How could I show only a half rest on the last two beats of the bottom staff since the first two beats are being played by the LH in the upper staff? (this is a piano score.)
I don’t think I can put the B flats in the bass clef and move them because I need them for my lyrics to adhere to. So I need the bass staff to be blank (no rests) for the first two beats, but have a half rest on the last two beats.
What might be the easiest way to do this?
Hi Wendy!
The one thing I found is that you had those two Bbs as voice 1, with just the stems flipped. If you want the left hand to play them and have the rests reflect that in the left hand, here’s what I came up with (with a video example to follow)
Hope this helps!
P.S. This will also move the lyrics so you might have to reposition them in the Engrave mode.
P.P.S. You can move them up and down with N (up) and M (down) as much as you want!
My two cents : I think the final result not very clear.
If I have understood correctly, these two Bb will be played with the left hand, right ? So, I should prefer a clef change at this point instead of the migration of these notes on the treble clef.
@ObiwanKenobi I agree with the lack of clarity, as a Pianist I’d rather the left hand switch to treble for that measure, however if this is the composers desired result then moving the lyrics and deleting the extra rest in the right hand is the only (somewhat clunky) way I’ve found to make it look the same.
Simplest route is probably to add a half in the bass (hide the notehead and stem and suppress playback)
No one said to move the lyrics to the bottom staff. Once assigned, lyrics will hold their position in the measure unless explicitly moved. @ERC_Music had a perfectly reasonable solution.
That seemed to work what @ERC_Music and @Derrek said (thank you!), but I can’t figure out how to hide the rest now (I’m newish and can’t seem to find it in the help files). How do you hide that rest?
And to answer your questions about clarity - this is an early level piece for a child and it’s too much to process for them to see the bottom staff switch to treble clef but not have the note visually seem higher than the RH. So they need that visual cue that the LH will be higher than the RH and thus those 2 LH notes need to be in the treble staff above the other notes.
EDIT: I figured out a kludgy workaround by selecting the note, moving the rest position back to the staff (in some cases the rests were on ledger lines) and then setting the rest “custom scale” to 1. But ugh. That’s a lot of extra steps for just one of the rests. I assume there’s an easier way to do this?
To remove a rest just select it and use Edit>Remove Rests (you don’t need to select just rests, you can make a general selection and this will remove (hide) any rests within that selection)
To remove a rest just select it and use Edit>Remove Rests (you don’t need to select just rests, you can make a general selection and this will remove (hide) any rests within that selection)
When I did that, it took away all the other things that I had to do to put that half rest in the bass clef! So, removing the rest didn’t really hide it and maintain it’s position, it actually deleted it. Did I do something wrong?
I think Janus was talking about the rest in measure two of the upper staff.
