![]() Let’s consider the most garden-variety time signature, 4/4. Then, click Beam and Rest Groups… to begin the real fun. Here, choose your desired time signature from the most common options, or enter a less common one in Other. This takes you to the Time Signature dialog (which prior to Sibelius 7, was what appeared straight away when pressing T): ![]() It starts with clicking the little-noticed More Options at the bottom of the Time Signature gallery. If this is the case, and you’ve been wrestling with the Keypad to individually change beam groups and wondering if there’s an easier way, you’re in luck. However, as beaming is dependent upon context, there may be many instances in which the beam grouping Sibelius has chosen for you does not match your musical intentions. In Sibelius, when you create a time signature (Notations > Common > Time Signature or shortcut T), Sibelius will choose common beam groupings for you. As Elaine Gould succinctly puts it in her music notation reference Behind Bars, “Divisions of a beat are beamed together in all meters, in order to simplify reading beats:” From Behind BarsĪnyone who’s tried to read vocal music beamed in the “traditional” manner will appreciate why that old convention has been jettisoned in favor of beaming divisions of a beat together: ![]()
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