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
● However, in the recording, only the clarinet plays on beat 4 in bar 4.
7.
Select any part of the slash regions in bars 1-4 on the trombone, banjo, and piano staves.
8.
Press Shift-Alt/Opt-Left Arrow to shorten the slash regions back to the end of beat 3.
● The number of presses required depends on your rhythmic grid resolution .
9. In bar 5, select the bar rest on the trombone staff.
10. Shift -click or Ctrl/Cmd -click the bar rest in bar 16 on the trombone staff.
11. Input a slash region.
● If these regions were adjacent, the second would have a different highlight color to
distinguish them.
12.
Repeat steps 9 to 11 for the banjo.
13.
Input slash regions on the cornet staff in bars 5-7 and bar 9 (beat 2) to bar 12.
Further notations
Adding rhythm slashes
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Dorico 3.5.12