Note Grouping for small sections of a piece

Dorico
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This screenshot shows a bar in 3/4 but the top line continues in dotted crochets.
Screenshot 2021-09-15 at 11.14.01

I’m looking for an option to group them so they show two dotted crochets, not the second half split and tied as it is -

But I don’t want the entire piece to group the notes like this. Just about a ten bar section.

(Contextually this is because this is a medley with a click track in crochets, and the meter is changing every 30 seconds or so.)

2

Use force duration when you enter the second notes… Now that they are entered, select them, press 5, o, 6 dot.

3

Or input a 6/8 time signature just for the top staff (as described in the last step), and hide it. Reinstate the 3/4 at the end of the section.

4

Thanks - couldns’t quite get those exact keystrokes to work but I see that if I press o to force the first one and then repeat it gives me what I want.

5

Is it possible to force the rests to be dotted crochet too in a similar way?

Screenshot 2021-09-15 at 12.13.15

6

… done it!! Just deselected the forced duration, added the correct length and put it back…

7

I really would recommend using the single-staff time signature method of handling the meter, a 6/8 time signature shows dotted crotchet rests automatically. Once you’ve input one, hidden it, and it’s appearing as a signpost, it’s really easy to copy it to other positions where you have the same metric shifts.

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Hi Lillie,
I would have done that next, but this method works and it’s just a smallish section - copy/pasting these elements will be just as easy