Notation legend at top of drum part

[fritzhansen]

Is there a way to add a drum kit notation legend as a separate staff at the top of the drum part in a band chart? (rather than the legend showing as text within the drum part).

[jesele]

There was a thread about this recently, but I can’t find it.

Jesper

With an extra flow for the legend:

drums.dorico (639.8 KB)

[fritzhansen]

I’ve seen a video by Tim Buell where he does this, but before he writes the drum part. Can I add a flow to an already written part, and put it in front of the part? And have it not affect the rest of the parts/score etc?

[asherber]

@jesele

There was a thread about this recently

Showing assigned notes for percussion?

Hi all I am wondering what might be the best way to provide a legend for the percussion parts; for example telling the drum set player that C is snare, D is ride cymbal etc. Also can you tell Dorico to indicate the name of the instrument when first sounded even if the instrument name is percission X? Thanks Ken

[jesele]

Yes, the legend flow in my example is flow 2. If you look at the part in engrave mode, you see that I added a custom page template (legend), based on the first page template. There I reduced the height of the music frame, added a new music frame above, and set the top music frame to use flow2, and the main music frame flow1.
Then a page template change for only the drums to use the new template.

Jesper

[asherber]

@fritzhansen

Can I add a flow to an already written part, and put it in front of the part? And have it not affect the rest of the parts/score etc?

Yes, and yes.

[jesele]

Thanks @asherber

Jesper

[fritzhansen]

Thanks to both of you. I am finding all of this in Dorico help. I continue to be amazed at the level of control Dorico gives us.