Hello all.
I am trying to notate a percussion duo where each player plays several instruments. Certain figures played 'across' two (or more) instruments would be best notated by cross-staff beaming, e.g. playing a two-handed figure with each hand on a different instrument. For something like this, it's- how do I notate across two separate staves but keep a 'common beam' for the two? For the life of me, I don't see a way to do this with Finale 2003's cross-staff beaming (Note Mover).
Enter all the notes into one staff only, leaving the other staff blank. If you want both hands to hit a note on different instruments at the same time, enter both notes onto one stem. With the Note Mover tool selected, go the Note Mover menu and select Cross Staff. Click on the measure you want to edit. Handles appear near the note heads. Select the notes you want to move to the other staff, holding down the Shift key to select odd notes, or else dragging across them. Drag them to the other staff (make sure you release them in the staff). There may be rests in the dragged-to staff that you might want to hide, so do so by entering real whole rests and hiding them with the letter O key in Speedy Entry.
All done! Except for rests (which sometimes need editing) this feature is pretty much foolproof. One of the fine things about Finale! The only thing I would want more is to be able to select more notes in OTHER measures at the same time, and drag them all at once, instead of doing it measure by measure.
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