First Steps
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Setting up the project
- Writing music
- Popovers
- Adding a key signature
- Adding a time signature
- Adding bars
- Caret
- Inputting the melody on the top staff
- Inputting the chords on the bottom staff
- Adding accidentals
- Adding another voice to the top staff
- Adding slurs
- Inputting a tie
- Adding dynamics
- Adding articulations
- Adding arpeggio signs to chords
- Adding tempo marks
- Adding clef changes
- Deleting rests
- Inputting tuplets
- Adding a grace note
- Adding an octave line
- Inputting the music in bars 33-35
- Crossing notes to the other staff
- Respelling notes
- Adding indications for left/right hands
- Adding the repeat ending
- Finish writing the music
- Laying out and formatting pages
- Adding the title and composer
- Master pages and tokens
- Hiding the flow heading
- Hiding staff labels
- Changing the page size and margins
- Deleting the copyright text frame (Dorico Pro only)
- Changing the staff size
- Changing vertical spacing settings
- Changing note and cross-staff beam spacing
- Starting on a left-hand page
- Changing stem directions
- Changing beam grouping
- Aligning dynamics
- Adjusting the shapes of slurs (Dorico Pro only)
- Moving items graphically (Dorico Pro only)
- Playing back music
- Printing and exporting
- Further notations
- Adding lyrics
- Adding fermatas
- Adding a mute playing technique
- Adding chord symbols
- Adding rhythm slashes
- Adding bar repeats
- Showing chord symbols above different staves
- Adding a drum set
- Inputting notes on a drum set
- Adding tremolos
- Enabling swing playback for the drum set
- Removing the drum set from the full score
- Final tips
- Index
Adding bars
Dorico automatically creates bars when you reach the end of the last bar as you input notes.
However, it can be helpful to have all the bars you will need in advance.
PREREQUISITE
You must have input the time signature so Dorico knows how long the bars should be.
PROCEDURE
1. Select the rest on the top staff.
● You can select items by clicking them or by using the keyboard. If nothing is selected in
the music area, pressing any of the arrow keys selects the rst note/rest on the top staff.
Right Arrow / Left Arrow move the selection along notes on one staff, Up Arrow /
Down Arrow move the selection up/down notes in chords and to staves above/below.
Tab switches the selection to other types of items at the same position, such as from a
note to a dynamic or slur.
2.
Press Shift-B to open the bars and barlines popover.
3.
Enter 73 into the popover.
4. Press Return to close the popover.
RESULT
73 bars are added, bringing the total number of bars in the ow to 74, the number required
for this piece. They are currently spaced narrowly because they are empty, but Dorico will
automatically adjust their width as you input notes.
AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK
Using the key signatures popover ( Shift-K ), input a key signature change to D♭ major in bar 33,
and another back to A♭ major in bar 43 using the popover entries Db and Ab respectively. Dorico
automatically shows double barlines at the key signature changes.
Writing music
Adding bars
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