Maybe I’m being silly in that I just can’t find the solution, but how do I display rests in a drum set part when only the hands are playing? In the image below, on the top is what my drum set part currently looks like, and I want it to look like what is shown on the bottom stave of the image below.
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Sorry to bump this thread, but I’m running into issues where sometimes I turn on the ‘Pad voice with rests’ and then new rests don’t appear in my drum part (even though there should since there’s nothing written for the kick drum in that bar). Might there be a common reason for this (happy to send project via DM if needed)?
Please do send me your project by private message if you need help and are unwilling or unable to post it here.
Just to keep the community updated, I communicated with Daniel via direct message who said the following: ‘Unfortunately, the result you want isn’t one that Dorico can easily provide at the moment: the Notation Option you’ve got set, Rests at start and end of voices in five-line staff presentation , doesn’t do quite what you think it will do: it will create rests in the bars prior to the first note in that voice, and in the bars prior to the last note in that voice, but not in the bars in the middle.’
However, being absolutely amazing as always, Daniel and his team have added (to 5.1.30) a new option in the percussion section of ‘Notation Options’ which achieves exactly what I asked for at the beginning of this thread!
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Welcome to the forum, Albert. If you need further assistance, please attach your project here, or a cut-down version of it that contains just the troublesome bars, and we’ll take a closer look.
Dorico 6: I have a problem inputting rests in a 5-line percussion set (Drum set).
Yesterday I saw in the forum that this was solved in Dorico 5.1.30, why not in
dorico 6?
It seems to be impossible to create a quarter note or rest in te third position in the bar.
Hi @albert.verhoeven,
of course is not impossible, but very well doable:
If you read the post by Daniel, you will see that posting a screenshot is not enough to see the problem in your context. Please post the Dorico file itself for someone to be able to diagnose the issue.
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Hello Christian, thank you for your response, I tried to include the file but it is impossible to upload files greater than 4mb. Therefore I will include a .xml file. I hope this will be enough. The problem is situated in bar 8 and 16. Albert
Car Wash - 29_Drum Set - 01 Flow 1.musicxml (133,5 KB)
For bar 16, in your xml file, there’s no issue with placing a quarter note (or a rest) on the kick drum on beat 3.
For bar 8, the issue is that you seem to be trying to place a tom on the last two 16th notes, at a position (the C in treble clef) where only the snare drum (downstem voice, same as kick drum) is present in the percussion kit.
If you move tom 3 down to the same position as the snare drum,
and enter the notes in the Tom voice, you can get the following result:
Or you can enter the tom 3 notes on the D and keep the original setting.
But it is maybe different in your Dorico file?
CAR WASH.dorico (1,5 Mo)
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Thank you very much
I would as you another question, I am trying to input a rest in the first bar on de F position, whatever I try it seems to be impossible.
Probably its easy but not for me.
Thank You
ALbert
Do you mean like this in the pickup bar?
If so, I did a workaround to get it, there’s maybe an easy way but I don’t know it!
I entered a grace note in an upper voice above the snare drum’s second one. The quarter rest appeared then. I moved it down in Engrave Mode, hid the grace note and suppressed its playback.
Once again, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a better solution 
CAR WASH.dorico (1,5 Mo)
Good afternoon
At last I succeeded. Thanks very much, I hope I can count on your help if necessary?
Albert
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Sure, if I can! There are also many users here who are much more knowledgeable about percussion than I am, and they’ll certainly be happy to help you as well.
You maybe know this video, but if not, I really recommend it — it’s all about percussion writing in Dorico.
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