Next: , Previous: Polyphony, Up: Notation manual



5.5 Beaming

Beams are used to group short notes into chunks that are aligned with the metrum. LilyPond normally inserts beams automatically, but if you wish you may control them manually or changed how beams are automatically grouped.

Read comments on this page, or add one.

This page is for LilyPond-2.5.11 (development-branch).

Report errors to <bug-lilypond@gnu.org>.

Other languages: English.
Using automatic language selection.