I’m trying to abbreviate a fast piano tremolo region to obtain something like this:
When I try to do that here’s what happens (video):
Registrazione schermo 2025-10-20 alle 15.23.52.zip (1.7 MB)
Since selecting 3 gives me 1 group of notes and 2 slashes, I would assume that selecting 4 could give 1 group of notes and 3 slashes. Why this is not happening?
What should I do to achieve the desired result?
Thanks!
I know there is always an effort to replicate old – dated– editions literally but nowadays I would write it like this
or even
I’ve already explored that route, thanks, but it is not what I am looking for.
The repeated slash are quite common even in modern theory books when they talk about tremolo, trills, repeated bars, general section repeat, etc…
I hope this is possible.
Very interesting!
So, what you did is: change the TS for the necessary bars only, then select only the beats that need the slashes, right?
Nice!
That’s it! Actually the “duration” of the slashes depends on the TS’ denominator, apparently. That’s why with 4/4 you can’t get 8th slashes. 8/8 doesn’t work either since it gives 3+3+2. So I tried 1+1+1+… and it works.
And yes, just select the groups you want to replace by slashes, Shift+R slash (or right panel).
