Modify Beams menu

Modify/ Beams Menu

The Modify/Beams menu lists commands for forming and removing beams.


	Joins all selected notes into a single beamed group.
	Joins each shift-selected group into a beamed group.
	Joins selected notes and rests into beam groups according to the beat divisions of the measures.
	Breaks any selected beamed notes into unbeamed notes.
	Adjusts the beam angle so that the beam is horizontal.
	Adds a begin repeat barline at the beginning of the current measure.

The UnBeam Notes menu item (Command-H) removes the beams from selected notes. (Only one note in the group need be selected for the beam to be removed.) The positions of the stems will be recalculated once the beam has been removed.

The Beam Notes menu item (Command-b) adds a beam to all selected notes and rests provided that they all belong to the same system. (Beaming across staves within the system and across barlines is permitted.)

- In some instances large beam groups may have to be edited using the Beams pane in the NoteAbility Inspector.

- When notes belonging to different staves are beamed together, they are first all transferred to the same voice (despite the fact that they remain on different staves.)

The Beam On Beat menu item beams selected notes and rests according to the beat divisions in the measure. In the example below, the entire passage was selected and the Beam On Beat command applied.

The Beam Each Group menu item (Command-B) forms a beam from each shift-selected group or notes and rests. This command provides more flexibility than the Beam On Beat command. The example below shows the shift-selected areas and the results of the Beam Each Group command.

The Straighten Beam menu item (Command-Z) adjusts the beam angle so that it is horizontal. The example below shows the results of the Straighten Beam command applied to all three beams.

The Add / Remove Begin Repeat menu item adds (or removes is one is already present) a Begin Repeat barline at the beginning of the current measure. These barlines are necessary in situations where the first measure of a systems has a begin repeat barline. The barline is placed just before the beginning of the first beat as shown below:

- It is not necessary to remove existing beams before forming new ones since the existing beams will automatically be removed before the new beam is added.