Be careful! If a different note length is selected, it will overwrite the previous note.Ĭhords can also be inserted rapidly with keyboard shortcuts. We just click on top of our previously inserted note after selecting a note of the same value. Making chords is also very straightforward. They will allow you to notate music extremely quickly and make your overall experience with MuseScore much more pleasurable. While at first the keyboard shortcuts may seem complicated, as you get the hang of MuseScore, it is worthwhile to learn them. This allows us to insert an F eighth note with the keystroke sequence 4 f ↑. Hitting the up arrow will always create sharps, and the down arrow creates flats.
Notes can be adjusted by a half step by pressing the up or down arrows without holding the Ctrl key. So, inserting a C half note and moving it up an octave can be accomplished by pressing the sequence 6 C Ctrl + ↑. If you hold Ctrl (or on Mac) while pressing the up or down arrow keys, MuseScore will move the last note you inserted up or down an octave. Inserting notes this way will always insert the closest note with the desired pitch. The number keys 1 through 9 will select different durations, and the letters A through G will insert the designated note. It is possible to notate more quickly using keyboard shortcuts.
Thus, you should always select the dot after you select the value of the note you would like to be dotted. It is also automatically deselected when you change the note duration. If you would like to deselect the dot, you can click on it again. The dot will stay selected after you insert the note. In the next measure, let’s add a G dotted quarter note by clicking on the quarter note in the Note Entry toolbar, then clicking on the dot button, and then clicking on a G in the staff. We can insert dotted notes in a similar fashion by using the dot button on the Note Entry toolbar. We click on the eighth note button, then on the F line of the staff, and finally on the sharp button in the toolbar. For example, let’s insert an F eighth note. To add an accidental, simply insert the note without the accidental, and then press the appropriate accidental button in the toolbar. Since the half note was longer than the quarter rest, it also overwrote one beat from the half rest following it, and changed the rest to a quarter rest to accommodate the size of the half note. Then, we overwrote a quarter rest with a half note. First, we overwrote a whole rest with a quarter note, which caused three beats of rest to be added after the quarter note. In MuseScore, whenever we add notes, we must overwrite other notes. A half note of the pitch you chose will be added. Click on the half note, and then click an area of the staff on top of the rest that is immediately after the quarter note we just inserted. Right now, the quarter note should be selected. This area is called the Note Entry toolbar, and indicates which note will be inserted when you click on the staff. In the toolbar, you will see several notes of different lengths, such as half notes, eighth notes, and whole notes. Clicking here will cause a quarter note of that pitch to be inserted. If you hover over the staff, you should see a light blue outline of a note appear. You may also enter/exit Note Entry mode by pressing the N key.Īfter you enter Note Entry mode, the quarter note should be selected by default. You can tell whether you are in Note Entry mode at any given time by checking whether the N button is depressed. You can enter Note Entry mode by clicking on the N button in the toolbar. MuseScore has various modes that we can use to accomplish special tasks. In order to enter notes into our score, we need to enter Note Entry mode. (For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Entering notes
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