Ive seen many old people on the internet, but of the few I've met must say, you sir, are what i call a 'decade dodger'. You sound like a millennial with the way you talk [minus the age and dementia] perhaps you age backwards even
You dont need advice you could already pass but Pro tip for sounding young when you want to, the older you get, the more your texts and electronic messages sound like letters, as in ones written before the internet The younger you are the more you treat language as expendable. The other trick is to use varying ammounts of disregard for the rules of English, based on the situation and what it calls for. For example when someone wants to say something with passion, you may rush your typing, ignoring autocorect ("omg wgat tge FUCK NOOOO JOW DID THAT EVENHAPPEN) BUT IF you wanna say something so urgent you'd interrupt them you just do a keyspam. Perhaps upon hearing something surprising you take out a little grammar, eg. "oh my god THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING COURTNEY WHAT THE FUCK BLAH BLAH YO YOS AND GLOBAL WARMING" (or whatever the fuck us gen z kids talk about) "mekjfnekxmmww HQHQHSHHA Anyone have fun with that information, i just wanted to make somebodys day lol maybe you can use this mission to commit identity fraud
@mannaamin you got the idea, young boy!! keep cruising along... life is beautiful n fun. One fun fact - the brain keeps building new neurons and new neural connections as you learn new stuff. Loving and living life!
Super easy tutorial. The fact that you added the inputs you are making in real time on screen is very helpful. The workflow is very straightforward and intuitive.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just spent the last ninety minutes carefully following your lesson on my iPhone while using the program on my Mac. Taking your advice and learning the keyboard shortcuts right from the get-go. I’m 67 years old and should have been using music software years ago but was too lazy. But it’s never too late to start. Saved your little piece and printed it out. Lesson #1 is in the books. As a lifelong musician hopefully I’m on to my next stage of development. Thanks again!
You are my hero! This was 22 amazing minutes. You are an amazing teacher and this tutorial is exactly what I wanted to learn and more. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
This was SO good. I have been looking for the perfect beginner tutorial for Musescore for years after unsuccessfully dabbling with it by myself. So chuffed with what I have done tonight. Learnt so much in one lesson. Thank you!😀
You are an amazing tutor. The way explain things is so easy to understand. Ugh wish my school teachers could learn from you. Education is not for everyone.
Thank you very much. I have had Musescore for years now,but I always gave up entering notes at the first unintuitive step. MS4 is a great improvement and the sounds are excellent, but a tutorial like yours is truly a joy to follow. I am going to try entering music with my MIDI keyboard (I already did, but I meant seriously). However, the typing keyboard inputs look equally, if not more, easy. The only thing I find counterintuitive is the number associated with note length. I would have put a whole note = 1, half note = 2, etc. I just find it easier to follow, but I have an old Bluetooth keyboard where I plan to erase the numbers (or stick a label over it) and draw the note lengths. I am, also going to cheat and write everything in either the key of C or G (I am a guitar player) and then transpose, as I am sure that capability is available. Somewhere. Another thing I found that I wish had better support, is the MIDI mapping. I know I can map notes and other features to piano keys. I was going to use my MIDI controller to input notes, and I was going to map the note lengths and other things to a mini-midi-keyboard I have and lower its octave to something otherwise unplayable, but I just realized that I can only assign one MIDI input at a time. Hopefully there is a workaround for that. In fact, it would be great to use MIDI channels like I do on my DAW to assign different controller to different channels, but it doesn't look like that's possible. Nevertheless, I thank you very much for taking the time to explain this in such a clear and concise way, without assuming familiarity with the software.
Trying to use more “mnemonic” shortcuts for note values is problematic as soon as you consider things like breves, also 16th, 32nd, and 64th notes etc. It’s also less efficient than having the most common note values adjacent on the keyboard. But if you wish to try, you can customize the shortcuts in Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts. Transposing is done from the Tools menu. For much more, see my online course (link in description) but also the online Handbook from the Help menu.
I'm currently using Cubase Artist but unfortunately its score editor leaves a lot to be desired. I switched to MuseScore - and therefore am super-grateful for this fine tutorial. 👍
@@OutsideShoreMusic Did that! 🙂 I've just started playing with some brilliant musicians who read music well, and our best way of communication is via sheet music. Being raised in a house full of sheet music (my father and brother being orchestra arrangers), I'm familiar with the art of notation. But I've got to learn MuseScore, and that's where your services are extremely welcome. Thank for all your good work! 😍
I did similar to notate some hand-written music however the system breaks did not preserve when exporting to PDF. Apparently system breaks in the "score" are different from having system breaks in the "part". So I had to add them to the piano part as well.
This is a big improvement over version 3 of the program. Easier to move notes around the score, with cut and past, as well as adjusting the pitch or duration of chords.
Thanks for the comments! But I'm curious, what do you mean about moving notes or cut and paste? Nothing has actually changed at all about any of those features.
For tutorials discussing things like that and really pretty much every feature of MuseScore, see my online course Mastering MuseScore 4 (check the link in the description).
Fantastic tutorial, at a pace newcomers can follow! Thanks! Actually, I am 72 and learning percussion. I have noticed that the "notes" and input behave quite differently for percussion, no idea why. Will you be doing any percussion tutorials in the near future? Or can you recommend me a good one that would be easy for me to follow at a leisurely pace?
@@Marjoline The best tutorials - for percussion as well as everything else - are in my online course Mastering MuseScore 4. See the description for a link. You can also check out the online Handbook (see Help menu within MuseScore), where there is a whole chapter on the special system, used to optimize percussion input.
Yes, assuming you can connect it to your computer using a standard MIDI interface. It will work best to still use the traditional method of first selecting a duration, then pressing the desired key. There is also a (very) limited real-time MIDI input feature, but in general it goes much quicker and much more accurately to enter the normal way.
thanks so much outside shore music for this very incredibly helpful input on how i can further my skills oon muscore i thouroly enjoyed this vedio and prospered from it heavily and because of you i have achaived an 1 + + a + + thenk you heavbily mar, i am going to assume your name is mark. so thank you, your parents, and your children. andd all of your cousins, uncles aunties and distant family members, hopefully we can be family members one day paul,,... i mean mark :) :) :)
This is my first time with MS. I used to play with Midisoft Session (20 years ago) and I wonder how can I select several measures to copy, and paste in another place of the score...
Assuming you mean notated as simple chords, Shift+letter adds the corresponding note above. Or can click to add a note. For more information, see the handbook section on note input in the Basics chapter.
Yesterday, when I was using the program, the color of the notes changed, so I called another file and the other file did not change. I do not know why.
I am a beginner, just picked up a cheap(r) keyboard. I have entered several songs into MuseScore 4. What I would like to know is: "Is there a way to turn off (or mute) either the Bass clef or treble clef during playback?" Sometimes, it would be nice to isolate the Bass from the Treble. Example: Sometime songs I start with the right hand only on the actual keyboard. It would be nice to be able to hear the sound for the right hand (hearing both can confuse me.)
There is not currently a simple way to do this. although one will likely appear in a future update. But it's not that hard currently, either. Select the notes you want to mute, then disable the Play setting in the Properties panel. Turn it back on when you want to hear those notes again.
@@OutsideShoreMusic Thank You very much, that worked perfectly. Although not exactly intuitive. Hopefully, I will remember it. It is some neat software.
These are all found in the appropriate palettes. So check out the portion of this tutorial where I discuss using the palettes. Also see the official Handbook you can access from the Help menu, in the Basics chapter.
I am using Musescore 4.4 and very frequently there is an issue in saving the file locally. Sometimes it works, sometimes no. Gives an "unknown error" and the file will just not save. Use File-Save, File Save As, crtl-S. The problem has been highlighted on the forum and hope the development team will solve it soon. This takes up a lot of time unproductively. Thank you.
Sounds like you have a permissions problem in the folder you are trying to save to. Make sure you have write permission, and that they are no leftover read-only “lock” files left over from a previous failed operation. If you continue to have trouble le saving files to that folder, try another. And if you continue to have problems, please ask for help on the official support forum and include compete system details - version of MuseScore, OS, full pathname of the folder you are saving to, its permissions, full file listing with permissions of the folder (including hidden files). Then we can better help you fix the permissions problem on your system and that will allow MuseScore to succeed in saving.
@@OutsideShoreMusic There is no write permission in the local folder of my own computer. The issue is when I start on a new score, it saves, then after time it gives me the message of "unknown error" and then nothing works. crtl-S, or crtl-F S .... Save As .... Sometimes something works, otherwise it does not. The response is very erratic and wastes a lot of time.
@@ashankasen If there is note write permission in the folder, that's the problem right there. You need to fix that, using whatever facilities your OS provides for that.
@@OutsideShoreMusic I work in my local computer and all folders have the write permission. The issue is sometimes save works, and sometimes it does not. Can you help in identifying the issue ? I feel there is some bug in recognising the mscz_saving files which causes the "Unknown Error" message. I am not able to pinpoint the exact situation since the behaviour is random. Sometimes saves, sometimes gives an error.
Thanks very much for lessons. Questions: 1) How to have 4 measures per system by default? 2) Why is the first system indented on the left side? Thanks again.
You can add breaks every four bars via the Format / Add/Remove system breaks. Published music does normally indent the first system, but if you prefer a non-traditional look, or are writing in a genre where this tradition isn't used, turn it off in Format / Style / Score. For further questions on how to use MuseScore, please use the discussion space in my online course, or the support forum on musescore.org
Can I ( a professional ) enter music on the midi keyboard but Musescore (with metronome on) will play the rhythms I PLAY. Not laboriously choosing rhythms. But PLAYING them ?
There is a limited real-time mode (two of them actually - one based on metronome, the other based on foot pedal), but it’s pretty cumbersome. It’s unlikely you’ll find it less laborious than simply typing the note values. But feel free to check out the instruction on alternate methods in the Basics chapter of the Handbook for more info.
I’m not sure what yoh mean by “number+alphabet” shortcut - MuseScore doesn’t combine those. As shown in the video, numbers do durations, letters do pitches, but you don’t combine them, you do them one at a time like I demonstrate.
I've never been able to get MuseScore 4 to make sound on my computer. I've tried everything, couldn't find anything online to help me out. MuseScore 3 works just fine, right out of the box. No clue what's wrong...
That''s weird, more normally it's the other way around - lots of people have no sound from MU3 but find MU4 works fine. Anyhow, presumably it's something unique to your configuration that is solvable once we identify the problem. First try Help / Revert to factory settings, to make sure the issue isn't as simply as having changed some setting within MuseScore that breaks playback. Also do standard things like updating your OS and all relevant device drivers. Then assuming that doesn't magically fix it, best to ask for help on the official support forum at musescore.org and say what OS you are on, what audio devices, and what other audio programs you have running. Try a test immediately after rebooting to see if that makes a difference and helps identify what other programs might be causing conflicts.
No need to delete anything. To move any set of notes earlier or later or to another staff, select them, cut, then select the destination and paste. The previous contents will be overwritten.
I am sorry to have to tell you BUT you page display is not tracking with mine. I have opened this video and I have aklso opened my copt of museScore with the intention of going from one to the other. First watching yours for a bit and the cpoying the process on my musescore. However right at the beging your s brought up a page to type in the Song name and composer and mine does not show that page. So I have trouble following you, yes ! But I will persist !! Brian
If you added a system break (e.g. by pressing Enter) then simply delete it. If there is no break, MuseScore fits as many measures as it can given your current settings. So to fit. It’s, some setting needs to change. This is all similar to how word processors work. My online course Mastering MuseScore 4 covers all of these more advanced topics in detailz.
Very interesting, but I don't know anything about music except improvising on my piano. Is there a program that can create a score from 'listening' to a music piece? I have no idea what key, timing, etc I'm using.
Realistically, AI has not come that far yet. If your piano is digital, you can use it to record a MIDI file, and then import that MIDi file into MuseScore, but unless your music is basically just playing a simple “Mary Had A Little Lamb” type melody with one hand only, there is very little chance that the resulting sheet music will be even close readable. Editing it to make it usable would require not only good familiarity with music notation, but also expert-level knowledge of how to use MuseScore. Entering the music more normally as I show here does require knowing how to read music, but only a very knowledge of how to use MuseScore. So it’s definitely going to be for most beginners than messing with MIDI import.
Hi Marc, When I save a Logic Pro session as a musicalXML file, it's saving as an "uncompressed" file which means it crashes when I open Muscore 4. I note when the file is "compressed", the file opens perfectly. I don't know why it is saving as uncompressed. Can you advise how to save it as "compressed" please
The only difference between the formats is one is enclosed in a ZIP. There should be no other difference. if you have a MusicXMl file that crashes MuseScore, please open an issue on the MuseScore GitHub page and attach the file with the issue (you may need to ZIP it in order for GitHub to accept the attachment, but presumably it will still crash when unzipped).
How can we use slash, bend , hammer on, pull off etc on guitar notes on musescore? I hardly figure out bend but what about bend and release? Overall can you make a video for guitar tablature ?
There is a customizable bend symbol for guitar tab on the Guitar palette (click "Add palettes" to reach it). Hammer on and pull off are notated using slurs, and you can also add a bit of staff text to them if you like. Guitar tab in general is a whole separate topic. I cover all of these in my full Mastering MsueScore 4 course (see link in description). But there is also documentation available in the online Handbook - an entire chapter on guitar notation.
I am super grateful for this tutorial. I had thought it was way beyond my ability but you have made it so clear. Now I have a question. It may have already been addressed in previous videos but I am a newbie. How do I edit a word in the lyrics or a chord without having the delete the entire measure and put in the notes and lyrics and chords all over again?
To edit a lyric or any other text element, just double click it. For much more about how to use MsueScore, see my full online course (link in description). You can also learn a lot just reading the Handbook (see Help menu)
Seems like either something went wrong with your installation, or an issue with your system configuration. Best to ask for help on the official support forum on musescore.org and give you system details - what version of MuseScore, what OS, what audio device, etc.
First, make sure you have installed and are running MuseScore Studio on your computer - you can't create score using the mobile apps or using the website in your browser. Once you have installed MsueScore Studio, start it, and the first thing you see is the screen shown in my video. Click "New score" to get started.
Hard to say - brackets aren't supposed to always show; only when necessary. For help using MsueScore, please ask on the official support forum on musescore.org and attach your score there, or my online course Mastering MuseScore 4 (see description for details).
IUf you mean, is there AI that can take the music you play and turn it into readable sheet music, no. You can certainly use your digital piano to enter notes, but it's a one at a time process of selectiong duration & pitch as described in this video. You could record your playing to a MIDI file and import that, but ahgain,. heavy duty AI is needed to turn that into anything remotely readable. MuseScore will produce something, but most often, a useless unreadable mess as it tries to sort out the rhythms.
There is a very limited real-time MIDI input facility but it’s much slower and less accurate than traditional steptime entry, and requires much more sophisticated editing expertise to fix the inevitable errors. But you can certainly give it a shot - see the Handbook section on alternate note input methods.
See the Handbook chapter on Repeats to learn how to set properties on the repeat bar and on the voltas. And if you need further assistance, please ask in the discussion & supprot space of my online course Mastering MsueScore 4, or try to supprot forum on msuescore.org
If you mean, something to play back some clicks before playback starts, there is no feature for that currently, but you can insert an empty measure at the beginning and turn the metronome on.
Sorry to hear you're having trouble! Please ask for help in the official support forum on msuescore.org. Be sure to say what OS, what version of MuseScore (see help / about) and attach the score you are having trouble with. Also say if you downloading Muse Sounds or have installed any third party VST instruments or soundfonts. Once we know more about your system, we can understand and assist better, and the forum is the place to get that kind of support.
The short answer - because that would require a ton of design and development effort from both the MuseScore and NotePerformer teams, and the MuseScore team decided it would be better for everyone to instead focus on creating a free alternative (Muse Sounds) just as MuseScore itself is the free alternative to the programs that currently rely on NotePerformer for good playback.
@@OutsideShoreMusic I understood. Really Musescore it is a amazing software for musical notation. I'm so grateful for your answer... God bless you. (Ephesians 2:8)
I plan to use this tutorial to learn western staff notation. I am only eighty. It Should help keep me awake and stave off dementia.
Ive seen many old people on the internet, but of the few I've met must say, you sir, are what i call a 'decade dodger'. You sound like a millennial with the way you talk [minus the age and dementia] perhaps you age backwards even
You dont need advice you could already pass but Pro tip for sounding young when you want to,
the older you get, the more your texts and electronic messages sound like letters, as in ones written before the internet
The younger you are the more you treat language as expendable. The other trick is to use varying ammounts of disregard for the rules of English, based on the situation and what it calls for.
For example when someone wants to say something with passion, you may rush your typing, ignoring autocorect ("omg wgat tge FUCK NOOOO JOW DID THAT EVENHAPPEN) BUT IF you wanna say something so urgent you'd interrupt them you just do a keyspam. Perhaps upon hearing something surprising you take out a little grammar, eg. "oh my god THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING COURTNEY WHAT THE FUCK BLAH BLAH YO YOS AND GLOBAL WARMING" (or whatever the fuck us gen z kids talk about)
"mekjfnekxmmww HQHQHSHHA
Anyone have fun with that information, i just wanted to make somebodys day lol maybe you can use this mission to commit identity fraud
@mannaamin you got the idea, young boy!! keep cruising along... life is beautiful n fun. One fun fact - the brain keeps building new neurons and new neural connections as you learn new stuff. Loving and living life!
71 here, played music all my life but never been able to learn to read. Talk about teaching an old monkey new grimaces! :)
Nice job on this video. Very clear and concise. Thanks for making it. Looking forward to seeing others you have made on Musescore.
A very useful and easy to follow tutorial. Thank you!
Hey, this is the kind of tutorial you want! Clear, easy to follow, and just the right amount of detail. Cheers!
I would say that this is the tutorial you want to have in every kind of tools or programs. So easy to follow, so comprehensive. Thanks a lot!
Super easy tutorial. The fact that you added the inputs you are making in real time on screen is very helpful. The workflow is very straightforward and intuitive.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just spent the last ninety minutes carefully following your lesson on my iPhone while using the program on my Mac. Taking your advice and learning the keyboard shortcuts right from the get-go. I’m 67 years old and should have been using music software years ago but was too lazy. But it’s never too late to start. Saved your little piece and printed it out. Lesson #1 is in the books. As a lifelong musician hopefully I’m on to my next stage of development. Thanks again!
Excellent job! Very clear and I especially like that you address the keyboard shortcuts right away! Thanks!
thank you ! you talked slow enough so us newbies could follow along. the black boxes on the bottom showing the shortcuts was really helpful!!
You are my hero! This was 22 amazing minutes. You are an amazing teacher and this tutorial is exactly what I wanted to learn and more. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
This was SO good. I have been looking for the perfect beginner tutorial for Musescore for years after unsuccessfully dabbling with it by myself. So chuffed with what I have done tonight. Learnt so much in one lesson. Thank you!😀
You are an amazing tutor. The way explain things is so easy to understand. Ugh wish my school teachers could learn from you. Education is not for everyone.
Thanks for the kind words!
Just stopping by and wanted to thank you for all the work you do with MS.
Thank you so much!! I am using muse score since 2017!!!
This is great and it works as good marketing too! First I'm going to download MuseScore and then buy your $65 class! Thanks!
Thanks so much for the kind words - I hope you enjoy using MuseScore as much as I do!
Wonderful tutorial, so clearly explained. Thank you very much for all your time and help. ☕🙏⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Amazing job! One of the most instructive tutorials!
Thanks! This is a much faster learning process for me than reading the manual.
Thanks a lot! I used guitar pro 6 for the longest time but it's old and dead now and MuseScore is awesome, so I'm changing to this now.
Absolutely perfect! Exactly what I wanted! THANK YOU!!
Thank you very much, Mr Sabatella !
Thank you very much. I have had Musescore for years now,but I always gave up entering notes at the first unintuitive step. MS4 is a great improvement and the sounds are excellent, but a tutorial like yours is truly a joy to follow.
I am going to try entering music with my MIDI keyboard (I already did, but I meant seriously). However, the typing keyboard inputs look equally, if not more, easy.
The only thing I find counterintuitive is the number associated with note length. I would have put a whole note = 1, half note = 2, etc. I just find it easier to follow, but I have an old Bluetooth keyboard where I plan to erase the numbers (or stick a label over it) and draw the note lengths.
I am, also going to cheat and write everything in either the key of C or G (I am a guitar player) and then transpose, as I am sure that capability is available. Somewhere.
Another thing I found that I wish had better support, is the MIDI mapping. I know I can map notes and other features to piano keys. I was going to use my MIDI controller to input notes, and I was going to map the note lengths and other things to a mini-midi-keyboard I have and lower its octave to something otherwise unplayable, but I just realized that I can only assign one MIDI input at a time. Hopefully there is a workaround for that. In fact, it would be great to use MIDI channels like I do on my DAW to assign different controller to different channels, but it doesn't look like that's possible.
Nevertheless, I thank you very much for taking the time to explain this in such a clear and concise way, without assuming familiarity with the software.
Trying to use more “mnemonic” shortcuts for note values is problematic as soon as you consider things like breves, also 16th, 32nd, and 64th notes etc. It’s also less efficient than having the most common note values adjacent on the keyboard. But if you wish to try, you can customize the shortcuts in Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts.
Transposing is done from the Tools menu. For much more, see my online course (link in description) but also the online Handbook from the Help menu.
Great tutorial and... Wow! What a great application!
Thank you! You are an excellent teacher!!!
Fabulous teacher. Thank you!
I'm currently using Cubase Artist but unfortunately its score editor leaves a lot to be desired.
I switched to MuseScore - and therefore am super-grateful for this fine tutorial. 👍
Thanks Marc, very helpful and informative.
Just joined, brilliant introduction to amazing software. Just started composing as an elderly retired musician of sorts! Thankyou
Could you give a link to where Ican download the hotkey short cuts
See the link in the video description, then click the "get started now" button to receive the free printable shortcut cheat sheet.
You just sold me on getting this program.
Excellent tutorial! Thank you so much!
Thank you for this excellent detailed tutorial.
Awesome introduction to MuseScore 4!
Oh, so you have a TH-cam channel! Great! I now subscribe to this channel. Again, thank you for helping me with my chord name issue on Facebook! 😊❤
Be sure to check out my website also (link in the description) - that's where all my best stuff is!
@@OutsideShoreMusic Did that! 🙂 I've just started playing with some brilliant musicians who read music well, and our best way of communication is via sheet music. Being raised in a house full of sheet music (my father and brother being orchestra arrangers), I'm familiar with the art of notation. But I've got to learn MuseScore, and that's where your services are extremely welcome. Thank for all your good work! 😍
Thank You Thank You. That was so helpful.
very kind of you to help us. appreciate very much sir
I did similar to notate some hand-written music however the system breaks did not preserve when exporting to PDF. Apparently system breaks in the "score" are different from having system breaks in the "part". So I had to add them to the piano part as well.
This is exactly correct. Parts very rarely would share the same breaks as scores, so they are managed separately.
Excellent tutorial. Thank you
Thank you, sir! This is a great help!👍
This was great! Thank you!
This is a big improvement over version 3 of the program. Easier to move notes around the score, with cut and past, as well as adjusting the pitch or duration of chords.
Thanks for the comments! But I'm curious, what do you mean about moving notes or cut and paste? Nothing has actually changed at all about any of those features.
That is so complete thank you so much
Very useful video...with great shortcuts...I need to also add lyrics which can be challenging within SATB parts etc
For tutorials discussing things like that and really pretty much every feature of MuseScore, see my online course Mastering MuseScore 4 (check the link in the description).
Great little tutorial, very effective!
Thanks you for this much appreciated, just what I needed
Super helpful, thank you!
Brilliant. So clear.
Thank you so much. Trying to learn how to notate because my 8 yo boy is composing and wants to remember what he wrote…
Brilliant tutorial! I'm an old Sibelius user, much of this is similar, but easier!
Fantastic introduction!
Perfect!😁 I'm really a novice but this will help!
Thank you, very helpful!
Fabulous tutorial! Merci!
lovely :)
Muy,pero muy bien explicado👍 gracias
Fantastic tutorial, at a pace newcomers can follow! Thanks! Actually, I am 72 and learning percussion. I have noticed that the "notes" and input behave quite differently for percussion, no idea why. Will you be doing any percussion tutorials in the near future? Or can you recommend me a good one that would be easy for me to follow at a leisurely pace?
@@Marjoline The best tutorials - for percussion as well as everything else - are in my online course Mastering MuseScore 4. See the description for a link. You can also check out the online Handbook (see Help menu within MuseScore), where there is a whole chapter on the special system, used to optimize percussion input.
If you're using an electronic keyboard, can you enter notes by pressing keys?
Yes, assuming you can connect it to your computer using a standard MIDI interface. It will work best to still use the traditional method of first selecting a duration, then pressing the desired key. There is also a (very) limited real-time MIDI input feature, but in general it goes much quicker and much more accurately to enter the normal way.
Thank you for the videos. Do you maybe have a separate cheat sheet with all your short cuts for symbols and notes?
Thanks for the comments! For a cheat sheet and a *ton* more information, see my web site linked in the description.
thanks so much outside shore music for this very incredibly helpful input on how i can further my skills oon muscore i thouroly enjoyed this vedio and prospered from it heavily and because of you i have achaived an 1 + + a + + thenk you heavbily mar, i am going to assume your name is mark. so thank you, your parents, and your children. andd all of your cousins, uncles aunties and distant family members, hopefully we can be family members one day paul,,... i mean mark :) :) :)
Muchas gracias!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you
Very helpful, thanks
This is my first time with MS. I used to play with Midisoft Session (20 years ago) and I wonder how can I select several measures to copy, and paste in another place of the score...
That is covered at 14:30 of this very video :-). Also see the Handbook page on selections in the Basics chapter (see Help menu).
Great ❤❤❤
Great tutorial. How do I notate double stops... for string instruments?
Assuming you mean notated as simple chords, Shift+letter adds the corresponding note above. Or can click to add a note. For more information, see the handbook section on note input in the Basics chapter.
Yesterday, when I was using the program, the color of the notes changed, so I called another file and the other file did not change. I do not know why.
Really helpful - Is there a printable cheatsheet for the shortcuts?
OK just found one!
would you mind giving me the link for that? :-)!
You can get that and much more from my site - masteringmusescore.com
@@OutsideShoreMusicwonderful, thanks for the content♥️
I am a beginner, just picked up a cheap(r) keyboard. I have entered several songs into MuseScore 4. What I would like to know is: "Is there a way to turn off (or mute) either the Bass clef or treble clef during playback?" Sometimes, it would be nice to isolate the Bass from the Treble. Example: Sometime songs I start with the right hand only on the actual keyboard. It would be nice to be able to hear the sound for the right hand (hearing both can confuse me.)
There is not currently a simple way to do this. although one will likely appear in a future update. But it's not that hard currently, either. Select the notes you want to mute, then disable the Play setting in the Properties panel. Turn it back on when you want to hear those notes again.
@@OutsideShoreMusic Thank You very much, that worked perfectly. Although not exactly intuitive. Hopefully, I will remember it. It is some neat software.
i can't seem to figure out how to add lines, add dynamic changes, and tempo changes.
These are all found in the appropriate palettes. So check out the portion of this tutorial where I discuss using the palettes. Also see the official Handbook you can access from the Help menu, in the Basics chapter.
뮤즈스코어4 에서는 음표 머리가 색을 바꾸면 안바뀌는건 애 그런가요???????
I am using Musescore 4.4 and very frequently there is an issue in saving the file locally. Sometimes it works, sometimes no. Gives an "unknown error" and the file will just not save. Use File-Save, File Save As, crtl-S. The problem has been highlighted on the forum and hope the development team will solve it soon. This takes up a lot of time unproductively. Thank you.
Sounds like you have a permissions problem in the folder you are trying to save to. Make sure you have write permission, and that they are no leftover read-only “lock” files left over from a previous failed operation. If you continue to have trouble le saving files to that folder, try another. And if you continue to have problems, please ask for help on the official support forum and include compete system details - version of MuseScore, OS, full pathname of the folder you are saving to, its permissions, full file listing with permissions of the folder (including hidden files). Then we can better help you fix the permissions problem on your system and that will allow MuseScore to succeed in saving.
@@OutsideShoreMusic There is no write permission in the local folder of my own computer. The issue is when I start on a new score, it saves, then after time it gives me the message of "unknown error" and then nothing works. crtl-S, or crtl-F S .... Save As .... Sometimes something works, otherwise it does not. The response is very erratic and wastes a lot of time.
@@ashankasen If there is note write permission in the folder, that's the problem right there. You need to fix that, using whatever facilities your OS provides for that.
@@OutsideShoreMusic I work in my local computer and all folders have the write permission. The issue is sometimes save works, and sometimes it does not. Can you help in identifying the issue ? I feel there is some bug in recognising the mscz_saving files which causes the "Unknown Error" message. I am not able to pinpoint the exact situation since the behaviour is random. Sometimes saves, sometimes gives an error.
I am using Windows 10
Thanks very much for lessons. Questions: 1) How to have 4 measures per system by default? 2) Why is the first system indented on the left side? Thanks again.
You can add breaks every four bars via the Format / Add/Remove system breaks. Published music does normally indent the first system, but if you prefer a non-traditional look, or are writing in a genre where this tradition isn't used, turn it off in Format / Style / Score.
For further questions on how to use MuseScore, please use the discussion space in my online course, or the support forum on musescore.org
@@OutsideShoreMusic Thanks very much .
Merci.
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Can I ( a professional ) enter music on the midi keyboard but Musescore (with metronome on) will play the rhythms I PLAY. Not laboriously choosing rhythms. But PLAYING them ?
There is a limited real-time mode (two of them actually - one based on metronome, the other based on foot pedal), but it’s pretty cumbersome. It’s unlikely you’ll find it less laborious than simply typing the note values. But feel free to check out the instruction on alternate methods in the Basics chapter of the Handbook for more info.
In entering notes, the number+alaphabet doesn't work with my musescore 4 program. How do I activate the number+alpahbet short cut?
I’m not sure what yoh mean by “number+alphabet” shortcut - MuseScore doesn’t combine those. As shown in the video, numbers do durations, letters do pitches, but you don’t combine them, you do them one at a time like I demonstrate.
What changes and doesn't?
I've never been able to get MuseScore 4 to make sound on my computer. I've tried everything, couldn't find anything online to help me out. MuseScore 3 works just fine, right out of the box. No clue what's wrong...
That''s weird, more normally it's the other way around - lots of people have no sound from MU3 but find MU4 works fine. Anyhow, presumably it's something unique to your configuration that is solvable once we identify the problem. First try Help / Revert to factory settings, to make sure the issue isn't as simply as having changed some setting within MuseScore that breaks playback. Also do standard things like updating your OS and all relevant device drivers. Then assuming that doesn't magically fix it, best to ask for help on the official support forum at musescore.org and say what OS you are on, what audio devices, and what other audio programs you have running. Try a test immediately after rebooting to see if that makes a difference and helps identify what other programs might be causing conflicts.
Thanks! I have a quick question. How do I delete a note/beat so all the following notes shift left ?
No need to delete anything. To move any set of notes earlier or later or to another staff, select them, cut, then select the destination and paste. The previous contents will be overwritten.
I am sorry to have to tell you BUT you page display is not tracking with mine. I have opened this video and I have aklso opened my copt of museScore with the intention of going from one to the other. First watching yours for a bit and the cpoying the process on my musescore. However right at the beging your s brought up a page to type in the Song name and composer and mine does not show that page. So I have trouble following you, yes ! But I will persist !! Brian
I have some measures on a second line and I need to move one of them back to the first line.
If you added a system break (e.g. by pressing Enter) then simply delete it. If there is no break, MuseScore fits as many measures as it can given your current settings. So to fit. It’s, some setting needs to change. This is all similar to how word processors work. My online course Mastering MuseScore 4 covers all of these more advanced topics in detailz.
Very interesting, but I don't know anything about music except improvising on my piano. Is there a program that can create a score from 'listening' to a music piece? I have no idea what key, timing, etc I'm using.
Realistically, AI has not come that far yet. If your piano is digital, you can use it to record a MIDI file, and then import that MIDi file into MuseScore, but unless your music is basically just playing a simple “Mary Had A Little Lamb” type melody with one hand only, there is very little chance that the resulting sheet music will be even close readable. Editing it to make it usable would require not only good familiarity with music notation, but also expert-level knowledge of how to use MuseScore. Entering the music more normally as I show here does require knowing how to read music, but only a very knowledge of how to use MuseScore. So it’s definitely going to be for most beginners than messing with MIDI import.
I have a number pad keyboard that would prove useful here for a right-hand mouser. I absolutely hate courtesy accidentals. Several reasons why.
Hi Marc, When I save a Logic Pro session as a musicalXML file, it's saving as an "uncompressed" file which means it crashes when I open Muscore 4. I note when the file is "compressed", the file opens perfectly.
I don't know why it is saving as uncompressed. Can you advise how to save it as "compressed" please
The only difference between the formats is one is enclosed in a ZIP. There should be no other difference. if you have a MusicXMl file that crashes MuseScore, please open an issue on the MuseScore GitHub page and attach the file with the issue (you may need to ZIP it in order for GitHub to accept the attachment, but presumably it will still crash when unzipped).
How can we use slash, bend , hammer on, pull off etc on guitar notes on musescore? I hardly figure out bend but what about bend and release? Overall can you make a video for guitar tablature ?
There is a customizable bend symbol for guitar tab on the Guitar palette (click "Add palettes" to reach it). Hammer on and pull off are notated using slurs, and you can also add a bit of staff text to them if you like. Guitar tab in general is a whole separate topic. I cover all of these in my full Mastering MsueScore 4 course (see link in description). But there is also documentation available in the online Handbook - an entire chapter on guitar notation.
Is there a way to remove the "courtesy" accidental?
Easiest is to not enter them in the first place of course! But if you have some you no longer want, just select them and press Delete.
I am super grateful for this tutorial. I had thought it was way beyond my ability but you have made it so clear. Now I have a question. It may have already been addressed in previous videos but I am a newbie. How do I edit a word in the lyrics or a chord without having the delete the entire measure and put in the notes and lyrics and chords all over again?
To edit a lyric or any other text element, just double click it. For much more about how to use MsueScore, see my full online course (link in description). You can also learn a lot just reading the Handbook (see Help menu)
Thank you so much! It worked! @@OutsideShoreMusic
does someone else struggle with playback? I hear no sounds when I put in notes and I can't get the notation as a whole to play neither. Any tips?
Seems like either something went wrong with your installation, or an issue with your system configuration. Best to ask for help on the official support forum on musescore.org and give you system details - what version of MuseScore, what OS, what audio device, etc.
The overall product is a great upgrade, but some issues like the save is a time waster.
I got a score with tempo of 126, but I want a portion such as chorus to be faster, how to do so?
Just add a tempo marking (from palette or Add menu) where you want the change to occur.
I can’t find the a score to add my music.
First, make sure you have installed and are running MuseScore Studio on your computer - you can't create score using the mobile apps or using the website in your browser. Once you have installed MsueScore Studio, start it, and the first thing you see is the screen shown in my video. Click "New score" to get started.
Hi, I have an issue about the triplet bracket not showing after 1st page, is that a bug?
Hard to say - brackets aren't supposed to always show; only when necessary. For help using MsueScore, please ask on the official support forum on musescore.org and attach your score there, or my online course Mastering MuseScore 4 (see description for details).
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With MuseScore can you print out the music you play on the piano simultaneously or in real-time?
IUf you mean, is there AI that can take the music you play and turn it into readable sheet music, no. You can certainly use your digital piano to enter notes, but it's a one at a time process of selectiong duration & pitch as described in this video. You could record your playing to a MIDI file and import that, but ahgain,. heavy duty AI is needed to turn that into anything remotely readable. MuseScore will produce something, but most often, a useless unreadable mess as it tries to sort out the rhythms.
How do you create just a part for 1 instrument without having to create a whole score? I want to create just a clarinet part only with only 1 staff.
So, just add the clarinet as the only instrument when creating your score.
So, I guess you can’t use a set metronome setting and play in notes and rhythm via midi keyboard?
There is a very limited real-time MIDI input facility but it’s much slower and less accurate than traditional steptime entry, and requires much more sophisticated editing expertise to fix the inevitable errors. But you can certainly give it a shot - see the Handbook section on alternate note input methods.
Hi Marc,
How do I set first time bar to repeat five times or more??
See the Handbook chapter on Repeats to learn how to set properties on the repeat bar and on the voltas. And if you need further assistance, please ask in the discussion & supprot space of my online course Mastering MsueScore 4, or try to supprot forum on msuescore.org
How do you put in a count down ?
If you mean, something to play back some clicks before playback starts, there is no feature for that currently, but you can insert an empty measure at the beginning and turn the metronome on.
my musiscore does not make noise and when i play it it doesnt do anything, what can i do?
Sorry to hear you're having trouble! Please ask for help in the official support forum on msuescore.org. Be sure to say what OS, what version of MuseScore (see help / about) and attach the score you are having trouble with. Also say if you downloading Muse Sounds or have installed any third party VST instruments or soundfonts. Once we know more about your system, we can understand and assist better, and the forum is the place to get that kind of support.
Hello, Why Noteperformer don´t work in Musescore?
The short answer - because that would require a ton of design and development effort from both the MuseScore and NotePerformer teams, and the MuseScore team decided it would be better for everyone to instead focus on creating a free alternative (Muse Sounds) just as MuseScore itself is the free alternative to the programs that currently rely on NotePerformer for good playback.
@@OutsideShoreMusic I understood. Really Musescore it is a amazing software for musical notation. I'm so grateful for your answer...
God bless you. (Ephesians 2:8)
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