User manual

Changing the type of grace notes
You can change the type of individual grace notes after they have been input. Grace notes have
slashed stems by default, but you can change them to have unslashed stems.
PROCEDURE
1. Select the grace notes whose type you want to change.
2. In the Properties panel, choose one of the following options for Grace note type in the
Grace Notes group:
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Slashed stem
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Unslashed stem
RESULT
The selected grace notes are shown with slashed/unslashed stems.
TIP
You can also change the grace note type during note input.
RELATED LINKS
Inputting grace notes on page 184
Grace note stems
Grace notes are scaled-down notes, so the length of grace note stems is determined by the
default settings for the stem length of all notes.
Following accepted conventions, grace notes in Dorico SE are stem up by default in any clef,
regardless of the stem direction of the note to which they apply. The stem directions of grace
notes are changed automatically when there are multiple voices on a staff, but you can change
the stem direction of individual grace notes manually. You can also lengthen/shorten grace note
stems in the same ways as for normal stems.
RELATED LINKS
Stems on page 814
Grace note slashes on page 599
Changing the stem direction of notes on page 816
Grace note beams
Dorico SE automatically beams multiple adjacent grace notes together if they are an eighth note
(quaver) or shorter in duration.
Like all beams, grace note beams ideally follow the accepted standards for beam placement
relative to staff lines, in order to avoid wedges. However, because grace notes are smaller than
normal notes, this can lead to extreme slants in grace note beams.
You can adjust the slants of individual grace note beams in the same ways as for normal beams.
Grace notes
Grace note stems
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