I really like MuseScore also. Like anything you have to use it for a bit to get the hang of it, but I’m notoriously Impatient with software and I got the hang of it fairly quickly.

@mike.hoegeman made this comment in this thread I started on music software:


Here's a tip for anyone wanting to get up-to-speed quickly with MuseScore.

Grab some of your existing sheet music and duplicate it in MuseScore. I've been doing this with a bunch of bass transcriptions I have and boy, did I start zooming up that ol' learning curve!! I've gotten to the point where I can almost literally "type in" the score.

Also, their online manual is very, very good. But the search function leads something to be desired. Even if you know the correct term for an item, you might have to scroll through a couple of pages before you find what you're looking for. I added a "MuseScore" item to my bookmarks toolbar, and as I found things added their page to that item. A lifesaver when I inevitably hit that "Now how do I do that again?"

I usually just do searches in google like “how do i make a triplet spanning g a quarter note in musescore and there’s usually a hit it the musescore forum with a link to where the manual explains it or an explanation outright

I usually just do searches in google like “how do i make a triplet spanning a quarter note in musescore and there’s usually a hit in the musescore forum with a link to where the manual explains it or an explanation outright