Individual changes to the appearance of grace notes

You can make changes to the appearance of grace notes individually, such as changing the appearance of grace note stems and changing their stem direction.

You can change the appearance of grace notes using properties in the Grace Notes group of the Properties panel. More properties are available in Engrave mode than in Write mode.

For beamed grace note groups, you can also change the grace note beam using properties in the Beaming group of the Properties panel.

Following accepted conventions, grace notes in Dorico are stem up by default in any clef, regardless of the stem direction of the note to which they apply. The stem directions of grace notes are changed automatically when there are multiple voices on a staff, but you can change the stem direction of individual grace notes manually. You can also lengthen/shorten grace note stems in the same ways as for normal stems.