How to notate this technique for cello

[jcle]

I’m trying to notate this, which I thought was a 3-stroke multi-note tremolo:

I tried shift-O tr-M3 and got this, which is not what I need:

Any ideas welcome.

[MSTS_Music]

You want to have TREMOLO, as you said, not a trill. See here: Tremolos in Dorico

[wing]

tremolos live under “repeats” and the repeat popover (Shift-R). With any note(s) selected, you can just type the number of slashes you want (3 in this case) and to create a multi-note you type 2 after - that is: Shift-R, 32

[jcle]

Right. I was just trying stuff.

I figured it out. Enter 1/2 the duration for each note in the measure. Select both half notes and then the 3-strok multi-note tremolo in the panel and voila:

[Janus]

(Rather than pat yourself on the back, how about crediting @wing with the solution tick?)

[jcle]

Because that response did not in fact solve my problem.

[wing]

FYI I don’t mind whether or not you mark my response as a solution, but for clarity it is in fact the same exact thing as the solution you discovered, the only difference is using text/popover entry instead of mouse/panel entry. Two ways to accomplish the same thing.

[benwiggy]

There are also Engraving Options that cover the appearance of tremolos, such as whether the lines go directly between whole notes, rather than between their imagined stems.