figured bass
I have been using Musescore for a few weeks now for editing baroque music and find it very easy to use and producing good results. However when adding figured bass to a score it is not possible to place figures where the harmony changes during the course of a bass note. I have found that it is possible to attach the figure to a moving upper part and move it down below the bass line but when parts are extracted the figures then appear in the upper parts. I understand from colleagues that other programmes allow the space key to move to the next beat for a figure rather than the next bass note.
Are there any solutions to this problem that someone knows about? Thanks. Mark
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Figured bass gives you complete control over how many (fractions of) beats a notation applies to. https://musescore.org/en/handbook/figured-bass#duration shows exactly what to press. To simplify what it there, after you enter your figures, press ctrl+ the number that corresponds to the size of the note the figure applies to. So you can change the duration every 64th note if you want by pressing ctrl+1 after each figure.
In reply to Figured bass gives you… by mike320
Many thanks- I missed that part of the instruction manual. I should have realised that such an obvious need would have been enabled!