Tim Mariott
05-19-2010, 05:29 PM
I am trying to put in a worship song score where the vocal line has notes of one duration but the keyboard accompaniment (vocal line + extra chording) includes notes of a (mostly) longer duration. I have been able to put in some of these notes OK using the two different voices but one problem remains.
The vocal line has, for example, a sequence of quarter, eighth and dotted notes, whilst the accompaniment includes a whole note, or sometimes a half-note. But when I enter the whole note, even in a different voice to the vocal line notes, it gets split into a tied sequence of notes matching the vocal line.
This looks very messy compared to the printed score which has a nice single whole note - and I guess my keyboard player will not be delighted.
I cannot easily put the accompaniment notes on to a separate staff as the keyboard still has to play the vocal line as well.
So, any way of forcing Notation NOT to split the whole note?
The vocal line has, for example, a sequence of quarter, eighth and dotted notes, whilst the accompaniment includes a whole note, or sometimes a half-note. But when I enter the whole note, even in a different voice to the vocal line notes, it gets split into a tied sequence of notes matching the vocal line.
This looks very messy compared to the printed score which has a nice single whole note - and I guess my keyboard player will not be delighted.
I cannot easily put the accompaniment notes on to a separate staff as the keyboard still has to play the vocal line as well.
So, any way of forcing Notation NOT to split the whole note?