Help with 16th note beams
Hi everyone, I am trying to copy some sheet music into Musescore 4 (I am not sure if I am allowed, but it's for personal use only) and cannot copy the other half of the picture attached to this post 
I wasn't sure how to look this up and couldn't find anything about this
Also not sure if this is the right place
Can anyone help? I'll leave more details if needed
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Is it the three semiquavers at the end that are the problem? See the Handbook on how to create tuplets: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/tuplets
In reply to Is it the three semiquavers… by Brer Fox
Thank you
If it's the beaming over the 16th rest that you are referring to, select the rest and go to the Beam properties palette and choose Join beams:
![Screenshot_20231215_233825.png]( "Screenshot_20231215_233825.png")
If you specifically want the beam to be split as per your image, choose Break inner beams:
![Screenshot_20231215_235446.png]( "Screenshot_20231215_235446.png")
In reply to If it's the by underquark
Thank you!
This helped me recreate it
The only problem I am having now is it's making me have a 16th note, and I can't change it
Do you know how I could resolve this?
I am quite new at this so my apologies
In reply to Thank you! This helped me… by AccioThe1st
"it's making me have a 16th note"
What do you mean? Please post the score and give a detailed description of what you are trying to do and what actually happens.
In reply to "it's making me have a 16th… by underquark
My apologies for not giving detail
On the triplet at the end of the measure (I hope it's a triplet and I am not confusing it with something else)
![Screenshot 2023-12-16 125653.png]( "Screenshot 2023-12-16 125653.png")
When I try to put them as 16th notes, One auto defaults to a 32nd note like this
I am not sure if I am just doing something wrong, or missing something entirely
My apologies for the lack of detail
In reply to My apologies for not giving… by AccioThe1st
It should be a triplet.
![Triplet.png]( "Triplet.png")
To create a triplet with 16th notes first set a normal 8th note or rest in place. See, my cursor points to it. Then use Ctrl+3 to get a triplet of three 16ths.
I assume you did that with a 16th note, not with an eighth.
Then fill in the notes (and the slur).
In reply to It should be a triplet. To… by HildeK
Thank you so much! This certainly helped a lot
Although this shows that I need to learn the software a lot more
Thanks again!
In reply to Thank you so much! This… by AccioThe1st
Yes, it is a very versatile software and therefore almost everyone will come across questions at some point. And only a few will know everything. Then the manual is an important place to get ahead. If that doesn't help, the forum is the right place to solve a problem.
I myself asked for help years ago, and today I can sometimes give tips myself and still don't know everything.
Have a good time!
In reply to Yes, it is a very versatile… by HildeK
The Handbook is very good but it covers so much that it can be difficult to find what you want, particularly if you don’t know the terms to search for. The link I included in my reply to your first post tells you how to create tuplets (i.e. triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets, etc.)
In reply to The Handbook is very good… by Brer Fox
And some people might search “grouplets”, another word for it that I have come across.
In reply to And some people might search… by hamsandwichnow
For anything group-related, probably best to have "Safe Search" set to On.