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♭, then Ctrl/Cmd-Alt/Opt-Down Arrow twice to transpose it down two
octaves.
9. Press Shift-Alt/Opt-A to input the A♭ a fth above, rather than a fourth below, the preceding
D♭, then D to input the D♭ a fourth above that.
10.
Press : (that is, Shift - ; ) to stop tuplet input.
11.
Press 3 to select 32nd notes (demisemiquavers).
12.
Press F , A , D , then F to input the corresponding pitches.
13. Press 6 , then A to input a quarter note A♭.
14. Press Q to start chord input.
15. Press Ctrl-Alt-D (Windows) or Ctrl-D (macOS) to input a D♭ a fth below, rather than a
fourth above, the previous A♭, then 0 , E , 0 , G , 0 , then A .
● This inputs the chord on beat 3 with the required natural accidentals. You will respell the
A♮ into a B later.
16. Press Up Arrow to move the caret to the top staff.
17.
Press ' , 0 , then Ctrl-Alt-E (Windows) or Ctrl-E (macOS) .
● This selects the marcato articulation, natural accidental, and inputs an E♮ a sixth below,
rather than a third above, the preceding note on the top staff (that is, the C at the
bottom of the chord in bar 32).
18.
Press Esc or Return to stop note input.
● Bar 33 should now look like this:
Writing music
Inputting the music in bars 33-35
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