As someone who doesn’t even know the vocabulary needed for learning Dorico (since I have no music training), I struggle to even know what to search for in Help and the Dorico Operation Manual.
But … I’m making progress. I am working exclusively with hymns, so how to manipulate notes is important and how to make lyrics look good. I also want the playback to be good so I can export the audio.
As something of a self-made tutorial, I took a Dorico file that had one arrangement of “Amazing Grace” and tried to modify it to make the music look like that in another hymnal (a different arrangement). I also added some verses.
When I play it back, there is too much silence after bar/measure 9. That is because – for some reason unknown to me – bar/measure 10 does not have the number of beats required for 3/4 time.
Q1a. Is bar/measure 10 what’s called a “pick-up” bar/measure?
Q1b. Could someone tell me how to fix it?
(Because of what I learned in the First Steps – Live Part 2 video, I was able to check out the playback durations, etc. That is how I realized the problem was in the 10th bar/measure.)
Q2. Is there anything else as far as the music itself in this file that should be changed? (I have not even tried to space the lyrics much yet; that will come in a later self-assigned lesson.)
Thank you very much!
Eric
The musical score I want to imitate is in the PDF below. I am not trying to imitate the number of systems, but only the music. Amazing Grace_.pdf (1.1 MB)
Here is the Dorico file: 21.04a Amazing Grace_MH_EN.dorico (1.2 MB)
Hi Eric.
What you call bar 10 would actually be the end of bar 8 for me (first bar is a pickup bar of one quarter, you enter it through the shift-M popover 3/4,1). If you want to “copy” that system break, make sure that your preferences allow breaks inside a bar (there’s a preference for that. Either breaks happen at the start of a bar, either you can put them wherever your selection is when you input your system break. And you can move breaks in Write mode selecting the signpost, alt-cmd-arrows)
Here’s your file with no overrides (I’ve learned to hate them and avoid them at all cost), I chose to copy the casting-off but of course, you can do as you wish.
I’ve used the new markdown options available in the Info panel for the first time. It’s nice. 21.04a Amazing Grace_MH_EN.dorico (1,3 Mo)
Thank you, @MarcLarcher. I haven’t started working on the file you so kindly modified for me, and I may not get to it this week. Today my brain feels fried with this stuff, so I am focusing on some other things I can do with the hymns today. I do plan to come back to this particular part of my Dorico odyssey. Thanks again! I do plan to try to learn as much as I can, and what you’ve provided looks like it’ll be very helpful!
Eric
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