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Worksheets
Worksheets let you build a printable page of short exercises for teaching and practice.
Use worksheets for:
- Reading drills.
- Bar-by-bar fill practice.
- Graded exercises.
- Lesson handouts.
- Building a student from simple to more complex versions of the same idea.
- Add Current: adds the current groove or selected bar as a worksheet exercise.
- Save To: replaces a specific exercise number if you spot a mistake.
- Loop Count: chooses 1-8 repeats for each exercise.
- Play: plays each exercise for the chosen repeat count.
- Finish: finishes the current exercise and stops before moving on.
- Duplicate: copies an existing worksheet exercise.
- Edit on the grid: double-click an exercise, or right-click > Edit on Grid. The exercise opens in the grid with a banner above it, every change is saved straight into that exercise, and Done ends editing.
- Rename: click the pencil next to an exercise's name, or right-click > Rename Exercise. Replacing an exercise keeps its name and only updates the notation. You can also rename worksheets in the Library.
- Reorder: drag an exercise card and let go at the blue line, or use the up/down buttons. Escape cancels a drag.
- Print: prints the worksheet or saves it as a PDF.
- Export: sends the worksheet to Sibelius, MuseScore, Dorico or Finale, each exercise on its own line. See Sibelius and MuseScore.
Each worksheet can contain up to 10 exercises.
Worksheets can print in two layouts:
- Two exercises per line: the default compact layout.
- One exercise per line: gives busy bars, such as 16th-note hi-hats, the full width of the page.
The print layout choice is saved with the worksheet.
Worksheets print on exactly the pages they need, with no blank page at the end, and the exercises are centred with equal left and right margins.
The Stickings button prints the R/L stickings on the worksheet (on by default). Turn it off for a cleaner page. Worksheets without stickings print the same either way. When stickings are printed, the staves move down a little so the R/L row has room and never touches an open or closed hi-hat mark or an accent. The setting is saved with the worksheet.
Worksheet playback plays each exercise for the chosen repeat count, then gives a fresh one-bar count-in before the next exercise.
This is useful for lesson reading tests and for moving through a graded sheet without touching the controls between exercises.
BeatBake includes starter worksheets for common teaching situations. If you delete or change the starter library, use Library > Reset Built-In Worksheets to restore the factory set while keeping your own custom items.