Music notation tools

On this page, discover the music notations available on our music notation software, Flat, organized by group of features and toolbars. Open the feature page to see how to use it.

• Document
• Parts and Instruments
• Layout
• Note
• Tab
• Articulation
• Ornament
• Dynamic
• Measure
• Text

Document

	Undo / Redo an action
	Copy, Cut and Paste
	Range selection

Parts and Instruments

	Add, Remove and Re-order parts
	Show or Hide parts when working on your sheet music
	Rename parts
	Tablature: Tuning and Capo
	Brackets
	Kodály notation
	Creating and saving Custom Instruments configurations
	Transpose a part from one instrument to another

Layout and Styles

	Add or change the Title, Subtitle, License, Composer or Lyricist
	Page size, orientation, margins and pages numbers
	Staves size and spacing between parts and staves
	Hide non playing instruments
	Number of measures per system and notes spacing
	Measures numbers
	Automatic modes for Notes Heads: Boomwhackers, Notes Names, Shape note (Aiken)
	Music font
	Text styles
	Save and reuse score layout as templates

Note

	Insert a note
	Change the duration of a note
	Option for the Change Duration Tools: Replace or Insert
	Option to adapt the next rest duration
	Insert Mode
	Chord Mode
	Insert Rest
	Voices
	Split Staff
	Swap Voices
	Accidental and double accidental
	Enharmonic Switch: Change a note to its enharmonic equivalent
	Dot a note
	Tie two notes
	Change the tie direction
	Tuplets
	Beaming: automic policy and manual beaming
	Ghost note
	Dead note
	Spoken words
	Grace note and Acciaccatura
	Dislay the score in Concert Pitch
	Transposition
	Octave shift / Ottava
	Color note: Manual colors and automatic colorization using Boomwhackers colors
	Quarter-Tones

Tab

	Get started with Tablatures
	Tuning and Capo
	Change String
	Bend, Pre-Brend and Release
	Harmonic (Natural Sounding, Natural Touching and Artificial Touching)
	Slide
	Plucked ranges (Palm Mute & Let Ring)
	Chord grids
	Hammer on / Pull off
	Up/Down Stroke

Articulation

	Notes articulations
	Fermata
	Slur notes
	Slur grace notes
	Up bow/Down bow
	Harmonic (Natural Sounding, Natural Touching and Artificial Touching)
	Fingerings
	Buzz notes

Ornament

	Trill
	Tremolo
	Arpeggio
	Glissando
	Mordents
	Turns

Dynamic

	Crescendo and Diminuendo
	Dynamics
	Pizzicato and Arco
	Pedal

Measure

	Add or remove Measures
	Add or remove multimeasure rests
	System Breaks
	Clef
	Key Signature
	Time signature
	Tempo marks
	Accelerando
	Ritardando
	Swing
	Rehearsals
	Double barlines
	Repeats
	Multiple repeats
	Measure Repeat
	Slash
	Endings
	Segno
	Coda
	Fine
	Dal Segno
	Da Capo
	To Coda

Text

	Lyrics
	Chords
	Roman Numerals
	Figured Bass
	Text annotation / expression
	Text styles