Feature request: Multimeasure play (elaborate version)

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Ken is very clear about the difference. Here’s a page showing both meanings:

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Among a zillion other clients, Ken was John Lewis’s copyist for most of his life. I was Mr Lewis’s copyist the last 3 years or so of his life, so I saw a lot of Ken’s hand as we revised and modified some earlier work (into Finale). Ken’s hand and methods’s are about as clear as anyone’s I’ve seen.

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Well, then it is easy to conclude that the Dorico team and Ken is not really on the same page here on what such numbers should mean :laughing:

In any case, “Play X” (or something close to that) can not really be misinterpreted… :slight_smile:

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I totally agree this would be a cool feature to have, but the dev team obviously is going to need a solution that will work for both parts and score. Can you post another image of a score page showing how you envision this notation looking in the score? I’ve honestly never seen that repeat sign with a circle thingy ever used before, so I imagine the devs are unlikely to want to go with a solution that’s creates new notation. This situation obviously must have come up before, I just can’t seem to find an example to show how the score is notated.

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Well I can, but that would for me be to go too far in the requirements and start to specify things that is more up to the product mgmt and developers to decide (if not for something else to avoid comments like the one from mgmt above, but generally that is always my way of working also in my daytime profession). I am happy as long as the “underlying requirements” (again as per the discussion above) are fulfilled, and for this specific part they are fairly simple:

  1. Do not use one bar repeat regions for “condensing” purposes. I want to have the bar repeat functionality available also in the future - it is basic stuff for any notation software.
  2. Make the marking in the score clear and clean so that it is easy for the score reader to see what the drummer sees.

Then the exact graphic details can be discussed for long I guess, and I will not be part of that :slight_smile:

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Here is a pretty good example in a newly finished chart for a concert in April this year.

Again here the ambition is to keep the drum part to 3 pages and have it as clean an easy to read as possible without losing valuable information.

The other 17 parts in the full chart took totally about 70-80 minutes to adjust and without stress. This is impressive by Dorico.

Anyone who wants to take a guess on how long it took to make this drum part with Dorico 5.1.10 is warmly welcome :slight_smile:

Cochise_v1.0_Dr.pdf (165.6 KB)

I won’t lose hope.

//D

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I am not a drummer, but this looks nice!
It’s just like bar repeats of slash notation, but behaves like multi-measure rests in that it “condenses” horizontally. Cool.
I get it… :upside_down_face:

B.

P.S.: And kids, please don’t fight! It makes me uncomfortable to see a simple misunderstanding escalate like this and getting in the way of a great idea!

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