Hi there! I would like to change the time signature of a single bar in the middle of a composition WITHOUT affecting the following passage. (See example bar 15: the time signature should change from 4/4 to 3/4 ; bar 16 should have the signature 4/4 unchanged. ) With the “Finale” software, this was possible with a mouse click (see appendix). Who can help me?
- Turn on Insert Mode and make sure the scope is set to Global Adjustment of Current Bar
- Delete the last best of that bar:
EDIT
- Once you switch Insert Mode off again, I think you may need to remove time signatures
There’s something weird in this particular example with the RH triplet and the LH half note – deleting the triplet (with the Delete key) seems to delete three eighth notes from the LH.
It works for me to add a quarter note on beat 4 in the LH, and then select that (in Insert mode) and delete it.
Edit: @Janus 's way works.
I’d go simpler than @DanielMuzMurray …
Add a 4/4 time signature on bar 16.
Add a 3/4 time signature on bar 15.
Delete the single beat bar that appears (shift-B -1)
GREAT!! Thank you @Janus , that’s the solution!
I’m glad it was helpful. Can I ask a follow up question?
Do you understand why this works?
I think that when I re-signed bar 16 to 4/4 BEFORE I assigned bar 15 to 3/4, the composition was locked in from bar 16 onwards. Other methods of changing bar 15 that I tried resulted in errors in the structure of the subsequent flow.