Pick-up notes

[Roger_Dupuis]

how do you enter pick up note

[arco]

Do you mean create a pickup bar, or do you have the bar in place already?

Pick-up bars

Input methods for time signatures and pick-up bars

I see you have specified Dorico v3.5, the Help I accessed had the v3.5 archived, but this should still work.

[Christian_R]

Hi @Roger_Dupuis , beyond the useful links posted here above by @arco , I made some time ago a detailed post about different scenarios about pick-up editing, in case you forgot to create a pick-up, using different insert mode scopes. Maybe it can be of some help:

Problem inserting pick-up bar

Hi @Manny_Mendelson I made three little videos to explain different cases for editing the pick-ups. I hope can be of some help. Case A: you have written the full bar with rests -activate insert mode (global adjustment of current bar) -select the rests -press delete [pickup a] Case B: you forgot to write the pick-up and want to add it : -activate insert mode (global adjustment of current bar) -select first note -press enter (to activate the caret) -choose the note value (with the mouse …

EDIT: sorry, I have noticed that you use Dorico3.5, so maybe you don’t have insert mode scopes, which where probably added later in Dorico?.

[Roger_Dupuis]

thanks Manny i’ll give it a try

[DanielMuzMurray]

Thank @Christian_R for the link. I don’t want to have to call him Manny.

[Christian_R]

@Roger_Dupuis

thanks Manny

@Roger_Dupuis
Well, Manny is a nice name, but Manny was the user I wrote the post for

[Christian_R]

@DanielMuzMurray

Thank @Christian_R for the link. I don’t want to have to call him Manny.

Daniel, if I come someday to Sydney we have to drink a beer together!
(sorry for the OT)

[markelliotbergman]

Is there any way to create a pick-up rest? I’m making a custom part for a pre-existing piece, and the piece begins with a pick-up eighth note in 6/8. Dorico won’t let me begin the composition with an eighth note rest. Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks!

[asherber]

I’m not sure what you mean here. If you have a piece in 6/8 with an eighth note pickup, the pickup will be displayed as a rest note by default.

Are you creating a new project file that just contains this part? Or are you adding a layout to an existing project?