Guide to Imploding band scores

So far looks lik you've imploded once, and have four voices per staff. Now implode again to combine those multiple voices into chords.

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I often use implode for my arrangements for big-bands or concert bands. very often the differents instruments are with the same rythm, "synchro", in this case, don't use Voices, all instruments in voice 1 and you get Chords, with no problems for stems. If rythm is different, sure use voices, but, in beginning, for example 4 trumpets, or 4 trombons, or 4 Saxes, implode them first, in chords, that will give you, 1 stave for trumpets , 1 for trumbons, etc. After, if , like very often, trumpets are in the same rythm as trumbons, you implode the both. In your exemple for Fly me to the moon, everybody is on the same rythm perfectly, you can have surely, with implode , all instruments for 4 or 5 fingers for the pianist. If you have 20 saxes, trumpets, trumbons, finally, they play chords, and , for the pianist, 4,5,or 6 notes it's enough

For your purposes, swap is mostly useless. It could be useful if you have two trumpets with different rhythms and the second trumpets play higher than the first trumpets for an extended amount of time, but this is unusual. Using swap in this case would put the higher notes in voice 1 and make the stems default to pointing up, which the keyboard player would appreciate.

If you were turning this into a vocal score and putting the Soprano and Alto on one staff, it would be a convenient way to exchange the singer in certain places if say the Clarinet part went below the Trumpet part, but you wanted the Sopranos to continue singing higher notes. I know this is a contrived example, but you should get the idea. The two singing voices should be notated in separate voices on the score.

There are actually many good uses for exchanging voices. Off the top of my head:

• to move existing voices 1 notes to voice 2 in preparation for then entering music into voice 1
• to move voice 1 notes to voice 3 in preparation for using rhythmic slash notation above the staff
• any situation where you entered notes into voice 1 and went to add voice 2 and only then realized you did it backwards

Regarding your example - exactly as I said before, simply run implode again on the staff that now has multiple voices to merge them into one. Note you need note have fiddled with the stem directions first, in fact, that was a mistake, you should reset those or the combined chords will have the incorrect stem directions.

Running implode on multiple staves combines them onto one staff with multiple voices. Running implode on a single staff combines the multiple voices into chords. Both are things you may want at different times, so it's good to have both behaviors available individually and to also have the ability to combine them.