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Designing your score: additional techniques
Creating upbeats
By using the Pickup Bar feature
With this method, the upbeat actually contains exactly the
number of beats displayed. That is, if you have an upbeat
of one beat, your project starts with one bar in 1/4 time.
1. Change the time signature of the first bar to the length
of the upbeat.
2. Insert a time signature of the correct kind (the time sig-
nature used throughout the project) in the second bar.
To insert a time signature, select it in the “Time Sign” section in the Sym-
bols Inspector and click in the Score with the Pencil tool.
3. Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar.
The first bar before making any adjustments
4. Double-click the time signature for the upbeat bar.
The Edit Time Signature dialog appears.
5. Activate the option “Pickup Bar” and click OK.
Now, the time signature of the first bar takes on the look of
the second bar’s signature, while the time signature in the
second bar is hidden:
6. If you use bar numbers, double-click on the first bar
number and enter an offset of -1.
7. Adjust the display of bar numbers and hide the “0” in
the first measure.
By hiding rests
With this method, the first bar will actually have the same
time signature as the following bars – it will only look like
an upbeat bar:
1. Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar.
The first bar before making any adjustments
2. Hide the rests that precede the notes.
3. Drag the bar line between measure one and two to ad-
just the width of the bar.
After hiding the rest and dragging the bar line
4. If you like, move the notes in the upbeat measure, us-
ing the Layout tool.
5. If you use bar numbers, adjust them as described in
the previous example.
The final upbeat
Setting the number of bars across
the page
Automatically
• When you open a new combination of tracks for editing,
the number of bars across the page is determined by the
setting “Default Number of Bars per Staff” in the Preferen-
ces dialog (Scores–Editing page).
• In the Auto Layout dialog (see “Auto Layout” on page
606), you can set the maximum number of bars across the
staff.