Snare Drum Roll Notation

Dorico
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I have freaking looked everywhere LOL im so frazzled right now. Dorico is so easy to use but this one function is utterly impossible to find.

How do I put slashes through a notes stem on the snare line to show a snare roll? PLEASE tell me its easy.

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It is easy! Please see the documentation.

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Shift+R 3 Enter
(where 3 is the number of strokes)

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Sometimes… its just too easy LOL

Thank Daniel ROCK ON!!!

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Thank you

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You can also bind the 3-stroke tremolo to a key directly. I have it bound to Ctrl+T since it’s so frequently used.

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Thanks for this, it’s prompted me to add some indexterms relating to drum rolls and snare drums to the tremolos topic that Daniel linked to. They’ll be added when I next publish a documentation update.

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Could you send updated links for this thread? I would like to see the documentation mentioned but I think it’s been moved

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The material on tremolos can be found here.

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Hello,
I am trying to notate snare drags. When I input 2 64th notes before a quarter note to imply a drag before the hit, dorico gets confused. I have tried putting 64th note grace notes before the hit but it doesn’t give the same effect for some reason. Is there a different method for doing this? Thanks

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Can you be a bit more specific about how Dorico gets confused, Dave?

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This link doesn’t work. Maybe putting what to search for in the documentation so we can look in future versions of the documentation will be good.

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Works for me.

Jesper

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I wonder how?

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You are trying to access a link to a very old version of the documentation.
A quick examination of the url shows it is pointing to the notation reference>tremolos section of the manual.

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That link still works just fine, but here’s the current version of that page:

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(Daniel. There are two links you made on this thread. The 2nd works, but the 1st returns a 404 error)

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Thanks – I’ve now fixed the original link, and the quoted post that includes it. (I’m not going to make a habit of that, though!)

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(Completely aside, just for the record, the link in post #2 above had a click count of 530 when I saw it yesterday, probably the most ever on this forum!)

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I want to ask a follow-up on this thread. When creating a percussion map for the snare drum and assigning the “roll” technique for snare drum, then assigning a tremolo to it as being suggested above does not trigger the roll as per the percussion map. The only workaround I can find is to assign “tremolo” as the playback technique for the roll.

Anybody have a way that doesn’t involve me tricking dorico into thinking a tremolo is aroll?