Beaming
I wanted to type the above into Musescore. Actually I want the "3" to be under the second left note.
Problem encountered:
I cannot manually beam two sixteenth groups with eighth beams,
regardless whether some of them are triplets.
Also, notes group together each 2 beats in 4/4 time.
I want each beat to be grouped separately.
How?
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Beaming of that kind is coming in MuseScore 2.0
Have you tried the tools on the Beams Palette?
http://musescore.org/en/handbook/beam
In reply to Beaming of that kind is by ChurchOrganist
1) You meant that kind of beaming is not available in 1.0, right? Actually I really want this kind of beaming.
Any workarounds?
2) Yes, but it could not automatically produce the "correct" grouping thus I have to group new notes manually.
In reply to Tried but useless by maksuihin
1) 1.0 is outdated, 1.2 is the current version, sinca almost a year now.
And you can fake the beaming, with 2 8th in a different voice, flipping stem direction, adjusting stem length and making these additional notes silent. See attached score.
In reply to 1) 1.0 is outdated, 1.2 is by Jojo-Schmitz
Works fine though the playback is ugly.
It's my fault. I'm using 1.2 but I thought it was 1.0.
Thanks.
How about the automatic grouping issue?
In reply to Thanks by maksuihin
For playback you need to set these fake notes' velocity to 0.
In reply to Thanks by maksuihin
You can't make MuseScore do it automatically, but you can define a keyboard shortcut for the "start of beam" command, so it's ony a single click while entering notes to break beams. But do be aware that in 4/4 time, modern typesetting guidelines are in pretty well agreement - you should be beaming in groups of two beats. Do you bave a specific reason to want to do things otherwise?
In reply to You can't make MuseScore do by Marc Sabatella
Does that mean all notes should be grouped every 2 beats?
My music theory teacher says they should be grouped by beats, if my memory serves me right.
How about the case when all notes are sixteenths? Should they be grouped 8 each?
Thanks for Jojo's and Marc's reply
In reply to Typesetting? by maksuihin
The standard is for eighths to be beamed two beats at a time, sixteenths one beat at a time. These standards are not universal, though. Some publishers willbeam a whole measure of eighths together. And others break them every beat. So if you beed to produce one if those styles - like to satisfy a teacher who wants it that way for whatever reason - then use the overrides described previously. But unless you have a specific reason to need to do that, I always recommend following the modern standards, and that is to beam in groups of two beats (1&2 or 3&4, never 2&3).
In reply to The standard is for eighths by Marc Sabatella
It's quite casual then. Thanks.
If playback is important to you can try this workaround:
Create the triplet and the two sixteenth notes.
Add a line (from the Lines palette).
Make the line 0.45sp wide.
Double-click on the line and use the [Up arrow} and [Ctrl]-[Up arrow] to angle it correctly.
Drag the line to the correct place.
I suggest you do this after entering all the notes as the line will shift a bit when measures are redrawn with any change in width.
You can flip the bracket and number with X.
In reply to 2.0 may do it but 1.x won't. by underquark
Thanks for your suggestion. These grouping things are like ossias - not solved in 1.x yet and thus have to be frequently moved to ensure they are in the right place :/