Fix Eighth Note Beaming | Finale Superuser

[@christophertaylor4240]

I have been a Finale user since Finale 3.0 in the mid 90's. I hadn't needed to unbeam/beam together segments of notes within my measures. You showed it beautifully. Thank you so very much!

[@nickmazuk]

You're welcome, Christopher!

[@awillisburns]

Thank you! I needed to rebeem music sent to me that had eighth notes separated. That was quick and easy thanks to your video!

[@JorgeVillon]

excelent video! but why finale has those default uncommon features?

[@greysonleybourne5029]

Love your channel, I've learned so much. Is there a way to make it such that the default of eighth note beaming is groups of two regardless of time signature? For example, I'm transposing and engraving some stuff in 2/2 and the original score has the beaming in groups of two. The document option appears to only apply to common time, so I'm wondering if there's a way to avoid all the manual rebeaming while I'm in this time signature. Thanks!

[@joeweed5940]

Can you show how to beam eighth notes as 3-3-2 in a measure of 4/4? I use Finale 26.3... on a current MacBookPro, OSX 10.15.7. The manual does not remotely correspond with reality in this case. I'd like to beam the eighth notes in two groups of three and then a group of 2, and don't want to have the time signature change away from 4/4. Many thanks for a great channel and for your good explanations of other issues. (PS: this is a common figure in flat-picked string instrument music, like acoustic guitar, mandolin, and more.)

[@utubewatcher900]

I need this too!

[@utubewatcher900]

found it manually: hit / on the note and it beams to the one before it. I can't figure out how to get it to do it automatically. Can you?

[@Fuiape]

Hi! forward slash didn't work to unbean four eight notes. I am on a pc. Is that the correct input? thanks.

[@nickmazuk]

I'm on a Mac so I can't test it, but according to the Finale docs, forward slash should still break the beams on both Simple and Speedy Entry for Windows. usermanuals.finalemusic.com/FinaleWin/Content/Finale/Keyboard_Shortcuts_and_Special_Mouse_Clicks.htm

[@Fuiape]

@@nickmazuk Hi thanks for replying. I ended up using the method of the documents settings that you explained unchecking the beam boxes. I guess the slash forward didn't worked maybe because I was trying to apply that on a 4 eight-notes beam. But that's just my guess! :P

[@nickmazuk]

Perhaps that's it? I tried breaking the beams when the group 8th notes settings are on and it seemed to work. But perhaps that's one of the many Mac vs Windows differences!

[@taksa123456]

Found the answer right away, thank you!

[@nickmazuk]

You're welcome, Anna!

[@MarcoCataldi]

Thanks Nick!

[@enriquesanchez2001]

Good job, again! :)

[@nickmazuk]

Thank you! I spoke slower this week for you, did that help?

[@andrewprzybyla8871]

Thanks Superuser Mazuk!

[@carloscacepero]

No working bro

[@nickmazuk]

What happened? After changing the settings have you tried Utilities > Rebeam > Rebeam Music? How can I help?

[@zanhoven3838]

@@nickmazuk same, not working. Possibly would help if the tutorial assumed the user had limited knowledge of the software.