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Indicating the duration of a feathered beam

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Revision as of 18:49, 16 November 2025 by Jean Abou Samra (talk | contribs) (Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series)

This is an easy way to indicate the duration of a set of beamed notes (especially those joined by a feathered beam) using a tuplet.

\version "2.24"

%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=797
%% modified for v2.18 by P.P.Schneider (Feb. 2014)

\relative c' {
  \once \override Beam.grow-direction = #RIGHT
  \once \override TupletBracket.bracket-visibility = ##t
  %% set note #UP or DOWN
  \once \override TupletNumber.text = \markup \note-by-number #2 #0 #UP  
  %% set TupletNumer Y alignment
  \once \override TupletNumber.Y-offset = #3.2
   \tuplet 1/1 {
    c32[ c c c c c c c c c c c]
  }
}