How to add guitar to a string quartet

• May 8, 2016 - 14:23

I searched but I couldn't find help on this one.

I have a piece for a string quartet and a guitar, but I'm having trouble to get the staves and brackets right. The guitar is like out of the big brackets and the barlines do not go across like to do with the rest of the quartet. How can I just add the guitar to the quartet so it looks nice.

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Thank you a lot.


Comments

For the barlines, double-click one of them in the guitar staff and extend it until it connects, and they'll all automatically adjust.

For the bracket, I'm afraid you'll need to select it, delete it, then add a new one from the Brackets palette and extend that to cover all five staves the same way you did with the barline.

In reply to by Isaac Weiss

I didn't find a way to delete the bracket... but I just "cut" it now when trying your advice.. basically the same.

The barline trick worked wonderfully, a shame I didn't try that myself.

Thanks. Everything's set now

:)

In reply to by KenKeff

For the record, pressing the Delete button on your keybaord deletes things. Many Mac's don't have a true Delete key - only a Backsapce key that is labeled "Delete" for some reason, and in some versions of MuseScore you might need to use the standard Mac shortcut "Fn+Delete" to make it work like a true Delete. I think the current version (2.0.3) should work with just plain Delete, though?

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

In fact, that has been working since 2.0—a few other key combinations involving that didn't get fixed until later, but all are working now.

BTW, I think I've mentioned this before about [Home]/[End] and related keys—it comes down to full keyboard layout vs. laptop keyboard. The full Mac keyboard does have another [Delete] key off to the right with a forward-delete icon on it.

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