Difficulty with making certain notes
So I'm transcripting a song, and part of the song needs me to do what is shown in the picture file included. If you don't understand, I need to overlap notes. This has needed to occur multiple times during earlier parts of the piece, but I believe that part is impossible to do and I have figured out how to do it without having to overlap the notes. But for this, I want to have one note (the longer one) with a dot to make the note go longer (because a demiquaver is half a semiquaver and if I put a dot next to it my problem is fixed). But when i go to do that, it automatically attaches a dot to all the other notes on the chord. Is there any way to fix this? It would be hard to play that part of the song without this.
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No idea what that picture is about, but are you by chance in the need of using voices? See http://musescore.org/en/handbook/voices, also have a look at the links at the bottom of that page
In reply to No idea what that picture is about by Jojo-Schmitz
It's okay I've figured out a way to get the notes to work now. It was a piano piece, so voice wasn't needed. But thanks for your help :)
In reply to It's okay I've figured it out by Lingering
Not sure why you think voices and piano don't go together. 'Voices' here in MuseScore doesn't (only) mean the 'instrument' of a singer, but the rhythmical independant sets of notes in any (polyphonic) Instrument. I've heard that other software calls it 'layer'.
It was very clear that the picture was grabbed from a piano roll display.
But I didn't understand what was required either until the OP gave the information that it was a piano piece.
It is now clear that there is a left hand part and a right hand part which would be notated on separate staves, so, in this case, no voices required.
Marc is quite right, however, use of voices (layers) is very common in more complex piano scores, and it would be a good idea to learn how to use them.