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
● Currently, the note symbol shows you are inputting notes into the rst up-stem voice on
the staff, but this bar requires a down-stem voice.
3. If chord input is active, press Q to stop chord input.
4.
Press Shift-V to create a new voice.
● A + sign appears beside the note symbol, whose stem now points down. This indicates a
new down-stem voice.
5. Press 7 to select half notes (minims), then . (period) to add a rhythm dot, making the
duration dotted half notes.
6. Press B to input a B♭ in the new down-stem voice.
● Dorico shows a cautionary ♭ accidental on the B due to the B♮s on the bottom staff in the
previous bar.
● The caret automatically advances to the next bar. However, in this instance, there are
still other notes in the up-stem voice in bar 9 that you need to input.
7. Press Left Arrow until the caret is positioned at the start of the second beat in bar 9.
● When moving the caret using the arrow keys, how far it moves depends on the current
rhythmic grid resolution (rather than the note duration selected in the Notes panel when
you press Space ). The current rhythmic grid resolution is shown in the status
bar at the bottom of the window. By default, it’s set to eighth notes.
● The note symbol beside the caret indicates that it’s still set to the down-stem voice, but
the eight notes in bar 9 are in the up-stem voice.
8.
Press V to switch to the up-stem voice.
Writing music
Adding another voice to the top staff
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Dorico 3.5.12