I am trying to recreate a guitar score where two voices combine for one note, with the note stems pointing up and down – as shown in the attached image, where the first bass notes lasts for a dotted minim. This is very common in classical guitar and happens in every bar of this piece, so I hope there’s an easy way of doing this.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
You’ll need 3 voices, not 2 and to get the notes lined up properly, you need the settings under Notation Options → Voices. To clean it up, you’ll need to Remove Rests appropriately as well.
Wonderful piece.
EDIT
Note the voice colors, stray rest and misalignment of A.
Thanks for your suggestion. However, I want both the up and down stem to share the same dotted minim note head, as shown in my attachment. I can create this in Sibelius and am hoping to do the same in Dorico.
Like I said: Notation Options. I just wanted to show you the rough edges so you can see what the options do and to learn the Remove Rests command.
Your first red note, E, in Lower zone (in Window > Show Lower Zone) set to Starts Voice.
Example
First downstem voice is the dotted minim (dotted half note), I entered a C in this example
Second downstem (Shift- V) voice is your E
You see the rest there at beat 1. With the E selected, lower zone, Starts voice
If you are just learning Dorico, you might need more specific information?
Many thanks for your advice, which has solved my problem. This solution works much better than the workaround method I used in Sibelius.
In the topic of inputting classical guitar with multiple voices, I’ve been unable to get my anacrusis measure to indicate the rests. Notation Options → Rests → Bar rests in additional voices: Show bar rests is my chosen option and that adds the whole rest in the 2nd measure. For these excerpts from Españoleta & Scarborough Fair, I have one voice: up-stem V1 and down-stem V2.
How can I configure this? Thank you!
I’ve just tried and haven’t been able to figure it out. I look forward to someone explaining the solution to this problem.
Found it! There was a post a few years back just on this–I knew there had to be. If I click on my V1, blue, first note; then start note entry (return); then hit V to switch to the V2, red, voice; then hit shift-B; then type rest–Dorico puts in the rests!
See this post: rests at beginning of piece
