MuseScore Tutorial 9 - Chords and Chord Symbols [Intermediate]

The ninth in a series of tutorial videos designed to help you learn to use MuseScore. The first eight are focused on using MuseScore for orchestrating a piano piece for other instruments. These intermediate tutorials introduce topics more suited to arranging and composing in MuseScore.

MuseScore is free music notation software:
https://musescore.org/en

In this video you can learn how to add chord symbols to your score, as well as get MuseScore to play them, automatically write the notes of those chords in a staff, and even explode those chords into a section of instruments.

The MuseScore Handbook chapter on chord symbols, in case you want to write more than the basic chords used in this video:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/c...

Shortcuts used:
Ctrl+Shift+End : Select to the end of the system
Home : Go to the beginning of the score
Ctrl+C : Copy
Ctrl+V : Paste
F10 : Mixer
F8 : Inspector

00:00 Intro
00:39 Adding chord symbols
01:56 Playback of chord symbols options
02:43 Selecting chords from multi-bar selection
04:39 Realize chord symbols for piano staves
06:09 Making parts for instruments from chords
08:51 Rhythmic chordal accompaniment quickly