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
● You should now have rhythm slashes throughout bars 1-16 for the cornet, trombone,
and banjo. However, the fermatas in bar 16 do not appear automatically in slash
regions.
14. Select any part of the slash regions in bars 5-16 on both the trombone and banjo staves.
15.
Press Shift-Alt/Opt-Left Arrow to shorten the slash regions back to the end of beat 2.
● The number of presses required depends on your rhythmic grid resolution .
16. In bar 16, double-click the trombone staff on beat 3, that is, just after where the slash region
ends.
17. Press Shift-Alt/Opt-V until the caret indicator shows a stemless slash voice.
18. Press 6 to select quarter notes (crotchets).
19. Press Y twice to input two quarter note stemless slash notes.
20.
Press Left Arrow until the caret is at the start of beat 3 in bar 16, then press Down Arrow
to move the caret down to the banjo staff.
21.
Repeat steps 17 to 19.
22.
Press Esc or Return to stop note input.
Further notations
Adding rhythm slashes
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