Halving tied notes without losing ties
I use Musescore for composition, and there are times when I have a tied note spanning a few measures. A lot of times I need to, for example, change the dynamics or other plating technique of that note at a particular point, but retaining the tied series of notes.
It would be great if I had a quick shortcut to turn a tied whole note for example into two continuing tied half notes. Im wasting a lot of time and attention dividing multiple notes, then tying them all back together.
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I don't know exactly how you do it, but it's really trivial to get the desired result quickly without any further shortcuts. First thing: switch to note-entry mode. Then type 6 (for the half note value), and finally type the note name + T (the tie shortcut). It goes really fast, as you can see from the GIF below.
In reply to I don't know exactly how you… by cadiz1
I use that now, but thats 4 keypresses for one action, and theyre not the same every time (F5 - length of note - note key - Shift-9). Plus, i want the entire tied note to stay connected. And it gets more complicated when I'm using the mouse.
Hence the request for a single keystroke. I would like to simply divide a tie without thinking about it.
For example, with the selected note (note entry mode not necessary), press something like Alt-2 to divide the tie into 2, Alt-3 to divide into triplets, etc. Maybe Alt-1 would combine a tied note with the next, if the measure allows.