1 00:00:03,790 --> 00:00:08,124 By default, MuseScore arranges your sheet music to optimise available space 2 00:00:08,124 --> 00:00:10,951 and also to avoid collisions. However, from time to time, 3 00:00:10,951 --> 00:00:13,920 you may still want to make manual adjustments of your own. 4 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,789 All the functions that affect layout can be found in the "Layout" palette. 5 00:00:17,789 --> 00:00:20,868 The most important of these are the break functions. 6 00:00:20,868 --> 00:00:24,642 In this example, I want this measure to move down to the next system. 7 00:00:24,642 --> 00:00:28,000 To do this, I can click on the barline where I want the break to occur 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,233 and then select this "System break" element. This places a system break icon on the score, 9 00:00:33,233 --> 00:00:37,289 which you can simply delete if you want to return the score to how it was before. 10 00:00:37,289 --> 00:00:40,209 The "Section break" is an element that can be used to specify 11 00:00:40,209 --> 00:00:42,405 where you’d like a new section to occur. 12 00:00:42,405 --> 00:00:45,868 This new section will return the measure numbers back to one. 13 00:00:45,868 --> 00:00:49,874 It's worth mentioning that if you'd like to set a final barline at the end of this section, 14 00:00:49,874 --> 00:00:53,495 you can do so by clicking on the line and then choosing the "Final barline" option 15 00:00:53,495 --> 00:00:57,910 in the "Properties" panel. You can also do this using the "Barlines" palette. 16 00:00:57,910 --> 00:01:01,203 Lastly, you can use the "Page break" element to move all measures 17 00:01:01,203 --> 00:01:05,070 beyond the point it’s inserted to the next page. 18 00:01:05,070 --> 00:01:10,109 If you want to toggle off the visibility of these "System", "Section" and "Page break" icons, 19 00:01:10,109 --> 00:01:13,732 you can do this by selecting the "Formatting" setting in the "Properties" panel. 20 00:01:13,732 --> 00:01:16,000 And don't worry, whether or not you do this, 21 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,620 these icons will never be visible in your exported or printed sheet music. 22 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:23,939 Sometimes, you may wish to alter the space between staves. 23 00:01:23,939 --> 00:01:27,639 To do this, there are three different "Spacer" arrows in the "Layout" palette. 24 00:01:27,639 --> 00:01:30,261 Once applied, you can click and drag these arrows 25 00:01:30,261 --> 00:01:33,337 to finely adjust the vertical space between staves. 26 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,750 Now we’re going to look at working with Parts. If you have more than one instrument 27 00:01:37,750 --> 00:01:41,395 or voice in your score and want to create individual parts for each of them, 28 00:01:41,395 --> 00:01:46,151 the first place to start is by clicking on this "Parts" button at the top of the score window. 29 00:01:46,151 --> 00:01:49,909 This triggers a dialog that shows all the available parts in your score. 30 00:01:49,909 --> 00:01:52,463 Now if you want to open more than one part at a time, 31 00:01:52,463 --> 00:01:55,000 simply hold Shift to select a range of instruments, 32 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,464 or Control (or Command on a Mac) to select a number of individual instruments. 33 00:01:59,464 --> 00:02:05,056 Then click "Open Selected". If you want to open all available parts at the same time, 34 00:02:05,056 --> 00:02:08,707 all you have to do is click "Open all". And you can see that they’re now all visible 35 00:02:08,707 --> 00:02:10,749 as tabs above the score. 36 00:02:10,749 --> 00:02:14,660 The "Parts" dialog is tightly integrated with the new "Instruments" panel. 37 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:17,647 This integration makes it easy for you to create and customise parts 38 00:02:17,647 --> 00:02:20,350 with any combination of instruments from your score. 39 00:02:20,350 --> 00:02:24,596 Say you want to make the violin 2 part visible in this violin 1 part. 40 00:02:24,596 --> 00:02:28,654 First, let’s select the violin 1 part so it’s visible in the score window. 41 00:02:28,654 --> 00:02:32,124 Obviously all we can see at the moment is the violin 1 stave. 42 00:02:32,124 --> 00:02:34,211 So next, we’ll go over to the "Instruments" panel, 43 00:02:34,211 --> 00:02:37,183 where we can see all of the other instruments in this score. 44 00:02:37,183 --> 00:02:40,372 Notice, however, that they’re all currently showing as “not visible”. 45 00:02:40,372 --> 00:02:45,188 To make any of these instruments visible in this part, simply click on this visibility icon. 46 00:02:45,188 --> 00:02:49,430 Now our Violin 2 stave is showing in this part for Violin 1. 47 00:02:49,430 --> 00:02:53,409 We can rearrange these instruments, by clicking and dragging them in the "Instruments panel", 48 00:02:53,409 --> 00:02:56,634 so they appear in whatever order we want in this particular part. 49 00:02:56,634 --> 00:03:01,241 The best thing about this is that this in no way affects how the main score looks. 50 00:03:01,241 --> 00:03:04,520 Sometimes you’ll want to create individual parts from a score 51 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,293 where different instruments or voices share a single stave. 52 00:03:08,293 --> 00:03:13,262 For example, to create a separate part for each of the two voices on this flute staff, 53 00:03:13,262 --> 00:03:16,782 open the "Parts" dialog and click "Create new part". 54 00:03:16,782 --> 00:03:20,101 We’ll double-click on this new part to rename it “Flute 2”. 55 00:03:20,101 --> 00:03:24,272 Now hold control (or command on a Mac) to select both of these parts, 56 00:03:24,272 --> 00:03:26,482 and click “Open selected”. 57 00:03:26,482 --> 00:03:29,247 This new “Flute 2” part is currently empty, 58 00:03:29,247 --> 00:03:33,162 while our original Flute part contains both voices from the main score. 59 00:03:33,162 --> 00:03:36,989 What we want to do is hide the second voice in our original Flute part, 60 00:03:36,989 --> 00:03:38,959 and reveal it in the “Flute 2” part. 61 00:03:38,959 --> 00:03:42,000 So let’s start by going over to the Instruments panel. 62 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,304 Click on this icon for the available part, and select this settings button 63 00:03:46,304 --> 00:03:49,178 then uncheck the box next to voice 2. 64 00:03:49,178 --> 00:03:52,155 Now we can only see voice 1 in this part. 65 00:03:52,155 --> 00:03:54,150 Next, we’ll go over to the “Flute 2” part, 66 00:03:54,150 --> 00:03:57,448 and reveal the flute instrument in the "Instruments" panel. 67 00:03:57,448 --> 00:04:02,290 We’ll again go over to this settings button, and this time, uncheck the “voice 1” box. 68 00:04:02,290 --> 00:04:05,945 Now we can see voice 2 in our part for “Flute 2”. 69 00:04:05,945 --> 00:04:10,184 The last thing we might want to do is export these parts as individual PDFs. 70 00:04:10,184 --> 00:04:13,908 Go to File > Export. This triggers the “Export” dialog, 71 00:04:13,908 --> 00:04:16,667 where you can see all of the available parts in your score. 72 00:04:16,667 --> 00:04:20,777 You can use the checkboxes to select only those parts you wish to export, 73 00:04:20,777 --> 00:04:24,595 or you can select them all at once by clicking this "Select all" button. 74 00:04:24,595 --> 00:04:27,747 We’ll leave the “Format” settings as they are which, by default, 75 00:04:27,747 --> 00:04:31,331 will export each part as a separate file in the PDF format. 76 00:04:31,331 --> 00:04:35,238 When you’re ready, click “Export” to choose where you want to save your files 77 00:04:35,238 --> 00:04:36,788 and you're ready to go! 78 00:04:37,409 --> 00:04:39,871 The "Instruments" panel is new to MuseScore 4, 79 00:04:39,871 --> 00:04:43,230 and while it already allows you to really customise your score and parts, 80 00:04:43,230 --> 00:04:45,853 we look forward to developing it in future releases 81 00:04:45,853 --> 00:04:48,837 to make it even more powerful and useful. 82 00:04:48,837 --> 00:04:51,717 To stay up to date with feature updates and new releases, 83 00:04:51,717 --> 00:04:54,235 be sure to subscribe to this channel.