Cross staff beaming problem (simultaneous notes)
Hello all. I have a piece for piano for which I need to beam notes across the grand staff, to show as clearly as possible what the left and right hands should be playing. I have come up against a problem though, and haven't been able to find a solution in any of the other posts. On the attached screen shot, everything is in the right place except for the low D note on the first 16th note of the bar, shown notated in the treble clef. Basically I want the left hand to play the D and A notes, and the right hand to play the F#s (and the high E at the end of the bar). The problem is that when there are two simultaneous notes, I can't seem to separate them across the staves. It seems only possible to have them both in the bass clef, or both in the treble clef. Has anyone had a similar problem and know how to fix this? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all
Grant
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Cross staff notation seems only to work for chords, not for single notes (from a chord with more notes)
You will need smoke and mirrors to annotate it like that. Move the D from the chord into the second voice as a 16th note. Make any unwanted rests invisible (or since they're in voice 2 delete them). Select the 16th note flag and make it invisible (press V). Double click the 16th notes stem and adjust it's length so it looks like it comes out of the beam from the other notes.
In reply to You will need smoke and by mike320
Mark, that worked a treat, it's looking exactly the way I want it to now. Smoke and mirrors indeed :-) Very best to you both, and thanks for the replies.
In reply to Mark, that worked a treat, by grant.rowan
Mike, not Mark ;-)
In reply to Mike, not Mark ;-) by Jojo-Schmitz
Quite right, I'm not sure where Mark came from. My apologies, Mike...
In reply to Quite right, I'm not sure by grant.rowan
Because everyone answering correctly and sometimes a bit more verbose has a bit of Marc in them ;-)
In reply to Because everyone answering by jeetee
I resemble that remarc :-)
You can use ctrl+shift+arrow(up or down) after you select the note you want to cross.
In reply to You can use ctrl+shift+arrow… by Luqman Alfarisi
Yes, that's the basic way for cross-staff notation if it is not part of a chord. If you select a note in a chord, the entire chord will move. That was the issue for the OP.
In reply to Yes, that's the basic way… by mike320
my bad.
In reply to my bad. by Luqman Alfarisi
That was never mentioned anywhere on this thread.