On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 19:01 +0000, Erik Andersen wrote: > Hi, > Apologies if this has been asked before, and I don't know the words > to search for. > > How do you recommend handling chords that have slurred notes with > different durations? > > For example, how would you enter the music like https://imgur.com/a/n > JlSWGQ (look at the lower/base staff of what is a piano treble/base > staffs combo). > > Two chords on one staff? ??? you can't have two chords at the same time on one staff unless they are in different voices.
> Two voices, with all of the chords split into notes of different > voices? Or, two voices with only occasional notes on the second one > where you have chords with different durations/numbers of notes on a > beat? Either of these last two, whichever you find easiest to enter/edit/read back in the display. If you see them as separate voices then entering them like that may be easier to look at while you are editing. There's an example of keyboard polyphony under File->Open->Open Example (from about 10 years ago, but still ok as an example of polyphony). Richard
