connecting stems
I have a piece where there are a lot of octaves or tenth in the left hand where the bottom note is an 1/8th and the top is an 1/8th tied to a dotted quarter. I can't figure out how to connect the stems of the two 1/8th notes. Or is it more accurate to call this connecting beams?
Also interested in how to set these to appear on the left/right side of the note.
example bass clef bar attached.
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Is this a piece of published music you are trying to copy? Could you post a scan of it if so? I'm having trouble pictures exactly what you want. Or more precisely, if you are trying to do what I think you're describing, it doesn't really make musical sense that I can see.
The bottom note on beat 1 of your example was entered in voice 2. If you wanted it combined with the top note on beat 1, why did you enter it as a separate voice? Is the intent really to strike both notes at once then release the bottom note while holding the top? If so, the clearest way to indicate that would be to simple use half notes in voice 1, eighth notes and rests in voice 2. Having an eighth tied to a dotted quarter when an half note is more appropriate just makes the notation unnecessarily confusing.
Not sure what you mean about setting these to appear on left/right side/ Do you mean you want to deliberately flip the notehead to the wrong side of the stem? I can't see any reason why this would be desirable here, but Shift-X will accomplish that.
In reply to Is this a piece of published by Marc Sabatella
Thank you. I think you're right about using half note on top. It was imported from sibelius with the voices all screwed up, plus I haven't much experience using voices with these programs.
Sometimes using ties helps with the pace of the reading though.
It's a tatum device, grace note on the bottom of the interval. I'll check some of those transcriptions to see how they were notated.