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Creating centered beams

You can make beams appear in the middle of staves, with high notes above the beam and lower

notes below the beam.

You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only or for all

layouts and frame chains.

NOTE

As this action requires changing the direction of some stems in order to appear correctly, it is

located in the

Stem submenu rather than Beaming in the Edit menu.

PREREQUISITE

You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

PROCEDURE

Select at least one note in each of the beams you want to center.

Choose Edit > Stem > Force Centered Beam. You can also choose this option from the

context menu.

RESULT

Beams are centered between the notes in the selected beam groups. If the property scope was

set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

If you select notes in multiple beams, each beam is centered separately. If you want to create a

single centered beam, you can beam the notes in those beam groups together. You can do this

both before and after centering the beams.

NOTE

● Dorico Elements automatically angles the beam based on the shape of the phrase, but you

can change the angles or slants of beams manually.

● You can assign a key command for Force Centered Beam on the Key Commands page in

Preferences.