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).

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 t…

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) [image]

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?

[image] 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.

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.

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asherber August 8, 2026, 5:57pm 4

jesele:

There was a thread about this recently

Showing assigned notes for percussion? Dorico

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

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