tremolo help needed

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Hector Pascal
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Post by Hector Pascal » Fri Mar 01, 2019 5:52 am

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Hi all,
I am having difficulty with the above tremolo. See how the edges of the 16th & 32nd beams of the second tremolo are supposed to be indented a little bit? Well, I can indent the left hand edge of the tremolo beams using a beam tool, but I am unable to indent the right hand tremolo beam edge. (It is possible to do so if I break the 8th beam, but that is not what I need). Any ideas?

Cheers,
Hector.


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motet
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Post by motet » Fri Mar 01, 2019 7:20 am

Alas, it looks like you can only extend beams that are connected to an outer stem.

You could fake it. Here, I left the sixteenths and eighth unconnected, used TGTools to make the 8th note look like a quarter, them drew a fake beam with the smart-shape tool.

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Post by Hector Pascal » Sat Mar 02, 2019 12:26 am

Thanks motet! That worked perfectly. Fake it 'til you make it, as they say ;)
Hector.

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Post by motet » Sat Mar 02, 2019 12:47 am

It looks a little strange, though. Maybe connect two of the beams to the stems?

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Post by John Ruggero » Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:52 pm

dotted quarter note tremolo + eighth note
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