Manual adjustment of beams

For very detailed control you can manually adjust the beam slant:

1. Group and flip notes and adjust the settings described above until the beams are as close as possible to how you want them.
2. Click on the corner made up by the beam and the stem.

   A handle appears on the corner of beam and stem.

   

   Figure: A beam handle

3. Drag the handle up or down.

   The slant of the beam changes.

   

   Figure: Dragging a handle and the effect it has.

   Note

   You can adjust the distance between notes and their beam without changing the beam slant. Select both handles of a beam (by pressing the Shift key while selecting the second handle) and drag one of the handles up or down.