Derek, Have you tried just a simple staff-change line?
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-keyboards#staff_002dchange-lines i.e. Whenever a voice switches to another staff, a line connecting the notes can be printed automatically: \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = "one" { * \showStaffSwitch* c1 \change Staff = "two" b2 a } \new Staff = "two" { \clef bass s1*2 } >> Derek wrote > Hi there I hope this example is short enough I am trying to use the change > staff thing to get the bes4 in leftTwo to display in rightOne with the > line that show it is switching staves like in the attachment. Does anyone > have any pointers, I have gone through the documentation but obviously > there is something I am not understanding, any advice would be greatly > appreciated. Thank you <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n152147/Screen_Shot_2013-10-12_at_4.40.44_PM.png> > > > global = { > \key c \major > \time 4/4 > } > > rightOne = \relative c'' { > \global > > bes2\( d4\) > } > > rightTwo = \relative c'' { > \global > > f,2. > } > > leftOne = \relative c' { > \global > > <f,,, d'>4 s2 > } > > leftTwo = \relative c' { > \global > > bes4 > <bes f d> > 2 > } ----- composer | sound designer LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Piano-music-switching-staves-tp152147p152149.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
