# Fioritures
Grace notes can be applied to the score from the **Grace notes** palette.
For bagpipe players there is a comprehensive range of grace notes in the **Bagpipe embellishments** palette.
## Types of grace notes
Grace notes are small (cue-size) notes which ornament a previous or following note. They take their value from this parent note but do not themselves count towards the measure duration.
There are several kinds:
* **Acciaccatura** :
Usually written with an oblique stroke through the note flag, or through the beam, if there is a beamed series.
* **Appoggiature** :
A stressed note which takes half the value from the parent note.
* **Grace note after** (trill endings).
## Adding a grace note to your score
**Note:** For standard staves *and* tablature, the following instructions for adding grace notes work in both note input *and* normal modes.
### Add grace note with keyboard shortcut
1. Ensure that the "parent" note is selected (multiple selection is possible in normal mode)
2. To apply an acciaccatura, press `/` (slash).
You can create a custom shortcut for other types of grace notes if you wish (see [Preferences: Shortcuts](/fr/customization/preferences.md#shortcuts)).
### Add grace note from palette
1. Ensure that the "parent" note is selected (multiple selection is possible in normal mode)
2. Click on the desired symbol in the **Grace notes** palette.
Ou alors, vous pouvez traîner une petite note depuis la palette jusqu'à une note.
## Multiple grace notes
### Sequential grace notes
You can add a run of grace notes to a selected note by repeatedly doing any of the following:
* pressing the relevant keyboard shortcut (see above)
* clicking on a grace note icon in a palette
* dragging and dropping a grace note from a palette onto a note.
### Grace note chords
To input a chord of grace notes:
1. Add a single grace note (as described above)
2. For standard staves, use one of the following methods:
* Press `Shift` and a note letter, `A` to `G`; this will add the corresponding note above
* Press `Alt`+`1`-`9`
* from the menu bar, select **Add -> Intervals** and choose an interval from the list. This will add a note at the indicated interval above the selected note.
3. **For tablature**, select the grace note in **normal mode**, then add further chord notes using the method of adding intervals in step 2.
## Editing grace notes
### Change duration
To edit the visual duration, click on the grace note in normal mode, and select a duration from the note input toolbar or by using a keyboard shortcut (see [Selecting duration](/fr/basics/entering-notes-and-rests.md#selecting-duration)).
### Change pitch
On a standard stave, change the pitch of a grace note using one of the methods described in [Editing notes and rests](/fr/basics/editing-notes-and-rests.md).
On tablature staves, use one of the methods described in [Changing the pitch in normal mode (tablature)](/fr/idiomatic-notation/guitar/entering-and-editing-tablature-notation.md#changing-the-pitch).
## Grace note properties
The same properties are available for grace notes as for normal notes. See [Notehead properties](/fr/notation/pitch/noteheads.md#notehead-properties), [Stem and flag properties](/fr/notation/rhythm-meter-and-measures/stems-and-flags.md#stem-and-flag-properties).
To control whether a slash should be shown through the stem, there is one additional option for grace notes only
1. Select a grace note
2. Allez sur le panneau **Propriétés**
3. Under **Note**, select the **Stem** tab
4. Toggle **Show stem slash**.
In the case of a beamed group, setting this for any note in the group will set it for the entire group.
## Grace note style
You can adjust the default size for all grace notes in **Format -> Styles -> Sizes -> Grace note size**.
{% hint style="info" %}
Note that \*\*Grace note size\*\* is independent from \*\*Small note size\*\*, which is the size used for cue-size notes; the two sizes are often the same, and they are in MuseScore Studio by default, but do not have to be.
{% endhint %}
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