I searched this topic in the forum and couldn’t get the answers to work. I want to copy chord symbols from one staff to another. Someone said to copy them to the system track and then filter out everything else. I don’t know how to copy them to the system track. Thanks!
Hi @Evan,
you don’t copy and paste chord symbols between staves (vertically at the same rhythmic position), you decide which instrument should show them (if you have input some chord symbol, they exist globally, and you decide where they should appear: for the whole instrument or just where Chord Symbol Regions exist):
Here a useful video (58:25):
To copy the chord symbols from one place to another in the piece (horizontally), you can use the System Track, select the bar range, then filter for chord symbols, cut, then select something where you need them (later/earlier in the piece where chord symbols doesn’t exist jet), and paste them there,
Also soon will come a Discover Dorico Live about all this (stay tuned 
):
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As in…tomorrow! (Unless something’s changed)
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That video doesn’t cover my problem. I want to add the chords to other instruments. I’ve added slashes to the parts of the music where they’re not playing regular notes. I want them to have chords in those sections so they have the option of improvising. When I first added players ti set up the score, I didn’t know that I’d want to do that later. And I don’t know how to specify that there should be chords in certain sections for thew cornet and trombone.
See See Rider again.2.dorico (2.8 MB)
Slash Regions are different than Chord Regions. I can see the former in your cornet and trombone staves. As soon as I select those measures and Write > Create Chord Symbol Region it works perfectly.
I suggest you go go to Dorico’s YouTube channel and study their chord-related videos carefully.
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@Evan_Solot
Ok, I made a short video for you, to show how to do it (following the instructions contained in the video and other links I gave you in my previous post: the blue words are links to the relevant Manual pages, with very clear explanations). Or did I misunderstood your request?:
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Will do, thx!
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Amazing! Thank you so much for going to the trouble to make that video! It made everything understandable in a way that written instructions couldn’t have! You’re the best! If you ever decide to create a Dorico course with videos, I’ll be to first to sign up (seriously)!
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Christian, you’re so helpful so I apologize for troubling you with one last question. In the cornet, trombone and banjo, there are (4), (8) and (12) indications below bars 8, 12, 16, 25 and 27. My understanding is that those kinds of indications are to help the players keep track of how many REPEATED bars there are. These bars are all different so the numbers don’t make any sense to me. Unfortunately, I can’t find the setting to eliminate them. Can you please help? I promise not to bother you again.
Thank you for your kind words, @Evan_Solot, glad to help!
And this Forum is made also (mainly ? 
) for this: to ask questions, so don’t hesitate.
(Of course it is suggested to go through the Videos on the Dorico YT channel, and the Manual as reference, for the functionalities that one uses often. But I remember at the beginning, some specific and “personalised” tips and tricks can help to understand the design philosophy of Dorico)
Yes, those are slash region bar count numbers. They start an independent counting for each different slash region. Notice that in Banjo, for example, you inserted a new slash region, so it starts counting again from 1:
You can change the options for these slash region bar counts, Globally and/or Locally (as pretty much everything in Dorico):
Globally: from Engrave options (from menu Library). This changes affect the whole Project:
Locally, overriding the Global settings: from the Properties Panel, after you have selected a slash region (or some other item that you want to customise). Here you can override the global settings, and choose different settings for a particular passage only. Notice: if a property is not active (greyed out), it means you selected item is following the Global options, activate one switch means you want to override the Global option and choose different settings: this may be, at the beginning, a little confusing but is at the end very powerful, flexible and elegant):
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If you’re working through the First Steps guide, @Evan_Solot then you should come to this page, which explains how to set other players to show chord symbols where you’ve already input some for other players:
The demo / start project provided for the Blues Song section of the guide starts with the Engraving Option for rhythm slash counts set to “do not show”, so that’s already taken care of if you use the provided resources.
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