In the attached Dorico document I’ve made my first attempt at placing rhythm cues above a staff. However, I don’t know how to move the rhythm marks above the visible staff. There are two staffs - one visible and one hidden. The hidden staff contains the rhythm marks. The visible staff utilize th…

How you’ve done it is probably not how I would have approached this in particular. In your Just For Playback layout, set the notes back into a regular voice rather than a slash voice; the notes will now show as normal chords, not slashes, here. Then in your Jazz Guitar layout, select the Gtr cue la…

Disclaimer: I’m not at my Mac to check your file. By “Staffs” I think you mean “Voices”? (i.e. the slashed one and the normal one in your screenshot?). The missing notes are actually rests which are above the staff. If you just want slashes instead of the melody, all you need to do is to select t…

If you want the slashes above the staff, I’m pretty sure there’s an option in Properties (lower zone) to select the position?

I happen to be at my Mac, so I was able to test it, but when using your file, I don’t manage to have the rhythmic cues above the staff either. I tried all relevant options in the properties panel (as a Dorico user from day 1, I know where to look), but nothing works. But I never use slash notation, …

Yes, I just looked at your file and was going to write as much. I’m not sure how you can get around the problem if you do actually require the cue’d guitar as slashed notation in it’s original staff.

[image] DanielMuzMurray: By “Staffs” I think you mean “Voices”? I have two staves - that thing with five horizontal lines. And, I believe, each staff has its own voice. I’ve hidden one staff. I’m unsure of the differences between a player, an instrument and a voice. I suppose a player c…

[image] silver_mica: Is a voice synonymous with an instrument? I believe voices were called “layers” in Finale, if that helps. You frequently use them for contrapuntal music when you have two parts on one staff, like a Bach fugue where you have two independent voices on the treble clef staff…

[image] silver_mica: I have two staves - that thing with five horizontal lines. And, I believe, each staff has its own voice. I’ve hidden one staff. I just hadn’t looked at your project and didn’t realise there was a second instrument; I thought you had used two different Voices. [image] …

@dspreadbury - Interesting! The distance option in the cues properties (located at bottom) did not work until the top staff voice was reverted back to regular notes. I wonder why that is. Anyway, it’s working now. Many thanks! Not bad for day one! [Screen Shot 2024-08-31 at 3.53.01 PM]

[image] silver_mica: The distance option in the cues properties (located at bottom) did not work until the top staff voice was reverted back to regular notes. I wonder why that is. Because slash voices always go in the middle of the staff, and can’t be persuaded otherwise when they are cued. …

Glad you worked it out. Two (advanced) thoughts: You don’t actually need to hide the cueing instrument. You can just create a layout that does not include it (or remove it from the Full Score as here…). [just4playback] Also, if you don’t want to identify the Guitar as the cueing instrument, in E…

How to move rhythm cues above staff?

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silver_mica September 1, 2024, 12:07am 21

Most appreciated. I wasn’t expecting to get this far so quickly in Dorico.

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