WEBVTT 00:00:03.790 --> 00:00:08.124 By default, MuseScore arranges your sheet music to optimise available space 00:00:08.124 --> 00:00:10.951 and also to avoid collisions. However, from time to time, 00:00:10.951 --> 00:00:13.920 you may still want to make manual adjustments of your own. 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:17.789 All the functions that affect layout can be found in the "Layout" palette. 00:00:17.789 --> 00:00:20.868 The most important of these are the break functions. 00:00:20.868 --> 00:00:24.642 In this example, I want this measure to move down to the next system. 00:00:24.642 --> 00:00:28.000 To do this, I can click on the barline where I want the break to occur 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:33.233 and then select this "System break" element. This places a system break icon on the score, 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. 00:00:37.289 --> 00:00:40.209 The "Section break" is an element that can be used to specify 00:00:40.209 --> 00:00:42.405 where you’d like a new section to occur. 00:00:42.405 --> 00:00:45.868 This new section will return the measure numbers back to one. 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, 00:00:49.874 --> 00:00:53.495 you can do so by clicking on the line and then choosing the "Final barline" option 00:00:53.495 --> 00:00:57.910 in the "Properties" panel. You can also do this using the "Barlines" palette. 00:00:57.910 --> 00:01:01.203 Lastly, you can use the "Page break" element to move all measures 00:01:01.203 --> 00:01:05.070 beyond the point it’s inserted to the next page. 00:01:05.070 --> 00:01:10.109 If you want to toggle off the visibility of these "System", "Section" and "Page break" icons, 00:01:10.109 --> 00:01:13.732 you can do this by selecting the "Formatting" setting in the "Properties" panel. 00:01:13.732 --> 00:01:16.000 And don't worry, whether or not you do this, 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.620 these icons will never be visible in your exported or printed sheet music. 00:01:20.620 --> 00:01:23.939 Sometimes, you may wish to alter the space between staves. 00:01:23.939 --> 00:01:27.639 To do this, there are three different "Spacer" arrows in the "Layout" palette. 00:01:27.639 --> 00:01:30.261 Once applied, you can click and drag these arrows 00:01:30.261 --> 00:01:33.337 to finely adjust the vertical space between staves. 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 00:01:37.750 --> 00:01:41.395 or voice in your score and want to create individual parts for each of them, 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. 00:01:46.151 --> 00:01:49.909 This triggers a dialog that shows all the available parts in your score. 00:01:49.909 --> 00:01:52.463 Now if you want to open more than one part at a time, 00:01:52.463 --> 00:01:55.000 simply hold Shift to select a range of instruments, 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:59.464 or Control (or Command on a Mac) to select a number of individual instruments. 00:01:59.464 --> 00:02:05.056 Then click "Open Selected". If you want to open all available parts at the same time, 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 00:02:08.707 --> 00:02:10.749 as tabs above the score. 00:02:10.749 --> 00:02:14.660 The "Parts" dialog is tightly integrated with the new "Instruments" panel. 00:02:14.660 --> 00:02:17.647 This integration makes it easy for you to create and customise parts 00:02:17.647 --> 00:02:20.350 with any combination of instruments from your score. 00:02:20.350 --> 00:02:24.596 Say you want to make the violin 2 part visible in this violin 1 part. 00:02:24.596 --> 00:02:28.654 First, let’s select the violin 1 part so it’s visible in the score window. 00:02:28.654 --> 00:02:32.124 Obviously all we can see at the moment is the violin 1 stave. 00:02:32.124 --> 00:02:34.211 So next, we’ll go over to the "Instruments" panel, 00:02:34.211 --> 00:02:37.183 where we can see all of the other instruments in this score. 00:02:37.183 --> 00:02:40.372 Notice, however, that they’re all currently showing as “not visible”. 00:02:40.372 --> 00:02:45.188 To make any of these instruments visible in this part, simply click on this visibility icon. 00:02:45.188 --> 00:02:49.430 Now our Violin 2 stave is showing in this part for Violin 1. 00:02:49.430 --> 00:02:53.409 We can rearrange these instruments, by clicking and dragging them in the "Instruments panel", 00:02:53.409 --> 00:02:56.634 so they appear in whatever order we want in this particular part. 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. 00:03:01.241 --> 00:03:04.520 Sometimes you’ll want to create individual parts from a score 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:08.293 where different instruments or voices share a single stave. 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, 00:03:13.262 --> 00:03:16.782 open the "Parts" dialog and click "Create new part". 00:03:16.782 --> 00:03:20.101 We’ll double-click on this new part to rename it “Flute 2”. 00:03:20.101 --> 00:03:24.272 Now hold control (or command on a Mac) to select both of these parts, 00:03:24.272 --> 00:03:26.482 and click “Open selected”. 00:03:26.482 --> 00:03:29.247 This new “Flute 2” part is currently empty, 00:03:29.247 --> 00:03:33.162 while our original Flute part contains both voices from the main score. 00:03:33.162 --> 00:03:36.989 What we want to do is hide the second voice in our original Flute part, 00:03:36.989 --> 00:03:38.959 and reveal it in the “Flute 2” part. 00:03:38.959 --> 00:03:42.000 So let’s start by going over to the Instruments panel. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.304 Click on this icon for the available part, and select this settings button 00:03:46.304 --> 00:03:49.178 then uncheck the box next to voice 2. 00:03:49.178 --> 00:03:52.155 Now we can only see voice 1 in this part. 00:03:52.155 --> 00:03:54.150 Next, we’ll go over to the “Flute 2” part, 00:03:54.150 --> 00:03:57.448 and reveal the flute instrument in the "Instruments" panel. 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. 00:04:02.290 --> 00:04:05.945 Now we can see voice 2 in our part for “Flute 2”. 00:04:05.945 --> 00:04:10.184 The last thing we might want to do is export these parts as individual PDFs. 00:04:10.184 --> 00:04:13.908 Go to File > Export. This triggers the “Export” dialog, 00:04:13.908 --> 00:04:16.667 where you can see all of the available parts in your score. 00:04:16.667 --> 00:04:20.777 You can use the checkboxes to select only those parts you wish to export, 00:04:20.777 --> 00:04:24.595 or you can select them all at once by clicking this "Select all" button. 00:04:24.595 --> 00:04:27.747 We’ll leave the “Format” settings as they are which, by default, 00:04:27.747 --> 00:04:31.331 will export each part as a separate file in the PDF format. 00:04:31.331 --> 00:04:35.238 When you’re ready, click “Export” to choose where you want to save your files 00:04:35.238 --> 00:04:36.788 and you're ready to go! 00:04:37.409 --> 00:04:39.871 The "Instruments" panel is new to MuseScore 4, 00:04:39.871 --> 00:04:43.230 and while it already allows you to really customise your score and parts, 00:04:43.230 --> 00:04:45.853 we look forward to developing it in future releases 00:04:45.853 --> 00:04:48.837 to make it even more powerful and useful. 00:04:48.837 --> 00:04:51.717 To stay up to date with feature updates and new releases, 00:04:51.717 --> 00:04:54.235 be sure to subscribe to this channel.