How do I move a note, or series of notes, to a different staff without breaking the beam?
Answer
Finale includes a plug-in that will allow you to easily create cross staff beaming. To use this plug-in, follow these steps:
Select the Selection/MassEdit tool.
Highlight the region of the measure that you want to cross into the other staff while maintaining the beaming.
Once you have that region selected, go to the Plug-ins menu >> TG Tools, and choose Cross Staff. This will bring up a Cross Staff dialog box that you will use to indicate how you want the plug-in to work.
Choose the note you want to use for the Split Point (Middle C is C4).
Select the radio button to indicate if the notes which you want to cross are above or below that split point.
Then, choose the staff to which that note is to cross into; Previous (staff above), or Next (the staff below).
Once you have set these parameters, click the GO button and the cross staff beaming will be applied.
Note that cross staff notation can only be done in the full Finale product.