Click on the first measure of the score. Type 'n' to initiate note-entry mode. Type a number (1-9) to specify the duration of the note to be entered. Type a letter (a, b, c, d, e, f, g ) to specify the pitch of the note.
For more information on how to use MuseScore, please see the Handbook (found in the Help menu, or in themenu at right of this page). Also check out the tutorial videos available on the main page of this site.
For new users (I've taught a couple) I recommend using the GUI for a while. Like many applications, MuseScore has two ways of inputting many comands -- the GUI, and the keyboard. For note input using the GUI, click on the big "N" at the top left, then select the note duration, then click in a staff.
If you learn the keyboard commands you'll be much more productive in the long run, but it's easier to get started with the GUI. Also, the GUI gives you a hierarchical view of the interface, more so than the keyboard commands.
I'm not sure I agree that learning to do input using the mouse is a good way to start. It's very, very slow and cumbersome. Using keyboard shortcuts right from the start is, IMO, the best way to go. One of the great things about the way MuseScore's GUI is structured is that when one uses a keyboard shortcut, the appropriate UI icon is highlighted automatically. When the user types 'N', the 'N' icon is highlighted; when he types '5' the quarter-note icon lights up. One always knows where one is by looking at the UI, even when using the keyboard.
very true, but for me unfortunatly the only way currently, as I can't get my head round to learn the note names (well, I do know them, but not where they sit on a stave). Funny thing is, that I was able to, more then 40 years ago, playing soprano recorder straight of a sheet and even writing down tunes by ear, but that is all gone :-(
That's just reading, and if you ever once knew it, it comes back quickly. I learned to read bass clef first because I was a bassoonist; after I left school I took up recorder and had to learn to read treble clef. Over the next 40 years I forgot bass clef, and had to learn it all over again. Takes a couple of days of practise. (It can, otoh, drive one slightly nuts to switch from bass recorder (bass clef, 'F' fingerings) to tenor or soprano (treble clef, 'C' fingerings) halfway through a piece. ;o)
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Click on the first measure of the score. Type 'n' to initiate note-entry mode. Type a number (1-9) to specify the duration of the note to be entered. Type a letter (a, b, c, d, e, f, g ) to specify the pitch of the note.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
In reply to Click on the first measure of by Recorder485
Don't forget to lather!
For more information on how to use MuseScore, please see the Handbook (found in the Help menu, or in themenu at right of this page). Also check out the tutorial videos available on the main page of this site.
For new users (I've taught a couple) I recommend using the GUI for a while. Like many applications, MuseScore has two ways of inputting many comands -- the GUI, and the keyboard. For note input using the GUI, click on the big "N" at the top left, then select the note duration, then click in a staff.
If you learn the keyboard commands you'll be much more productive in the long run, but it's easier to get started with the GUI. Also, the GUI gives you a hierarchical view of the interface, more so than the keyboard commands.
In reply to For new users (I've taught a by MikeN
I'm not sure I agree that learning to do input using the mouse is a good way to start. It's very, very slow and cumbersome. Using keyboard shortcuts right from the start is, IMO, the best way to go. One of the great things about the way MuseScore's GUI is structured is that when one uses a keyboard shortcut, the appropriate UI icon is highlighted automatically. When the user types 'N', the 'N' icon is highlighted; when he types '5' the quarter-note icon lights up. One always knows where one is by looking at the UI, even when using the keyboard.
In reply to I'm not sure I agree that by Recorder485
very true, but for me unfortunatly the only way currently, as I can't get my head round to learn the note names (well, I do know them, but not where they sit on a stave). Funny thing is, that I was able to, more then 40 years ago, playing soprano recorder straight of a sheet and even writing down tunes by ear, but that is all gone :-(
In reply to very true, but for me by Jojo-Schmitz
That's just reading, and if you ever once knew it, it comes back quickly. I learned to read bass clef first because I was a bassoonist; after I left school I took up recorder and had to learn to read treble clef. Over the next 40 years I forgot bass clef, and had to learn it all over again. Takes a couple of days of practise. (It can, otoh, drive one slightly nuts to switch from bass recorder (bass clef, 'F' fingerings) to tenor or soprano (treble clef, 'C' fingerings) halfway through a piece. ;o)
In reply to That's just reading, and if by Recorder485
well, even a couple years haven't helped me
In reply to well, even a couple years by Jojo-Schmitz
I feel the same way about learning Javascript and CSS. And it's been substantially more than a couple of years.... :(