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Designing your score: additional techniques
Creating upbeats
3. Click on the desired bar line type.
The dialog closes and the bar line type is changed.
4. If you do not want to display bar lines at the beginning of the parts, open the Score
Settings dialog on the Project–Notation Style subpage (Bar Lines category) and
activate the “Hide First Bar line in Parts” option.
Ö The bar line types are part of the Project layer – any changes you make are reflected
in all layouts.
Creating upbeats
The following methods describe how you can create upbeats in the Score.
By using the Pickup Bar feature
With this method, the upbeat actually contains exactly the number of beats displayed.
That is, if you have an upbeat of one beat, your project starts with one bar in 1/4 time.
1. Change the time signature of the first bar to the length of the upbeat.
2. Insert a time signature of the correct kind (the time signature used throughout the
project) in the second bar.
To insert a time signature, select it in the “Time Signature” section in the Symbols
Inspector and click in the Score with the Draw tool.
3. Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar.
The first bar before making any adjustments
4. Double-click the time signature for the upbeat bar.
The Edit Time Signature dialog appears.
5. Activate the “Pickup Bar” option and click OK.
Now, the time signature of the first bar takes on the look of the second bar’s signature,
while the time signature in the second bar is hidden.
6. If you use bar numbers, double-click on the first bar number and enter an offset of
-1.
7. Adjust the display of bar numbers and hide the “0” in the first measure.