How to make chord across two piano staves?
Hi, I'm trying to make a chord across two staves as shown in first image (the final chord), but all I can make is either of the two further images, the first of which is plain wrong (this is a piano score) and the second of which is clumsy. How to I create the first image, please? Thanks in advance.
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Read about cross-staff notation in the manual
In reply to Read about cross-staff… by elsewhere
MS3 Handbook: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/cross-staff-notation
MS4 Handbook: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/cross-staff-notation
In reply to Read about cross-staff… by elsewhere
Thank you for your reply. I did try the manual at some length, but I didn't know what phrase I should search for. I didn't think of cross-staff notation.
Create the top four notes in Voice 1, top stave. Create the two below those in Voice 2. Create the bottom notes in Voice 1 of the lower stave, Now lengthen the stems of the Voice 2, top stave notes until they meet the bottom notes,
In reply to Create the top four notes in… by underquark
Hi, thank you for your explanation. It was actually the very last chord in the final bar that I was trying to sort out, ie, get the lower note in the top stave to drop down into the lower stave. However, what you suggested above did work, though it was tricky to get the eighth-note flags to align exactly. But it worked. Thanks again.
A Thought: With the last note in your example, you could put the note
D in the Bass Clef just above a leger line. It would look neater and sound
the same. Jeff
In reply to A Thought: With the last… by jeffcarrollco
Hi - susprised to see another solution over a year and a half after my original post. Thank you for posting a solution - an excellent one.