Phrase marks involving more than one voice
Hello all,
I'm having a problem with adding a phrase mark to a bar of music. If you can see the attached jpeg, I want to include a slur in bar 2 of the guitar 2 part, the same as the one in bar 1. The problem is that the line attaches itself to the next note in the same voice, (i.e. the line from the dotted minim in bar 1 originally attached itself to the dotted minim in bar 2, so I had to manually reposition it). I can't do the same for the next bar however, because the dotted minim in bar 3 is on a different line, so even if I move end of the line to the last note in bar 2 (the last eighth note in the other voice), there is still a small line attached to the dotted minim in bar 3. I know it's a fairly small problem, but I was wondering if anyone knows of a workaround for this? Hopefully the above makes sense. Thanks a lot in advance for any advice.
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It would be easier to help if you attached the score itself and not just a picture. I'm kind of guessing you are trying to edit the slur by simply dragging, but that is not how it works - you need to use Shift plus the left or right arrow keys, as documented in the Handbook. It also works to select the start and end note first (eg, by Ctrl+click on each of them) then adding the slur.
If this doesn't allow you to solve the problem, please attach the score and describe in more detail what you are doing and what is going wrong.
In reply to It would be easier to help if by Marc Sabatella
You can't slur a voice which has a full duration into the same measure it has already filled. Or so it seems.
What I'd do is slur the first-voice (the top notes) instead and then flip the direction so as to give the visual of encompassing the dotted half note. So:
1) Select the first note of the top voice (the G: looks like voice-1)
![Selection_001.png]( "Selection_001.png")
2) Add slur (Press S)
3) Shift+Right arrow until it spans the measure
Result:
4) Press X to flip the slur
5) Insert edit mode (Double click the slur or press Ctrl+E)
6) Drag the first initial point under the other voice to taste
Result:
![Selection_003.png]( "Selection_003.png")
Hope this helps.
P.S. I'd also suggest this method instead of what was done in the first measure.
In reply to You can't slur a voice which by worldwideweary
See my reply above. It works fine to select the start and end notes then add the slur, even in cases like this where they are in different voices and the second note occurs before the first completes. Try it!
In reply to See my reply above. It works by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the tip Marc.
In reply to Thanks for the tip Marc. by worldwideweary
Hi, thanks a lot to you both. I tried that idea of attaching the phrase mark to the upper voice and it worked, I got it looking exactly the way I wanted it. Cheers again to you! Best, Grant