Having hard time creating a piece of score.

• Sep 1, 2025 - 14:08

Hi Dear,
Please, could you help me writting this piece of score. I'm attaching 2 pictures where I describe what is the issue.
Picture 1: I show you my progress creating this score, notice that the score with red circle no able to reproduce as I want as it shown in Picture 2.

Picture 2: The score that I want to produce.

Please describe me how you create similar score using shortcuts with number 2 and 3 prior to place the notes. I tried several ways unsussesfully.

Thank you very much for your help.
Silver.

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Press - 3 - the first two notes - 2 - the second two notes - 3 - the third two notes.
Maybe that you need to adjust the beams - I'm away from my desktop computer!

In reply to by solersilver

OMG, totally wrong.

NOT(!!!) Palette.

Goto "Properties". On the left is "Palette" (wrong), "Layout" (wrong), "Properties" (right!!!!).
There is "Note" Properties "Head", "Stem", "Beam". Click "Beam".
There "Beam Types" Appear. Starting with "AUTO", then 5 different Buttons. Press the LAST BUT ONE OR THE LAST.
beam.png

In reply to by solersilver

You changed the values of the notes:

1) The 3rd note is "d" now instead of "e".
2) The 4th note is "d" now instead of "f".
3) The duration of the 4th note is 16th now, instead of needed 32th.
4) The 5th note now is "e" instead of "f".

Why??

What are you doing?? You should click the "e" only, nothing else. Then click the proper Beam type. Dont change anything else.

Of course i can again ask you to click this or that note, but you dont do it. I cannot help any further, as you seem to click around wildly.

It is not clear from your description what you want. Picture 2 does not show the pitches. Do you want the notes all at the same pitch or do you want the pitches as shown in the first groups of Picture 1 (CDEFF) but with the rhythm in picture 2, or something else.

Also it is not clear what input device you are using, PC keyboard, Midi keyboard, Mouse?

If you are using the PC keyboard first you select the duration of the note to be entered and next press the shortcut for any accidental (+ for sharp, - for flat, = for natural are the defaults) followed by the note name A to G. For duration, the keyboard shortcuts are

1 sixty fourth note (hemidemisemiquaver)
2 thirty second note (demisemiquaver)
3 sixteenth note (semiquaver)
4 eighth note (quaver)
5 quarter note (crotchet)
6 half note (minim)
7 whole note (semibreve),

See https://handbook.musescore.org/basics/entering-notes-and-rests

In reply to by solersilver

??

Click the 'e' (32th note) only, then proceed to the Properties menu left, click "Beam" and then click the 4th "Beam type" symbol from left (last but one). You may also click the last symbol (both work for me).

If in doubt, try all of the Beam Types. One of these should work.

In reply to by rhalstenbach

??
Be my guest. Go to the Properties tab if you want. Nothing wrong with that. But going to the Beams palette isn't wrong either. In fact, if the problem involves beams, why wouldn't we go to the beams palette. The OP didn't have that palette set up. They should. There is more than one way to do most things in MuseScore. In fact, if the beams palette is set up, it is the same number of steps to fix this particular problem. Three.

In reply to by bobjp

You meet the user where they are.

The properties are hard-wired. The palette is not; it has to be added. As you can see, he didn't manage to do that. "They should" does not help, they arent.

Why should I torment him with it when the properties are simply available without installation? You should make it as easy as possible for the user. Obviously, he is having a hard time anyway. I hope the video helps.

In reply to by rhalstenbach

But freaking out the way you did, hardly was of any help. No one knew at first the OP didn't have the Beams palette active. Then you insist that anyway other than Properties is wrong.
Properties is not hard-wired. You have to activate that tab. Just like the Beams palette.
Telling other people that are trying to help, over and over that they are totally wrong, is just rude.
If the beam palette was not able to do what was needed, well that might be different

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