Always show rests in both voices for Drum part

Hi everyone. I imagine there is something simple I’m missing here, but I’ve searched the forums and haven’t found what I’m looking for. I notate parts for Drums with stems up for anything played with the hands and stems down for anything played with the feet (basically kick and HH pedal). In measures where only either up stem or down stem kit elements are playing I’d like to show rests in the other “voice.” I put “voice” in parentheses because I understand that just because some kit elements are up stem and others are down stem they don’t necessarily operate as different voices in the same way voices work on pitched instruments. Having said that, I did set the Kick and HH Pedal to be down stem and voice 2 in my Drum Set Kit, but that made no difference. I’ve also chosen the options to “pad voices with rests” and “show bar rests” in the Percussion options within Notation options, but I’m still not getting the rests in this case.

In this screenshot I’d like to see a whole rest towards the bottom of the staff in bar 26 and a half rest in bar 29, to indicate that the kick should not be played.

Any help would be much appreciated!

The rests will show when you continue adding music.

Jesper

You can add explicit rests in the downstem drums if it’s the last measure.

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Hi Jesper. I didn’t find that they appeared on their own, no matter how much music I entered, but I did manage to add in explicit rests by adding a second voice and then entering a whole rest into that voice with force duration. Is that the best way to approach this?

Try using Shift-B, rest in the first bar with the cursor on the bass drum line.

Jesper

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