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MuseScore is a software used to compose sheet music on a PC or Mac computer. You can add together layers of musical symbols on staves to create a full limerick for export to PDF, MIDI, mp3, or .wav files.

Make a New Score

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    Press Ctrl + N on your keyboard. You can also printing a push on the top left corner with the picture of a page and a star.

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    Add the title, subtitle, composer, etc. These parts are optional and tin be edited after on.

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    Select a template. In that location are various styles and with dissimilar preset instruments and voices bachelor.

    • You can also choose an empty template and add your own instruments onto the page.

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    Select the central your piece will be in. You lot may also cull a tempo, this is also optional since you lot can edit it later on.

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    Choose your time signature, pickup measure, and the number of measures in your slice. You can edit the number of measures in your piece subsequently on.

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    Click Finish.

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Calculation Notes

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    Press the 'Northward' push at the top left of the window or press Northward on keyboard to plough on Note Input Mode.

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    Drag your mouse over the bar lines and add the note wherever you'd like. You tin likewise type in the letter of the alphabet of the annotation (i.eastward. A to 1000).

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    Increase or decrease the pitch of the note past toggling the upwardly and down pointer keys.

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    Move the note up or down an octave by holding Ctrl and toggling the up or down arrow keys.

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Adding Dotted Notes

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    Add a note like a normal 1.

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    Click on the note you'd like to add a dot to. And then press on the "." on your keyboard or the "Augmentation Dot" on the top.

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Deleting Notes

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    Select the note and press Delete on your keyboard.

    • If a note was accidentally deleted, you lot tin undo it by pressing Ctrl + Z .
      • While in "Notation Input Mode", pressing Delete is the same as undoing what you did. Exist certain to close "Note Input Mode" so that yous can directly out delete the annotation.

Adding Instruments

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    Click on Edit at the carte bar and click on Instruments to admission the instruments carte du jour. You can also press I to open up the menu.

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    Add together the instrument(southward) of your choice.

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    Switch the society of the instruments using the up and down arrows in the middle bar.

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    Press OK .

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Calculation Measures

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    Select a bar or measure.

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    Click on Add on the menu bar. Coil through Measures. Select the choice of inserting one measure or multiple measures. The measure will be inserted to the left of selected bar.

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=== Accidentals, Ornaments, and Grace Notes ===

Adding Accidentals

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    Select the annotation yous need want to add an accidental on.

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    Go to the height of the screen until you see a '#' and a '♭'.

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    Click on the desired accidental and it will exist added onto your note.

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Adding Objects from the Palette

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    Open Palettes on the side bar by pressing F9 .

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    Open upwards your desired category. Click on the symbol, and drag it wherever you would want it to be.

    • The Grace Annotation will non affect the beat. Y'all tin also pitch of the grace note by dragging it or toggling the upwards and downwards arrow keys.

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Adding Ties

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    Select the notes which you lot want to tie together. Press Shift + + on your keyboard to tie them together.

    • You tin also find a button on the board at the top.
    • If there is a like note after the second note selected, this will besides necktie them together.

Adding Voices or Parts to Your Scores

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    Use different colored numbers (blue, green, tan, and regal) to add a different voice to your music. This way, y'all could add together notes of different lengths to the aforementioned measure without having to use a lot ties.

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    Select a note then assign it to a vocalism to separate the measure into 2 parts.

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Calculation Lyrics

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    Select the note which you want to type the first discussion onto.

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    Printing Ctrl+L, and information technology will let you type the discussion(southward) downward.

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    Press infinite or add a hyphen to bound to the next notation. Information technology will automatically become to the adjacent notation when you practice this.

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Changing the Tempo

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    Select the notation.

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    Click on Add together on the menu bar. Curl through Text and locate Tempo Marking. A text box with a tempo marking will appear at the summit of the measure.

    • You can too employ the shortcut of pressing Alt + T for Macintosh Users or Ctrl + Alt + T for Window Users.
    • If y'all're not satisfied with the trounce note, you tin elevate a tempo marking from the Palette.

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    Adjust the BPM.

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Making Tuplets

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    Select a residual or a note.

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    Click on Notes at the menu bar. Scroll through Tuplets and select the tuplet you want.

    • Click on Other to make more than ix notes in your tuplet.

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Transposing

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    Click on Notes on the carte du jour bar then click on Transpose .

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    Modify it to the primal signature you would like to transpose the piece to.

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Opening Saved Files

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    Click on File on the card bar then click on Open up .

    • You lot tin too utilise the shortcut of pressing Ctrl + O on your keyboard.

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    Navigate through your folders and locate the file y'all want to open. Double click the file to open information technology.

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Add New Question

  • Question

    How can I add together the staff for my left hand?

    Animebread

    Go to 'Edit' at the top and notice 'Instruments'; click that and find the instrument that you want to add a left hand staff to. And then select 'Add together Staff'.

  • Question

    How do I use "Double #" in musescore?

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    Community Answer

    It'll exist a little ten (𝄪), and it should be along with the rest of the accidentals.

  • Question

    How do I write 2 different notes in 1 infinite on MuseScore?

    Community Answer

    Agree shift and write the letter name of the other note you want while the first note is selected.

  • Question

    How can I do a pick-up?

    Community Answer

    In the New Score Sorcerer, after y'all accept selected the championship, instruments, etc., select Pickup Measure from the options (default 1/4), and there yous have it!

  • Question

    How do I add another page?

    Community Answer

    At that place are 2 options. You can either become to the palettes and click on "Breaks & Spacers," and so double click on the page, or you can but printing ctrl + enter.

  • Question

    I thought I could input past microphone in this programme. Does that non work?

    Community Answer

    That characteristic doesn't be, however.

  • Question

    Is there a visible style to tell if annotation entry is on or off?

    Community Answer

    On the note input push button, if the push is blueish, it is on. Otherwise, it is off.

  • Question

    How practice I edit somebody else's score?

    Community Answer

    You lot cannot edit anyone else'south score. You tin can, even so, re-create their scores, and so you tin edit your own version of it.

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    How practise I get staccato?

    Animebread

    Go to the left side of the screen where the palette is located. If the palette is not visible get to the summit bar where information technology says 'view' and discover and click palette. Discover 'Articulations and Ornaments' and click the pointer which will open a drop downwardly menu. The staccato will be in the 2nd row, third column. Just look for the unmarried black dot. Hovering over each individual ornament will reveal it's name if yous cannot find information technology.

  • Question

    How practice I add echo signs?

    Animebread

    Notice 'Palette' on the left side of your screen, and if you do not have that, go to 'View' at the top and observe 'Palette'. Go to the Barlines section and select the arrow. The repeat sign will exist nether there. If you would like to do the echo measure sign go to 'Repeats and Jumps' located nether 'Palette' and click the pointer. The starting time sign will be the repeat mensurate sign.

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  • The Getting Started score that appears in the Start Heart when yous first open MuseScore is like to an interactive "How to Apply MuseScore".

  • Some useful shortcuts for Windows Users:

    • Ctrl + Fifty will add lyrics to your score.
    • Ctrl + P volition print out your score.
    • Ctrl + Q exits you out of MuseScore.
    • Ctrl + Z will undo your music.
    • Ctrl + Y will redo your music.
    • Ctrl + N volition create a new score.
    • Ctrl + S will salvage your score.
    • Ctrl + O volition opens upward a popular-upwardly to open another score.
    • Ctrl + Alt + T volition let you alter your tempo.
    • Ctrl + T volition add staff text.
    • Ctrl + Shift + T will add together system text.
    • Ctrl + Thou will collapse/expand empty measures.
    • Ctrl + Del will delete selected measures.

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