How can i produce a slashed beam appearance ( to indicated freedom in duration and rytm) as per teh attached example, ( frequently used in today’s music)? I have not found any way to do taht in documentation…
Thanks for your help.
Jean-francois
slashed beams example002.zip (103 KB)
You can type in as many grace notes as you want, as long as the grace note mode is on (toggle the ’ / ’ key). If the your grace notes (assuming they are eighths) have the slash property, they will automatically be joined by a beam with a slash.
(In my example, I removed the whole bar rest in the upper staff, otherwise the grace notes would collide with it)
Thank you
How do you remove the whole bar rest? I don’t succeed to do that for implicit rests…
‘Remove rests’ in the Edit or Write menu. (Not at computer and too lazy to look it up 
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Remove Rests is in the Edit Menu.
It’d be great if a slash could be added to any note, rather than just grace notes!
But you can enter them as grace notes and then scale them to “normal”!
B.
I wish I asked this questions years ago. THANK YOU!!!
Though, it’d still be great to have the slash as an option for ordinary notes !
Out of curiosity, why? A slash (in my world) has always indicated a grace note - the slash indicating that no ‘time’ is to be taken out of the normal bar.
Very common in scores over the last 50+ years to add a slash for ‘fast as possible’ notation
For me the slash meaning was not “as fast as possible” but more “free, out of the rigorous beat”
This show that the forum is usefull even on long time scale…!
Yes. But the question remains about how ‘time’ is used. I’m not familiar with notations that include the slashed notes within the overall time of the bar. Can you provide some examples?
Thanks.
So the critical question is exactly when in the bar the flourish starts? Is it at a specific moment, or as late as possible, or…?
For me that is the critical question about grace notes or normal notes (with a slash).
Just asking.
Given that there are no rests and there are fermatas over glissandi, breath marks, etc. — is the intention here that it’s entirely conductor-cue-dependent, @jfDem1ntez0? If so, are there performance notes we’re not seeing early on in the score and parts that would clarify things temporally?
Yes. But what does it mean?
This seems to be the sort of score best left to Lilypond.
I think that in the 21st century, utilizing the incredibly common ‘diagonal slash’ in one of the most advanced notational software applications available is really not too much to ask!!
ps - the slashes mean ‘as fast as possible’
Of course. I know that!!! The question remains - when does it start!
Dorico maintains a timeline. The slash notation must exist somewhere on that timeline. Normal notes do that, graces notes are squashed in between, but must start or finish at specific places.
