How to keep notes from being cramped.

• Jul 14, 2016 - 02:59

As you can see from the score, the beams in the treble and bass clefs are crossing each other in the second measure. Since I'm going to use three voices per staff for this piece, and I don't want to change the direction of the stems and beams, I need to be able to increase the vertical staff size between the treble and bass clefs. How do I do that manually? I'm using Musescore 2.0.3. Please answer quickly. Thanks! (And yes, I know Musescore 3 will do that automatically, but I want to know how to do that with the version I've got instead of waiting for Musescore 3, so don't tell me to wait, please.)

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Comments

Isaac Weiss

• Jul 14, 2016 - 03:07

Drag a staff spacer out of the Breaks & Spacers palette.

2142Kitch

• Jul 14, 2016 - 03:13

I did so, but it didn't visibly widen the staff. How do I fix that?

Isaac Weiss

• Jul 14, 2016 - 03:21

Double-click and extend as necessary, or alternatively adjust the length via the Inspector.

2142Kitch

• Jul 14, 2016 - 03:23

I'd like to be able to see it visibly widened vertically, if that makes my meaning plainer. When I look at the file in MuseScore, I want to see it without the beams clashing. I might make unnecessary mistakes that I wouldn't make otherwise.

Isaac Weiss

• Jul 14, 2016 - 03:26

That's exactly what the staff spacer does. If you can't figure out how to work it, you can attach the MSCZ file and I'll put it in for you.

Jm6stringer

• Jul 14, 2016 - 04:27

See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/breaks-and-spacers#adding-a-break-or-…
and:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/breaks-and-spacers#adjust-a-spacer