8 note, 16th rest, 16th note ... repeat this 4 times in a single measure . How to beam them individually
So I can get the 1st quaver,semi quaver rest and semi quaver to beam together - like a pair of quavers in a 4/4 bar. However I don't want the next repeated notes beamed to the first. I tried to separate the quavers (8) and semi's (16) in the time signature... like here https://musescore.org/en/node/270984
But I can't get the repeated notes to not beam altogether....
What am I doing wrong ?.
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Select the note where you want to start the next beamed group and click on Break beam left in the Beams palette.
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In reply to Break beam left. by underquark
Many thanks for the reply. Your suggestion sorted it out -
I think though there is another issue...
I'm not sure the "join beams" is quite right...
If I select the first and last note in a measure so it's highlighted in a square - and then click "Join Beam" it beams across the bar line .... but includes the last measure in the previous bar...which does not look right to me.
I don't think you should beam across a measure line ?. It will confuse the player (well it confuses me anyway :-)
In reply to Many thanks for the reply. … by davidboatman
> If I select the first and last note in a measure so it's highlighted in a square - and then click "Join Beam" it beams across the bar line
Yes. It would be nice to have a Join Beams command that referenced the meter's rules ... and did not beam across bar lines.
In reply to > If I select the first and… by scorster
I've found that the Join Beams command appears to join the selected note to the previous note. So, what you have to do in this case is to select everything EXCEPT for the first note in the measure and it will beam everything that CAN beam ... but only within the measure.
If I want to do this to multiple measures, I just beam all of them at one swell foop and then use the Select tool to select only the first beat of the multiple measures and set them to the Begin Beam tool.
If the Join Beams tool "did not beam across bar lines" you couldn't beam across bar lines if you needed it, which I recently had specific occasion to need while transcribing one of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas.