Musescore 4: How to move top system down to avoid collision with title
Musescore 4.2.1
I need to move ALL systems down. The top system is too close to the title.
I've researched this on your forums and nothing is working.
Very frustrated ... this should be easy!
Please help. Thank you.
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Select the title frame / In Properties panel / Increase the value of "Gap below"
And on a personal note, I'd also prefer you to increase the "Height", of the frame, still in the same place. Alternatively, edit the frame using the handle and mouse.
Result, e.g. : 2 I Wish You Love_verse_FRENCH.mscz
In reply to Select the title frame / In… by cadiz1
Cadiz1: Thank you! Incredibly helpful.
After using Finale for 25 years and flirting with Sibelius for awhile by necessity, I'm trying to get used to Musescore's idiosyncrasies.
Pros and cons to all, but some of the Musescore "cons" are still hanging me up. For me, it is not intuitive and some common things are very cumbersome. Still, it looks great and I guess I'll just have to continue to muddle through. Usually I get an answer by googling but this one had me in the weeds for wayyyyy too long. Thanks again for your help.
In reply to Cadiz1: Thank you! … by lizkinnon
On re-opening your score, something is strange: the instrument definition is not clearly defined (absent from the mixer, and undefined in the Instruments panel).
I assume this is due to the import of your file (the source would be wikifonia.org, in XML format I guess) where something went wrong.
Only the Staff/Part Properties indicate that it would be for Cavaquinho. Are you sure this is the original, intended instrument?
I changed it for guitar, I don't know if I did it right! At least everything is defined correctly now. See: 3 I Wish You Love_verse_FRENCH.mscz
"Pros and cons to all, but some of the Musescore "cons" are still hanging me up. For me, it is not intuitive"
Well, let's just say that the intuitive character must have been largely formatted by those 25 years of Finale! 😂 And your Finale habit is playing tricks on you, because MuseScore is simply different. Discovering new software requires a learning curve.
For my part, I've had invertse experience. As a first-time score-editing software, I started by trying Finale (some fifteen years ago more or less), and found it really complicated, boring and cumbersome. Then I tried MuseScore, and miraculously, it matched what I was looking for, with satisfying results very quickly.
"some common things are very cumbersome"
For example?
In reply to On re-opening your score and… by cadiz1
Thanks again for taking the time to help.
Generally, I only need notation software for notation (not listening) so I'm not concerned with the instruments - only to how the chart will look. I already know how it will sound when I notate it.
I agree, of course, that new software requires a learning curve. Humans tend to want to stick with what is familiar. (Old dogs, new tricks, etc.) I can do just about anything on Finale, from lead sheets to big band and orchestral arrangements.
However ... I'm open! I like how Musescore looks and if I make adjustments on how to do things and become quicker at it, great. In the meantime, basic things like spacing, entering notes quickly, editing, and just getting used to how things are set up is not intuitive for me yet. I have to do a search to find out how to do some pretty basic things after I try something that seems obvious, or that I could do in a second on Finale - yes, because I am so familiar with it.
Thankfully, folks like you will help when I'm ready to tear my hair out trying to do such a simple thing as increase space under a title! :-)
In reply to Thanks again for taking the… by lizkinnon
You wrote:
I agree, of course, that new software requires a learning curve.
and:
Thankfully, folks like you will help when I'm ready to tear my hair out...
Welcome to the best help forum on the internet; and here's something you may find useful:
Blank_Manuscript_Paper.mscz
(open in MuseScore and print - not intended for score writing within MuS)
I mostly do lead sheets and discovered MuseScore years ago while searching for how to print blank music manuscript.
When I discovered that MuseScore could do much, much more, I was hooked!