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The first staff is standard music notation staff and the second staff is
Ukulele tab (tablature), this is call "linked staff" in MuseScore, any
change to the notes in one staff will automatically reflect in the other.
Open MuseScore program and click on "Create New Score" in the
"Start Center" window, alternately, you can select File->New from
the main menu.
Enter the score information, Title, Subtitle, Compose, Lyricist and
Copyright information.
For an example, many ukulele finger style scores are in low G tuning,
in such cases, you can change the 4th string to low G tuning. Double
click on string pitch "G4", and select "G3" note in the "Note
Selection" pop-up window.
Note: The Happy Birthday score can be used for both High and Low
G ukulele.
Ukulele Low-G tuning
You can use a Classical Guitar D string as the Ukulele Low-G string,
low-G string creates a wider range of notes and a low bass sound.
Note Input
There are few ways to input notes in MuseScore, the simplest way is
to point and click with the mouse, The other way is to use the
computer keyboard to enter duration by typing the shortcut key and
enter pitches by typing their letter names, it's faster if you memorized
all the shortcut keys.
You can input notes in the music notation staff or in the tab staff,
notes editing in one staff will automatically reflect in the other.
Chords
Using a Mouse:
Click on Crotchet icon and click on C,E,G,A in the music notation
staff.
Using a Keyboard:
Press C, Shift + E, Shift + G, Shift + A.
Using a mouse:
Click on "N' icon and select the note or rest duration icon on the Note
Edit Tool Bar (first note is dotted quaver).
Click on a string (2nd string, count from top) and key in the fret
number (3).
Using a Keyboard:
Select the measure in Normal mode.
Change to Note Input mode by press on "N" key and press on Shirt +
shortcut key (refer to notes shortcut key table) to select the duration of
the note or rest.
Press the up and down arrow keys to move to the desired string and
enter the fret number.
Delete note.
Press on Shirt key, using mouse to select the notes or measures you
want to copy or cut, the selected notes will change to blue color in a
blue box, press on Ctrl + C to copy or Ctrl + X to cut, click on note or
measure you want to paste to and press on Ctrl + V.
Palettes.
Lyrics
Click on the note where you want to start entering lyrics and press on
Ctrl + L, or from the menu, select Add->Text->Lyrics.
Chord Names
Chord Names are letters and numbers of chords, if you want to add
fretboard diagrams with chord names, you can skip to the next step
and select the fretboard diagrams from the link Ukulele Chords with
Letter Name (Created by BCRCornet).
To add chord names, select a start note from notation staff or tab,
press on Ctrl + K, and enter chord name in the text object for the
selected chord.
Press on space key to move to the next beat.
and Shift + Space to move to previous beat.
Enter # for Sharp, b for Flat.