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Additional note and rest formatting
Handling beaming
4. Activate “For Grouping Only”.
5. Click OK.
Regular grouping of a number of eighth notes or smaller (“Beam”)
If the grouping the program assigns is not the one you want, you can put any selection
of eighth notes or smaller under a beam:
1. Select at least two notes, where you want the beam to begin and end.
All notes between these two notes are grouped under a beam.
2. Click the Group Notes icon on the extended toolbar or right-click on one of the
notes to be grouped and select “Beam” from the “Group/Ungroup” submenu of
the context menu.
The Group Notes icon
Before and after grouping
• Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to
adjust the “note value” for the symbols.
Grouping quarter notes or larger under a beam (“Brillenbass”)
It is also possible to use the grouping feature for notes that are not displayed with
beams (quarter notes, half notes, etc.). The result are so called “Brillenbass” symbols,
commonly used for indicating repeated accompaniment patterns, etc.
• Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the Grouping dialog, allowing you to
adjust the “note value” for the symbols.
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Note that the “For Grouping Only” setting only affects the way the numerator is
divided. Any changes you make to the “sum” of the numerator number or the
denominator result in a change of actual time signature in the project. If you need a
grouping which cannot be entered in the current time signature, you have to group
notes manually, see below.