Cross-staff beaming in percussion parts
I've searched the forums on this but haven't found quite what I'm looking for. I doubt that what I'm after is officially supported, but is there a good way to fake it to make the attached sample? Multiple single-line unpitched percussion instruments with cross-staff beaming. I don't care about playback, only how it looks. I tried just using piano for the instrument with a bunch of single-line staves, but then I can't get the instrument names in the right places. Thanks in advance.
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Cross-staff beaming needs 2 (or more) staves of one part/instrument
You wrote:
I doubt that what I'm after is officially supported, but is there a good way to fake it to make the attached sample?
I don't care about playback, only how it looks.
I started with a flute instrument and, in Staff/Part Properties, set staff to 3 lines with line distance at 6.00sp.
A new 'long instrument' name was entered as 3 lines (C. cl.; Tamb.; G.C.) with a space between each name/line.
The notes on the top 2 lines were entered in the same voice and rests were centered between the top 2 lines.
Notes on the bottom "staff" (actually a line) were entered in a separate voice (so rests could be entered and displayed on that line).
The instrument name font size was increased slightly (for appearance) using Format > Text Styles > Instrument name (Long)
There's an invisible time signature (4/4) and (treble) clef. The leading space of the first measure was increased to look like your picture.
Here's the MuseScore result:
Percussion.mscz