how to add a sharp to a single bar
I was wanting to copy a hand-written text; to musescore;
the vocal music has a bass clef; and the middle C has a sharp in front of it for one bar;
(the bar is middle C as crochet and quaver...)
and if I mark a sharp in front of the first middle C (crochet) of the bar, and then write a second middle C (quaver) the programme inserts the natural sign; so my solution was click the sharp symbol on the menu bar ..so I end up with multiple sharp signs in the one bar .............
(I had tried to insert a sharp symbol for C in that bar; at the beginning of the bar; and I could not either ..work it out..or search successfully how to do this..........)
after this one bar, C reverts to natural
Comments
If you just want to make one note a C# then either place a sharp in front of it, select the note and press the Up Arrow or use a keyboard shortcut. MuseScore then (correctly) places a natural in front of the next occurring C in that bar.
If you want all the Cs in the bar to be C# then select them all and press the Up Arrow. MuseScore then makes them all sharp but only places a sharp symbol in front of the first one as per conventional musical notation.
In reply to If you just want to make one by underquark
many thanks for your prompt reply;
"then select them all"
......I am sorry: can you point out how to do this;
In reply to many thanks for your prompt by pdc_2
Selecting multiple objects in MsueScore is done the same as most other programs: click first item, shift click last. Or click first, shift+right to extend selection one element at a time. Or ctrl+click elements individually. Or drag a box around them, although MuseScore is a littl different from other programs in that you need to hold shift while dragging (otherwise it just drags the canvas).
In reply to Selecting multiple objects in by Marc Sabatella
thank you very much; that has worked well; very kind of you to post such helpful detail
In reply to If you just want to make one by underquark
I didn't know about the trick where you can do all Cs at once, and have the # symbols handled automatically. But I think the following would be simpler in the OP's case: After doing the first C#, then select just the later C and hit the Up Arrow, which will remove the natural sign.
In reply to Changing individual notes by MikeN
thanks very much for this; having set each C to have a sharp sign in front of it; as that was all I could do;
going back to edit it: I selected the second and subsequent notes in the bar; by pressing the down arrow I converted each sharp sign to a natural; and then pressing the up arrow removed it;
(when I selected each note with a sharp sign added; and pressed the up arrow initially; it seemed to move the value of the note from C to D ........................)
this is great; I am learning and it is a great programme; many thanks for the support
In reply to remove sharp sign for subsequent (identical) notes in a bar by pdc_2
To be clear: up and down arrow raise or lower the pitch a half step. So you have a C# selected, then up changes to D, down changes to C.