How do I change the length of a note
Completely new to music and trying to learn musical notation...
Basically I've created a score but a couple of the note lengths at the beginning are wrong. When I try to change the length of the note, it deletes the other notes, how do I prevent it doing that? It seems like it should be obvious how to do this, but I haven't been able to figure it out!
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You are trying to increase the duration so MS removes anything in the way. It will not "move things over". Simply rewrite what you need to, using proper durations. :)
Well, if you lengthen a note, the next note can't be played, because the lengthened note is still sounding. I guess probably you want to *move* the subsequent notes later in time, so they sound *after* the lengthened note instead of at the time you initially told MuseScore you wanted them played. In which case: simply use cut & paste: select the notes you want moved later (only you know how many notes you want moved), Ctrl+X to cut, then click where you want them moved to, Ctrl+V to paste. Probably easiest to do the cut before lengthening the previous note, then do the paste afterwards.