Making small notes for a duet?

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Allen Simpson
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Post by Allen Simpson » Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:31 pm

I'm in PM 2006. Does anyone know a work-around that lets you make some notes different sizes on the same staff (like the harmony line in a duet)?

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Allen


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TWW
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Post by TWW » Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:26 am

Allen Simpson wrote:I'm in PM 2006. Does anyone know a work-around that lets you make some notes different sizes on the same staff (like the harmony line in a duet)?
Four steps that worked in PM 2009:
  1. Select a second layer.
    Enter rests where all the little notes would go.
    Enter grace notes, attached to the rests.
    Hide the rests.
I have done this for eighth and sixteenth (and mebbe quarter) notes as accompaniment cues for vocalists. Note that this may also result in them being grace-notishly offset to the left of the main notes.
-Tom Williams
Finale 26.1, Finale 2012

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