Automatic beaming over rests
Hello everyone,
Lately I have been composing a lot of music full of syncopations and downbeats falling on rests, which led me to use a lot of beaming over the rests for clarifying the beat structure of these measures. I used over-rest beaming for rests lying in the middle/beginning/end of groups of notes. However, to do so, currently I have to select each rest and set a beaming style, whereas I would like this process to be automatically sticking to the beat organisation/note grouping of the specific time signature.
I attach a visual example of what I propose to be 'automatise'.
What do you think?
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Screenshot 2023-08-27 174431.png | 29.52 KB |
Comments
"I would like this process to be automatically sticking to the beat organisation/note grouping of the specific time signature"
Personally I wouldn't want Beam across rests to be the default MuseScore behaviour.
But if you can gain some support from other users then Beam across rests could perhaps be an optional setting?
In reply to Personally I wouldn't want… by DanielR
Hello Daniel,
I apologise. Actually, I wouldn't want either to have the beam across the rests as a default setting of the software, but to have it as an option to toggle if/when desired.
To clarify this, I am thinking of a feature that could specifically apply to the rests lying in the middle of a group (which style you can find in fairly historical scores as well, especially in tuplets) AND, additionally, to have a further toggle option for beaming the rests lying on the extremities of groups, which feature I think is instead more modern and experimental.
In the end, the purpose would be to clarify the rhythmic organisation of the measures, with different possible degrees of coverage and 'experimentalism'.
Still, of course, this wouldn't be the default beaming option, but something optional to be activated either as the default option for that one specific score, if desired, or just locally in selected passages.
In reply to Hello Daniel, I apologise… by comogliogiuli
Understood. I think you could write this up as a suggested specification, with some illustrations. Then make a new post in the Engraving forum (https://musescore.org/en/forum/4488), which is read by MuseScore's engraving expert @oktophonie. He's the person whom you need to convince!
The step after that would be to create a new Issue on Github, marking it as a Feature request:
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/new/choose
Background: you need to create a free Github account before trying to create a Github issue. Github is where all the agreed issues go through triage and eventually into development. The forums here are just a help desk and a "talking shop" to see whether suggested feature requests are sensible.