I thought this would be easy to do, but I’m striking out. In this example,
I want the beam to extend over the entire beat, as shown in the lower staff That makes it much easier to read syncopation. I have seen several examples of this in Dorico, but I have tried to follow the instructions in Notation->Beam Grouping to no success. I feel like i must be missing something basic. Is this possible with any of Dorico’s settings? I have tried a bunch of them, unsuccessfully.
Hi @cparmerlee, you can set this two Notation Options (which you can reach from the menu Library) for the desired Flow (in my example flow 2):
Edit:
I personally would prefer this visualisation (using one of the other two settings for the secondary beam):
Edit2:
if you want the partial beam direction of the first e to be also on the right (with the secondary beam always broken in Notation Options), you can obtain this in engrave mode properties panel (not sure I like this):
Thanks. I will try those things. I didn’t recognize that as a possible solution because the graphic in Dorico didn’t really show rests at the beginning.
To me, the one that would make the most sense is as I have drawn it: a single beam across the entire beat, with the 16th flags only on the notes, not the rests. I say that because the rests already have flags, so the double beam seems redundant. But your second example will work OK.
You are correct, of course. I guess it was a case of looking at so many options that I just couldn’t see it. your solution is within “secondary beams”, and I didn’t think this case really involved secondary beams.
The more I look at your second example, the more I like it. I think that makes the syncopation quite clear, and I will plan to use that solution often on Latin, Afro-Cuban music, and probably funk too.
Here is a broader context for that passage:
That makes for a little bit of weirdness in the second measure, beat 3, but once a person sees it, it becomes pretty clear, and the beats are super-obvious.
