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Just want to add a simple grace note to an eighth note. Looked over the manual, tried it, it's confusing. A quick step by step would be greatly appreciated.

If in Simple, select the value and the grace note button on the palette and click it in with the mouse. That's an easy way. There are other ways, but let's try that first.

Zuill

In Speedy Entry: enter the grace note as a normal note, go to the Speedy menu, then from the Speedy Edit Commands submenu select "Grace Note" to toggle between grace and non-grace. Can also be invoked by a hotkey.

Just occurs to me to wonder if the OP's difficulty is due to the fact that the measure is already full ... ? Not familiar with Simple/Mouse entry, so maybe Zuill's method will work there, but the Speedy method won't work if the measure is already full, unless you enable "Insert" ...

Just occurs to me to wonder if the OP's difficulty is due to the fact that the measure is already full ... ? Not familiar with Simple/Mouse entry, so maybe Zuill's method will work there, but the Speedy method won't work if the measure is already full, unless you enable "Insert" ...

In Simple, if the Grace Note icon is selected, the grace note can be entered even if the option is set to prevent overfilled measures.

Zuill

In Speedy you can set Insert Notes and Rests and add the note. If the measure is full and you have "check for extra notes" selected, it will warn you, but you can just tell it to leave the measure as is and then go back and change it to a grace note by pressing semicolon (G might work, too).

motet wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:56 pm

change it to a grace note by pressing semicolon (G might work, too).

The semicolon hotkey is what I was not sure about and thus referred to the menu item - in my german version, the hotkey is indeed the semicolon, too, but I thought perhaps it might be another one in the english version. Glad to hear they are the same.

Speedy: G or ;
Simple: Alt-G (Windows version)

Zuill

Thanks everyone, I'll try this tomorrow morning and report back. Much appreciated.

I used the simple entry--grace note button, worked fine. I realize the problem was indeed that the bar was already "full." Once I cleared space it worked fine. Thanks!