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  • 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 / Text

Text

Adding chord symbols

Type a chord like "Cmaj7" or "G7/B" and see a live voicing preview and audition button — chord symbols transpose correctly with the score, unlike plain text.

Adding expression text

F7 E adds interpretive text like dolce or con fuoco — over 50 known terms carry a bound playback effect shown as an Effect indicator, or type freeform text with none.

Adding lyrics

Lyrics attach per note, one syllable per verse — Space commits and advances, a hyphen continues a word, and Enter commits and exits lyrics mode.

Adding rehearsal marks

F7 R stamps a boxed or circled letter/number at a measure, auto-suggesting the next one in sequence, for verbal navigation during rehearsal.

Adding staff text

F7 X adds free multiline text above or below the staff for anything the other text types don't cover, with no playback effect.

Adding technique text

F7 K adds upright instrument-action text like pizz. or arco — techniques form cancel-pairs and can change MIDI program, octave, velocity, and duration on playback.

Adding tempo markings

Seven tempo categories under F7 T — each affects playback speed differently, from a hard BPM value to a gradual interpolated change to a plain percentage shift.

Using the sustain pedal

Sustain-pedal marking is a spanner with three notation styles — text (Ped. / *), bracket, or both together.

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