Note head colors and drawing lines
I am trying to show 1 melody with 4 different versions in a score, for a teaching study presentation. Meaning, I have 4 staffs with the piano sound. I labeled each staff as Version 1, version 2, etc.
I need to highlight some notes which appear in some measures and staffs and some notes lacking them as well. I also need to draw a red or blue line to encircle notes from different staffs for emphasis, during playback..
Is this possible within Musescore? Or is there some third party app that I can download to use?
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Comments
You can color note heads. Select the note (or several notes), look in the inpsector (F8) and click the black rectangle to the right of "Color:". The More option mentioned in https://musescore.org/en/handbook/selection-modes#all-similar-selection is a very powerful tool that could be used to select only some notes you want to color. You can color all selected notes at the same time. The More window is an example and you will have a lot more options in reality.
It sounds like you want to actually circle some note heads when you talk about drawing the lines. MuseScore doesn't have this as a native feature, but you can use the paint program that comes with windows to draw a circle with no fill, save it as an SVG (MuseScore handles resizing this very well). You can then add the SVG to a palette and use it like any other articulation or symbol included in MuseScore.