumset different. So that's definitely playing a role, but without the score, it's hard to say exactly what is going on
Anyhow, the upstem notes are *supposed* to be in vocie 1, that's kind of the point. Voice 2 notes are the downstem ones. If your drumset definition has a note in voice 1 but you want it in voice 2 instead, you can edit the drumset to make that change. It is also possible to override the drumset definition and *force* a note into a different voice than the one defined for it. This works only with the "click in score" (as opposed to keyboard shortcut, or double click in palette) method of note input. So, click the icon in palette, change voice using toolbar, then click location in score.
But that's intended only for occasional exceptions. If you want all snare drum notes (or whatever) to be in voice 2, better to edit the drumset definition.