Trouble with voices.

• Apr 17, 2018 - 02:36

I have been re-transcribing a piece of music for the piano but I've had some trouble with voices.
Original:

I use voices 1 and 2 for the note I have coloured red. However, I try to use voices 3 or 4 for the green note and it overlaps.

Whilst I can manually adjust the chord horizontal offset this still requires a great deal of manual tweaking. Is there perhaps a better automatic way of dealing with this spacing?

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Comments

mike320

• Apr 17, 2018 - 03:12

To make the process of moving the lower notes out of the way, you can make sure they are all in the same voice then select all of the notes that need to be moved in that voice by selecting a section of music if needed, using right click and chose select>more... and check the appropriate boxes to select the notes you need to move.

liampc

• Apr 17, 2018 - 04:28

Hoping to avoid having to manually adjust the spacing as it's not just a blanket horizontal shift. I'd assume there is a better automatic way as voices 1&2 can space themselves accordingly but 1&3 cannot. Voices 1&3 and 2&4 seem to act as 2 groups that only interact with the other whereas I am wondering if I could get it to behave as if all were separate and tried to keep themselves spaced from all other voices.

mike320

• Apr 17, 2018 - 04:32

All of the 1/4 notes in the first picture should work well with the same offset. If you wanted do what is in that picture or say 25 consecutive measures with 1/4 notes being offset in the same manner, you can select the section of music and right click one of the 1/4 notes use select>more... as above and move them all at the same time.

Marc Sabatella

• Apr 17, 2018 - 19:07

You are correct that 1 & 3 act as a unit, as do 2 & 4. And in some contexts, this is absolutely correct and desirable. For the cases in which it is not, you do indeed need to offset them manually - MuseScore cannot guess which cases are which. Defaulting the aligning 1 & 3 is better than defaulting to offsetting in several respects, the main one being that unaligning them in the cases where you don't want them aligned is easier than aligning them would be if they started unaligned.

liampc

• Apr 18, 2018 - 23:14

Thank you for clarifying. All is well manually adjusting each note/chord. I have been moving the first note to the left, however I can't find a way to widen the spacing at the start of the measure. Resulting in some unwanted clipping.

Briefly tried stretching.

I understand there is a style setting to adjust measure dimensions for the entire sheet, but can it be applied to only singular measures? I did look but couldn't find anything about his specifically in the handbook. Am I blind or going about this the wrong way? Thanks again for the help.