Involving slurs
I have a dotted eighth note going across a measure. There need to be two notes, one on top of the other. However, whenever I try placing the second note, it simply just moves the first note to that location. Adding slurs manually doesn't work. It just blends them, never connects them (when they're the same note). I have been having this problem for the past 3 weeks, and don't know a way to solve it. Please fix this
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Here is an image of my problem. I have the one note placed, but when I try to place the second note (blue note above) it just moves the first note to that spot. Really annoying. And slurs just don't work how they should in Musescore. If you have a #A whole note in one measure, and a #A whole note in the next measure, placing a slur between them doesn't make it a long note (LIKE IT SHOULD). It just blurs them as much as possible but plays them individually.
Both are very big problems that make writing music with Musescore extremely annoying.
In reply to Here is an image of my… by kschneiter
Indeed, you can't stack notes of different durations. At least without using Voices.Otherwise, enter them together. Both half notes, then both 8th notes. Same in the next measure.
Not sure about your slur problem. Or do you mean ties.
In reply to Here is an image of my… by kschneiter
> "And slurs just don't work how they should in Musescore. If you have a #A whole note in one measure, and a #A whole note in the next measure, placing a slur between them doesn't make it a long note (LIKE IT SHOULD)"
That's because a slur should not do that. What you're describing is called a tie (very similar looking, different thing) and those definitely work in MuseScore. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/ties for more information.
Indeed, you are talking about ties, not slurs, so be sure to read the Handbook section of ties to understand how they work. Als on note input in general, and "chords" in particular (what it's called when you have two notes on the same stem. The normal way to enter this would be to first enter the chord (eg, type D then Shift+F, or click both locations), then add the tie by selecting the duration then pressing the tie button or shortcut "+".
And if you continue to have trouble after reading the documentation on these subjects, please attach your actual score instead of a picture, then describe step by step what you are doing - what you are clicking or pressing and in what order - and at what step in the process something goes wrong. Then we can understand and assist better.