Syncopated notation
I have measures in 4/4 containing syncopated dotted 8ths and 16ths with ties. I want each beat to appear separately as dotted 8&16th, or 2 eighth notes. Seems I can only either have each note beamed separately , or have them beamed in 2 beat sections, or have all 4 beats beamed together. I've tried selecting different combinations of the notes and clicking on the options in the beam properties pallet, but I'm unable to get the desired result.
Other parts of the music which contain syncopations but are less complicated appear as I want them to.
Am I missing something?
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I figured it out, seems odd that the beaming assignments have to be entered as you go along or they're not recognized. But at least I got it looking right.
In reply to never mind! :-) by NeiltheKVeg
I'm not sure what you mean - if you gave a more specific example that might help. MuseScore tries to follow fairly standard beaming rules and it shouldn't be necessary very often to override them, but if you do wish to override them, it can be done just as easily either while entering the note or afterwards. See Beam in the Handbook, and if that doesn't help, feel free to explain further what you trying to do.
In reply to I'm not sure what you mean - by Marc Sabatella
Actually, there are multiple issues. I hope it's OK that I'm addressing them all in this thread .
1. The syncopation issue was that the figure beginning at letter L kept beaming across the beats. I want it to look just as it does now. The only way I could solve it was by re-entering the notes and telling each note, by way of the beaming pallet, how it was to behave as it was entered. I was unable to get it to beam properly after entering.
2. The extra repeat sign at the end of the first line won't go away . . . Cut, delete, entering a new type of bar line, nothing works.
3. I'm not seeing how to remove the bracket at the beginning of each line. This was originally a double stave score, the 2nd stave was deleted, but the bracket remains...
In reply to Example score by NeiltheKVeg
1) I'm not sure what you tried, but the way to break a beam is the click the note where you want the beam to start, then double click the start of beam icon. This can be done at any time, not just immediately upon note entry. So in your example, when you first entered the notes at letter L, if you found it was beaming the first four notes together, just click the G on beat 2 and double click the start of beam icon - again, at any time you wish. If you are outside note entry mode, you can even do multiple notes at once. Ctrl-click the notes you want to start beams (the notes on beats 2 and 4 in the first bar, the note on beat 2 in the second bar) to multi-select them, then double-click start of beam.
2) This seems to be a side effect of the multi-measure rests; it doesn't happen if you disable those. If a system ends with a multimeasure rest and the next line starts with an open repeat, a "courtesy" repeat appears at the end of the first system, when there is really no reason for this. I'd call it a bug, and it seems to still exist in 2.0. Workaround in 2.0: set it invisible (with "V" shortcut), but even this doesn't work in 1.2 (it causes the multimeasure rest to be broken up). Have you submitted to the Issue Tracker before? This should be be reported. Not so much the weirdness when you try to set the thing invisible on 1.2, but just the fact that ending a system with a multimeasure rest and starting the next with a repeat creates this unneeded repeat sign at the end of the first system.
3) To remove the bracket, just click it and press Delete (or the equivalent on a Mac - I gather they don't typically have separate backspace and delete keys).