Hi everybody,
So I have this percussion part here for 1 player to play vibraphone and glock.
This is the way I have it in setup mode:
My challenge is with the part/layout: I believe it is more standard to not have staff labels with a part like this, but to mark each instrument as it comes in. Dorico seems to mark the first instrument at the flow beginning rather than when the instrument first plays, which seems non-standard, but I can always drag that I think.
After trying a lot of options with this score, I cannot however get the glock part to have a label at all. Do you know what I’m missing –which option I need to choose? The glock part is the second staff that appears here.
When the second instrument comes in, I think i also need a repeat of the vibraphone label, to make it clear which staff is for which instrument. Is this all manual stuff? Or am I missing some options?
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It’s weird that I guess no one knows how to do this.
I thought I would provide what I think of as a good example of what I’m looking to do here. Notice in this part, the first entrance of the first percussion instrument is marked where the instrument plays. Then the second instrument is marked where it comes in, etc.
In your first example, I’d say you lose the benefit of automatic instrument‑change labels because both instruments are playing at the same time. You can either add them manually as text (using the Instrument Change Labels Paragraph Style) or add staff labels wherever needed.
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Ok, I guess that was part of my question. If, as is common with percussion, a single player is playing more than 1 instrument at a time, Dorico doesn’t recognize that and won’t label it. Seems like that might be a good point for a future update. Staff labels are pretty much universally not used in percussion parts, as far as I know.
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