Drag or double-click to select bars
In the tab editor, dragging the mouse across bars selects them whole, anywhere on the score, and a double-click selects one bar. Copy them, click a bar and paste: they go in from there, in order.
Copying a riff to another place in the song used to take Shift and the arrow keys, or a careful drag along the tab's numbers that only worked if you started right on a note.
What changed
- Drag anywhere in the bars: on the notation, on the tab, or between the notes. Inside one bar a drag selects the beats you go over, as before. Once you cross a barline it selects every bar you've dragged over, whole, either way.
- Double-click a bar anywhere in it to select all its notes.
- No need to press Edit first: on your own score, a drag or a double-click opens the editor with the selection made.
- You can see what's selected: bars selected whole are tinted across both the notation and the tab while you drag, and the line under the toolbar says which ("bars 5–7 selected").
- Paste into a bar: copy (Ctrl+C or the Copy button), click the bar where the copy should start and paste (Ctrl+V or Paste). The first bar copied goes into the bar you clicked and the rest into the bars after it, in order, replacing what was there; bars are added at the end of the song if it runs out. If you've selected several bars to paste over, the paste starts at the first of them.
Insert (Ctrl+Shift+V) still puts the copied bars in before the bar you clicked and moves the rest of the song along.
A double-click on the notation used to write a note on the line or space you clicked. It now selects the bar instead. On a piano part, click the line or space and press Enter to write a note; on a guitar, type the fret on the tab.