SATB has extra rests-what am I doing wrong?
I was working on homework for one of my classes. For some reason when I entered the four voices, the soprano line ended up with a row of rests under the SA staff (at least it shows up the same colour as the soprano line when I have all four voices highlighted like in the picture.) I know it has to be some simple thing I managed to click incorrectly, but ah, could anyone please tell me what that simple thing is?
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You are scoring for voices, so the rests are for each individual voice.
As (IMHO pretty clearly) described in https://musescore.org/en/handbook/voices you should not be using voice 3 and 4 for Tenor and Bass, but voice 1 and 2
So now in the bottom staff
In reply to As (IMHO pretty clearly)… by Jojo-Schmitz
The first step 4 should be step 3 and swap voices 4 & 2 since you don't want to overwrite the tenor voice.
In reply to The first step 4 should be… by mike320
outch, copy paste errors, corrected now
In reply to outch, copy paste errors,… by Jojo-Schmitz
That makes sense. Sorry, I saw the part a few lines down where it said "Enter voice 1 notes first: Make sure you are in note input mode : the Voice 1 button becomes highlighted in blue in the toolbar. Voice selector Enter the notes in the top voice first." and it somehow overrode the first part of that in my brain.
Thank you for your help.
In reply to That makes sense. Sorry, I… by Kerry McIntyre
This is a very common mistake. We've done what we can to help people doing this for the fist time but people still miss it.