How to delete measures in Musescore 3.

• Dec 6, 2019 - 22:02

I DON'T THINK YOU KNOW HOW FRIGGING MAD I AM TO NOT BE ABLE TO FRIGGING DELETE THE FRIGGING MEASURE FROM THE FRIGGING SCORE! FRIGGING EVERYONE KEPPS FRIGGING SAYING THAT THERE'S A FRIGGING "Timewise Delete" IN THIS FRIGGING SOFTWARE, BUT THERE FRIGGING ISN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gasps I think I need to lay down..... But seriously if you could help that'd be great.


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"Timewise delete" was the name of the command in an earlier version, but it's currently called "Remove selected range". Still in the Tools menu, and also, the shortcut Ctrl+Delete has always worked through all
versions of MuseScore.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

Sometimes, Musescore 3 gets into a state where the Remove Selected Range function doesn't do anything. Not really sure why. Whether using Ctrl+Del or selecting from the Tools menu, nothing happens. If I close and re-open Musescore it fixes the issue and it starts working again. Strange.

I'd also like to say that I think the Tools menu is kind of a strange place for this function. I consider this to be a type of deleting, and thus I think it makes a lot more sense to have this in the Edit menu. After all, you are editing the score.

Below is my version info:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.6.0.487915773, revision: 1977cb3

In reply to by jh_yd

That score is corrupt, so anything can happen with it:

Measure 6, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 42/24
Measure 7, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 20/16
Measure 8, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 12/8
Measure 10, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 28/16
Measure 11, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 26/16
Measure 22, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 34/16
Measure 23, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 72/48
Measure 40, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 28/16
Measure 272, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 2/4; Found: 5/8
Measure 272, staff 5 incomplete. Expected: 2/4; Found: 5/8
Measure 272, staff 8 incomplete. Expected: 2/4; Found: 5/8
Measure 272, staff 9 incomplete. Expected: 2/4; Found: 5/8

Than again deleting those 2 measures just works, is disabling multimeasure rests first

In reply to by jh_yd

Seems to work just fine over here. Do note though that there were some corruptions listed when opening that score, which means that there's a good chance edits will respond in unexpected ways.

m33 and 34 are shown as a single multimeasure rest for me, so the question I have for you now is: How are you selecting those measures?
Do you see the blue rectangle around the MMrest before attempting the delete range command? If not, then you've not selected a "range".

Maybe this is a Big Sur thing, but I cannot delete an empty measure. No combinations of keys or selection "Delete Selected Range" from the menu works. I really want to support MuseScore and I believe in open source, but I don't have time to waste on simple things like this, every time MS updates. I appreciate the hard work but I don't see how anyone could rely on this software. After 5 years of fighting on and off, I give up.

In reply to by bwanicur

If you look at the delete selected range in the menu, to the right will be the shortcut. If there is nothing to the right of it then there is no shortcut defined. Open Edit->Preferences (it might be MuseScore->Preferences on Mac) then in the shortcut tab find Remove Selected Range and define a shortcut.

In reply to by bwanicur

I'd stop wasting time on MacOS then as well.. Every big update they make they break compatibility with a lot of applications (including MuseScore or drivers).
It's not that I don't appreciate their hard work, it's just stupid to have to waste time on such things..

In reply to by jeetee

I can't argue with your complaints about Mac OS. I can remember a time when people were buying macs because they supported audio software better. However, other notation programs manage (somewhat) to navigate the upgrade minefield. I'd rather support Musescore, but it seems to become unusable often.

In reply to by bwanicur

A very few Mac users have reported a rare problem where somehow this command disables itself until you close and restart MuseScore. As far as I know no one has managed to reproduce it, but it happens just often enough, and only to Mac users, that I have don't doubt there is a bug in there somewhere. But it's a rare problem, with a simple workaround, no need to give up on the software!

In reply to by Gliese667Cc

Intuition is overrated when regarded as an equally allotted human trait.
Because it relates to knowledge and experience, it differs among individuals. What's 'intuitive' to one person may not be to the next.
Frustration, on the other hand, is more universal... ;-)

Consider this scenario:
Task a banjo player with playing a simple major scale... but
hand him a saxophone and you will observe more frustration than intuition.
hand him a mandolin and you will observe more intuition than frustration.

OK... so now:
Task a musician to notate a simple major scale...
hand him a sheet of blank staff paper - no problem.
hand him a laptop with MuseScore installed -- yikes!... different issues may arise depending on his level of computer experience, potential knowledge of, and therefore confusion with, other notation apps' methodology, reluctance to read the MuseScore manual, etc. These are all generalizations, hypotheticals.

So...
That's why the 'Support and bug reports' forum exists -- to address specific issues. Please respond there with any actual problems you encounter.
Forum volunteers will be glad to help.

I don't know why everyone says control delete, I do control delete, and it removes the notes, but I'm stuck with 113 empty measures at the beginning of my score. How do I get rid of them?

I NEVER HAD SO MUCH FRIGGING SATISFACTION AS I DID WHEN I DISCOVERED I´M NOT THE ONLY FRIGGING IDIOT TRYING TO DO THIS. IF YOU CAN´T DELETE A FRIGGING BAR/MEASURE/SYSTEM/PIECE OF FRIGGING RUBBISH YOU DON´T FRIGGING WANT WITHOUT THE FRIGGING WALLS FALLING IN, WHAT´S THE FRIGGING POINT OF BEING HERE?

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