Bracket perplexity

Hi again

Now I am, trying to bracket the piano part with the rest of the rhythm section, but in the engraving options, this seems to be a no go. As you can see, I made the left-hand part hidden. I watched the video on this but , I can’t get this to happen. I tried making the left-hand part visible, but that does not seem to help.

Thank you for any suggestions…

f the rhythm section.

If you use remove staff insead of cutaway, you can drag the top of the bracket up in Engrave mode.

Jesper

Or if you always want just one staff, you can edit the instrument definition.

With changed instrument definition.

Hi Jesper

Since there are places where I want the left-hand part to play something, I can’t do remove the staff unless there were a way to show the left-hand part when needed. This seems complicated. So I suppose to bracket piano I either need to have the left-hand staff present all the time or find a work-around if I only use the one staff, is this correct?

SO I did delete the staff and placed the notes in RH, LH.

That worked so thanks…You are saving me big time!

Best

Ken

OK, but you can get the staff back by right-clicking->Staff->Add Staff Below.

Jesper

Hi Jesper

Yes but won’t I lose the bracketing of the rhythm section, or can I just locally add a staff as you seem to suggest.

Anyway, I think your solution works fine!

Thanks a lot

Ken

If you are only using one staff at a time, just change the clef. I would expect the player to use the most convenient hand for the low notes just as he or she would use the right hand for the higher notes.

Yes, Derek

Thank you; that is what I did and it solved the bracket problem.

It seems that this is the easiest solution, but I bet there are more workarounds one might explore.

Appreciate your feedback!

Best

Ken