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Rhythms and time signatures

Rhythms and time signatures - Sibelius Tutorial

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Rhythms and time signatures

- You can change, add or delete time signatures after you've inputted notes and Sibelius will make rhythmic adjustments automatically for you. In fact, this is the one time you'll get a glimpse of Sibelius's ability to do a bit of its own nudging around when it comes to adjusting rhythms automatically. So to start, if you have a notated passage in one time signature such as we have here in 4/4, and if you add a new time signature in the middle of the passage, so I'm going to escape. T for time signature and let's choose a 3/4 and we'll click it in right here. Then Sibelius will adjust all of the existing rhythms to the right of that time signature to fit them into the new time signature for you. You can also change a small selection and do a different time signature and restore the previous time signature and Sibelius will adjust to both of those for you, as well. So I can make a selection down here, have a few bars,…

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