Sibelius also lets you duplicate notes or other objects in your score so that an exact copy appears immediately

after the original.

To duplicate notes or other objects:

1 Select the note or other objects you want to duplicate.

2 Choose Note Input > Note Input > Repeat or press R.

For example, select the four bars of the bass line you just entered using Option-click (Mac) or Alt-click (Windows), and press R to see
the bars repeated immediately after themselves. You can use this to quickly repeat any note, chord, text, passage of music or various
other objects after itself.

You can also use the traditional way of copying music to clipboard and pasting the contents of the clipboard to another location.

To copy and past a selection:

1 Make a selection.
2 Choose Home > Clipboard > Copy.

Press Command+C (Mac) or Control+C (Windows) to copy.

3 Click at the location you want to past the content of the clipboard.
4 Choose Home > Clipboard > Paste.

Press Command+V (Mac) or Control+V (Windows) to paste.

This method is slower than the previous ones and so is not particularly recommended, except for copying music between different
scores—Option-click (Mac) or Alt-click (Windows) only copies within the same score.

Both Copy and Paste functions are available on the context-sensitive menu you get by Control-clicking (Mac) or right-clicking (Mac
and Windows) when one or more objects is selected.

Using any of these different methods for copying music, complete the missing bars in the guitar part by copying the preceding bar (or
bars) into any remaining empty bars on the acoustic guitar staff.

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Selections and Copying Music