Grouping Notes in 6/8 Time
Hello,
I'm working in 6/8 time and want to change the default way notes are grouped so that each measure is two dotted-quarter notes.
The first example is what's happening automatically, the second is what I would like to happen. Have tried messing with time signature properties, but can't figure it out.
How do we do this?
Thanks!
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Comments
Rests indeed don't follow the same rules as beams and no way to influence them score wide. See #294419: Allow modification of default for filling measures with rests.
Just select (each of the) the quarter rest(s) and press . to make it dotted (and 'eat' the 8th rest)
In reply to Rests indeed don't follow… by Jojo-Schmitz
Not the news I was hoping to get, but what's the fastest way to do that in a big score? Going through manually and searching for every instance will take forever.
I don't know or feel comfortable with any coding - what's the fastest way to do this?
Thanks.
In reply to Not the news I was hoping to… by RogerRabbit95
right-click a quarter rest, select > more > same duration, OK, dot.
In reply to right-click a quarter rest,… by Jojo-Schmitz
Also, if it happens to be that the quarter rests you're wanting to be augmented are all on the first beat (the first quarter rest of measures) but you have other quarter-rests elsewhere that don't need augmentation-dotting, you can also tick "Same Beat" within that dialog-box JJS mentioned to be more specific after enabling "Same Duration".
In reply to Not the news I was hoping to… by RogerRabbit95
Be careful when applying this to all quarter rests. Adding a dot will eat whatever 1/8th thing came after it; be it a rest or intended notation!
In reply to Be careful when applying… by jeetee
Unfortunately quarter note rests occur in different places and adding a dot to all of them, or even all of them on the same beat won't work. Sometimes they're followed by a 16th note rest, and then a 16th note that would be lost.
Thanks for the advice, will try to find them all and change manually.
In reply to Unfortunately quarter note… by RogerRabbit95
You can select more than one at a time by using Ctrl/Click.
The beaming properties do not (yet) translate in rest groupings.
The easiest way is to write a measure with two dotted quarter rests, select it and press and hold 'R' to replicate it throughout the score.
In reply to The beaming properties do… by jeetee
But then that will cause issues in other places and will still require going through everything and making lots of manual changes, for example when there's a whole measure rest.
I really hope there's another way.
6/8 is duple time.
Ran into the same problem today, but now there's a fix! Thanks, Musescore.
For anyone with the same problem:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/regroup-rhythms