anacrusis and final bar
I have written a piece in 4/4 and it begins with a quaver up-beat. To get this quaver, I went to 'bar properties' and looked at 'Nominal' and 'actual'. I changed 'Actual' to one beat (crotchet). I then turned that into two quavers, used the second quaver to create my up-beat and pressed 'V' to make the first one invisible. (Must be an easier way).
Then I wanted to make my final bar three and a half beats to make the whole thing add up. I made the final bar have 4 beats and made the final quaver rest invisible.
Then I put a D.C al Fine on the last bar and a Fine where I wanted it to finish.
Musecore plays through it but there's a quaver gap at the end and so doesn't go straight back to the up-beat.
I know I'm doing something wrong and getting confused so any help gratefully received. Thanks
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You can remove unwanted rests using Remove selected range or shortcut CTRL+Delete. That also shortens the measure. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/tools#timewise-delete
DC = Da Capo = "to the head" ... i.e to the very begining, including the anacrusis. You need a DS = Dal Sego = "to the sign", in combination with a Segno mark on the first complete measure. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/repeats-and-jumps#jumps
In reply to You can remove unwanted… by SteveBlower
Also, note that you are not restricted to whole beats when you change the actual duration of a measure. For a single quaver {8th note} anacrusis you can make the actual duration 1/8. or for a semiquaver 1/16 etc.
In reply to Also, note that you are not… by SteveBlower
Thank you so much! 1/8 to create the up-beat and 7/8 for the final bar and that was it - worked perfectly!