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Getting started
  • Creating spanners — hairpins, slurs, and lines
  • Editing the note before your cursor
  • Entering notes
  • Selecting notes and ranges
Note
  • Building chords by stacking intervals
  • Creating tuplets
  • Sharps, flats, and courtesy accidentals
Dynamics
  • Adding dynamics and hairpins
Articulations
  • Articulations, fermatas, and breath marks
  • Bowing and guitar technique marks
  • Using different notehead shapes
Ornaments
  • Adding grace notes
  • Adding slurs
  • Glissando and tremolo
  • Trill lines and octave-shift lines
  • Turns, mordents, and trills
Voices
  • Working with multiple voices
Select & edit
  • Copying, cutting, and nudging a selection
  • Narrowing what a selection affects
  • Transposing a selection
Text
  • Adding chord symbols
  • Adding expression text
  • Adding lyrics
  • Adding rehearsal marks
  • Adding staff text
  • Adding technique text
  • Adding tempo markings
  • Using the sustain pedal
Bar
  • Adding and removing measures
  • Barlines and repeat signs
  • Changing clef mid-score
  • Changing time and key signature
  • First and second endings (voltas)
  • Jumping to a measure or rehearsal mark
  • Segno, Coda, and D.S./D.C. markers
  • Splitting a score into sections
Instruments
  • Adding and managing instruments
  • Guitar tablature
  • Percussion and drum kit notation
Files & sharing
  • Editing score properties
  • Exporting your score
  • Importing and scanning sheet music
  • Sharing a score
  • Using the audio mixer
Help / Ornaments

Ornaments

Adding grace notes

F4 N adds an acciaccatura at the cursor's pitch, or toggles acciaccatura/appoggiatura on a grace note you've already selected.

Adding slurs

A slur phrases together notes of different pitches, using the same select-then-shortcut spanner mechanic as hairpins and lines.

Glissando and tremolo

Both are set directly on a note, with no end point to pick — despite looking spanner-adjacent, neither glissando nor tremolo uses the select-start-then-navigate-to-end mechanic.

Trill lines and octave-shift lines

A trill line and an octave-shift line both use the same select-then-shortcut spanner mechanic as slurs and hairpins, stretching across a passage rather than sitting on one note.

Turns, mordents, and trills

Trill, mordent, turn, and their variants are a direct one-key toggle on a note — press a key, done, the same "no end point" mechanic as articulations.

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