Invisible stave with visible notes - is it possible?

Hi guys!

I really wish I could do this in Dorico as I did in Finale. It’s a reduced stave like 60%. The lines are invisible and the notes are visible. It’s for a lead sheet to indicate basic drum parts or any other stuff like strumming, comping rythm, etc.

Anybody??

Can you use rhythmic cues?

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I probably can, but I wouldn’t be able to show what I want, like kick and Hi-hats at the same time. Thanks anyway!

It’s far from ideal, with cues from a drum kit since you have to add one cue for each drum/cymbal. This was the best I could come up with (after a lot of testing). Note the long stem.

Jesper

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Or manually, with a Zero-line Staff and cutaways:


Invisible Staff with visible notes.dorico (508,6 Ko)

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Yes, much better. I was just going to try that @charles_piano

Jesper

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Very nice and elegant solution, @charles_piano!

If I may add, setting the KD and SD “cue” with Voice column index to 1, it would all look more “centred” (if desired…):

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You’re perfectly right!

Or same VCI but with Hi-Hat style noteheads:

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Someone recently made a font for rhythmic cues with text. Can’t find it now, though.

Jesper

Edit: Found it.

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Wow ! Thank you very much for your help :slight_smile:

I’m gonna have to experiment…I don’t even know how to write cues… :smiley: I’ll start there

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Hi! :slight_smile: I found my way to get it work! Thanks.

Now I wish I could change the instrument of that player…I know I can but there’s no drumset available. Every instruments are there except for unpitched percs.

Any idea? Thank you

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Ah, it’s for playback purposes, I guess? Since it’s a cue, I was only thinking of a graphic solution.

It’s just that I find annoying to hear keyboard while entering notes, I wish I could hear drum pieces instead. :man_shrugging: but otherwise everything is fine! thanks