Hello everyone,
(Newcomer from Finale)
I am trying to produce a drum part, and I cannot get the H.H., the S.D. and the B.D. into one 5-line. In Finale, I could simply add a third layer and hide all the rests, but in Dorico, I haven’t found this function in the drum part.
I want the output to look like below (“desired result”).
But either Dorico destroys my H.H. voice (“second try”) or I have a point on the S.D. note that I don’t want there! In this case it is also not about the colors or the note heads, I know how to change that if necessary!
Does anybody have an idea how to do this?
A layer that doesn’t add rests in percussion is right-click >Percussion >new extra voice. Extra voices are not padded with rests. But they won’t “merge” with an existing voice unless some serious tweaking, I think.
And remove rests is a feature that is supposed to work now on percussion staves, isn’t it?
Mmmh,
removing the breaks is not yet my main problem.
It is not possible to insert the S.D voice independently into the lines. It is either attached to the “H.H. Line” or to the “B.D. Line.
This means that every rhythmic change to the S.D. voice automatically causes a change to the other voice (the attached voice).
Am I doing the basic input wrong? Is there another way to achieve the desired result?
No, you’re right. You cannot easily have a dotted eighth and an eighth in the same voice… Here’s where I am using Dorico for iPad (no extra voices there, it seems)
But not in the drum part.
This is where completely different problems come into play.
I was hoping to be able to insert layers in the drum part, but since this obviously doesn’t work, I guess I’ll have to put up with it.
As far as I know, there are two stem direction principles in drumset notation: hands up feet down (which is what you are using here) and metal up drums down, in which the snare is notated in the same voice as the kick drum. Maybe you could make do with a temporary paradigm shift?
You’re welcome! These two main principles are just an approximation though, and mainly affect the stem direction of the drums played by the sticks/hands. After all, there are still traditions around that use different lines/spaces for kick and snare… thus, a drum legend is almost mandatory in any drumset publication.
I’m right there with you. It also makes sense to move sticks up and everything that comes with the feet down.
But then how do you note my problem? How would you write it?
For example, in my case, running R.S. on 2 and 4.
Or two 1/8 ticks on the crash cymbal while the H.H. sounds on 2 an 4 or whatever?
Yes, that fits!
However, the sound output was not my priority. In the problem description, I was primarily concerned with a perfect note image.
My work consists of producing a clean score with individual parts. For this reason, I had settled on the above description.
I have come across a similar problem in trying to create an urtext of an 18th century harp method where the arpeggiation of chords is constructed by building ever decreasing dotted values with ties to describe the approximate length of all the notes in describing how to perform a conventional arpeggiated chord. Using different note lengths and ties instead of dots is not what the author wanted and is much harder to read and less easy to understand conceptually. This wasn’t a problem in Score! A memory from a past era…
Hello everyone,
an addendum
I have solved it. I couldn’t imagine that Dorico wouldn’t have an approach to it.
In retrospect, it was easier than I thought.
In the “percussion kit” you simply assign the instrument its own layer. Then you just have to switch off the automatic note shift and adjust the neck length slightly in a few places. Then the result is perfect.