fingering for both hands on a single note
I have made an arpeggio sheet for my piano students. I want to show a single note with both a RH and LH fingering. I used voices to be able to show 2 fingerings. Is there a way to merge the Voice 1 and Voice 2 notes so that just one of them appears in the score without losing the fingering for each hand?
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A couple of ways. Possibly would have been easier to just enter two fingerings on the same note to begin with (and use different style settings to display one above, the other below), but the way you have it will work too. Select all voice 2 notes (eg, right click one, Select / More / Same voice), then use the Inspector to explicitly set the notehead type to whole instead of auto. This allows it to merge with voice 1.
BTW, instead of the explicit 7/1 time signature, the easier way to create these long measures is just to enter the whole notes normally, then select a group of measures and use Tools / Join Select Measures. You can also hide the time signature by pressing "V", or turn off display of all time signatures in Staff/Part Properties.
In reply to A couple of ways. Possibly… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you! I was able to do the merge as you suggested.
I'd like to ask for clarification about this: Possibly would have been easier to just enter two fingerings on the same note to begin with (and use different style settings to display one above, the other below)
I tried doing that, and I was able to move one number below the note using the Inspector. However, I had to do it one note at a time by selecting the note, clicking Add/Text/fingering then typing the finger number and using the Inspector to move that number to Below. I tried selecting the note, clicking Add/Text/fingering and then switching to Below in the Inspector before typing, but that makes my screen jam. So I have to do the whole process for each note, which seems cumbersome. Is there an easier way to do that? I couldn't find anything in any of the Style settings which would allow me to do that, but I may not know what to look for.
In reply to Thank you! I was able to do… by Teacher Ann
There are a number of ways you could go about it, but what I had in mind is using different style settings, as I said. What I mean by this is, not the generic "Fingering" style, but a different custom style for one set. So, for instance, enter one finger you want to be below. Use the Inspector to change to User-1. Give it a positive offset to move it below, then hit the set as style button ("S" icon). Now, you can quickly type in the rest of the fingering - every time you hit Space to move to the next note, it will use the same style as the last fingering, so you enter all these fingerings in one go. Then leave fingering edit mode, go back to the first note, and enter the normal fingerings.
Actually, ideally you'd use a custom style for the above-note fingerings too, so they display directly above the note on the staff like in your example, as opposed to above the staff. The only reason they are on the staff for your example is that you have multiple voices. So actually, that could be an advantage to how you're doing it.
Anyhow, multiple ways of getting the job done.