split measure notation

[glenndwilson]

Hi! I'm using Finale 2006 on a PC and was wondering if I'm missing something or if Finale doesn't support this.

When writing drum parts for jazz, I like to specify slash notation with rhythmic 'hits', ala rhythm notation. e.g. two quarter note slashes followed by an eighth rest, eighth note tied to quarter note.

Can I mix slash notation with rhythmic notation in the same measure. I've tried doing it in another layer but that gets kind of messy and I really don't want to see both.

Thanks

Glenn Wilson
www.jazzmaniac.com

[Peter Thomsen]

Glenn,

You can do it with staff styles.
The secret is to toggle on "Select Partial Measures" in the Edit menu.
With "Select Partial Measures" on you can select the first two quarters of the measure, and apply the staff style Slash Notation.
Next, select the rhythm in the last half of the measure, and apply the staff style Rhythmic Notation.

Peter

[michelp]

You can do it with staff styles.
The secret is to toggle on "Select Partial Measures" in the Edit menu.
With "Select Partial Measures" on you can select the first two quarters of the measure, and apply the staff style Slash Notation.
Next, select the rhythm in the last half of the measure, and apply the staff style Rhythmic Notation.

Peter

Peter is (as always) correct. Just one more remark :
if you use rhythmic notation, your hits will be written on the middle line of the staff.
If you want your hits to be more specific (bass drum at the bottom of staff, or cymbal on top, etc...), you can have your drum staff defined to display percussion notation, in layer 1 and 2 for instance, and create/apply a staff style for slash notation in another layer.
This way you can superimpose slashes AND accents on the same beats.
PS : An alternate option (which I like to use because it is more clear when entering data) is to create a second staff (1 line, no key sig, no time sig etc) just for slashes. Then when you are finished, just drag the "slash" staff on top of the other staff ("accents"). Create a group with these 2 staves for extraction.
But the first method has the advantage to solve everything in 1 staff. You can figure it out.

[glenndwilson]

Thanks guys. That's great. I knew there must be a way to do it.