way to notate arpeggios across staves

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mike1127
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Post by mike1127 » Sun May 23, 2021 3:26 am

I have a situation in which I want to note an arpeggio containing a chord in each staff of a grand piano. See attachment. I did it by adding an arpeggio to one chord and then dragging it over to the other staff. Does this look right?
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KJ_Palmer
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Post by KJ_Palmer » Sun May 23, 2021 9:33 am

That's the way I've always notated chords across a grand staff (usually a final chord), and I've certainly seen this notation in printed scores. It seems to give reasonable results in playback. Not being much of a keyboard player I'm not completely sure, but when I've handed them out to someone who is, no complaints, they seem to know what to do with it.
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andyg
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Post by andyg » Sun May 23, 2021 9:37 am

That's how I'd do it for a 'left to right' spread chord/arpeggio.

MikeLyons
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Post by MikeLyons » Sun May 23, 2021 1:07 pm

I'm confused! I posted a full reply to this query a few hours ago and it seems to have disappeared.
I wouldn't run the arp line to top/bottom of the staves. See image.

Top note in voice 3, [ctrl][shift][uparrow] onto upper staff, lengthen (drag) the stem to hit the lower notes. Use the arpeggio on the keypad if you have a later version of sib. It works much better.

Maybe I missed out the f in shift again! (D'Uh)
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