Is there a way to show a 5 + 5/16 time signature that beams as [3 + 2] + [2 + 3]?
I’m not interested in splitting it into two meters ([3 + 2]/16 + [2 + 3]/16); that hurts readability and wastes space in music where the meter changes almost every bar. I also don’t want it to appear as 10/16.
This pattern—called Georgina—is essential in Rabih Abou-Khalil’s group, where I play, so is very important for me. The simplest fix would be support for nested-bracket additive meters.
In the first bar enter the 5+5/16 time signature and use the command to split beaming to get the beaming you want. In the second bar enter [3+2+2+3]/16 as time signature, and hide the time signature (in the properties panel).
is basically what Jesper wrote, just showing 5+5/16 instead of 10/16.
Thank you—this is a clever workaround! Do you know if the Dorico team plans to add native support for this kind of inner-grouping option? It doesn’t seem like it would be too complicated to implement.
Dear Mateusz, it is best to avoid these kind of comments. If we are not software developers ourselves and know how exactly the code is set up, it just does not make sense to make this statement.
You’re right—I didn’t express myself clearly, and I apologize. What I meant is that almost all the necessary features already exist in Dorico, but they don’t yet work together in this specific case. Perhaps it’s simply because these kinds of rhythms are rarely used, so no one has considered the need for nested brackets with groupings until now.
