left hand piano part

2009-01-30 05:42 pm

I am transcribing a left hand piano part that has both a low e and a rest on the same beat.
It's not a chord per se but it is de facto.

How can I do that?

Re: left hand piano part

Reply #1 – 2009-01-30 11:29 pm

Chord Member Command

Quote from: Copy this and paste into staff

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Bass
|Key|Signature:F#
|TimeSig|Signature:Common
|RestChord|Dur:4th|Opts:Stem=Up|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-13
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Re: left hand piano part

Reply #2 – 2009-01-31 10:32 am

   Hi, ParrotSquawk.

   As usual virtuoso Rick as provided you with a neat answer. But a bit of explanation might help.

   You make a "RestChord" like you make an ordinary chord, but you have to put the Rest in first, and you must have the notional or actual stems of Rest and Chord in opposite directions.

   First, insert the appropriate-duration Rest you want, with its "notional" stem in the right direction - in your case, presumably up. If it's not in the right place vertically, select it and move it up or down to where you want it (when it's selected you can adjust its notional stem direction, if you forgot to choose it in the previous step). Next, insert the Note you want - of the right length and in the right place - with its stem set to the direction opposite that of the rest. Voila!

   In this way you can make a "RestChord" in which the Note is longer than the Rest - which is probably the most usual case. Sometimes, though, you might want the Note and the Rest to have the same length, and Noteworthy won't normally let you do that. You can persuade it, though, by a neat trick mentioned here some months ago; you select the Note/Rest combination and cycle it up (or down) in duration until you can go no further, at which point Noteworthy has rather strangely made both Note and Rest the longest (or shortest) possible - either a whole or a 64th note long - and then you cycle it back down (or up) until you reach the length you actually want for both parts.

   The final possibility is when you want the Note shorter than the Rest - I can't offhand remember ever wanting that, but who knows. Noteworthy won't let you construct such a RestChord by the usual method (explained first above), but you can persuade it to make one in the following manner. First, make a RestChord in which both the Rest and the Note have the shorter value that you want (as also described above), and then select the combination and use the mouse to click on the note duration (in the Note Toolbar) that corresponds to the longer rest duration you want. Noteworthy then changes the Rest to have the chosen long duration, while leaving the Note's shorter duration alone!

   Mind you, in this last case Noteworthy also makes the duration - and the space in the staff - of the combination the duration/space of the longer Rest, which may not be quite what you had in mind, but ...!

   Regards,

   MusicJohn, 31/Jan/09

Re: left hand piano part

Reply #3 – 2009-02-01 02:13 am

ok...it looks like I need to get 2.0 installed properly to use these tips.

Thanks