tyeing off stems
Hi,First time user, when trying to write a drum part, all 1/16th notes, having trouble getting the stems to tie together as it wants to separate the kick drum from the rest and formats the kick drum with a mixture of notes and rests. Then when I try to delete the rests it wont let me so Ive dragged them down the page and even then it doesnt work but at least it cleans up the score, but leaves it with groups of 2 and 4 notes, so I need to tie the stems together somehow.
Im probably not doing the setup right in the first place.
Thanks in advance---Glyn.
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Comments
First of all, never drag a rest off the screen, it will have terrible side effects and you'll be back in the forum asking why your score looks strange. If you don't want to see something you can't delete, select it and press V. It will turn light gray which means it won't print. Use View->Show invisible to make it so you can't see it, but you will still be able to select it, so be warned.
I suggest that you start in your example by selecting everything and pressing ctrl+r to put things back where they belong.
Since it doesn't really matter if your notes are entered into voice 1 or voice 2 (default for the kick drum), you can select everything then click voice 1 in the tool bar (or press ctrl+alt+1) to move them to voice 1. This will leave rests in voice 2. To get rid of the voice 2 rests you can delete them. To select only things in voice 2, you can open the selection filter (press F6) and remove the check from voice 1, select everything (you'll see only voice 2 selected) and press delete.
An alternative to all of this is to define the drumset so the drums you use are in voice 1 before you enter the notes. This will make the beaming and voice 1 only automatic. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/drum-notation#edit-drumset for more info.