Changing the speed of trills

You can indicate different speeds for trills, including indicating a change of speed within a single trill, by changing the height and frequency of wiggles in their extension lines.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure

  1. Select the trills whose speed you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate the following properties, individually or together, in the Trills group:

    • Start speed

    • End speed

  3. Select one of the following options from each property menu:

    • Slow

    • Normal

    • Fast

Result

The speed of the selected trills is changed. This affects both the frequency of wiggles in their extension lines and their playback speed.

If only Start speed is activated, the speed of the whole trill extension line is changed. If only End speed is activated, the speed of the end half of the trill extension line is changed.

Example

Figure 1. A trill extension line starting slow and ending fast
Figure 2. Trill with normal speed throughout

After Completing This Task

You can customize the playback speed of trills individually.