Flipping stem separately per note

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chick3nwing
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Post by chick3nwing » Mon Jun 17, 2019 2:53 pm

Hi there,
I'm a fairly new finale user, and was wondering how to make a pair of notes that cross bars, where the stem flips in between the notes. I'm currently trying to make this: https://imgur.com/a/fhmts7e and I'm unfortunately already stuck on the first bar. I also have issues on bar three and so on, because of the different layers I think I need to use and I would like to connect the stems in the different layers (the F G chords should connect to the G from the upper layer)
Any tips would be appreciated and thanks a lot!


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Michel R E
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Post by Michel R E » Mon Jun 17, 2019 3:42 pm

the term to look up in the help file is "cross-staff notes".
hope that helps.
sometimes finding how to do things is more a question of learning the vocabulary used by Finale than anything else.
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Post by miker » Mon Jun 17, 2019 3:59 pm

Have you checked the Help files? Look up Cross Staff in the manual. Or, you could use the TG Tools plug-in.

In either case, you would start by putting all of those notes in the treble staff.
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Select the measure, and go to Plugins menu > TG Tools > Cross Staff. Set the lower section to Split Point: F3, Pitches: Below, and Cross Notes to Which Staff to Next.
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Tap Go, and that should do it. You might still have to tweak the beam with the Special Tolls > Beam Tool.
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motet
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Post by motet » Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:04 pm

On Windows you should also be able to just highlight the note you want to move
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and press Alt-down (or up)
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Post by chick3nwing » Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:19 pm

Thank you! I was indeed unfamiliar with the right vocabulary, I'm both unfamiliar with the program and not a native speaker. This helped a lot thank you all.

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