Hello!
I’ve written a percussion part for 4 players that will in some circumstances be performed by fewer players. Is it possible to highlight certain parts or bars so that they get prioritised by players? I’m hoping to have the equivalent of a fluorescent marker pen highlighting the bars and that will be visible in black and white printed scores.
Thanks!
Any kind of grey ‘shading’ over the whole staff is going to reduce legibility considerably: I’d suggest either a set of ‘markers’ (using custom Playing Techniques) for the start and end of ‘priority’ sections; or maybe some sort of Line above the staff for the whole section.
Thanks!
If you really want to highlight certain bars, see this post.
While I agree with Ben, honestly if you want an actual highlighter-esque effect, I’d just export the PDF and then use something like Liquidtext or one of the other PDF note-taking-apps for ipad and just highlight that way. Some of them even highlight “behind the black” which is to say, add color around the text or black bits, and not over them.