Beaming problem
I'm creating a score of a wind quintet & have run into a problem with beaming. Please see attached file, which is a 5 bar extract
The same rhythm appears on beat 1 of bars 3 and 5, in all 5 parts.
Bar 5 shows the beaming as it originally appeared.
In bar 3, I have successfully changed the beaming to what it should be in staves 1, 2 and 4 (Flute, Oboe, Horn). I did this by selecting the first quaver & the semiquaver in the bar, then double clicking the 2nd Icon in Beam Properties palette (Beam Middle)
The problem is with the other 2 staves, Clarinet & Bassoon, where repeating the above procedure beams across the rest as it should, but as you will see, also adds in the 3 semiquavers in the previous bar, which is wrong.
If you try the same technique in bar 5, the same error occurs, beaming across the barline to the last 2 notes of bar 4
Obviously the music is playable as it is, but I'd love to be able to correct this, but don't know how!
One other thing which may be relevant is that I can't get the first icon in Beam Properties to do anything. Can someone give me a simple example of when it should be used.
Thanks in advance for some guidance.
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Comments
In reply to [inline:ki.png] ? by Shoichi
Many thanks for this very clear solution, which works perfectly for me. The concept of applying as beaming icon to a rest, in the other response, works also, but takes a bit of getting used to!
The first icon is used to *break* an existing beam. Eg, click the second (or third, or fourth, ...) note of a beamed group, double click the first icon. The beam will be broken at that point, so the selected note starts a new group.
As for your problem, you shouldn't have selected the first note of the group if your goal was to get the rest under the beam. Select the rest *only*. By selecting the first note also, you told MuseScore you also wanted *it* to be joined to what came before. This didn't cause a problem for flute and oboe because there was nothing to join the first note to. But change the quarter in the previous bar to two eighths and you'll see it beam across the barline as well.
So, click the first note in the measure and reset it to Auto - that will put things back the way they should be.
In reply to The first icon is used to by Marc Sabatella
Many thanks for this Marc. It clarifies where I've gone wrong, and everything is now as it should be.
The concept of applying beaming to a rest is a bit strange at first, but I can certainly get used to it!
I looked at the other response, and that works as well.
Musescore is incredibly good software, and the printed output is outstanding in quality.
Tim