Changing notes creates rests or deletes next note
Hi all,
I was asked to play a song that has no sheet music, but it is showing up as a Synthesia video on YouTube. I had an idea where I could plug in my digital piano to my PC and basically play the notes as I see them, then edit the notes afterwards on MuseScore 3. However, when I go to change the note from a quaver to a semi-quaver, it creates a rest and the rest of the notation is unaffected. Similarly, if I changed a note from a semiquaver to a quaver, it deletes the next note. I can understand that it is doing this to preserve the rest of the music so that it isn't knocked off balance. However, I would like for the rest of the notation to shift left and right as I edit. Is this possible?
If not, is there a piece of software out there that can achieve what I want it to achieve?
Thanks!
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This is indeed so and by design. But in MuseScore 3 there is some cure to that, timewise innto or insertmode and timewise delete
In reply to This is indeed so and by… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks, I was looking at it and while I can add and remove notes and have the music shift, I am unable to actually edit existing notes and still have it shift. Do you know of any workaround for this?
I've already got the notes down, it's just a matter of formatting it so that it makes sense. The reason I've done it this way is because I figured it would be faster to just have the notes down and then edit after, instead of having to pause the Synthesia video, alt+tab to MuseScore, change the note, tab back to Synthesia video, play etc.
In reply to Thanks, I was looking at it… by Tommy_Le
In your situation, I would create the score I need to enter the notes as best I can from the video. I would then add another of the same instrument below the existing one that needs editing. I would then enter the notes properly on the second staff, then delete the first staff. I suspect this would be far easier than the process of moving notes back and forth with cut and paste or even insert and remove (timewise delete). Since you weren't worried about the rhythm when you entered the song initially, any other method would probably complicate the rhythms even more be either changing to irregular measures or causing ties on notes.
Generally, the way to move some unspecified number of notes (whether the rest of the current bar, the rest of the score, or anything in between) is to select them then use cut and paste.