enter & editing notes
I am new to musescore, but I have used online NoteFlight a bit.
I find some things SO easy (entering notes the 1st time), and some things SO difficult (editing them thereafter).
In general, editing the notes in a measure to change the timing seems a nightmare. For example:
In 4/4, I have a measure of 1/4, 1/4dotted, 1/8, and 1/4.
Now I want to shift the time from 1/4dotted to 1/8, or say,
I want to interchange the 1/4dotted and 1/8.
Can someone please give CAREFUL steps on how to accomplish these two?
Thanks.
Comments
Welcome aboard! This is probably the simplest of the multiple possible methods: Select the eighth note, press [N] to enter note input mode , and [Shift]+[Left] to exchange it with the note before it. (Alternatively, select the dotted quarter and [Shift]+[Right] to exchange it with the note that follows it.)
You could also select the two notes, delete them, and then re-enter them, or cut and paste (the most common way to move notes around, but hardly worth it to move a single note.)
Best advice is to throroughly read the Handbook section on note input and then watch the tutorial videos on the main site.
Changing timing of notes is extremely simple - you just have know that this is normally done while *not* in note input mode, and that changing *duration* is separate from changing *time position*. To change a quarter into an eighth, for example, leave note input mode, click the note you want to change, then click the eighth note icon. This changes the duration of the note. If you want to change the *time position* of the note, that's a totally separate thing. As with many programs that deal with graphical objects, cut and paste is how you move things in time.
There is also, while in note input mode, the special commands Shift+left and Shift+right to echange a note with the previous or next note.