Multimeasure rests

You can create a multimeasure rest (or sometimes referred to as a block rest) two different ways with PrintMusic. First, extracting parts will create multimeasure rests in your entire score, and all the rests will look the same. Second, you can quickly create multimeasure rests in a selected region or for the entire piece.

To create a multimeasure rest

When you create parts using PrintMusic’s Extract Parts command, PrintMusic groups all empty measures into multimeasure rests. If you would rather control which measures get combined into multimeasure rests, you can select the measures that you want to combine into a multimeasure rest in your score.

1. If you're not there already, switch to Page View.
2. Choose the Selection tool .
3. Select the region that contains the measures you want to display as a multi-measure rest. You can also select your whole score.
4. Choose Edit > Multimeasure Rests > Create. PrintMusic creates multimeasure rests in the selected region, using the same rules as when you use extraction to create rests—breaking them at key and time signatures.

   In order for measures to be grouped, they must contain default whole rests. If an actual whole rest was entered in a measure, that measure will not be included in a multimeasure rest until you erase the whole rest (using the Simple Entry tool or Speedy Entry tool or Edit > Clear All Items).

To break a multimeasure rest

1. If you're not there already, switch to Page View.
2. Choose the Selection tool .
3. Select the multimeasure rest to break. To break more than one multimeasure rest, select a region that contains the rests.
4. Choose Edit > Multimeasure Rests > Break. PrintMusic breaks the multimeasure rests in the selected region into separate measures of rests.

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