Getting rid of rests in the bass staff
Whenever I start a new score with SATB grand staff, rests appear in all measures. When I add notes on the treble staff, the rests disappear, as they should. But when I add notes on the bass staff, the rests remain in place, showing at the same time as the notes. How do I get rid of the rests in the bass staff?
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See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/voices#delete-hide-rests
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/voices
It states:
"In Close/Closed score SATB (where two staves are used for the four voices, e.g., as in hymnals), use only (MuseScore) voices 1 and 2 for both upper and lower staves."
and:
"There is no need to use (MuseScore) voices 3 and 4 unless there are more than two parts in the same staff. This means that in the bass clef of a “close score”, the tenor is voice 1 and the bass is voice 2—beginners often without thinking assign the bass to 1, resulting in stem-direction confusion, or assign tenor to voice 3 and bass to voice 4, which then leads to confusing rests appearing in voice 1 (which cannot be deleted)."