Beginner help
Please can someone help a beginner, my bars are crazy lengths, I have bars with one note that are long and bars with many notes that are short and compressed, it looks terrible. How can I set my bars to be all the same length? I have tried and tried, when I decrease minimum bar spacing my bars get longer!!! I'm using Musescore 3. Also I desperately need to change my note sizes for my cued parts for another instrument but again I have tried and tried, nothing changes!
And when I am typing in this box I see no cursor, I have to guess where I am typing.
Thx
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Comments
Start by deleting those system breaks.
Bars will resize to accommodate the music that you enter into them. If you have a single semibreve the bar will be shorter than if you have 16 semiquavers. If you look at published music you will see that bars are not all the same length.
You should leave Musescore to do its thing with the layout until you have finished entering everything. Only then start making adjustments if needed. Most likely they won't be needed or will only be subtle.
So lets get back to a clean score.
You have added system breaks to your score. Start by deleting those. Go to Format>Add/remove system breaks and select "Remove current system breaks". See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/breaks-and-spacers for more information about breaks
Reset any style adjustments you have made. Go to Format>Style and in the bottom left of that dialogue press "Reset all style to default".
Now look at your score. I think it might look a little tight. Try increasing the spacing in Format>Style>Bar. I tried 1.5 and it looked ok to me.
Also try the latest version 4.1.1 which has a very much improved layout engine. You can download it from here https://musescore.org/en/download. You can have both V 3.6.2 and V 4.1.1. on your PC at the same time. If I open your score in 4.1.1 and remove the system breaks and reset the styles as described above. The score looks fine to me without any adjustments.