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On Jul 22, 2004, at 8:36 AM, Tom Flood wrote:
I have a piano part that includes arpeggios across both staves(top and bottom), but for the life of me cannot remember how this is accomplished in finale. Can somebody please help me?
You can put the arpeggio articulation on just one hand or the other and then drag it up and down to cover both staves. Or you can put the one articulation in each hand and then drag them so that they line up and overlap exactly. I always keep my RH and LH staves an exact multiple of staff spaces apart, and I use a metatool for consistent alignment of the arpeggio mark relative to the staff lines, so lining up a mark from each staff is pretty easy for me. If you aren't so orderly in your habits, getting two of them to line up properly will probably be a pain.
If you want it to playback like a single arpeggio, you'll need an articulation on each hand (though one could be invisible). Then you have to do a little math to work out the right ratios and tweak the Change Attack values for top and bottom notes in both chords.
mdl
Folks,
What I do is this: I assign the arpeggio sign to the lowest note in the right hand, use the left arrow on the upper handle to move the sign to the left. Then I click on the lower handle and hold down the down arrow to move the lower squiggle to the bottom note of the left hand. With the MIDI Tool I assign 0, -50, -100, -150, -200, etc. in decrements to the attack times for the notes of the chord from the top down. Once this is done I can copy the articulation and the playback data to other similar chords using the Mass Mover.
There's one "gotcha" to watch out for: If the first thing in the piece is one of these rolled chords it won't play back correctly. To get around this, I enter a zero-wide measure at the beginning with barline and measure rests suppressed. Then the first chord will ripple just as I want it to.
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