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  • MuseScore Studio Handbook
  • About the handbook
    • Editing the Handbook
    • Style guide
    • Using GitBook
  • Introduction
    • Download and installation
    • Create your first score
    • Upgrading to MuseScore Studio 4 from earlier versions
  • Navigation
    • Accessibility
    • The user interface
    • Navigating your score
    • Timeline
    • Braille
  • Basics
    • Setting up your score
    • Entering notes and rests
    • Working with multiple voices
    • Input by duration mode
    • Alternative note input methods
    • Adding and removing measures
    • Selecting elements
    • Editing notes and rests
    • Copy and paste
    • Using the palettes
    • Properties panel
    • Adjusting elements directly
    • Parts
    • Default keyboard shortcuts
  • Notation
    • Instruments, staves, and systems
      • Instruments and system markings
      • Showing staves only where needed
      • Implode and explode
      • Mid-score instrument changes
      • Staff type change
      • Staff/Part properties
      • Brackets
    • Rhythm, meter, and measures
      • Time signatures
      • Stems and flags
      • Beams
      • Regroup rhythms
      • Tuplets
      • Barlines
      • Measure numbering
      • Measure rests and multimeasure rests
      • Pickup and non-metered measures
      • Measure properties
    • Pitch
      • Clefs
      • Key signatures
      • Transposition
      • Octave lines
      • Noteheads
      • Ambitus
      • Respell pitches
    • Expressive markings
      • Articulations
      • Dynamics and hairpins
      • Slurs and ties
      • Laissez vibrer ties
      • Breaths and pauses
      • Ornaments
      • Arpeggios and glissandos
      • Grace notes
      • Tremolos and rolls
      • Other lines
      • Other symbols
    • Repeats
      • Repeat signs
      • Voltas
      • Jumps and markers
      • Items across repeats and jumps
      • Changes and courtesies at repeats and jumps
      • Measure and multi-measure repeats
  • Idiomatic notation
    • Keyboard
      • Pedal
      • Cross-staff notation
      • Accordion notation
    • Guitar
      • Fretboard diagrams
      • Guitar techniques
      • Creating a tablature staff
      • Entering and editing tablature notation
      • Customizing a tablature staff
      • Applying capos
      • Alternate string tunings
      • Guitar bends
    • Harp
    • Percussion
      • Inputting percussion notation
      • Customizing the percussion panel
      • Percussion kit customization
      • Other percussion notation
  • Alternative notation
    • Mensural notation and Mensurstrich
    • Slash notation
    • Custom staff types
  • Text
    • Entering and editing text
    • Formatting text
    • Staff Text, System Text and Expression Text
    • Tempo markings
    • Lyrics
    • Fingering
    • Chord symbols
    • Figured bass
    • Rehearsal marks
    • Header and footer
    • Text blocks
  • Formatting
    • Page layout concepts
    • Positioning of elements
    • Score size and spacing
    • Systems and horizontal spacing
    • Pages and vertical spacing
    • Using frames for additional content
    • Working with images
    • Using sections for multiple movements or songs
  • File management
    • Opening and saving scores
    • File export
    • Working with MusicXML files
    • Backup and recovered files
    • Project properties
    • Publish to MuseScore.com
    • Share on Audio.com
  • Sound and playback
    • Playback controls
    • Mixer
    • SoundFonts
    • Installing MuseSounds
    • Sound flags
    • Swing playback
    • Working with MIDI
    • Working with VST and VSTi
  • Customization
    • Language
    • Appearance
    • Toolbars and windows
    • Templates and styles
    • Palettes
    • Workspaces
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Preferences
    • Plugins
  • Support
    • Getting help
    • Revert to factory settings
    • Troubleshooting
  • Appendix
    • Command line usage
    • All keyboard shortcuts
    • Changes for MDL percussion
    • Upgrade from MuseScore 3.x
    • Glossary
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The official, up-to-date support info is posted at , visit that page and read it first.

In addition to tutorial material promoted inside Musescore, MuseGroup, the managing company of the MuseScore project maintains an online server for the musician community free of charge. The community volunteers to maintain written handbooks and a collection of help pages collaboratively. To ask for help, use

Everyone are invited to join the community and encouraged to contribute, see and . Report bugs of Musescore 4 the windows, macOS and linux software at

There are other really good quality third party tutorial materials, video streams and communities for different level of Musescore users online.

Learn

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Forums

Go to to read news and participate in discussions.

Issue tracker

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GitHub

Mastering MuseScore

The project is available at .

There are other really good quality third party tutorial materials, video streams and communities for different level of MuseScore users online, most notably created by Mr. Marc Sabatella. While Marc Sabatella has been contributing heavily to MuseScore codebase and official tutorial materials and diligently helping the community for an extended period of time, that site is not affiliated with Muse Group or any of its subsidiary companies.

https://musescore.org/support
https://musescore.org
https://musescore.org/en/forum
https://musescore.org/en/donate
https://musescore.org/en/contribute
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues
https://musescore.org/en/forum
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore
https://school.masteringmusescore.com/