title: Note Selection
---
+<h2>Selecting/Navigating note-by-note</h2>
+<p>
+ Tab selects the next note. <kbd class="mod1">Tab</kbd> selects the previous
+ note. <kbd class="mod3">Tab</kbd> or <kbd class="mod13">Tab</kbd> adds
+ the next/previous note to the selection.
+</p>
-
- <h2>Selecting/Navigating note-by-note</h2>
-<p>Tab selects the next note. <kbd class="mod1">Tab</kbd> selects the previous note. <kbd>Shift-Tab</kbd> or <kbd class="mod13">Tab</kbd> adds the next/previous note to the selection.</p>
<h2>Selecting notes with the mouse</h2>
-<p>While in mouse object mode, you can click on a note to select it. Once you've selected one note, shift-click on another to select all notes between them. To add or remove a note to/fromt the selection, use <kbd class="mod1">click</kbd>. You can also click and drag outside of a note to "rubberband select" a series of notes.</p>
-<p>Three different selection operations are possible if you switch to mouse range mode:</p>
+<p>
+ While in mouse object mode, you can click on a note to select it. Once you
+ have selected one note, <kbd class="mouse mod3">Left</kbd>-click on another
+ to select all notes between them. To add or remove a note to/from the
+ selection, click <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>. You can also click and
+ drag outside of a note to <dfn>rubberband select</dfn> a series of notes.
+</p>
+<p>
+ Three different selection operations are possible if you switch to mouse
+ range mode:
+</p>
<ul>
-<li>Vertical drags within the MIDI region will select all notes within the spanned note range
-</li>
-<li>Clicks on the piano header of the track (if visible - the track must be tall enough to display it) will select all occurences of that note
-</li>
-<li>Drags on the piano header of the track will select all notes within the spanned note range
-</li>
+ <li>
+ Vertical drags within the MIDI region will select all notes within the
+ spanned note range.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Clicks on the piano header of the track (if visible — the track must
+ be tall enough to display it) will select all occurences of that note.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Drags on the piano header of the track will select all notes within the
+ spanned note range.
+ </li>
</ul>
-<h2>Listening to Selected Notes</h2>
-<p>if <code>Edit > Preferences > MIDI > Sound MIDI notes as they are selected</code> is enabled, Ardour will send a pair of NoteOn/NoteOff messages through the track, which will typically allow you to hear each note as it is selected.</p>
+
+<h2>Listening to Selected Notes</h2>
+<p>
+ If <kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > MIDI > Sound MIDI notes
+ as they are selected</kbd> is enabled, Ardour will send a pair of
+ NoteOn/NoteOff messages through the track, which will typically allow you to
+ hear each note as it is selected.
+</p>