Automatic beams - GNU LilyPond
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#### 6.4.5 Automatic beams

LilyPond inserts beams 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. See Setting automatic beam behavior for details.

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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