Hi guys, is there perhaps an option with Metrico to use the eighth notes in the swing indication the other way around? I have a song that uses the swing feel of the first eighth note longer and the second eighth note shorter, but also an instance where it’s the other way around, second note longer than the first note.
So I would like to use: Swing ee=3qe or ee=3eq, but the 3eq option doesn’t put the 3 over the bracket. Could you perhaps program this option as well, Florian?
(By the way, there’s audio so the singers know when to use which one )
My first thought is it would be much clearer to write dotted eighths and 16ths (in either order), and then the swing indication would cover both. Interpreting dotted rhythms loosely like triplets was very common in the early days of jazz.
Hi Mark, I missed your reply until now, but thanks for your suggestion! I’ll think about that option some more (all the other pieces that have swing are written with eighths and swing indication, so not sure yet if I want to do this one differently, although in this particular case your solution would work great, of course). Thanks!
Thank you! Works fine
As a new user I’ve been scratching my head trying to figure out how to type in swing values for sixteenth notes. Thank you so much! Will this be finally implemented in Dorico - is it in v. 5?
Dorico still doesn’t handle these markings natively, I’m afraid, but it remains on our wish list for future versions.
is there still no modern way to do this?..
No, there’s still no built-in way to handle these indications.
The swing playback in Dorico deserves some attention. This is an incredibly common notation and it seems like it would be an easy fix.
There should be an easier way to turn swing on and off and show or hide the indication on the staff.
As a courtesy to the development team, please refrain from suggesting that changes to the program are/should be easy to make.
I have to say, typing shift - T then “sw” (which is enough to focus the auto-fill suggesting with the swing indications) then mouse-clicking or arrow-entering the desired one only for it to automatically create a hidden signpost that plays it back seems pretty easy to me, as does typing I have to say, typing shift - T then “Swing (q=X)” for the visual tempo mark.
It’s deceptively complicated, because to do it properly, it needs to follow the fonts you’re using for music more generally, so really these kinds of indications need to be drawn at least somewhat in the same way as “real” music, though the proportions of the noteheads to stems/flags/beams etc. needs to be modified.
We know that this is something many users are waiting for, and it’s definitely on our backlog to be implemented, but because it requires some infrastructure to be built (which can then also be used for things like complex metronome marks or tempo equations) it’s not something that you should expect imminently.