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3.Drag downwards until you have reached the desired 
distance between the staves and release the mouse button.
Before…
…and after dragging the upper system
Setting the same distance between all grand 
staves
1.Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first staff of the 
second system, until you have reached the desired dis
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tance between this and the first system.
2.Release the mouse button.
The distances between all the systems are adjusted accordingly....

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Moving staves to the previous page
1.Make the staff at the top of the page the active staff.
If any other staff is active, the “Move to Previous Page” option cannot be 
used. Also, the function does not work for the first staff on the first page.
2.Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff, 
and select “Move to Previous Page” from the context 
menu.
The active staff, and as many of the following staves as there are room 
for, are moved to...

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Move bars
This option looks at the currently active grand staff, and 
attempts to adjust the measure widths, so that all notes 
and symbols get as much room as possible. The number 
of bars on the staff is not affected.
•You can perform this function for several staves in one 
go, by dragging a selection rectangle over their left edges, 
and then selecting Move Bars.
Move Staves
This changes the measure width (as with Move Bars) but 
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Reset Layout
This function allows you to delete invisible layout elements, 
which in effect restores the score to default settings.
1.Select “Reset Layout…” from the Scores menu.
The Reset Layout dialog appears.
The following options are available:
2.Activate the items you want to delete or reset to stan-
dard settings.
3.Click on “This Staff” to clean up the active staff only, or 
on “All Staves” to clean up all staves in the score.
Breaking bar lines...

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Automatically
If you have added brackets for some staves on the Layout 
page of the Score Settings dialog (see 
“Adding brackets 
and braces” on page 672), you can have bar lines broken 
between each bracketed “section”, giving a clearer indica-
tion of which staves belong together:
1.Open the Score Settings dialog from the Score menu 
and, on the Project page, select the “Notation Style” sub
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page.
2.In the Bar Lines section, locate and activate the...

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Scoring for drums 

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Scoring for drums
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• How to set up the drum map.
• How to set up a staff for drum notes.
• How to enter and edit drum notes.
• How to use a single line drum staff.
Background: Drum maps in the 
Score Editor
When scoring for drums, you can assign a unique note 
head to each pitch. There is even the possibility to set up 
different note heads for different note values!
However, to be able to fully use this function, you need to 
understand a bit about...

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Initializing the display pitches
If you select “Init Display Notes” from the Functions pop-
up menu in the top left corner of the Drum Map Setup dia
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log, all display pitch values are reset, so that actual pitch 
and display pitch are the same for each sound/note.
Using note head pairs
Not only can you have different drum sounds displayed 
with different note heads, you can also display different 
note heads for different note values:
1.Activate the “Use Head Pairs” checkbox.
The...

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Setting up a staff for drum scoring
1.Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and 
select the Options tab.
2.Make sure that “Use Score Drum Map” is activated.
3.If you want a single line drum staff, activate the corres-
ponding option (see “Using “Single Line Drum Staff”” on 
page 679).
4.If you want flat beams, activate the corresponding op-
tion (see “Handling beaming” on page 608).
5.If you want all stems to end at the same position, acti-
vate Fixed Stems and set a...

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Creating tablature