Cross-staff beaming between different instruments?

[SuperheroChuck]

I’m a General Music teacher for elementary (primary) school, and I’m trying to transcribe some rhythmic exercises from Gunild Keetman’s “Rhythmische Ubung.” I’m having a heck of a time figuring out the best way to accomplish Keetman’s cross-staff beaming in Dorico. Take a look at the picture below:

Each system represents one player, playing several levels of body percussion. The most intuitive way I know of to create something like this in Dorico is to create four players, each playing a one-staff-line percussion instrument. Trouble is, doing that doesn’t let me do any of Keetman’s cross-staff beaming, because as far as I’m aware Dorico doesn’t allow for beaming across two different instruments. I suppose I could just use some kind of four-line staff, but I don’t know how I would get the lines spaced out that far. Also, that solution wouldn’t let me do the below:

…where the patschen (Pa.) are split into two lines for two legs, but bracketed as one instrument.

Do I need to create some kind of custom staff or instrument type to accomplish these things, or is there a default in Dorico that can accomplish this?

[algae592009]

Have you tried creating the instruments and then creating a percussion kit with them? That might solve your issue.

[SuperheroChuck]

Got a link to a how-to on this? Sounds like what I need.

[algae592009]

In Dorico, 0pen the pulldown menu for “Library” and choose “Instruments”.
Then filter by family and see if any of the instruments you want to use are already there (e.g.: hand clap). Then create your own instrument/s following the instructions on Dorico Pro Help (https://www.steinberg.help/r/dorico-pro/5.1/en/dorico/topics/library/library_instruments_custom_creating_t.html) - creating custom instruments.
Once created, go to set up and create a player that will play your instrument/s. Then assign them your instruments. After this right click on the title of the player to pulldown a menu and choose “combine instruments into kit”.
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Then go into kit and just vertically position your instruments in the order wanted/needed.

Here’s a sample I created

Here’s the Dorico file for you to look at:
Percussion Kit Sample.dorico (457.4 KB)
Hope this helps.

[SuperheroChuck]

Thank you!