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
● They don’t have to line up; in fact, having them end at slightly different times creates a
more natural effect.
● Overriding the default played durations removes the start offsets on the arpeggiated
notes so you need to delay their starts.
4. Click and drag the left end of the B♭ and G on the bottom staff to the right a little, with the G
starting later than the B♭.
RESULT
You have overridden the default played durations of some note events without changing how
those notes are notated in the score. They are shown with a different color in the piano roll to
indicate they have been changed.
AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK
●
Click in the ruler at the top of the event display anywhere in bar 41 to move the playhead
there, then press Space or Enter to start playback and hear how this sounds.
●
If you want, you can continue tweaking the played durations of notes, dynamics, and/or
tempo
uctuations throughout the piece.
NOTE
Moving the start/end positions of dynamics and tempo marks in Play mode, such as making
a rit. start on beat 1 rather than beat 2, affects where those items appear in the music. This
Playing back music
Changing the played duration of notes
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