Selecting notes

Selecting notes in our editor is easy. Just click on a note to select it.

You can also select notes using the arrow keys on your keyboard, to move up/down/left/right.

Selecting multiple notes

It’s handy to select multiple notes in cases when you want to apply a specific notation to all of them. To do this, hold Control (or Command on a Mac) as you click notes or rests:

To deselect a note/rest, hold Control (or Command on a Mac) and click the selected note/rest.

Selecting via dragging

You can also drag across notation to select multiple notes quickly:

Selecting via the keyboard

With a note or rest selected, you can extend the selection leftward or rightward by pressing Shift Left arrow or Shift Right arrow respectively.

Selecting everything

There are two ways to select all notes and rests. Use the editor search to find either of these commands:

• Select all in instrument (all voices) — selects all notes and rests in the currently selected instrument, across all voices.
• Select all in instrument (only current voice) — selects all notes and rests in the currently selected instrument, only in the currently active voice.

Our copy-and-paste feature only supports copying single voices at a time. That’s why there’s a distinction between “all voices” and “only current voice” here.