musescore / musescore/MuseScore

allow horizontal movement of notes with arrow keys

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Since Sep 8, 2026.

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Description

Your idea

Would like to be able to nudge notes horizontally using the arrow keys (can be coupled with another function key so you can still navigate from note to note with plain arrows).

Problem to be solved

Sometimes notes need to be nudged horizontally for Reasons. Currently, this can only be done by dragging with the mouse, which is imprecise, inconsistent, and can cause unwanted mayhem to occur (dragging too far, not far enough, note moving vertically instead).

Prior art

Sibelius allows this with Alt+Shift+Arrow

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