User manual

Note and rest grouping
There are generally accepted conventions for how notes and rests of different durations are
notated and grouped in different contexts and meters. In Dorico SE, notes are automatically
notated to t within bars.
Depending on the prevailing time signature, there can be many different ways to beam notes
together. For example, you might want to beam all notes in the bar together in time signatures
that cannot be divided in half and are often not divided at all, such as 3/4.
A passage containing different meters. Notes are grouped and beamed differently in the different meters,
and the durations of tied notes that cross the second barline are automatically correct.
There are also different conventions for how notes within tie chains should be divided to indicate
signicant beat boundaries within bars, and in which contexts they can cross beat boundaries.
Similar options apply to dotted notes, which are often notated as a single dotted note if they
start at the beginning of bars, but as a tie chain that shows signicant beat boundaries in the bar
if they start part-way through bars.
RELATED LINKS
Beaming on page 511
Beam grouping according to meters on page 511
Creating custom beat groupings for meters
If your music requires a different beat grouping for a particular meter than the default setting
for that time signature, you can specify your preferred beat grouping within the time signature.
You can choose whether or not the time signature shows this custom beat grouping.
PROCEDURE
1. In Write mode, select an item at the rhythmic position where you want to input a time
signature with a custom beam grouping.
2. Press Shift-M to open the time signatures popover.
3. Enter the division you want in square brackets into the popover.
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