Re: Stem Combining

[Mats Bengtsson]

Risto Vääräniemi wrote:
> I was hoping to get results as presented in the attached image
> (situation was staged).
>
> I had one song that I wanted to cram into a smaller space. Since all
> the rhythms were the same on both voices I decided to put the stems in
> the same direction. Opposite stems would have taken too much space. To
> get this result I had to use chords.
>   
You don't need chords. Just enter the two lines of music in the same 
Voice context.
Unfortunately, when there's only a single note, you will get an ugly 
result if you
repeat it in both lines of music, so you have to replace one of them by 
a spacer note.
Your example can therefore be entered as
\version "2.10.0"
upper = \relative c'{ a8 e' e d e a, a d ~ | d c d e c a a4 }
lower = \relative c'{ s8 c c b c s s b ~ | b a b c a ( e ) e4 }

\score{
 \new Voice << \upper \lower >>
}

    /Mats

> -Risto
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