Removing measures
Running Musescore 2.0.3. Can't seem to remove measures from the beginning of a score without affecting the balance of the score. The only way I made this happen also lowered the rest of the by an octave. Can anyone help?
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Can you share the score giving that problem?
Yes, seeing the score is a must. I suspect that you are removing a clef along with the measure.
Thanks for responding. The piece is scored for piano, grand staff, key F♭, but I prefer not to post it. I do know enough not to include the clefs in the attempt to remove the initial measures. In fact, I tried removing measure 2 only, and couldn't. No problem deleting the contents of, course, but no luck with the actual measures. I'm hoping someone can give me the procedure, as I can't find it in the online guide and it isn't apparent at first glance how to do it from the onscreen command options.
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I removed my post.
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If for some reason it isn't working, feel free to delete the rest of the notes before posting if you're worried for whatever reason. But it's difficult to do more than guess at the problem without seeing the score.
Thanks all for posting. I did try the ctrl/del method, which worked perfectly for measure #2, but when I tried removing measure #1, the rest of the score was transposed by an octave. However, I just duplicated the second measure into the empty first measure, then removed the second measure using the ctrl/del command. All is now good (until the next headscratcher). Tin Pan Alley, here I come.
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Again without seeing at least a portion of the score we can only guess, but my guess is that the first measure contains a non-standard (for that instrument) clef change, so deleting the first measure reset the clef to whatever is standard for that instrument, and this makes it *looks* like it transposed by an octave even though it really wouldn't be.
My thanks to all who responded. I will keep a note on the ctrl/del command, since I couldn't find that without asking for help. As an aside, my previous reference to F♭ is, of course, an error, meant to say F minor, four flats, don't know where my head was on that blunder!
Musescore has been a tremendous resource for me (said as a past and future donor to the site). Once again, a hearty thank-you to all for the support.
What about this: Select measure 3 until End, cut and copy it to measure 1.
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Thanks, I'll keep that in mind as well.