Connecting notes with beams

• May 18, 2014 - 16:34

This is going to be my first post and I hope for your forgiveness if my question has been discussed before. I am new to MuseScore and and love it but have now encountered my first problem.

I want to fill a few 3/4-bars with eight notes that will be connected within each bar, i.e. six notes connected with a beam extending over the notes in each bar. I do NOT want them to be connected across bars so that, for instance, twelve eight notes are connected across two bars.

I have tried to highlight the first and the last note in each bar and then double-click the symbol on the palette that will connect all notes but when I try to do the same thing in the next bar twelve notes are connected.

Any help would be welcome.

Johan Hackman
Stockholm
Sweden

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• May 18, 2014 - 17:16

Since I have a 2 years use of Musescore I investigated for you.

I have just one suggestion

In edition>preferences add shortcuts for «beginning of beam» and «middle of beam» (my translations from french)

If you have several measures
1/ select all the measures, then use «middle of beam»
2/ select first note of each measure (CTRL Clic) then use «beginning of beam»

Doing so you don't need to move the mouse between palette and score

Bon courage

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• May 18, 2014 - 19:09

Greetings to all.

@Jojo
In the first score posted, I see three measures (26 -28) all beamed together. I was able to click on the first note in measure 27 (to turn it blue), then I double clicked on the palette icon for 'Start beam' in 'Beam Properties'.
Repeat for the first note in measure 28.
No need to delete and enter from scratch, yes?

@Johan
Have a look at this attachment.

Regards.

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