Mark a note in second part, when part one note is in same place
Hi again. I really searched for this one too, but can't find.
I have two parts on one row. Now some notes are in the same place, and it make one note head, with two stems.
Now I want to mark the note in the second part, but can just mark the one in first part. How to do without deleting part one, formatting part two first, and then add part one again. I would not like to do like that, or type part two first, formatting, typing part one after that.
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What do you mean when you say you want to "mark" a note? When asking for help, it is always best to post the specific score you are having problems with, the steps you are following, what youu expect to see happen, and what happens instead.
In reply to What do you mean when you say by Marc Sabatella
My English would be to lousy to describe AND point to something in my score.
What I mean (my problem):
If I want to change a note, flip head, change bar, move it or do something else with it, I have to mark it. TO do that, I click on the head.
But when part 1 and 2 have the notes in the same position/place, it is impossible to click the note in part 2. Whatever I do, the part 1 note is coloured and can be changed.
Hope this time I explained better.
My music vocabulary in English is really bad ...
In reply to My English would be to lousy by Nummerskivan
click one, ctrl+click others ?
In reply to click one, ctrl+click others by Jojo-Schmitz
@Nummerskivan,
I fear that my English be the worst of your (Google translator does not do miracles).
F6 allows you to select the voice 2.
You can try: double-clicking on the note of Voice 1, then Ctrl + right arrow. Now adjust Voice 2.
A click on the modified note (voice 1) and use Ctrl + R
Maybe there are better ways ...
In reply to @Nummerskivan, I fear that my by Shoichi
I did that, moved the part 1 note, clicked the one from part 2, modified and then moved the part 1 note back.
Seams not to be the best and fastest way.
In reply to click one, ctrl+click others by Jojo-Schmitz
Jojo-Smith, that does not work. :/
In reply to Jojo-Smith, that does not by Nummerskivan
Then I probably didn't understand what you wanted to achieve ;-)
(and the name is Schmitz, not Smith, same root, different language and spelling)
In reply to Then I probably didn't by Jojo-Schmitz
^_^ I couldn't see your alias/name when I wrote the answer, so it was just from what I briefly saw before. I am totally new at this forum, and it does not have the form I am used to :) I just did not find your alias when I looked.
In reply to My English would be to lousy by Nummerskivan
I think I understand - two voices on the same staff, and on one beat they have the same pitch, and you want to do something special with that note for some reason. Easiest way is usually to select the *next* note, then hit left arrow to move back to it. Or select the *previous* note, then hit right arrow.
Also works to click one note, Ctrl+Up to move it up an octave, then click the other note, do what you want, then move the other back.
In reply to I think I understand - two by Marc Sabatella
Thanks! It worked to select another note an then arrow to right/left to hit the one I want.
I have moved the part one note, but the risk is something happens and you lose/forget where everything were :P I accidentally moved wrong note and so on.
But there really should be a way to click directly on a note, by using ctrl or something.
In reply to Thanks! It worked to select by Nummerskivan
Can you explain in more detail what exactly you are trying to do? The situation you are describing shouldn't really come up very often unless maybe you are doing something unusual. I mean, sure, unisons are common enough, but they are normally handeled correctly, so there shouldn't often be a need to change things about them. Can you post a sample score and explain what you are trying to do that makes this more than a once-every-hundred-measures-or-more issue?
In reply to Can you explain in more by Marc Sabatella
Hi! I wrote soprano part and alto part in same row. They have the same notes here and there. Same goes for tenor and bas om another row.
Same goes sometimes for pipe organ notes when the pedals is in the left hand note row (instead of having it's own row), like a bass part.
What I wanted to change, was the bar. 4 notes together with one bar, and I really wanted them together two and two. I know I can fix during entering the notes, but then I have to change mode very often. I usually type the notes first, then fix stuff like bows, signs, bars and so on.
In reply to Hi! I wrote soprano part and by Nummerskivan
Are you referring to the beaming? If so, there is no need to do this one note at a time. Right click the time signature, Time Signature Properties, and you can change the fedault beaming for all notesat ocne (won't change any beams you've already set manually). Once this is done, there hardly ever be need to override the default beaming.
Also, you can define keybaord shortcuts for the beaming commands (see Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts), which will allow you to override beaming defaults during note entry much more easily.
Between these two techniques, you should virtually never need to go back and override beaming later.