Re: Cross-staff chords question

Thanks, Simon! JM > Le 7 avr. 2018 à 15:03, Simon Albrecht a écrit : > > On 07.04.2018 11:39, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: >> When a hand doesn’t play, is it best for the keyboard player to read rests >> or should skips be used instead? > > Definitely rests. Using skips

Re: Cross-staff chords question

On 07.04.2018 11:39, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: When a hand doesn’t play, is it best for the keyboard player to read rests or should skips be used instead? Definitely rests. Using skips is the convention if that hand only switched to the other staff. There may be exceptions depending on

Re: Cross-staff chords question

Hello Andrew, When a hand doesn’t play, is it best for the keyboard player to read rests or should skips be used instead? JM > Le 7 avr. 2018 à 11:11, Andrew Bernard a écrit : > > Hi JM, > > Speaking as a keyboard player myself, it's not just a matter of presenting

Re: Cross-staff chords question

Hello Rutger, Malte and Andrew, I overlooked \crossStaff and didn’t get the Span_stem_engraver should be used, sorry for that and for not removing the extraneous music in my last post. Thanks for your help, and a nice day! JM > Le 7 avr. 2018 à 11:11, Andrew Bernard

Re: Cross-staff chords question

Hi JM, Speaking as a keyboard player myself, it's not just a matter of presenting the notes. Usually in contexts like this it can be an indication of which hand takes what, with the upper staff being the RH and the lower the LH. There's no hard and fast rule about that, (and some players don't

Re: Cross-staff chords question

Am 07.04.2018 um 10:51 schrieb Menu Jacques: I’m no pianist though: is this OK for a keyboard player, or is Finale’s output: […] better, and if so, how can I obtain the cross-staves stems this way? What is better depends on whether it should be played with one hand or two. Please always

Re: Cross-staff chords question

Did you (following the manual http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-keyboards#cross_002dstaff-stems ): \layout { \context { \PianoStaff \consists #Span_stem_engraver } } to enable cross-staff stems? And did you (following the manual) specify