MuseScore in Minutes: Text, Lyrics & Chords

In this MuseScore 4 tutorial, learn how to add basic text elements like titles and composer names, as well as lyrics and chord symbols.

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[mahusound]

I am only discovering MuseScore now, and it's so amazing! To have such a handy and high quality software created by a open source community is a blessing. Thank you so much for the hard work everyone put into this! 🙏☺

[fiddlinwes]

Advancing to the next measure is changed from version 3.6. Control (or Command) right arrow now accomplishes that. It is in the downloadable manual.

[joaogalindrosantos]

I’m still waiting for one feature from MS2 to come back: when entering lyrics, hit tab to register a space. This was awesome when it’s needed to insert more than one word per note.

[dhruvalance]

If musescore would be able to record audio below a staff, for references and more handy applications, would be the absolute best software on the planet.

[BenjaminMorris]

Quick question: MS3 has the ability to paste in lyrics a word at a time, recognizing spaces and hyphens and stuff. So far, seems like MS4 is missing this functionality. Is it coming soon in an upcoming release?

[renancomn]

to remove the shortcut TAB when adding chords was a huge mistake! This shortcut was way usefull!

[colemerkosky]

I do a lot of arranging for guitar, and one of my biggest gripes with MuseScore 3 is how it handles capos. Finding the capo setting is tricky in the first place, and when it’s added, the capoed chords appear beside the original in brackets. This gets cumbersome when you have long chord names - you get ugly things like “G#m7b5 (F#m7b5)”, which not only takes up a lot of space, but is also hard to read when playing it. All professional scores I’ve seen will put this chord above the original chord, either in bold, italics, or brackets. Are there any plans to improve the capo system in MuseScore 4?

[NikosChristidis]

Hello. Is there any way, after adding a chord, to go to the next measure and not the next note? In musescore 3 there was the Tab button option, is there something similar here?

[BsktImp]

Does MS4 now recognise and play augmented sixth chord symbols (It+6, Fr+6, Ger+6)? Also, if you input roman numerals instead, will MS4 now recognise the key and playback the appropriate chords? In UK we use a, b, c etc for root, 1st inversion etc of chords suffixed to roman numerals; does playback (if applicable) recognise and support these?

[jscott]

Still trying to figure out how to increase the note size. I found how to separate the lines, but not make the notes any bigger.

[Lianpe]

"Copyright: Some arranger"
I love it 😆

[fabricator.seattle]

1:43 But, is it possible to input the same type of text, and have that chord's note auto-generate on the staff?!

[michaelmatthews]

MS3 chord input used to support tab to advance to next measure which was a useful short-cut for me. MS4 doesn't support this unfortunately. Guess there is some kind of input focus conflict maybe.

[IvanSRG.]

We need a musescore version to sing lyrics!!!

[Iiv]

I was literally composing a version of Misty too! What a coincidence lmao

[mrfudd]

Cannot seem to find how to get to second line of lyrics?

[jeffgouge]

Has there been any consideration given to stacking chord extensions vertically versus horizontally. With a chord like G7(#9) #5, measures can get crowded quickly if they are three chords in one measure. If there was a vertical option to stack extensions. Love your software and thanks for all of the hard work to get version 4 on the street.

[hymnally_yours]

is there a way of formatting lyrics that change between 1st and 2nd endings of a repeat? For example, let's say for the first run through you want phrase A and for the repeat you want a phrase B. How do you get the lyrics tool to recognize repeat symbols with 1st and 2nd endings? Especially when you have multiple syllable words and you don't want the dashes to go through the 1st ending measure for the second ending lyrics. I hope I'm making sense. Too bad I can't paste an example in the comments!

[Xelaria]

Is vowels a thing? If so how can it be done?

[alexbrinkmancello]

How do I edit the text style? There doesn't seem to be an option do do that anymore?