Adding an upper line to a score in Musescore 4
I am, to say the least and modestly, extremely frustrated with this program. All I do is fix items (hymns, choir songs, specials) for church use where certain instrumental parts might be needed. Added to the multitude of other confusions I have had is the following: I have a need to add four measures to be used by an obligato muted trumpet above four other certain measures in the piano score. I have researched this time and again to no avail. The instructions I can find are for older versions of Musescore and do not produce the results I need often because there is no such selection offered in version 4.4.4. I may have version 4.5, but that, too, is something I have no clue as to how to find out.
If I try to add a part, it comes up blank, with no score on which to write the notes OR it suddenly appears BELOW the staff of the piano part. Is there any way to get this line put above the staff or can I somehow INCREASE the space between the staves so as to HANDWRITE the four measures for the trumpet.
Thanks for any help.
I have used another free version music writing software, but it, too, was beyond frustrating. Thanks again.
Comments
Did you check the cutaway option in staff properties?
In reply to Did you check the cut-out… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for your reply, Jojo, but I can't even find staff properties to begin with. Are you referring to the Format-Style-Page-spacing adjustments? If so, I found, finally, how to increase the spacing between staff systems so as to write in the needed four trumpet measures by hand above the section where he has to play a brief obligato.
This very comment page is, to me, very confusing in itself because it gives me the following options: "Choose a file" ??? Save -like, where? and Preview, which I did figure out what it did.