How to reverse the internal flag/beam direction within a beamed group?
Hi all, I'm trying to change the direction of a sixteenth note beam within a 5/16th note group. It should beam to the left, to suggest 3+2, rather than how musescore does it automatically (which it seems to choose arbitrarily?). Is there a way to change this?
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That beam direction doesn't look arbitrarily to me.
The first 1/16th shown is the first half of the 1/8th it's splitting, thus its beam is to the right (towards its "second half"). Whereas the 2nd 1/16th shown occupies the second half of the 1/8th it's splitting; this its beam is to the left (toward its "first half).
Not sure if this can be overridden.
In reply to That beam direction doesn't… by jeetee
aahh that makes sense, I was confused as to why it would do the first one different than the second, but if it's thinking of a string of eighth notes, that tracks.
Just out of curiosity, what is the (nominal) time signature of the measure: 5/8, or 10/16 (i.e. 2x5/16)? Would Musescore handle the beaming differently were it changed? And yes, I agree: the first group just looks wrong.
In reply to Just out of curiosity, what… by wfazekas1
Here is a possible workaround, depending on context. In this file, m3 is actually two measures of 5/16 (but with a text reading "5/8"), then joined using Tools-->Measures-->Join selected measures. But it got the flag heading the direction you want.
In reply to Just out of curiosity, what… by wfazekas1
nominal time signature is 15/16, in a wider context of regular 5/16 measures (which all work "correctly"!). Is there a way to create an "actual" time signature of 3/16+2/16, for example?
In reply to nominal time signature is 15… by bcdaurelle
You could just alter the default beaming for the time signature; if you make those groups of 3 and 2 16ths alternating, then the beaming is adjusted as you wanted it.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/time-signatures#change-default-beam…
In reply to You could just alter the… by jeetee
Actually, that's what I had tried to do, especially in the 10/16 example. Still didn't work, at least when eighth-notes get involved.
In reply to You could just alter the… by jeetee
ha, yes! this was it. a lot easier than I was making it out to be...
thanks!
In reply to You could just alter the… by jeetee
I stand corrected--in my first essay, in the 10/16 measure, I set the beam properties as two sets of five notes. In this new file, the time signature of the last file has beam properties of 3+ 2+3+2--that seemed to work in getting the beamlets facing thedesired direction, although I still had to manually force a beam break between the third and fourth notes.