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
8. Press D to input a D♮.
9. Press Space to advance the caret.
10. Press F , then B , then D to input the corresponding pitches.
● Because accidentals last for the rest of the bar by default, the next B and D are also input
as B♮ and D♮ automatically.
11. Press Esc or Return to stop note input.
RESULT
You have input chords each containing two notes with natural accidentals. The natural
accidentals are automatically hidden on the second chord because the default accidental
duration rule in
Dorico is common practice, where accidentals apply until the end of the bar.
Similarly, the B♭ in bar 7 on the top staff shows a cautionary at accidental automatically.
TIP
● You can also add accidentals to selected notes outside of note input. Sometimes this is more
helpful, as you can add the same accidental to multiple notes at once.
For a at accidental, press - . For a sharp accidental, press = . On an English keyboard, these
keys have - (minus) and + (plus) on them respectively, which might help you remember them:
minus lowers notes while plus raises notes. 0 for natural represents no alteration.
You can nd more accidentals in the Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals
panel on the right of the window, which you can show by clicking
Key Signatures, Tonality
Systems, and Accidentals in the Notations toolbox.
● For more information about accidental duration rules, see the Operation Manual. In Dorico
Elements and Dorico SE, you cannot change the accidental duration rule.
AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK
Continue inputting chords on the bottom staff using what you have learned in this task and the
previous task up until the rst beat of bar 14, without the arpeggio signs: you will add those in a
later task.
Adding another voice to the top staff
In bar 9, a second voice appears on the top staff, so you need to add an additional voice to the
staff. We will also explain how you can identify the voice into which you are inputting notes.
PROCEDURE
1.
In bar 9, select the rest on the top staff.
2.
Press Shift-N to start note input.
● Beside the caret, there is a note symbol. This indicates the voice to which anything you
then input is assigned by showing its stem direction, a number, and type (normal, slash,
or grace).
Writing music
Adding another voice to the top staff
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