Re: Four eighth note beamed when first eighth note looks like a half note

[Knute Snortum]

Thank you for the clarification!

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Knute Snortum


On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 3:05 AM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>
> Le 13/10/2022 à 22:31, Knute Snortum a écrit :
> > I have a situation that seems like it would be straightforward.  I
> > want four eighth notes beamed with the first eighth looking like a
> > half note.  I thought I could just do this:
> >
> > { b2*1/4[ b'8 b' b'] }
> >
> > But that code doesn't attach the beam to the first note and produces
> > two warnings:
> >
> > warning: stem does not fit in beam
> > warning: beam was started here
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
>
>
> This is working as expected. The principle of the *x/y modifiers
> is that they change the duration without changing anything else
> to the notation. From the notation point of view, you're trying
> to beam a half note, which can't be done.
>
> Aaron already gave the solution.
>
> Cheers,
> Jean
>