Any way to do this - slash on stem with multiple dots above?
I'm trying to rework a piece of concert band music to transpose one part to fit our instrumentation. It's an older piece, with some odder/older conventions
I believe that means that the half note gets played as 4 staccato eighth notes.
I can do the stem slash via the tremolo. But it there a way to get the 4 dots above?
I may just change this to be the staccato quarter notes, but I expect that I'll end up with a lot more pages. This form is used a LOT in the two page I've got.
You know, as I look at the blown up image, I think that it's actually two slashes through the stem. Looks like one to my old eyes until it gets under a magnifying glass...
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Insert as text? Ctrl + T and then the dots
In reply to Insert as text? Ctrl + T and by Shoichi
Yeah, I guess that can sort of work. Just tried it quick and it's fussy to do, plus the placement needs to be juggled. There's probably about 100 instances of this notation in the two pages I'm working on. Sadly, it doesn't copy well - the formatting gets lost when I try to paste it onto another note.
If I just spell out the expected notes, I imagine I'd go from 2 pages to 5 or more. But that may be easier for me and the players can deal with the pages :-)
In reply to Yeah, I guess that can sort by GuyWithDogs
Shouldn't be too fussy to adjust it manually - one click down and a couple left should do it, no? And with the latest nightly builds, formatting *is* preserved when you copy and paste it onto another note.
In reply to Shouldn't be too fussy to by Marc Sabatella
Marc, you're right. My mistake. I'd managed to open version 1.3 inadvertently when I went to try the text approach. Realized that later and did see that formatting gets preserved, so that's the way I'll go.
Appreciate all the quick replies from everyone.
I could be wrong, but I think it's a single slash. You generally get the same number of slashes as you would have beams if the notes were written out, and eighth notes only have a single beam.
In reply to I could be wrong, but I think by ghicks
Yes, you're correct. The slash represents the beam of the note to use (so one slash = eighth note, two slashes = sixteenth note), and the dots represent the number of notes.
So half note with one slash and four dots is four eighth notes.