Beaming notes

• Apr 17, 2018 - 20:55

How to remove and add beams? I've read the manual, I've read some forum posts, but I am getting so frustrated, because all that double-clicking and dragging and stuff doens't seem to be working! I would like these 6 notes to have beams in pairs: first + second connected, third + fourth connected and fifth + sixth connected. Please help, thank you.

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It's better to post the actual score rather than just a picture of it. By default this should have already beamed properly according to standard rules of notation, which for 6.8 means two groups of three, not three groups of two. So it appears you have already done something to override the defaults, and without the score we can't say for sure what. But I can say, to put things back to the defaults, select the measure and double click "Auto" in the Beam Properties palette. Then, with everything back to normal, you can start thinking about how to change to the non-standard beaming you are asking for. To do that, you need to click the third note, double click "beam start", then click the fourth note, double click "beam middle", then click the fifth note and double click "beam start".

In reply to by augr

If you consistently want groups of two, you probably shouldn't be using 6/8 - 3/4 would be better suited. but for the record, you can force 6/8 to be beamed like 3/4 by right-clicking the time signature, Time Signature Properties, and set the defaults there.

To add to what Marc said, if you want this done in one measure it will be different than if you want it done in all or at least almost all of the score. There is more than one way to change this. As Marc said, attach your score with what you are trying to do.

In reply to by augr

OK, that's using the defaults; that's not showing what you had before. So, just do exactly what I said after the part about how to reset to defaults. But again probably better to just use 3/4 if your intent is to feel the piece as three groups of two. That is indeed the whole difference between those two time signatures.

In reply to by augr

You didn't change the time signature - it's still 6/8. All you did was use Time Signature to make it look like 3/4. That's not how to change time signatures. Instead, you need to add it from the palette. Do that and all is well. Don't just leave it as 6/8 but fake it to pretend to be 3/4 - other things may go wrong as well.

Next newbie question: If I write a quarter note and afterwards want to change it to an eight, why doesn't it just get changed by selecting the note and then clicking the eight up there on the tool bar?

Also, I tried to search all settings for making only 4 bars appear in a row?

In reply to by augr

As for why, it's because when you are in note input mode, the toolbar is how you control the next note, not the current one. So indeed, leave note input mode then use the duration, or use Q & W which operate on the current note.

As for ending a line earlier, there is no setting for that any more than a word processor has a setting to have only seven words per line. If you want a line to end earlier, simply add a line break (using the palette, or hitting Enter).

How to make a note that continues in the background? (Picture) In real life the pedal is used and I would like the software to play it like that too.

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