Extraneous rests showing up in Grand Piano Score
Love this program -- it is so simple to use. I'm thinking, "Finally, a music notation software that seems to be designed by someone who actually composes music. I have run into a couple of glitches that I don't understand, though, and I'll describe one of these below.
I created a piano score for a hymn from scratch-- an old public domain hymn, not my own. But I noticed that MuseScore began inserting extraneous rests, primarily in the treble staff, but also one in the bass staff as well. I can hide these so they don't print, but I'm totally mystified as to why they're showing up. I don't know if it's due to something in the musical realm I'm not familiar with -- I'm certainly no music major -- or if it's perhaps a bug in the program.
I'd like to remove these rests completely, because they are in the way and distract from the business at hand -- but I don't have a clue as to how to do it.
It's almost like the program is expecting another voice to be entered -- like another piano -- even though I created it as a simple grand score for a single piano.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
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If these rests are in voice 1 (blue), swap voices until the notes are in voice 1.
If and when the rest are in a voice different from 1, just select and delete them
In general, it is best to attach the actual score you are having problems with. It's difficult to diagnose problems from just a picture,
From the picture, my best guess is that you accidentally changed to voice 2 before entering the notes. or maybe you did it on purpose, but you shouldn't have. Voice 2 would be used only if there are two rhythmically independent parts on a single staff. For example, if the soprano and alto parts had different rhythms and needed to be represented with soprano having stems up, alto having stems down. That isn't the case here - the soprano and alto parts have the same rhythm and are represented with stems in the same direction, and the same for tenor and bass. So both staves should have been entered with voice 1 only, and at no time should you have switched to voice 2 at all.
Yes, you are both spot on. Sorry, but I guess we chalk this up to my inexperience with using "voices". The "extraneous" rests were indeed the rests showing up from the notes I had wrongly entered in voice 2. A good learning experience pour moi.
Thanks much for your help!