Percussion Pains

Percussion is going to be the death of me. I am working on a piece, and I can’t get the snare and bass drum to merge into one kit. I set them up, moved them to where I wanted them, and selected 5-line staff. However, they wouldn’t show up correctly. So, I removed all the kits to try and start over but now they are not even registering as percussion instruments, so I can’t change their staff layout. I want the snare and bass drum on one 5-line staff with the snare on the 3 space and bass drum on the first space. I want the snare staff to go up and bass drum staff to go down. I also want a separate line for crash cymbals and gong.

Please help!
BB Piece.dorico (3.4 MB)

Hi @jjhoppermusic, I made 2 vides showing what the possible steps are for your current situation (sorry, in the video I said “snare drum in 3rd space”, and I put it erroneously on 4th space…, but you can drag it into the right place of course :wink: :

Part ONE (put all instruments into a kit):

Edit: reading carefully your post, I noticed that you want a separate line for gong and crash. I made a part two video with further explanation :slight_smile: :

Part TWO (correction: separate lines for gong and crash cymbal):

Add-on: and on top of those explications, you can of course rename your player :slight_smile: :

Result:
BB Piece-CORRECTED PERC.dorico (1.2 MB)

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Christian, thank you so much for the time you put into answering my question! You helped me solve the problem! I still have a lot more to learn about Dorico percussion input!