Hi, I’m trying to re-create this:
Can anyone give me a clue on how to achieve it please?
Thanks, Ian
Hi, I’m trying to re-create this:
Can anyone give me a clue on how to achieve it please?
Thanks, Ian
The notehead can be changed by right-clicking on the notehead and picking a suitable replacement from the context menu (I imagine one of the diamond ones will work). You may then want to scale it using the properties panel (ctrl+8, then scale) because I’m pretty sure none of those are big enough by default. The text you can do with Shift+x.
The only tricky part is the gliss because glisses, at least to my knowledge–I could be wrong about this and would be happily corrected, or, at the very least, shown a more efficient way–have to be attached to two notes, not just one. So here’s what I’d do (and like I said, there could be a better way, but this will work):
Thanks very much for taking the time to give such a detailed answer. Apologies my post was rather short and not really as descriptive as it should have been, but it is the gliss that was causing me the problems. Having not used Dorico much, and seeing how it needs to be implemented, I don’t feel quite so bad now for not knowing the answer myself
Thanks again,
Ian
Just to add that this workaround certainly works for pitched percussion, however it does not appear to work for the ‘official’ Mark Tree instrument which is un-pitched (unless I am doing something wrong). I can live with that for now though.
[Edit] Change that, I have just found that it does not seem to work if the percussion is part of a kit, otherwise it does seem to work.
Sorry to hijack this thread from a long time ago, but I’m trying to write a Mark Tree gliss in a drum kit part, anyone have any idea how to achieve this, as there seems to be no way to add a gliss in a kit part…
Cheers in advance,
Pierce
I’ve fudged it for now with a line after adding a Mark tree to the percussion kit.
Cheers,
P
I don’t think that is a fudge. That’s exactly how I would have done it.
Here is a method I used to get a bit closer to the style in the image in the original post.
It might not play back the way you want, though. In the procedure described below, I have only concerned myself with the appearance.
Also, in both Write and Engrave modes, you can use the Scale and Custom scale properties to change the thickness of the line.
PS I’ve just re-read the post from @ Toaster1974 and noticed that it is for a drum kit. I don’t know if my method will work in a drum kit. I used a non-percussion player.
For starters, I would attach the line start to a note and the line end to rhythmic position. That aside, I agree entirely.
Good point!
I have successfully create the above using the instructions by snakeeyes021, thanks! But I’m trying to figure out how to notate a “sustain” of all the chimes in the Mark Tree like I think we’ve all seen when the percussionist drags a finger or a stick back and forth maybe one or two times (in my case for the duration of one measure. I’ve seen posts elsewhere where the squiggly line was like in a broad short V shape, which might make sense. Just wondering what is normally done? And how would I draw something like that in Dorico? Am I even on the right track? Should I just draw a second squiggly line and fashion them into a kind of V shape?
A second squiggly line carefully positioned in Engrave mode sounds like the right approach to me.
Ok, it’s been two weeks and now I can’t remember how I created the regular staff for an unpitched instrument. Can someone help me out? I know I didn’t create a “kit” which appears to be what most have done. Because when I click on the instrument it doesn’t show ‘edit kit’ in the right click menu. But if you try to just add the Mark Tree instrument it only creates a single line. Can someone help me out? Again, I want a REGULAR staff so it looks just like snakeeyes solution. I don’t want a grid.
Can you just add another instrument with a 5-line stave and then change the name? Or do you need playback etc?