Selection tool

This tool lets you select and/or drag musical symbols, entire staves or text.

METRO limits some of your dragging actions:

  • You can only drag notes up or down in pitch on their staff (METRO automatically calculates distances between notes and spaces out measures accordingly.)

  • You cannot drag bar-lines

  • You cannot drag key signatures, time signatures or clefs

If a tool is not specified in the notation section of this help file, use the selection tool.


See Also:

Selecting individual notation symbols

Selecting multiple symbols

Selecting contiguous symbols

Selecting non-contiguous symbols

Selecting all symbols in a measure

Selecting all symbols on an entire staff line

Selecting symbols on different staves (lasso selection)

Selecting all symbols in a track

Changing the pitch of notes

Copying notes by option-dragging

Moving symbols other than notes

Copying symbols other than notes

Editing symbols in the score

Selection tool