Re: same staff different context

[Mats Bengtsson]

A Staff context can contain several Voice contexts, so just put
the different parts in different Voice contexts.

\new Staff <<
  \new Voice {...}
  \new Voice {...}
  ...
>>

   /Mats

David Bobroff wrote:
> I've been experimenting with some things to try to deal with a
> percussion problem.
>
> I want to change between melodic percussion (those which produce
> definite pitch e.g. vibrapbone, tympani, marimba, etc.) and non melodic
> percussion (temple blocks, congas, tam-tam etc.)
>
> I want to keep this on a single staff.
>
> It seems that the two contexts can't share a staff.  Even my experiments
> with \partcombine result in two staves.
>
> I've had success with assembling music in "layers".  I was thinking that
> this would be the way to deal with this problem as well.  I would put
> all the pitched percussion in one layer and the non-pitched stuff in
> another and just put them together with << >> as I do with other
> things.  But, the problem appears to be the inability of the two
> contexts to share a staff as noted above.
>
> There must be a way around this.
>
> -David
>
>
>
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