Not strictly Dorico-related, more of an engraving question, I guess, but here goes anyway. I’d like to indicate a hit on the A of two in a particular, mostly rhythm-slashed region. If I write it the way I did in the attached picture, it implies a rest on beat two, which I don’t want. I’d rather indicate: keep doing what you’re doing until the hit on the a of two.
What’s the convention for this?
These two bars are different IMO:
In the first bar the player will definitely hit that Gb chord where notated. In the second bar they will play that exact rhythm on beat 2. It’s entirely possible you’ll want bar 1 in the Piano part and bar 2 in the Bass part. It really just depends on what you want.
I can’t decide whether I love this or it’s too “fussy,” but I tried adding an extra staff to the “score” which is there only to notate trickier comping rhythmic cues like yours:
Obviously you wouldn’t show this player in any of your performance layouts, but it would get you this:
Of course, the musical question is: will the player actually be comping freely for those 1.75 quarter notes, or should it just be written as a two-chord rhythm before going back to slashes on beat 3? I’m pretty sure I’d just simply write the two notes in the cue part in my guitar (or whatever) part, unless it’s a really slow tempo.
Should you like this, here’s the Dorico file:
Comping Rhythm.dorico (507.8 KB)
thanks all - I think the really fussy version is closest to what I’m after, with the parentheses around the slash. I want to say, “keep your comping pattern going until you hit the A of two,” but I don’t want to indicate any comping or rest pattern. I might just go with regular old rhythm slashes in the bar, and a second slash on top of the staff on the hit? idk.
I imagine I must have encountered this dilemma before, but I can’t recall. hah.
), with parentheses added as staff-attached text around the second slash: