On Tue, June 5, 2012 5:18 pm, Neal Gittleman wrote:
> Cut time, and the composer's notation in each bar is as follows:  two dotted
> half notes with eighth-note slash for repeated notes and a 6 above each note,
> yielding 12 sextuplet eighths in each bar.
>
> What I've been doing is this…
>       enter two dotted halves in each bar (too many notes in measure, leave 
> the
> measure alone)
>       go back in, enter the sextuplets (6 eighths in the time of 4)
>       add the eighth-note slashes

> It's kludgy, but it gives me what I need.  The big problem is that the passage
> in question has many measures like this, and I have to do each bar
> individually -- can't copy/paste or use "Mass Mover" to copy bars, because
> when I copy, Finale dutifully removes all the extra stuff.


If I understand you correctly, in Speedy (which is the only method I use for
entry):

CTL-6, 4 (creates eighth note sextuplet)
backspace (program remembers it's a sextuplet)
6. (dotted half)
Repeat sequence, 0 to exit Speedy, add your slashes.

Drag/drop works fine.

Dennis






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