How to select the current chord with a keyboard shortcut?
I've been using musescore more and more lately, and I try to work with shortcuts more, but one struggle is selecting a chord without the mouse, as I compose mainly for piano only.
I use this to copy little parts over and having to press N, shift+click, N, isn't fast
I've looked trough the shortcuts and handbook and couldn't find it and I don't know if there's a shortcut
If there isn't, ill try to code a plugin for this myself
Comments
Shift+right followed by Shift+left
The fact that you mention pressing N suggests to me you are in note input mode. Are you simply trying to repeat the just-entered chord? No need to select anything to do that - just press "R".
In reply to The fact that you mention… by Marc Sabatella
Yep, i am in note input mode. No, I'm not copying a single chord, I know "R". I'm repeating 1 to 8 measures (or just multiple notes sometimes)
In reply to Yep, i am in note input mode… by [DELETED] 54613287
Well, you can't select anything in note input mode, or execute commands that require range selections. So no shortcut to select a chord would be meaningful. But I also don't understand - if you are repeating 1-8 measures, why are you in note input mode? Simply select those measures normally in normal mode, no need to first select a single chord. Eg, click first measure, shif+click last, then press "R". No single chord selection or note input mode involved at all.
In reply to Well, you can't select… by Marc Sabatella
Ye ig
Hi, did you ever code a plugin for this? I would love to have a keyboard shortcut to select a chord.
In reply to Hi, did you ever code a… by acarcich
MuseScore doesn’t really have a concept of selecting a “chord” - it’s either selecting multiple elements individually or else a range containing everything between point A and point B. The latter is easily done by Shift+R followed by Shift+Left as mentioned; the former currently requires the mouse. Either might happen to have the effect of just giving you the notes of a chord, but the effect of the selection is totally different between these two cases. Can you explain more about what it is you’d be wanting to actually do once you have made the selection?
In reply to MuseScore doesn’t really… by Marc Sabatella
The most common thing I need to do is add a tie to the next chord. I also often need to select ranges of music and cut and paste them elsewhere. I know about the shift click option, but I have gotten pretty adept at inputting music from my keyboard only and shifting my hand to the mouse is not the most ideal option if there is a keyboard option instead.
In reply to The most common thing I need… by acarcich
Hmm, are you aware you don't need to selefct anything at all to add ties to chords? While still in note input mode, after entering the first chord, simply select the duration for the next and press "T". That creates the next chord and ties it all in one operation. Much more efficient than entering both chords from scratch and then going back to add the tie.
But for the cases where for whatever reason where you have entered the twpo chords separately withgout the tie already and do find yourself needing to go back to fix it, with any note in the first chord selected, Shift+Right will extend a range selection to the next chord, and then "T" adds the tie. No need for any special command to select just the first chord without the second. But if you did, that's why I originally suggest Shift+Right followed by Shift+Left. There is almost nothing that would actually need a single chord selected, though, which is why I was wondering what your intent was.
For selecting ranges for copy/paste, again, you almost never want just a single chord anyhow, so Shift+Right, combine with Ctrl to select by measure etc, is all you should need. The most common case you might want to copy just a single chord is to immediately repeat it, and "R" does that without the need to select the full chord.
In reply to Hmm, are you aware you don't… by Marc Sabatella
Or select the stem of the 1st chord and press T
In reply to Hmm, are you aware you don't… by Marc Sabatella
Okay, thank you.
In reply to Hmm, are you aware you don't… by Marc Sabatella
Your solution for pressing the next duration and T doesn't work fyi. It either does nothing at all, or it makes the current note the one I selected for the next duration.
Example: I input a 8th note chord on the "and" of 4, on a 4/4 measure. It needs to tie to a whole note in the next measure. If I enter the 8th note chord, and then press "7" for whole note (the next duration), and then press T, nothing happens.
If I copy and past that measure from a different measure (again I do a lot of copy/pasting), select the last 8th note chord, and press 7, it makes that current note the equivalent of a whole note (8th note on current measure, tied to 3.5 beat note on the following measure (like in the attached example).
In reply to Your solution for pressing… by acarcich
It definitely works if a) you haven’t left note input mode, and b) you are using a recent version of MuseScore where “T” is the tie shortcut (years ago it was “+”). This is the standard way of entering ties; you’re never supposed to first enter the full second chord or leave note input mode.