Multiple Instruments on same staff
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Hello all, I am writing a song which requires the timpani part to also use a triangle, and the marimba parts to use cymbals, and I don't know how to add in the triangle or cymbal parts to the staffs. If anyone knows how to help me, please respond. Thank you
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Simplest might be to add the triangle or cymbals on ledger lines above the staff in a different layer, stems pointing up, providing the marimba doesn't play up there (likely the timpani does not).
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I'm not able to change the instrument/notation of only one individual layer. Do you know how to?motet wrote:Simplest might be to add the triangle or cymbals on ledger lines above the staff in a different layer, stems pointing up, providing the marimba doesn't play up there (likely the timpani does not).
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Whenever I try to do that it doesn't really work. I put the 2nd layer under Timpani to the sound "General MIDI Perc Map" because that includes the triangle sound that I want. Whenever I go to change the notation style of the second layer, it also changes the notation of the other layers, making the Timpani notes go way below the staff (I would include pictures, but the files are too big).miker wrote:Put the other instrument in another layer.
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They play in the same measuremotet wrote:Is timpani and triangle playing at the same time?
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With Finale, it takes trickery.
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