6 beats
I have scanned in a piece of music. it is in 4/4 time. most of the music did great but for some reason the first bar has 6 beats. It will not let me remove 2 rests because then the bar would not have enough beats for the measure. any way to work around this?
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". It will not let me remove 2 rests because then the bar would not have enough beats for the measure."
I don't get it. If this first bar contains 6 beats, and the piece of music is in 4/4 time, deleting 2 beats will take you back to 4 beats, right?
To delete rests (or notes/beats), press Ctrl/Cmd + Del (individually for each rest).
However, as this is a PDF conversion, things may not be so simple, and you may have to rewrite this bar after deleting the rests.
NB: you can also act on the bar duration, by right-clicking the first bar / Bar properties / Modify Current duration, I guess 6/4 or something equivalent, and return to Nominal duration, 4/4). This will delete the last two beats (rests or notes).
If the notes are correct then you can select the third note and use "Tools -> Measures -> Split Measure before selected note/rest". This is the case if the upbeat was not recognized ...
And you can delete the notes/rests with Ctrl+Del.