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Musescore Shortcuts

This document lists keyboard shortcuts for navigating, editing, and entering notes and text in Musescore. Some key navigation shortcuts include using home and end to go to the beginning or end of the score, page up/down to go to the previous or next page, and arrow keys to go to the next or previous note. Notes can be entered and edited using keys 1-9 to choose note durations, and arrow keys to increase or decrease pitch. Other shortcuts allow adding slurs, ties, crescendos, measures, and entering various text elements.

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Musescore Shortcuts

This document lists keyboard shortcuts for navigating, editing, and entering notes and text in Musescore. Some key navigation shortcuts include using home and end to go to the beginning or end of the score, page up/down to go to the previous or next page, and arrow keys to go to the next or previous note. Notes can be entered and edited using keys 1-9 to choose note durations, and arrow keys to increase or decrease pitch. Other shortcuts allow adding slurs, ties, crescendos, measures, and entering various text elements.

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Musescore: Keyboard shortcuts.

Navigation

Begining of score : Home


Last page of score : End
Zoom in: Ctrl + of Ctrl scroll (mouse
wheel)
Zoom out: Ctrl of Ctrl scroll (mouse
wheel)
Next page : Pg Dn
Previous page : Pg Up
Next note :
Previous note :

Note entry
Begin and/or stop entry mode : N
Duration :

1 : 64th (semidemisemiquaver)
2 : 32nd (demisemiquaver)
3 : 16th (semiquaver)
4 : eighth (quaver)
5 : quarter (crotchet)
6 : half (minim)
7 : whole (semibreve)
8 : double whole (breve)
9 : Longa
0 : rest
. : changes the selected duration into
a dotted note/rest
Ctrl number: tuplets (5 Ctrl 3 = triplet of
a quarter)

Notes:

Chords
Add a note : Shift Note
Add an interval above the note: Alt
number
Changing the pitch of a note
Increase an octave : Ctrl
Decrease an octave : Ctrl
Increase the pitch of a note by a
semitone (sharps) :
Decrease the pitch of a note by a
semitone (flats) :

Text entry
Staff text : Ctrl T

System text : Ctrl Shift T


Tempo text : Ctrl Alt T
Chord name : Ctrl K
Rehearsal Mark : Ctrl M
Song text : Ctrl L
o Next note : - of Space
o Previous syllable : Shift Space

Direction

Change direction (slur, bracket) X


Mirror note head : Shift X

Articulations

Slur: S
Tie: + (in note entry mode)
Crescendo: H (for the selection)
Decrescendo: Shift H (for the
selection)

Measure operations

Add 1 measure at the end : Ctrl B


Add measures at the end : Ctrl Shift B
Insert 1 measure : Ins
Insert measures : Ctrl Ins
Selected measure
o Delete notes : Delete
o Delete measure : Ctrl Delete

Edit mode

: moves handle 1 space left


: moves handle 1 space right
: moves handle up 1 space
: moves handle down 1 space
Ctrl / / / : moves 0,1 space
Shift / : moves handle to previous
/ next note
Tab : go to next handle

Show pallets
Instruments : I
Keys : Y

Key signatures : K
Time signatures : T
Symbols : Z
Dynamics : L

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