Pickup Bars

[Minna_Mansky]

**How do you put a pickup bar into the first measure?

Thanks for your help.

Minna Mansky**

[lafin]

See Lillie’s response here which is still relevant.

Adding a pickup bar

If I have the following: [Pickup-bar-ex] I would want to have only two quarter beats in the first bar, but when I enter “4/4,2” in the meter popup I get: [Pickup-bar-ex2] So I then have to select everything and move it over. Is there any way to avoid the extra steps of moving all notes after changing the first bar into a pickup bar and get directly to: [Pickup-bar-ex3] ?

Also, see the manual for more info and options:

Pick-up bars

[Kevin_Eland]

Probably not workable but wouldn’t it be easier to stipulate a pick up bar when you create a new project? You can input page size, time signature etc when you create a new project so if you know there is a pick up why not add it before you start?

[lafin]

You can. Just set your starting time signature as for example 4/4,.5 (in the shift B bar popup window ) which would start the score with an eighth note pickup.

Edit: Now I think I see that you know this and are just suggesting it to the OP.

[Christian_R]

Hi @Minna_Mansky, besides the suggestions above you may want to see this post as reference:

Problem inserting pick-up bar

Hi @Manny_Mendelson I made three little videos to explain different cases for editing the pick-ups. I hope can be of some help. Case A: you have written the full bar with rests -activate insert mode (global adjustment of current bar) -select the rests -press delete [pickup a] Case B: you forgot to write the pick-up and want to add it : -activate insert mode (global adjustment of current bar) -select first note -press enter (to activate the caret) -choose the note value (with the mouse …