Entering quavers

• Sep 29, 2015 - 13:41

I can't find in FAQs a procedure to enter the following:-
(1) a quaver rest. (2) a quaver (3) three quavers in the time of two. Musescore joins the first quaver to the next three. How can I disconnect it?

Thanks

Panicea

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• Sep 29, 2015 - 14:14

Also read the Handbookmsection on note input in general. To enter a quaver - whether a rest or a note - simply select that duration on the toolbar (or press "4"), then type the pitch (A-G) to enter a note, or type "0" to enter a rest. To enter three quavers in the space of two, see the section on tuplets.

Also you may want to check out the tutorial videos on the main page of this site.

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• Sep 29, 2015 - 18:47

Thanks Mark. My question was badly phrased. I know how to enter them and I wanted to know how not to connect them by a beam. The beam from first quaver to second was preventing me from doing the tuplet with 2nd 3rd and 4th quavers.

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• Sep 29, 2015 - 20:14

Hmm, I'm still confused. If enter a quaver rest followed by a quaver, followed by a triplet, there is not beam from the first quaver to the second:

triplet-beam.png

Be sure to have a recent version of MuseScore - current is 2.0.2. Versions from several years ago definitely were not as smart about beaming. but you could still override them beaming as described above using the Beam Properties palette.

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