V2 of My Marching Band Template!

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Hello Dorico users,

It’s finally here! v2 of my marching band template. I decided to create a new post for v2. I took into consideration and applied all of the feedback from v1. I want to say thank you to those of you who did suggest changes. They were very helpful to make v2 even better. There are over 20 different changes made!

Some of the major features that standout are the following:

  • There are now four different variations of the project template

  • Instruments that should have been using the condensing feature are now condensed

  • All of the variations of the template now have playback sounds (see the readme file on how to use playback for the template)

  • Custom playback, stage and space templates have been made for a better playback experience

  • I included a sample piece to showcase what music looks like on each of the different variations of the project template

  • More professional layout changes to all of the different variations of the template

  • More engraving, layout and notation settings have been tweaked to make the score and individual parts look more professional

This has honestly been a very fun challenge for me, especially for somebody that is an engraver, an arranger, and a guy that just likes to make things to keep his mind thinking. I still hope that the Dorico team includes their own marching band template in the future. Until then, I hope you consider using mine, and make very beautiful and professional looking arrangements and or compositions!

This is the final version of my marching band template. There will be no updates moving further. With the amount of time it took to make v2, I’m moving on to other projects.

Huge shoutouts to the following people for their generous amount of help and suggestions to make the template even better:

@asherber

@benwiggy

@Christian_R

@FredGUnn

@LAE

@marchingartsarranger

@Vadian

God bless,

TCB

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Thank you for sharing, @35TCB77. (And always glad to help.)

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Hello. First let me say thank you for this. I had been searching for a marching band template and found your first one back in August and have been using it. I remembered you said you were working on a version 2 so today I decided to check back and saw I’ve missed it by a bit. Looking at the updates it looks great.

I am having one small issue though. I can’t input notes for Trumpet 2 and 3 or Trombone 1 and 2 in full score. Am I missing something here? Can you or anyone point me in the right direction? I can enter notes for them on their individual part views but I can’t even select them in the full score.

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You can enter them in Galley view, but you can’t enter notes directly into a condensed staff in Page view.

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Yeah I just figured that out. Thank you though for the answer. Isn’t it always the way. Fail for hours then figure it out just after you decide to ask for help. Go to edit and untick condensing to write the parts then re enable condensing to print. Seems so obvious after the fact.

Thank you.