I Cannot Beam two notes on beat 3!

• Jan 3, 2012 - 02:13

It wont let me no matter how i play with with beam buttons,
This is in measure 4

I need to attach a dotted eighth to a sixteenth on the 3rd beat WITHOUT having the beams connect to the 4th beat, This how it should be written yet i cant figure it out

Thanks!

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• Jan 3, 2012 - 08:53

Select the C and double clic on "A" in the palette. Same for the B.
Select the A and double click on "start of beam" in the palette

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ChurchOrganist

• Jan 3, 2012 - 11:03

Or:-

1. Select the B and double click the "Middle of beam" tool - you should now have a beamed group of 4.

2. Select the A and double click the "Start Beam" tool - the beaming should now be how you want it.

HTH
Michael

Marc Sabatella

• Jan 3, 2012 - 15:01

In general:

The default is that beats three and four are beamed together despite the presence of the sixteenth (I think that's not the most appropriate default, but that's another issue). So the moment you enter that sixteenth, it should still have been beamed to the previous note. The only problem is that the note on four is also beamed. So immediately after entering that note, either double click the start of beam icon, or use a keyboard shortcut to do the same. I can never remember what the defaults are because I have customized many of mine (Edit->Preferences->Shortcuts), but the end result is a single extra keypress when entering the note to break that beam. Similarly, if a note I have just entered is *not* beamed to the previous note when I want, another shortcut activates "middle of beam" and joins it.

patfarlow

• Jan 3, 2012 - 16:55

thanks for the help everyone, that fixed it!

chen lung

• Jan 3, 2012 - 16:50

Might be wrong, but was this fixed in the trunk?

#3459: Beaming of sixteenth and eighth note sequences in 4/4