I’m a high-school teacher and I mainly make arrangements of pop songs for my classes of 20-30 students, who are mostly beginners. Therefore, they often play the same for each corresponding song-section: Player 1 for instance, plays the same in verse 1 as in verse 2, same in chorus 1 as in chorus 2 etc. Player 2 might be a better musician, so he/she will have varying roles between each section. I usually give each student their own sheet with their particular roles. The most challenged students will have a rehearsal mark saying “Verse” with their verse-role for all verses. Then a rehearsel mark saying “Pre-chorus” for all pre-choruses, and so on.
When I used Musescore, to make individual sheets, I would make the whole arrangement in a master project file. I would then copy/paste that file 20-30 times, then condense each part into whatever role/roles the given player had throughout the song. It would take a million years…
Is there any faster way to do this in Dorico? If I edit anything in parts, it also seems to be affected in the full score. For example, let’s say I’m in the part “Piano” and change the rehearsal mark “Verse 1” to “All verses” and then delete all the notes in Verse 2, the notes will also be deleted in the “Full score” part.
I’ve searched the internet, and haven’t been able to see any solutions. Not regarding Parts, at least. I hope you can help or have a better suggestion on how to solve this, so I can save some time.
This is correct and by design—pretty much every modern scorewriter behaves like that. As you know from your MuseScore experience, you can’t have the same piece have a different form in different parts. However, I doubt you’d actually need 20-30 different scores, perhaps you could compress it into 3 or 4 difficulty levels which can read the same form. What you can do in Dorico, however, is to keep all your different scores as separate Flows in one file, which will make the piece easier to maintain if/when your orchestra’s makeup changes.
Thanks for the quick answer @hrnbouma
Working in flows might not be the perfect solution, but it’s definitely better than working in different projects!
One last thing: When I duplicate a flow and disable all other players than the one in question, I have like 24 pages with only 1 system on it… Do you know how to automatically gather all systems in 1 or 2 pages, so I don’t manually have to do this in Engrave Mode? Otherwise, this will, once again, slow down my work-flow.
Sounds like every flow is starting on a new page? Make sure that you allow each Flow to continue on the same page. (Layout Options > Page Setup > Flows.)
If it’s not that, you’ll need to provide a sample document, or a screenshot, at least.
There are plenty of Tutorial Videos that explain how layout works: I’d recommend looking over them.
Generally, if you find yourself thinking “I need to do this manually on every page”: STOP!
Check over the Layout Options to see if you can affect a global change more easily.
Hello @benwiggy
Thank you for your answer.
Attached is the project file in question. Shake it Off ny 2.dorico (1.6 MB)
It’s not that every flow is starting on a new page, since there are only 2 flows: My “main project” and, in this case, the soprano voice. You can see that the soprano voice has been divided into many pages, in stead of just condensed on 1-2 pages. This happened, after omitting all the other players than the soprano in the new flow.
I agree with you on the last part.
Kind regards
