Changing beam thickness and spacing
To make beams thicker or thinner alter the Beam.beam-thickness property. To adjust the spacing between beams alter the Beam.length-fraction property.
\relative f' { \time 1/8 \override Beam.beam-thickness = #0.4 \override Beam.length-fraction = #0.8 … …is default spacing c32 c c c \override Beam.beam-thickness = #0.6 \override Beam.length-fraction = #1.3 c32 c c c }