Individual bar lengths in a piano score I am composing.
How do I widen or shorten just one bar within a line?
I know how to use Shift and right or left brackets to adjust the number of bars in a line,
But I want to adjust just one bar in the line.
My problem is that bars with a lot of notes in it, are narrowed
and bars with few notes in it. are stretched, all within a line.
I want bars that are equally spaced for what I hope are obvious reasons.
Thanks
Dean
Comments
you must add a picture or , it's better your score or a part of it.
In reply to you must add a picture or ,… by Raymond Wicquart
How do I do I do that?
Measures with different content have different width for obvious reasons.
In reply to Measures with different… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes but in this case, the bars with more content are narrower and the bars with less content are stretched.
This seems less obvious, and counter intuitive to me.
In reply to Yes but in this case, the… by Dean-Rath
Then attach the score here.
See https://musescore.org/en/node/289899
In reply to Yes but in this case, the… by Dean-Rath
My guess is this is because in your experimentation, you've been messing with the stretch settings in ways you needn't/shouldn't have. Best to reset it first (Format / Stretch / Reset) then see if you actually need to change it at all. Note you shouldn't normally be using stretch as a way of putting fewer measures on a line, that's part of how one can get themselves into trouble. Better to just add line breaks. And when decreasing stretch to fit more bars on a line, best to do it score-wide to maintain consistency (or just reduce the Spacing setting in Format / Style / Measure).