If you want, you can specify places to
break secondary beams even though the primary (eighth note) beam continues.
-
From the Window menu, choose
Advanced Tools. Click the Special Tools tool
, and click the measure
in question.
- Click the Beam Break Tool
. A handle appears over every note grouped by a secondary
beam.
- Double-click the handle at the right end of
the pair of notes whose beam you want to break. The Secondary Beam
Break Selection dialog box appears, letting you specify exactly which
beams you want to break. If you select Break Only, you can specify individual
levels of beams to be broken; thus if you select Break Only 32nds, the
sixteenth-note beam (and always the eighth note beam) will remain intact.
If you select Break Through, however, Finale will break the beams of the
note value you specify and all smaller values.
- Select the desired Break options, and click
OK (or press ENTER).
To restore the beam grouping, click the handle you used to make modifications.
When the dialog box appears, click Reset.
