Why when I start a projet and when I try to enter a Key signature I notice 2 things that I don’t think it’s normal.
The key signature is 3/4 but when I enter at the start of the measure a half rest then enter the rest of eight notes. When all the notes are enter why to I see at the start 2 quater rest instead of half note rest is this normal why does it change. Same amount of beat so what should I do to keep as a half note rest?
When I applied my key signature only a few bar have it. Some of the others bars have 5 beats. What can I do to have all the bars in the project to have all 3 beats as it should be. note I started my project being a lead sheet.
Your help to help me solve this problem would be greatly appreciated.
If your original file had (hidden) time signatures containing 5 beats, then your initial 3/4 key signature would only apply up to the point where the 5-beat measures begin.
It is also possible that if you activated Insert Mode before applying the 3/4 key signature, your 5-beat measures would become 3/4 measures n their own.
The best idea would be for you to post the Dorico file so we could try these options out and report back to you what we found.
My best advice at this point: Go through Dorico tutorials and learn the software.
From readin this I guess you are coming from Finale, where you indeed had to enter rests. In Dorico you normally don’t do that. You only enter notes wherever you want, and Dorico will calculate the rests automatically. And it has a lot of options on how to render rests, for example to split them at the half bar or not.
Go through all the tutorials out there, it really helps in understanding the software. It works differently!
I’ve taken the liberty of editing your thread title, since it seems you are talking about “time” signatures rather than “key” signatures.
Dorico automatically shows two quarter note rests at the start of a 3/4 bar because unless my memory is totally failing me, that’s notationally correct in 3/4. A lot of fundamental notational rules are hard-wired into Dorico, so you don’t have to think about them manually for every bar.
You’ll find default settings for how Dorico notates rhythms and beams in the Notation Options dialog.
I would also recommend working through our First Steps guide: it’s a step-by-step tutorial that teaches you a lot of Dorico concepts via a real-life musical example.
As I am now reading and practicing the Dorico 6.1 first step. They mention in the guide that a PDF for the practice song which is Walzer-Capricen No.2 of Dora Pejacevic but it’s not included. Could you send me a copy so I can follow when I go through the process of learning Dorico. If you have it of course that will be very much appreciated
Germain
