Creating centered beams

You can make beams appear in the middle of staves, with high notes above the beam and lower notes below the beam.

Note

As this action requires changing the direction of some stems in order to appear correctly, it is located in the Stem submenu rather than Beaming in the Edit menu.

Procedure

  1. Select at least one note in each of the beams you want to center. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. Choose Edit > Stem > Force Centered Beam. You can also choose this option from the context menu.

Result

Beams are centered between the notes in the selected beam groups.

If you select notes in multiple beams, each beam is centered separately. If you want to create a single centered beam, you can beam the notes in those beam groups together. You can do this both before and after centering the beams.

Note

Dorico Pro automatically angles the beam based on the shape of the phrase, but you can change the angles or slants of beams manually.