Note entry not working
Hi - I am new and just getting started.
I am running MuseScore 1.1 on Windows Vista SP3 and am attempting to create some snare drum check patterns for my students.
In order to do this I follow the instructions from the Getting Started video. All works well until I click the mouse to enter/display the note on the staff. When I click, nothing appears.
MuseScore in 10 Easy Steps: Part 3 Note Entry Basics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZgeZApBgE&feature=player_embedded&nore…
Any help or suggestions would be great - thanks!
drumteach
Comments
Did you double click?
In reply to Did you double click? by xavierjazz
Hi Xavierjazz - thanks for the response. I have double clicked and single clicked. Here are the steps I performed - can you see anything I my be doing wrong?
1. file, new
2. enter title - click next
3. select unpitched percussion
4. select snare
5. click add
6. click next
7. select key signature click next
8. enter time signature (4/4)
9. enter number of bars (4)
10. click Finish
- a single line appears in 4/4 time and each measure contains a whole rest.
-i press N from the keyboard and confirm i am in Note Entry mode (Bar 1 Beat 1.000)
- the first measure rest turns blue and the blue cursor appears at the beginning of the first measure
- i click the cursor then select the eighth note from the notes in the the toolbar
- a light blue notehead appears at my mouse pointer
- if i single or double click on the staff line nothing happens.
In reply to Note entry not working by drumteach
Ah - percussion parts are different.
Take a look at Katie's tutorial on entering drum parts here: http://www.musescoretips.com/2011/01/drum-parts/
HTH
Michael
In reply to Ah - percussion parts are by ChurchOrganist
Hi Michael - that did it....thanks. Now I am off to explore accents and fingering. Thanks again for your help.
Have you entered Note Entry Mode by either clicking on the N at the left side of the palette or pressing N on the computer keyboard?
In reply to Have you entered Note Entry by ChurchOrganist
Hi ChurchOrganist - I entered Note Entry Mode by pressing N for the keyboard and N from the Toolbar - neither seemed to work. Can you take a look at my steps and let me know if there is anything I may be doing incorrectly? Thanks
1. file, new
2. enter title - click next
3. select unpitched percussion
4. select snare
5. click add
6. click next
7. select key signature click next
8. enter time signature (4/4)
9. enter number of bars (4)
10. click Finish
- a single line appears in 4/4 time and each measure contains a whole rest.
-i press N from the keyboard and confirm i am in Note Entry mode (Bar 1 Beat 1.000)
- the first measure rest turns blue and the blue cursor appears at the beginning of the first measure
- i click the cursor then select the eighth note from the notes in the the toolbar
- a light blue notehead appears at my mouse pointer
- if i single or double click on the staff line nothing happens.
In reply to Have you entered Note Entry by ChurchOrganist
Yes I have and I am copying a piano sonata pdf note by note and first it would have this error message when I tried to enter a note: "No note selected. Please select a note and try again." and I was in note entry entering notes not trying to do a tempo operation. I closed it because that gets rid of the error message. I opened it again and it would not enter notes at all. There was no error message after I reopened the file but it still wouldn't enter notes. How can I fix this?
In reply to Yes I have and I am copying a by Caters
Is this somehow related to the problem being discussed in this thread? Doesn't sound like it - that was about drum notation, and thhe oroblem was simply that the OP didn't realize drums work differently. Sounds like you are talking something very different. So could you start a new thread, attach a copy of the MSCZ file you are working on, and describe *exactly* what you are doing, step by step?
Note entry sometimes does not allow me to place a note past a rest, or allow me to reposition the rest within the measure. Another entry in a different measure cuts my measure to 3 1/2 beats and puts the new entry into the next measure.
How do I move these things?
In reply to Note Entry by savory
You'll have to provide more specifics - like a sample score, and how you'd like it to look instead. In general, "moving" things is done the same way it's done in a lot of other applications: cutting it from the old location, pasting to the new. But I suspect you don't actually need to move anything; you just need to better understand how note entry works. Have you read the handbook and watched the tutorial videos?
In reply to Note Entry by savory
You cannot move a rest. It sounds to me as if you may need to split the rest into smaller segments so as to place a note in a specific spot.