Selecting a chord
Sorry for this simple question, but I don't find how to select a chord (goal being to do copy paste)
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Sorry for this simple question, but I don't find how to select a chord (goal being to do copy paste)
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Copy and paste works on rangew, so you really just need to select a range that includes the chord. If you just want a single chord, easiest way is to hit Esc to clear any current selection than Shift+click the chord. You could also, for example, click a note in the chord, then Shift+right to extend the selection and then Shift+left to contract it again, or use Shift+drag, probably other creative ways people can come up with...
In reply to Copy and paste works on by Marc Sabatella
Shift+Click or Click + Shift up, or click shift-right shift-left:
all these select more than the chord: all voices are selected.
In reply to Shift+Click or Click + Shift by frfancha
tries to integrated with https://musescore.org/en/handbook/copy-and-paste#selection-filter
In reply to tries to integrated with by Shoichi
It says:
For a single note or chord, as opposed to a range, hold down Shift and click on a note in the chord
But that's not true: doing so select all voices
In reply to It says: For a single note or by frfancha
Excuse me (I have problems with the language) does not work to exclude the voice 2 with the filter?
In reply to Excuse me (I have problems by Shoichi
Ok got it => it works, thanks.
But having to use a filter function just to select a chord seems quite cumbersome to me (while I agree that for complex cases this filter seems very powerful)
In reply to Ok got it => it works, by frfancha
Next "problem": after having selected with the filter (thanks Shoichi), select a note of voice 2, paste the chord: the selection is ignored: the chord replaces the note/rest of voice 1 instead of voice 2.
Is it possible to paste in another voice?
In reply to Next "problem": after having by frfancha
One way would be before pasting: Edit / Voices Exchange Voice 1-2
In reply to Next "problem": after having by frfancha
So you mean you are selecting & copying something in voice 1, but you want to paste into voice 2? Yes, the exchange voice command would be the way to go. Again, quite an unusual use case though. Note that if you just want to copy a single *note*, you can do that easily enough without needing a range, and you can paste that note into a chord or rest in another voice and it will work.
In reply to Ok got it => it works, by frfancha
Well, needing to copy just one chord in one voice rather than a range is an unusual special case, so I am not sure why there should be a special command just to accomplish that. Copy and paste is practically by definition something that works on a *range*, not individual chords - consider what would happen if you had *multiple* chords selected that were not discontiguous.
In reply to Well, needing to copy just by Marc Sabatella
As you say, copy/paste is implemented for single note and works perfectly, I don't understand why it could not work for chords?
''Copy and paste is practically by definition something that works on a *range*, not individual chords - consider what would happen if you had *multiple* chords selected that were not discontiguous''
Again, works perfectly for single notes, why for single chords it couldn't work?
In reply to As you say, copy/paste is by frfancha
There is no such thing as selecting a chord. If you aren't selecting a range, selection is either a single element or else a (possibly discontiguous) list of elements. So if you think you are selecting a "chord", it's really just a list of elements - a handful of notes, a stem, maybe a flag or beam, etc - and really as far as MuseScore knows you might be selecting notes from different staves, different measures - a list selection is just a list of things, could be *anything* really.
Copy and paste does *not* work for discontiguous selections of notes, and if you think about it, it should be perfectly obvious why it cannot. How would MuseScore figure out which notes in the destination should be replaced? It has to be one-for-one. We do a bunch of special casing and guesswing to allow, for example, lyrics or chord symbols to be pasted even for discontiguous selections, but those are much simpler cases because you don't also have to consider issues like different durations, multiple notews in same chord, etc.
In reply to Well, needing to copy just by Marc Sabatella
''Copy and paste is practically by definition something that works on a *range*''
Indeed, I have tried, if you select 2 notes with ctrl+click, copy paste does nothing.
But I wonder why.
I'm working on a project with a single voice and a bunch of chords above it, and those chords need to be copied to multiple parts the same way. I have had to make revisions to these chords which makes selecting them from each part and then deleting to copy over the new chords very cumbersome. Is there a more efficient way to copy all chords without any other information (notes, articulations, etc..)?
In reply to I'm working on a project… by arod1213
Select a section of music, right click a chord, choose Select>All similar items in Range Selection. Copy then click the destination and paste. The chords will be spaced exactly as in the original.
In reply to Select a section of music,… by mike320
Thank you very much