You can move notes and items to other staves of any type; for example, if you want to move individual notes from one keyboard staff to another after importing a keyboard part from a MIDI file.
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These steps do not apply to pedal lines or system objects.
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If you want notes to appear on a different staff but remain attached to their original staff, such as to create a cross-staff beam, you can cross notes to other staves instead.
Prerequisite
If you want to use the mouse, you have enabled mouse editing.
Procedure
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Move the selected notes/items to another staff in one of the following ways:
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To move them to the staff above, press Alt/Opt-N.
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To move them to the staff below, press Alt/Opt-M.
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Click and drag notes first horizontally a small amount, then vertically to other staves.
When you drag notes, shadow noteheads indicate their destination positions, and the affected region appears highlighted with the rhythmic grid shown above it.
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Choose .
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Choose .
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Result
The selected notes and/or items are moved to another staff by cutting them from their original staff and pasting them to the new staff. By default, notes are pasted into the first voice active on that staff.
Notes within tuplets remain tuplets even if you did not select the tuplet bracket, tuplet number/ratio, or tuplet signpost.
When you copy or move chord symbol regions to other staves, the corresponding players are set to show chord symbols.