I’m notating a score for a musical, which is orchestrated for a small band lead by a piano. I also need a piano part that can be played in rehearsals without the full band (meaning it might need to play notes that it shouldn’t play with the full band)
Here’s a simple example:
Here, I don’t want the double the bass if the bass is playing, to avoid muddiness. But when the piano accompanies in rehearsal it should.
Initially, I tried to use “Scale: Cue” which seemed to work well (like in the picture). However, I realized, it does not apply in all layouts, which makes this not useful, unless there is a way to make it apply for all layouts.
Then I tried cues, but I had a couple of problems:
- The cue appears in the wrong octave, because bass is transposing but piano is not.
- The piano still have a rest, which is confusing for the rehearsal pianist.
- In the original version I actually had the piano double in octave (this makes sense if you consider piano bass is less strong without doubling)
I also considered completely duplicating the piano part, but that has obvious disadvantage that if I want to update it I have to update it two placed, and it could drift.
Would do you think is the right approach here? I suspect it would request a combination of features I might not be familiar with.