Is there a simple way to achieve this look in Dorico? Aiming to show the guitarist the exact voicing, without cluttering the rest of the measure.
It seems I can really only do either all notes or all slashes. I can get close by outlining the chord in Voice 1 and then the rhythms in Slash Voice. BUT there is no way to cleanly/simply beam between the voices.
Figured I’d post here in case I’m missing an option! If the only way to pull this off is through “faking it” in Engrave mode, is there a simple way to apply that “fake” to all the measures?
(I also can’t seem to get Dorico to universally let me achieve that rhythm dotted-eighth/eighth/sixteenth rhythm in big beat 1 without manually locking every 8th note, if anyone knows the answer to that!)
Thanks!
If you select the notes and right-click, you can change the noteheads to Slash Noteheads:
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As for the rhythm, a hidden [6+6]/16 allows me to enter your figure (and other usual compound beats figures) without force duration.
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Thanks for the response! Just tried, and this is what I get. Could type in only Bs and get the look I want, but was hoping to retain playback somewhat.
Clever fix for the time signature, thank you!
Ah ok!
I’m really not the right person when it comes to playback workarounds like this. It sometimes involves creating a second staff with the playback notes, then hiding that staff — but others will be able to explain it much better than I can. And with the tablature, it’s probably not that easy!
Playback workaround : right-click the staff>Staff>add staff below (or above), duplicate the content of this bar (or part, whatever), select the staff signpost, delete. Now transform your music as you want it to show, select it and in the properties, suppress its playback. Only the “deleted” staff will sound 
In case you need to modify, simply add the staff below again. You’ll find the sounding music still written there, you can write whatever you want to hear.
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Or you can also use one of these 3 methods to keep the playback without having to create a new staff, while still showing your intention to the performer, I think:
- Hide the noteheads (quite usual notation for this case I would say).
- Hide all noteheads except the top note, which you change to a slash notehead.
- A much more complex solution, inspired by a method from @Christian_R found once somewhere on this forum. I don’t have time to explain it in full now, but it involves creating a second voice that rhythmically matches the first one, but written as tuplets so no value is shorter than a quarter note (which allows you to adjust stem length in Engrave mode). Then, by overlapping both voices, tweaking in Engrave mode, and disabling playback for the lower voice, you can choose to keep a middle note as a slash notehead.
Behind the scene:
Guitar Rhythm Help.dorico (1,3 Mo)
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That said, I realize that I forgot to hide the 2nd beats, and I suddenly don’t remember if the dots remain when you hide all the noteheads of a chord, possibly not (I can’t try now). If they don’t, there is a trick to show them, as far as I remember, maybe involving another voice.,
