beaming in 5/8

[Andreo Basisto]

Greetings all!

I’m sure there must be a simple answer to this question… I want to beam together all 5 quavers in a passage of 5/8 time signature. Finale allows groupings of 2+3 and 3+2. I’ve checked the various options in the time signature dialogue box but found nothing to help.

In the end, I set the passage in 2/4 and used quintuplets in every bar! A ‘work around’ but I’d like to know if there’s a better way.

Many thanks

Andreo Basisto

[Peter Thomsen]

Andreo Basisto,

If I understand you correctly, you just need to change the beaming, not the time signature, right?

And I suppose that there are also passages where you actually need the default beaming (= 2+3 or 3+2), perhaps because the rhythm includes 16th notes, right?

Anyway you can rebeam a selected region with the utility:

Utilities menu > Rebeam > Rebeam to Time Signature…

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[Andreo Basisto]

Greetings Peter!

MANY thanks for a very quick reply. And of course your solution works! That’s not one I could have worked out. I see now that it’s a simple case of using a half plus an eighth. Yes – easy when you know how!

Many thanks again

Andreo

[motet]

Rebeaming to 1/1 will also work and might be easier to set up.