My presumption is that you do not yet know enough about the different ways to achieve your goals by editing notes as you want.įor example: "I need to adjust because there are actually two eighth notes and three quarter notes in the measure rather than four quarter notes. This is a powerful program, but so frustrating that I'm not sure I will ever get good enough at it to be worth the trouble. Sometimes the up and down arrows adjust the note, sometimes they move the entry box, and sometimes they do nothing.Īnyway, any advice would be appreciated. Same with note editing, behaves differently whether you are in or out of note input mode, and whether you started by entering a tab fret position or a note (and whether you start with the keyboard or mouse). It's confusing and requires too many keystrokes and switching back and forth between mouse and keyboard. If not, deleting large chunks and starting over is usually the fastest thing.īTW, I completely agree with the posts a little while back about going in and out of note input mode. I essentially have to have the timing perfect before entering it in order to play it back and see if it's right. But the labor in keying it in is too high, and it is not helping me any in my goal of working out tunes and timing. Entering and editing notes is a PAIN, and I'm guaranteed that they will not be right the first time (if they were, I wouldn't need an editor).įrankly, the reason I like MuseScore is that I get a beautiful printout that contains the score AND tab notation, lyrics and chord markings all laid out well on one sheet. How can I get MuseScore to move the notes forward and back across measure boundaries as needed, instead of adding extra junk and loosing my notes? Or better yet, quit bothering me about time (at least during initial entry) - I can count. The opposite occurs when I try to extend a note duration - while adjusting, the last note in the measure is now "too many beats" - but instead of moving it to the next measure, the note is just deleted. I can cut the later notes out, one at a time, and insert them back in front of the rest, at which time I have multiple unneeded rests at the end of the measure, at which time I can insert the final quarter note in front of them and they disappear. Same when I adjust the second note - two unneeded rests, but there is no room to add the additional quarter note at the end of the measure (now too many beats), and no way to delete the rests. So I adjust the first quarter note to an eighth, and now I have a rest between it and the next note. Then I play a few measures through, and realize that at some point, I need to adjust because there are actually two eighth notes and three quarter notes in the measure rather than four quarter notes. I start by entering notes, usually as quarter notes, since I don't have a good sense of the time yet. I'm trying to pick out tunes on my guitar and enter them in MuseScore 2.0.3. There's got to be a better way to do this.