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NOTE

Not all pick-up bar lengths are possible when using the panel. For example, you cannot

produce a single eighth note upbeat in 6/8 with the available options. In such cases, you

must use the time signatures popover.

7. Input the pick-up bar in one of the following ways:

● To input a pick-up bar on all staves, click the input time signature button in the Create

Time Signature section.

● To input a pick-up bar on the selected staff only, Alt/Opt -click the input time signature

button in the Create Time Signature section.

RESULT

During note input, pick-up bars are added at the caret position as part of the specied time

signature, even if this is in the middle of an existing bar.

When adding pick-up bars to existing music, they are added at the rhythmic position of the

earliest selected item as part of the specied time signature. They appear to the right of barlines,

key signatures, and clefs, and to the left of other items, even if this is in the middle of an existing

bar. If you selected an existing time signature, the new time signature with pick-up bar directly

replaces the existing one.

All subsequent bars follow the input time signature, until the next existing time signature or the

end of the ow, whichever comes rst. Dorico Elements automatically inputs and moves barlines

as required so that subsequent music is barred correctly.

NOTE

Dorico Elements does not automatically insert beats at the start of existing music to which you

add time signatures with pick-up bars. If you add a pick-up bar at the start of a

ow, that ow

now begins in the pick-up bar, not in the rst full bar. You can insert beats at the start to push

existing music to later rhythmic positions.