### 3.5 Beaming

Beams are used to group short notes into chunks that are aligned with the metrum. They are inserted automatically

>          \time 2/4 c8 c c c \time 6/8 c c c c8. c16  c8

When these automatic decisions are not good enough, beaming can be entered explicitly. It is also possible to define beaming patterns that differ from the defaults.

Individual notes may be marked with `\noBeam`, to prevent them from being beamed

>          \time 2/4 c8 c\noBeam c c

##### See also

Program reference: Beam.

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