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Overview of multiple voices

Overview of multiple voices - Sibelius Tutorial

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Overview of multiple voices

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- [Instructor] It's assumed that by now you have a handle on inputting notes in the voices one and two. To make sure that we're all on the same page before moving forward into additional voices and more advanced multiple voice features, here's a quick review of what you should already know, you can include up to four separate voices per staff but remember that you'll rarely use more than two voices on one staff. When using two voices, voice one the blue voice is almost always positioned above voice two, the green voice on the staff, which you can see in our example file if we select a bar that has two voices in it. So the voices are color coded, you can see all of their colors and identify them with the voice number buttons at the bottom of the keypad. Go ahead and escape so that nothing is selected and you can press the buttons without affecting anything in the score. Voice one is blue, voice two is green, voice three is orange…

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