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I've just started learning SmartMusic's Compose feature whereby I can create my own musical score. I'm starting with Mary Had a Little Lamb (the hello world program equivalent for any music notation software).
How do I add a rests?
I know I've done this before but can't remember how.
Searching for this has not found anything useful. And it doesn't look like SmartMusic is a tag in this forum so maybe this is not the place to ask.
In the PDF documentation here, it says you can press the zero (0) key to enter a rest of a specific duration, so if you've selected a half-note, and press the zero key, a half-note rest is entered.
To switch an existing note to a rest, press the s-key. The s-key switches a note to a rest or a rest to a note.
This video shows using the s-key.
