Beaming of 3 Consecutive Eighth Notes in Simple Duple/Quadruple Meter
Is there a way to change MuseScore's default beaming of eighth notes in simple duple/quadruple meter so that three consecutive eighth (or sixteenth/32nd) notes are not automatically beamed together? Basically, I only want eighth notes beamed together if they are in groups of two or four. Every publishing convention I've seen in printed music separates either the first or third eighth note from the beamed pair (depending on where they fall on the down- or upbeats.)
For example, three eighth notes on "1 & 2" with the "and of 2" being a rest would have the eighth note on the downbeat of 2 be separate from the beamed pair on "1 &". The same with the "&" of three eighth notes on "& 2 &": the "& of 1" would be beamed separately from "2 &".
Yes, I understand that I can use "Beam Properties" in the palette to separate the note in question, but it is a tedious task, especially when working with large scores. It would be much easier, and seem to follow industry convention, if the "odd man out" eighth note was beamed separately automatically.
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You can change the beaming in the time signature. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/time-signatures#change-default-beaming
In reply to You can change the beaming… by mike320
Will this effectively change all eighths (and shorter notes) into beamed pairs? I don't have a problem with groups of four consecutive beamed notes, and I don't want to turn everything into just beamed pairs.
In reply to Will this effectively change… by theblackhorn
It will apply to all beamed notes until the next time signature change. All of the beams can have shortcuts applied to them, I never use the palette.
Unfortunately, the way the algorithm works, there is no way to specify you want groups of four but only if all four notes are present. you need to break those groups manually. See #287084: Add ability to, for 4/4, automatically beam sets of four and two eighth notes, but not triples. and add you voice if you'd like to see this situation improved in the future!