erasing rests
I have a swarm of superficial rests. What is the best way to zap them into dissappance
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You cant delete rests in voice 1. Therefore you should use voice 1 in each staff,
So change voices 3 and 4 in the lover staff to 1 and 2, then you can delete all remaining rest.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/voices#delete-hide-rests
N.B.: From the handbook page referenced above:
"There is no need to use (MuseScore) voices 3 and 4 unless there are more than two parts in the same staff. This means that in the bass clef of a “close score”, the tenor is voice 1 and the bass is voice 2—beginners often without thinking assign the bass to 1, resulting in stem-direction confusion, or assign tenor to voice 3 and bass to voice 4, which then leads to confusing rests appearing in voice 1 (which cannot be deleted)."
It seems to me that there are really very few places where you needed more than voice 1 to do everything.
In reply to It seems to me that there… by bobjp
For example, I redid your first two measures all in voice 1. On piano, I am hard pressed to hear any difference. If these were vocal parts, different voices might be needed to sustain the quarter notes against 8ths in the bass clef.
In reply to For example, I redid your… by bobjp
I redid your first two measures all in voice 1
Hmm.. Did you attach the correct score?
In reply to I redid your first two… by Jm6stringer
The first two measures are the original. The second two measures are what I redid.
In reply to The first two measures are… by bobjp
I redid your first two measures all in voice 1
The second two measures are what I redid.
So not all is in voice 1. Look at measure 4 in the treble clef. I still see 2 voices, the same as measure 1, treble clef.
In reply to I redid your first two… by Jm6stringer
Thanks for pointing that out. That score (obviously posted in error) is not the final version, which does have everything in voice 1. However, the point and result of the exorcize remains the same. The OP wanted to remove rests. What I posted was but one of many ways to do just that.
In reply to Thanks for pointing that out… by bobjp
Thank you for confirming and clearing any confusion, especially when it relates to advising newcomers, who may not perceive an error as being obvious.
In reply to Thank you for confirming and… by Jm6stringer
As your quote from the manual points out, voices 3 and 4 probably shouldn't have been used in the bass clef. But as you know, there still would have been unwanted rests if he had used voices 1 and 2, also. One way of removing those rests is all I was trying to show. And even though I stated that my example was one voice, maybe I was also showing an example of two voices:)