One note with two beams, one up, one down

Dorico
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Is it possible to do this if two voices overlap on the same note. I’m just doing something simple. Imagine a bass clef with a half note, on the left side is an up-stem, on the right side is a down-stem. This would indicate that the tenors and the basses have the same note. Is this possible?

Thanks,
Andrew

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If you have only one unison note in a line where T+B are otherwise sharing stems (like most hymns), a second voice for that note is still the best way. You can hide any rests that appear, and the rest of the bar will have normal stem directions.

Also I just want to make sure you mean stems, since the thread title says “beams”.

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As @Mark_Johnson suggests of course it is possible with a second voice. I send you an example of two possibilities:

  1. with all separate voices or
  2. with an extra voice when needed for unison or different rhythm.

I show the colors of the voices for clarity. (View/Note and Rest Colors)
example unison.dorico (532.2 KB)

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Thanks guys for answering.
I screwed up when I originally made the voices, but I’ve since figured it out so it’s all good.
And yes, sorry, I meant stems.

(what I had done was I had added the bass voice by shift-b and then putting the second voice a fifth lower. But when I raised the notes to make certain sections unison, it kept both notes with one stem.)