Notes on one stave "shoving" notes on stave below?
I've begun my first composition using MuseScore as a tool (works great!). I noticed one annoying thing and don't know if it's inherent or something this newbie is doing wrong. I got the opening 16 measures for the piano written and it looked fine. But when I added notes to the guitar stave above -- a triplet at the end of a measure -- the notes below in the piano stave were shoved to the left as if making room for new notes within the same measure. Any way I can stop that from happening? Given that the time signature and meter for both instruments are the same, there's no reason for the horizontal placement of notes to change.
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You'll have to post an example score and tell us specifically what do with that file (eg, what to press and in what order) in order to see whatever it is you are seeing. On the face of it, what you are describing actually sound normal and necessary - notes are usually required to line up vertically if they are on the same beat. Adding notes to a guitar part on beats where there are no motes in the piano is *supposed* to cause the nites of the piano part to realign. Not doing so would be musically incorrect notation and extremely difficult to read. But perhaps you are actually describing something else?
In reply to You'll have to post an by Marc Sabatella
"... what you are describing actually sound normal and necessary - notes are usually required to line up vertically if they are on the same beat."
Hmmm... I've studied the score again and see what you mean. I realize that the reason the lower measure looks crowded is that it contains notes marked as natural (rather than sharp) and/or dotted values. The fact that it appears "busy" is inevitable, given what I'm writing.
I'll look more closely next time I have a question. Thank you, Marc!