Adding grace notes

A grace note is a small, unmetered ornamental note attached to a principal note — F4 N (Ornaments tab) adds one.

Adding and switching type

• A normal note selected — F4 N adds an acciaccatura (a short grace note with a slash through its stem) at the cursor’s current pitch.
• A grace note already selected — F4 N toggles it between acciaccatura and appoggiatura (no slash, held slightly longer) instead of adding another one.

After adding a grace note, the cursor moves onto it, so you can immediately adjust its pitch or duration.

Editing a grace note

Once your cursor is on a grace note, the same keys as a normal note work directly — pitch letters, Delete, duration digits, K (accidental), L (tie), R (duplicate). Use the keys directly, not the command palette: the Note (F1) palette’s duration/dot/rest commands don’t check whether a grace note is selected, so running one of those from ^K search edits the principal note instead of the grace note in front of your cursor — silently, with no warning. A direct keypress always targets whatever’s actually selected.

Tips

• A grace note can’t yet carry its own articulations or ornaments — only the principal note it’s attached to can.
• There’s no “steal time from the previous note” playback option yet; grace-note timing is still evolving.