Editing the Music Notation > Editing Grace Notes > Converting Short Notes to Grace Notes

There are several ways that you can convert written-out short notes to displayed grace notes:

Before you import a MIDI file, you can instruct Musician to automatically detect and convert written-out short notes into grace notes, as described in Transcribing MIDI Files and Recordings to Notation. If Musician does not detect all of the grace notes in the MIDI file, then you can individually convert the remaining ones using the procedure below.

Use the Transcribe Grace Notes command in the Grace Note Menu, as described in the first procedure below. This is a convenient way to convert several grace notes at one time. For a range of measures and staves that you specify, Musician will automatically detect and convert written-out short notes to displayed grace notes.

Individually select the written-out short notes and use the Grace Note Palette buttons or keyboard shortcuts to convert them to displayed grace notes. This method is described in the second procedure below.

You can also convert a series of two or more written-out short notes to grace notes, as described in the last procedure below.

To automatically detect and convert written-out short notes to displayed grace notes:

In detecting grace notes, Musician uses the same analysis for the Transcribe Grace Notes command as it does if you choose the grace note transcription option when you are importing a MIDI file, recording from your MIDI keyboard, or using the Re-Transcribe command.

1.	Navigate to the Grace Note Palette, as described in Palettes.

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Type SHIFT+G.

2.	Select a region by holding down the CTRL key while you drag the mouse. The region should be the range of measures and beats, and one or more staves, for which you wish to convert the grace notes. For example:

TranscribeGraceNotes

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Instead of step #2, follow the remaining steps #3 and #4.

3.	Choose the Transcribe Grace Notes command in the Grace Note Menu.

Musician will display the Transcribe Grace Note dialog box.

4.	In the Transcribe Grace Notes dialog box, select the range of measures and beats, and the range of staves, for which you wish to convert the grace notes.

To convert a written-out short note to a displayed grace note:

It is suggested that you use the Transcribe Grace Notes command, as described in the previous procedure, instead of the following procedure, unless you have a good reason. The above Transcribe Grace Notes command lets you convert many grace notes at once, very quickly.

1.	Select the written-out short note.

2.	Navigate to the Grace Note Palette, as described in Palettes.

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Type SHIFT+G.

3.	In the Grace Note Palette, select one of the following buttons to convert the written-out short note to a grace note, and to optionally add a slur at the same time:

GraceNoteBorrowLeftAndRightButtons

GraceNoteConvertOnce

Note that if the written-out version of the grace note borrows time from the long note that follows, then Musician will convert the written-out short note to that type of grace note, even if you choose the option for the opposite type of grace note, which borrows time from the left.

4.	If the written-out version of the grace note borrows time from the right or left, and you wish to change the direction from which the time is borrowed, then you can do so for the now selected grace note. Click the button for the desired option, as illustrated here:

GraceNoteConvertTwice

To convert a series of two or more written-out short notes to a grace note group:

1.	Select the multiple written-out short notes.

2.	In the Grace Note Palette, click the Grace Note Borrow From Right button (or Borrow From Left button).

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Type "gr" for grace note borrowing from right (or "gl" for grace note borrowing from left).

GraceNoteConvertSeriesOfWrittenOutNotesMusician