Selecting, copying, and undo

Once notes are on the page you’ll want to move them around, copy a riff, or back out of a change. Tabula uses the conventions you already know.

Selecting

Extend a selection from the cursor with Shift+← / Shift+→. The selection grows beat by beat and can cross bar lines.
Select everything in the current track and voice with Ctrl+A.

A selection is the target for cut, copy, delete, and operations like tuplets that act on a range.

Cut, copy, and paste

Action	Keys
Copy	`Ctrl`+`C`
Cut	`Ctrl`+`X`
Paste	`Ctrl`+`V`
Copy across all tracks (whole bars)	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`C`

Copy and cut act on the current beat or the active selection. Copy all tracks grabs the whole bars across every track at once — useful for duplicating a section of the arrangement. Paste replaces the selection, or drops into an empty measure.

Deleting

Deleting is context-aware so the same key does the obvious thing:

If you’re part-way through typing a multi-digit fret, Delete/Backspace clears just that pending digit.
With a selection active, it removes the range.
On a populated beat, it removes the note on the active string (or the drum piece on the active line).
Hold Shift (Shift+Delete), or use it on an empty beat, to remove the whole beat.

Undo and redo

Undo — Ctrl+Z
Redo — Ctrl+Shift+Z

Every edit you make is a single undo step. View-only preferences — hiding a track, zoom, theme — aren’t part of the undo history, so undoing never quietly changes how the score is displayed.