I haven’t used Dorico in so long because of Covid that I can’t remember some simple things. How do I add note letter names above the staff for one voice (one staff)? One of our singers can’t read music, and adding note letter names to noteheads doesn’t work for her.
I would suggest using Lyrics. Select the first note, Shift-L, and Shift-up arrow to input them above the staff.
You can still input “real” lyrics below the staff as well.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I could swear that I used to be able to do this as an automatic thing where I could select a staff from beginning to end and do something that would automatically put the note letter name for all the notes for that voice above each note. I didn’t need to write in each one. Now the only function I can see that does that is putting note letters inside noteheads, which is not easy enough to read.
I definitely know I used to be able to do this with Sibelius. Still, I like Dorico much better.
Dorico doesn’t yet have this function automatically.
Oh, wow - thanks for letting me know! I was going nuts trying to remember how I did something I never actually did with Dorico. I’ll have to bite the bullet and put them in manually with the lyrics function.
What a shame - it would be really useful. The note names in the note heads really isn’t useful, because they are hard to read and also means its hard to distinguish between minims and crotchets (half and quarter notes). It’s not going to encourage someone to start using the music. But the workaround isn’t too bad for a simple song, which is probably the only time you would want to use it.
Thanks for commenting. I agree that the workaround isn’t too bad. One of the singers in my acappella doo-wop group can’t read music, and as a courtesy, I enter the note names into her copy of the score so she doesn’t have to hand-write them. It’s much quicker for me than for her, and it makes her happy.