beam across a bar line
Is there any way to beam notes across a bar line? This is pretty common in Beethoven and many others to indicate that the main beat has been shifted.
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Select the notes at each side of the barline and double click the middle beam icon in the beam palette.
In reply to Select the notes at each side by [DELETED] 5
It works, er... sort of. I am using the 1.3 version and I can't start a beam on the last note of a measure. it seems that Musescore will not group two and only two notes on different sides of a bar line. Threes work fine. Am I missing something?
Actually, it works fine as long as there is a rest before the note to beam across the bar line. But try this:
In 2/4 time make more than 1 measures worth of 16th notes, make the first one to be by itself, then beam the others in groups of two. Clicking the beam start on the last 16th of a measure makes that note have flags, clicking continue beam beams it to the note before AND the note after the bar line. There seems to be no way to get the correct effect.
In reply to Thanks Lasconic, but... by MDMilford
So,el e else just noticed and reported this a few days ago: #20648: beaming across barline not working under needed circumstance. Apparently this works in 2.0.
In reply to So,el e else just noticed and by Marc Sabatella
Have you seen what happens when this situation occurs at the end of a system? I tried it and the stem of the note was extended all the way down to the level of the note on the next system and the beam went backwards to the other note all the way across the page. I would expect the beams to behave similarly to slurs.
In reply to Great! Just one more... by MDMilford
I tried on 2.0 and it only half works - it looms right going out of the first system, hut there is no beam at all co i g in to the second system. You might try installing a nightly build, verifying, and submitting an official bug report in the issue tracker.
In reply to Thanks Lasconic, but... by MDMilford
Try toggling a line into place and set its thickness as if it were a beam...
Time consuming, but works.
But do it as a final step, because when you change the scaling of the bars, the line moves out of position.
In reply to Try toggling a line into… by G-Power
This is very old and talking about a long fixed bug where notes could not be beamed across barlines. However, your fix would be useful for beams that are wonky crossing system breaks. See #16278: Beaming notes over barlines and line breaks and its links.
In reply to This is very old and talking… by mike320
Thank you. :)
In reply to Select the notes at each side by [DELETED] 5
this doesn't work
In reply to this doesn't work by Rami Haimov
What doesn't work? See #16278: Beaming notes over barlines and line breaks, which is still open...
In reply to What doesn't work? by Jojo-Schmitz
I have tried what it says, I am trying to beam a 32nd note at the end of a measure with a 32nd note in the beginning of the nest measure, I am getting all kinds of weird beaming but not the simple obvious one.
In reply to I have tried what it says, I… by Rami Haimov
That indeed is what that still open issue is about
In reply to That indeed is what that… by Jojo-Schmitz
It seems that beaming only works over rests that is I have to select a 32rest then a 32nd note then the 32nd note in the nest measure and a 32nd rest - in order to beam but the beaming I am getting is not what I want.
In reply to I have tried what it says, I… by Rami Haimov
In general it should work, except if the measures are on different systems (i.e., last measure measure of one system, first measure of the next). In all other cases, simply select the first note of the second measure, then the beam middle icon. If you've done this and it's not working, please attach your score and tell us which measure to look at so we can understand and assist better.
Two eighth notes, one on each side of a barline in the bottom staff of a piano part. Worked like a charm in version 1.3. Yes there is a rest before the first eighth note, and this is in voice 2, where voice 1 is a held note tied across the barline.
I was coming here for the reverse. Hoping to find a way to take eighth notes beamed across several bars and make them look more like standard notation.
I didn't see what I needed here, so I just did it manually.
In reply to I was coming here for the… by matthias.hoefler
This is a very old thread dealing with very old versions of Musescore. Here is the handbook article dealing with the adjustment of beaming and default beaming in the current version (4.1.1) https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/beams
If that doesn't help I recommend you start a new thread, explaining in more detail what your starting and desired endpoints are It usually helps if you attach the score you are having difficulty with (the .mscz file) and also state which version of Musescore you are using.