How to show center of bar

[jrandall]

Hi,
Jazz players (at least all the ones I know) by convention want to “see” the center of the bar, meaning that it is not obscured by being inside a note.

In the attached snip, upper stave, I have simulated this by using a slur. The lower stave shows what Dorico will do if I tie the 2 16ths together.

Is there a way to tell it not to coalesce tied notes? Or any other solution?

The lower notation is technically correct, but I immediately got a response from my players when I handed them a score with that notation. They are used to parsing measures the upper way. (I learned it way back in jazz school in NYC, when we wrote scores by hand)

Thanks!

[Christian_R]

Hi @jrandall, change this Notation Option, for the desired Flow/s (menu Library > Notation Options > Note Grouping > Syncopation > Notation of short-long-short patterns → Split at beat boundaries). You can Save as Default if you want this option in all future projects:

[jrandall]

Thank you!!!

[Christian_R]

You are welcome, @jrandall.