I am attempting to write some short pieces for Acoustic Guitar. Since I have not done this before, I looked to a few commercial examples and noticed that for instance the writer could write a whole not lets say on the E of the first line and in that same bar filled it with 8th notes. For this particular piece then, the E would be played and sustained serving a bass purpose and the rest of the notes would be the melody. When I attempted to do this with Composer, it started subdividing the whole note and adding slurs to achieve the same result of only one sustained sound for the E. Am I missing something or doing something incorrectly?
I selected "guitar" at the beginning. Thank you!