How to remove voice 1 rests from other staves
Hi colleagues!
Please help me how to delete or hide voice rests from the rest of the staves. I attach an image (in pdf) for you to see exactly what I mean. Please the encircled marks in the attachment.
Thanks
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Comments
You can't delete rests in voice 1. You can make them invisible though.
However, you seem to have not used voice 1 at all in that stave. You should always use voice 1 and use other voices in addition if it becomes necessary. It is very rarely necessary to use more than two voices. In your picture you could have used voices 1 for the upstems and voice 2 for the downstems. Then there would be no rests in voice 1 to worry about. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/working-multiple-voices for more details.
If you need further help, please attach the score (.mscz file) rather than a picture. It is impossible to see what else is going in your score from just a picture.
In reply to You can't delete rests in… by SteveBlower
Thank you for reply, please find the mscz file. I used all the voices including voice 1 in the upstems but the rests continue to appear in the downstems as you can see in the attachment. Kindly assist.
Regards
Reuben
In reply to Thank you for reply, please… by Reuben Maghembe
You have made the common mistake of using voices 3 and 4 for the tenor/bass stave. Each stave has 4 voices. They need to be used starting with voice 1 in each stave. In your case that means Tenor uses voice 1, Bass uses voice 4.
If you look in that link I provided you will find this -
""Voice", in a different sense, may also refer to a pitch range in vocal music—soprano, alto, tenor, bass etc. It is important not to mix up the two meanings by assuming, for example, that the four "voices" in an SATB choir are equivalent to MuseScore "voices" 1–4 (see below); that would be to confuse chalk with cheese."
You can fix your score like this:
Step 1 select the whole of the lower stave
Step 2 Use Tools>Voices>Exchange voice 1-3
Step 3 Use Tools>Voices>Exchange voice 2-4
You now have voices 1 and 2 used instead of 3 and 4. The rests in voices 3 and 4 can now be removed
Step 4 With the lower staff still selected use the selection filter and untick voice 1 and voice 2.
Step 5 Press delete - the rests in voices 3 and 4 will be removed.
Step 6 Restore the ticks in voice 1 and voice 2 in the selection filter
Step 7 Remember to use voice 1 for tenor and voice 2 for bass in future
In reply to You have made the common… by SteveBlower
Thank you so much. I appreciate.
Please find my problem on the attached mcsz file. I used all the 4 voices yet I can see rests remaining on my downstems.
Thanks for your quick response.
In reply to Please find my problem on… by Reuben Maghembe
You didn't do everything SteveBlower explained!
In your score, you only need voice 1 and voice 2. Voices 3 and 4 are not necessary.
If you swap voice 1 and 3 and voice 2 and 4 (for measures 1-20), only voices 1 and 2 remain. But note: from measure 21 on you have to swap voice 1 and 4.
Yes, then you get several whole rests of voices 3 and 4.
At the end you can select and delete all rests with 'Select all similar elements...'. The ones of voice 1 (blue) remain, all others are deleted.
I did this, see attachment, but using MuS 3.6.2. Some lyrics have been attached to voice 3 or 4, so you need to rewrite them.
In reply to You didn't do everything… by HildeK
Many thanks for your assistance. Your assistance is incredible.
In reply to Many thanks for your… by Reuben Maghembe
I do it with pleasure!
And I'm always happy to get feedback if it helped.