How to draw in a staff a chord containing C and C#
How should one draw in a staff a chord that contains both a note and the same note with an alteration?
For example: How would you draw in a staff a chord that contains both C2 and C#2?
Addition: Tim's answer provides a good workaround: simply draw the C# as a Db. However, now we have a new weird case: What if the chord contains C, C# and D?
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If I understood the question right, when you mark there will be an alteration, let's say in C (so all C occurrences will be C#), if you want to say you're playing an actual C, you make use of the natural symbol, which cancels the alteration.
Here is the wikipedia article.
This is the symbol
I hope it helps.
Chances are the C# is going to be Db! Now, it's fairly straightforward. Put the C on blob on one side of the stem, and the Db on the other. make sure the b sign is in line with the D note, and not the C!
Here is what Musescore does with your example.
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