Auto hide rests in empty measures

• Jan 4, 2025 - 22:40

Hi! I love musescore and am grateful for all the hard work you developers do.

I am a novice composer, and I go back and forth between setting notes in musescore and penciling stuff on score paper. It would be really cool if I could hide the rests in all empty measures in the score (without doing them one by one), and then turn them back on later. That way I'd have my printout of the notes I've set and empty staff paper in measures I haven't set yet so I can pencil stuff in.

I know you're busy, and I really appreciate all you've done. Thanks in advance!

Eric Schell

Comments

TheHutch

• Jan 4, 2025 - 22:51

Not sure if this is what you want, but take a look at the "Multimeasure rests" section of https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/measure-rests-and-multimeasure-rests.

ericschellpiano@gmail.com

• Jan 4, 2025 - 23:46

Thanks for your comment. I know about that feature, but that's not what I want. I'd like to the empty measures in any of the parts to have the rests hidden and the empty measures still visible in the score. Maybe I'm being fussy, but I have a hard time penciling in notes in the printed score with those whole rests sitting there in the middle of the measure. And, yes, I can go hide them one by one, but that's laborious. Maybe I'm the only one who wants this. Anyway, thanks again to the musescore developers!
Eric

Jm6stringer

• Jan 5, 2025 - 00:45

You wrote:
> And, yes, I can go hide them one by one, but that's laborious. <

If you have consecutive empty measures, click on the first whole rest then Shift+click on the last one to select the lot. Press V to make all invisible.

Jm6stringer

• Jan 5, 2025 - 01:52

You wrote:
> I go back and forth between setting notes in musescore and penciling stuff on score paper. <
and:
> It would be really cool if I could hide the rests in all empty measures in the score (without doing them one by one), <
and:
> That way I'd have my printout of the notes I've set and empty staff paper in measures I haven't set yet... <

Here's a score that has empty measures following music notation which has been entered:
Empty_measures..png
MuseScore stretches empty measures to fill them as notes are entered. Empty measures are more compressed.

If you hide only the measure rests, you might find yourself having to cram your penciled notation between the barlines.

So, in addition to hiding the measure rests, you can also hide the barlines. (Use Click and Shift+click):

Now, when printed, you can freely pencil into the 'manuscript paper" section.

Here's the score example:
Manuscript_sectio.mscz
In the Properties panel, you can click the "closed eyeball" next to 'Invisible' to view the hidden rests and barlines.