Recent transplant from Finale. When creating lead and rhythm sheets, it would often be necessary to have rhythm and slash notation in the same bar, particularly to show anticipations. I am trying to recreate this effect from Finale using staff styles:
For this kind of mixed notation, I would suggest not using slash regions, and instead using a slash voice for that whole passage. You can hide the stems for the slashes that shouldn’t show them via the Properties panel.
My way of notating this would be with rhythmic cues/hints above the staff, maybe using l.v. ties if the bar after the anticipation is played freely again. Anticipations like the E7 you could keep inside the staff.
Maybe this helps…
Cheers and all the best,
Benji
If i hide stems, the beams do not break so it’s not looking quite right. And the slashes do not match the slash region above and below it so this ends up being very fiddly. Is there something I’m missing?
Similarly if i keep them a regular voice and change the stemless noteheads to large slashes and the anticipations to rhythm notation, the l.v. tie is too small (in my opinion) to get at what I’m going for, and if i add a proper tie then it changes the notehead after it
