Beaming options
Is it possible to break the beams every beat when sixteenth notes are involved? I know that beaming four eighth notes together is standard practice, but this looks terrible, in my opinion (and is not standard practice---in 4/4 anyway), when 16ths are involved. Is there another way around this other than going through the entire score and dragging the little "start beam" icon to each and every place I want to start a new beam?
See attached for example. Measure 1 is the way I'd like it to look.
Thanks!
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Comments
For information on how to break and join beams, see Beam in the Handbook. I have keyboard shortcuts set up for these command so I can immediately break or join a beam after entering a note with a single keypress.
In reply to For information on how to by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc. I just figured out how to assign a command key for the "start beam" button, and that helps speed things up for sure. It would be nice to be able to set up your own beaming rules, but this is much, much better than what I was doing before.
In reply to For information on how to by Marc Sabatella
Sorry, I missed where you mentioned dragging the start beram icon. That works, of cours,e but is the slowest of all methods. Defining a keyboard shortcut (via Edit->Preferences->Shortcuts) is fastest, next is double-clicking the palette symbol instead of dragging it to the note. That method - double-clicking palette icon to apply it to all selected notes - works for all note-attached palette elements, not just the beams.