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Old Jan 23 2008, 2:38 PM

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quick finale notation question

I'm currently using version 2007 of finale to do most of my work,

I was reading some of the various scores I have and noticed

is there a method in finale to write directly like this, or would I still have to insert the rests and just make them invisible to printing later on?

thanks in advance,

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Old Jan 23 2008, 3:18 PM

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The best way would be to make the rests invisible indeed.

The other way to do it (but it does seem rather inconvinient) is to write everything on a single staff (the lower or upper) and cross staff the whole 4/32nds.

Don't see why to do it this way. Later on you will be searching to edit any wrong pitch and it will be tough to know which staff holds what.
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Old Jan 23 2008, 5:01 PM

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its mostly for the final parts and less so for the composing stage.
to make it easier to read for the player than a mess of rests on a page

thanks for info, appreciate it.
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Old Jan 24 2008, 10:50 AM

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write it all in one layer, and use the cross staff utility (under plug-ins, I think).
that way you don't have to make ANY rests invisible.. it does them all for you.

or
write it yourself, all in one staff, and cross-staff the notes yourself with the note mover. that way you have a single rest to invisible in the other staff.
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Old Mar 4 2008, 4:51 AM

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How to do the same thing in Sibelius 5?
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