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Rolled Chords

I'm sure there is a correct name for the symbol that I want to achieve but I can't find one!
Can anyone advise me how to indicate in a score that the player should "Roll" a chord eg two notes an octave apart and played in rapid succession.
I believe it is indicated by two minims on the appropriate notes joined by multiple beam lines.

Re: Rolled Chords

Reply #2 –
Hi, I think I know what you're talking about, but don't know the term for them. Perhaps "alternating tremolo" or something like that.

In any case, there isn't a direct way of doing this in NWC at this time. You could use post-processing of an exported metafile "after the fact," but I can't think of a way to do it within the program itself.

The few times I've run into this I've simply spelled it out. For example, a pair of 1/2-notes beamed together with a double beam would be 8 alternating pairs of 1/16 notes.

Re: Rolled Chords

Reply #3 –
Thank you Barry and Fred for replying to my question.

I am so grateful that you have introduced me to Boxmarks Barry.  If only I had looked at the Forum site sooner I would have been a lot better off!

What a splendid site this is!

Re: Rolled Chords

Reply #4 –
...there isn't a direct way of doing this in NWC at this time.
I wrote a piece for piano in which the right hand is playing tremolos on and off for twelve bars, and I managed to notate this quite well, with no post-processing whatsoever.  It would have been a simpler thing had I not had to align the right hand with the left, and being the type of guy that I am, I had to make it sound correct also.  The process (procedure?) took me about three days to figure out, so I think listing the "instructions" here would seem tedious (for the reader, as well as for the writer).  If I knew how to post an example, I would do that.  Try playing around with all the wonderful features NWC has to offer to see what you can come up with.  You might surprise yourself.
"Necessity is the Mother of Invention."