Horizontal brackets to group notes
Is there a way to create horizontal (downward-facing) brackets to group notes for educational purposes, as in this example?
Doug 
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Absolutely. See (for another instrument and purpose, but the way and the result are identical): https://musescore.org/en/node/18793#comment-526656
In reply to Absolutely. See (for another by cadiz1
Thanks, it works great! Since I want multiple brackets, is there a way to copy a bracket so I don't have to create a new one every time? When I click on the first bracket and right-click Copy, and then select another note and right-click Paste, nothing happens. Or is there a way to add my new bracket to the Lines palette?
Doug
In reply to Thanks, it works great! Since by darkstream
Possible, always!
"When I click on the first bracket and right-click Copy, and then select another note and right-click Paste, nothing happens"
Indeed, knowed issue. Copy-paste the lines doesn't work. But, you can duplicate them, simply by pressing continuously Ctrl + Shift and drag and drop your first bracket on another measure or notehead (https://musescore.org/en/node/46471#comment-405466), the second bracket to the third one, and so on! So, you remain on the spot, always!
"Or is there a way to add my new bracket to the Lines palette?"
Yes, by the same way (ie Ctrl + Shift, drag and drop into the palette), you can add all the lines you want into a palette for reuse. By this way, you may use a double-click to add a line from the palette to the score ( note or measure).
Assuming however that you have created a custom workspace, so you can edit your palettes.
If not done, see (add diagrams or lines, whatever): https://musescore.org/en/node/117866#comment-533756
In reply to Possible, always! "When I by cadiz1
taking the horizontal brackets one step further, please view the attached jpg image...is constructing this type of bracket a 3-step process involving a line on the left with a left downward hook, a line on the right with right downward hook and the numeral added between the bracket in a staff text box (ctrl + t)?
In reply to taking the horizontal… by hrdrckdrum
No, these are somewhat unusual tuplets with some unusual beaming.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/tuplets and https://musescore.org/en/handbook/beams
A bit tricky to create, but see attached
In reply to No, these are tuplets. by Jojo-Schmitz
jojo-schmitz...they are actually not tuplets, they are straight 16th's and the brackets are simply used to define groupings of 3 strokes, they have nothing to do with the note values. can you be more specific about where i can find this type of bracket being used in the documentation, please? thank you for your reply!
In reply to jojo-schmitz...they are… by hrdrckdrum
Such brackets don't exist. You might be able to build them using a the line from the lines palette
In reply to Such brackets don't exist… by Jojo-Schmitz
I didn't see your jpg attachment in your previous comment. I see that you recreated the brackets, but did you set these up as triplets & quintuplets and change the edit the beam start and beam middle???
In reply to I didn't see your jpg… by hrdrckdrum
Yes, exactly, triplets and quintuplets plus beaming adustments
In reply to jojo-schmitz...they are… by hrdrckdrum
If I saw this I would have to agree with Jojo about the interpretation of it. Those grouping bars in sheet music are not ambiguous, beaming on the other hand is for ease of reading. The person who wrote this score has done a disservice to the musician reading the score. There is not way to recreate these markings in MuseScore without using brackets.
If you insist the notes are correct then make tuplets and adjust the beams as needed. You probably will need to read https://musescore.org/en/node/260646 for the 5th-lets. Use the menu Notes->Tuplets->Other... for all of them and set the ratios to 3/3 and 5/5.
In reply to If I saw this I would have… by mike320
mike320 - i think this is my follow up question to jojo. let me give this a try and thank you for adding your comments.
In reply to mike320 - i think this is my… by hrdrckdrum
There was much cross-posting happening before. Jojo used the same methods I suggested for creating this.
In reply to taking the horizontal… by hrdrckdrum
Hello hrdrckdrum...
By using the lines palette, they can be saved to a custom palette:
Each bracket is comprised of 2 pieces. One piece shows the number.
Here's a file to experiment:
Brackets.mscz
Regards
In reply to Hello hrdrckdrum… by Jm6stringer
YES!!!!!!