Hi everyone,
I’m transcribing an orchestra piece for band and wanting to imitate a harp gliss on vibraphone. To get the right sound, I’m wanting the gliss to be pentatonic only across the accidentals. Is there a way to notate this and still get proper playback?
_ michael
Hi @mbishop, you can create the pentatonic glissando in another voice (in my example I created it in a different bar, at B, then select the notes and the tuplet, cut, and right click>paste special in an extra voice, at the beginning of the printed glissando, like in C). Then suppress playback of the first real note and of glissando itself. Then hide tuplet, notehead, stems, ledger lines of the written gliss., and use custom size and note spacing changes to compensate for the many notes:
Workflow:
Result and playback:
Dorico file example:
pentatonic glissando.dorico (1.3 MB)
In the properties Panel you only have white notes, and no black notes, so my suggested workaround seems necessary for a pentatonic glissando:
Since a pentatonic gliss on the “black keys” would be possible on a number of instruments laid out in a keyboard format and would not, strictly speaking, be the same as on a harp (due to the double-striking of enharmonic notes), that would make a valid feature request.
Of course, because the keyboard’s black notes only exist in one key, it may not be something the Development Team would feel important enough to work on soon.
That’s a great idea! Thank you so much for the Dorico file demonstrating it. I really appreciate it.
