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
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