rests in pdf scanned music

• Jan 13, 2020 - 13:24

I have used Musescore to translate a pdf scan of music and import it.
A lot of the notes are correct but there are random rests thrown into the stave that I can't do anything with.
I can't cut, delete or change them into notes. I can drag them out of the stave but they are still used on replay.
How do I delete or change them ?
Thanks


Comments

Printed music often omits some rests, but MuseScore always fills in the missing rests (for each voice) in order to make the total note/rest duration correct for the measure. If you don't want to see a specific rest, select the rest and press V to hide it.

On the other hand, if the optical music recognition of the PDF score is introducing genuine mistakes, there's not much you can do - except to delete the contents of the incorrect measure and re-enter the notes.

If you attach the PDF and the MuseScore version, it will be easier to give you some specific advice.

Thanks for those ( amazingly fast) suggestions. I have used a combination of swapping voices and forcing the properties of a bar to being the correct length and it has allowed me to get rid of the unwanted rests. But if this is the only way that I can do it then entering the music from scratch is still quicker than scanning and amending the result.

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