beam properties

• Oct 25, 2020 - 15:39

when writing a syncopated rhythm with eighths and sixteenths the sixteenth beam is going in the wrong direction. also when I want to tie the notes together the playback plays them separately.

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• Oct 25, 2020 - 15:45

The 16th beams are drawn the way they are commonly drawn in scores. Perhaps there should be an option to change this, but there isn't.

For the ties, you didn't use ties, you used slurs. Slurs are applied from the palette or by pressing s. Ties are applied using the toolbar or pressing +. They often look identical in print, though a good score will have a slight difference in their look. MuseScore sees them as totally different items.

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• Oct 25, 2020 - 20:08

The problem is you have beamed these notes incorrectly. The rules of notation call for the notes be beamed in groups corresponding to individual beats. So your first measure should look like this:

beam-beat.png

Also, as mentioned, you are using slurs where you meant to use to ties, that is why they play as slurs rather than ties :-). Ties are added from the toolbar or the "+" shortcut.

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• Oct 26, 2020 - 11:45

thank you all for your help . Marc is correct about the beaming which is why I asked, that's the way it came out in the score and I can't figure out how to change it. But I cannot open your example of how it should look. Re the ties, thanks for the tip. the lines pallette only shows slurs not ties and I (still can't) couldn't find any toolbar with the tie option. Online handbook also didn't have anything. As for the slurs, in my example there are no extra slurs, not sure what happened there!
I actually wanted to use two dotted eighth notes instead of tied eighth plus sixteenth but my conductor says it's not "orthodox" and may be harder to read for a classical group. any comments about that?
One more thing is that I can't find a way to delete a complete measure (as opposed to the notes in the measure) from the beginning or middle of the score. As you can see I am far from proficient in this program I'm just trying to learn as I go along so I appreciate all comments.

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• Oct 26, 2020 - 20:47

I actually wanted to use two dotted eighth notes instead of tied eighth plus sixteenth but my conductor says it's not "orthodox" and may be harder to read for a classical group. any comments about that?

I took your example, deleted the slurs and replaced with ties as you originally wanted. I also added 2 measures with dotted eighth notes (as you mentioned).
Finally, I added 4 measures (following the rules) so that beat #2 gets exposed, and therefore it is not 'hidden between' notes.

Play this back using the metronome (click the metronome button on the toolbar):
example_syncopation.mscz
Then wonder... in the first line, where does beat #2 fall?

In the second line... beat #2 is apparent.
The combination of: dotted eighth - sixteenth - tied to an eighth - is a common figure in syncopation, easily recognizable through consistent notation.

Regards.

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