Deleting notes in a chord
I know normal you don't need to delete notes, you just replace them.
However, in this situation I DO need to delete notes.
I want erase a chord and in it's place just have a single note. deleting all the notes but one in the chord. How do I do that?
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Click the notes you want to delete one at a time and press delete. Or simoly enter the new note right on top of the old chord - eg, click the chord and type the new note.
I tried to do it that way and it doesn't work.
Is that a feature of a newer version? I have musescore 1.3 on my mac laptop.
In reply to Pressing delete does not delete the chords. by regalrender
Macs don't generally have a true delete key - they have a backspace key masquerading as a delete key. To get actual delete functionality on a mac, you need Fn+Delete.
Also, as I said, simply entering the new note directly on top of the old chord works - there is really no need to delete notes of a chord one by one.
I never use a delete button, i just select the note and hit control-x to cut it. It's a little slow, but i haven't found a better way to do it
In reply to I never use a delete button, by Scorelock
What do you mean by "a little slow"? Somehow you need to tell MuseScore what you want to delete, and somehow you need to tell MuseScore to actually do not. No matter how you slice it that is going to require two clicks / keystrokes. Not sure how else you'd expect to do it?
In reply to What do you mean by "a little by Marc Sabatella
Most tines if you are deleting chords, you would want to keep just the top note. I checked to see if there was a way to do that, and since there wasn't, I commented the way I prefer to do it. It does take a while, there was nothing strange about saying it was "a little slow"
In reply to Most tines if you are by Scorelock
Well, *most* times if you are deleting chords, you want the whole chord deleted, and this doesn't require selecting notes individually - just select the range. So your specific use case is still not completely clear, but I *think* maybe you are describing a case where for whatever reason you have a sequence of chords and you are deciding you now want only the the melody formed by the top note of each chord. Perhaps you also want to keep the other notes but put them in other staves. Either way, see Edit / Tools / Explode. It separates the notes of the chord automatically. So there should not normally be a reason to select notes individually as you are.
If that still doesn't help, please attach a sample score and describe in more detail what you are actually trying to do, and chances are we can shoe you a way to do it more efficiently.