How can I make this into a bar without any rests:
No, doesn’t work. It has to do with voices. I want this slash note and all the other note to be one and the same voice, but can’t make it happen.
If you don’t need to have 2 different voices, you can enter all the notes in the same voice, select the first note, right-click and:
Result:
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Same piece, similar problem: is there a very easy way to remove the rests from this drum bar, and have a snare drum roll on 3 and 4 and also have the basdrum on 3&, 4, 4&? Without having to deep dive into things in the percussion map. That’s all too complicated.
And now with the slash note connected to the others? Ans is there a faster way? I NEVER need voices, I don’t get the way voices work in Dorico. So, is there a more simple and logical way?
Is it a drum set?
Yes it is
Now it looks like this:
I’d like it to be a (how is it called in english?) half note? The open note with a stem
Yes, half note. Not sure extra voices still exist (right-click>Percussion>create an extra voice) but if they are still available, that would solve the problem : extra voices in percussion are not padded with rests.
First, what you show in your second image is (in U.S. English a quarter note, or in England itself, a crotchet). A half note would be open and take up half the measure; the rests suggest you do not want a two-beat note.
Second, you have not told us what instrument the x-note represents. A sustaining instrument (a cymbal?) would sustain unless damped. How long one takes to strike it has no effect, which would make Charles’s solution a valid option.
By adding a second snare (with stem up) one can put a half-note top-line note and snare roll in the same voice. In example 2, by flipping, adjusting the position offset to zero, and extending the stem of the top-line note one can seemingly combine the two. And adding an eighth note snare to the down-stem snare with a hidden note head and setting the offset position adjustment of that added headless eighth to zero one can eliminate the eighth rest halfway through the measure.
The x is a snare drum indeed! And of the two examples, I ;ike the first one, thanks!
Yes, I should add an extra snare drum to accomplish what I want, whitch is a bit strange. A drummer easily can play a drum roll on the snare (length two beats, starting on 3) and play three eight notes on the bass drum, as notated on 3&, 4 and 4&.
I’d rather not add a second snare, but that seems to be the only way. I think I’ll have to go back to the dorico-school and learn how to use voices and drum kits properly.
in write mode, click the first note of the tied eighth notes, then in the left panel the c-clamp icon (or type “o”, force duration) then the half note icon. That should change the eighths to a single half note.