Why if I copy the drum note for an open high-hat and paste it (on the drum staff) does it paste as a regular high-hat and not as an open high-hat?
[I didn’t add the dorico-for-iPad tag (even though I only use Dorico on an iPad) because I have a feeling that it’s the same thing on the Mac versions.]
Hi @Abraham.H, you need to select not only the note but also the little circular icon (playing technique) above it before copy/pasting:
Which leads to another question, if I delete a note with a technique from there, why doesn’t it also delete the technique?
Ok, I see. If you have a keyboard attached, you can press Option and drag the notes to a new position and they will be copied including the Playing technique, because you are dragging into the same slot, that has that PT assigned. The Option key pressed makes a duplicate of that note:
The reason behind this behaviour is that Playing Techniques are not attached to notes, but to rhythmic positions. So if you delete the note, the PT remains at the original rhythmic position. This is expected behaviour.
(Instead, for example Articulations like staccato or marcato are attached to notes and they will be automatic selected [and so copied] together with the notes).
That only works if I am moving 1 note (and I know that I can select more than one note but sometimes I can’t do that because I don’t have enough bars in the project…).
That is part of my question here, why isn’t it attached to the note.
Here it works with multiple notes [Edit: mhhh, the staccato is not being copied, no idea why…; it will be copied if you do the selection in Write mode, for example selecting the whole bar first]:
You can zoom out horizontally, to see more bars. If you don’t have the bars, you can add them first (in Write mode). And if you have some orphan PT, you can delete them in Write mode as well.
I know that’s what I was saying here:
So my Question is, why isn’t the open technique attached to the note?
Techniques are handled differently than articulations.
Only Dorico can say why.
Probably because Playing Techniques can have a duration (so they need to start at a specific rhythmic position and can be prolonged for a specific rhythmic length), while articulations apply only to the note that they “articulate”? (Just guessing).
True, except that (at least at one point) one can apply a duration to articulations if applying them to a contiguous selection, not that I’d normally advise doing so.
@Christian_R thank you for the quick reply.
