Quick #TipsTuesday tutorials

Bar numbers

• Tip: Format bar numbers for orchestral scores
• Tip: Format bar numbers for large orchestral scores
• Tip: Show guide bar numbers and instrument labels

Chord diagrams

• Tip: Show which chords are used in a flow as guitar chord diagrams
• Tip: Show guitar diagrams for chord symbols

Chord symbols

• Tip: Generate chord symbols from a selection of notes
• Tip: Display chord symbols only in slash regions
• Tip: Chord symbols appearance presets

Clefs

• Tip: Show clefs according to transposition of layout

Condensing

• Tip: Set condensed music to display using two voices
• Tip: Create custom condensing groups

Cues

• Tip: Create instrumental cues in orchestral music

Dorico for iPad

• Tip: Using notation panels and popovers in Dorico for iPad
• Tip: Working with voices in Dorico for iPad
• Tip: Wish yourself a happy birthday in Dorico for iPad
• Tip: Using the Key Editor in Write mode on iPad
• Tip: Input notes using the new Key Editor in Dorico for iPad
• Tip: Use drum pads to input percussion in Dorico for iPad
• Tip: Using the Repeat button in Dorico for iPad
• Tip: Make selections in Dorico for iPad
• Tip: Edit notes using the overlay in Dorico for iPad
• Tip: Input notes in Dorico for iPad

Dynamics

• Tip: Set key commands to increase/decrease dynamic intensity
• Tip: Position poco and molto text over hairpins
• Tip: Add dynamics in the middle of tied notes
• Tip: Grouped and linked dynamics
• Tip: Create Dynamics on Multiple Staves
• Tip: How to add flared ends to hairpins
• Tip: How to erase the background of dynamics
• Tip: How to add a dynamic in the middle of a tied note
• Tip: Copied dynamics pasted at the same position are linked back to the original item
• Tip: Change the appearance of gradual dynamics

Engrave mode

• Tip: Constrain dragging in Engrave mode to one direction

Exporting graphics

• Tip: Save any part of a page as a graphic
• Tip: Choose how exported graphics files are named

Flows

• Tip: Omit players from flows they do not play in
• Tip: Split a flow to create two distinct pieces of music
• Tip: Reorder flows to fit the structure of your project
• Tip: Import music from another project into a new flow
• Tip: Show page numbers on pages with new flows
• Tip: Delete empty bars at the end of flows
• Tip: Disable Flow Headings for projects with one flow

Guitar notation

• Tip: Guitar string indicators
• Tip: Switch between guitar notation and tablature

Harp pedaling

• Tip: Automatically calculate harp pedaling

Key signatures

• Tip: Change the Tonality System

Layouts

• Tip: Create new default layouts for missing parts
• Tip: Create a study score layout
• Tip: Create a vocal score layout with piano reduction
• Tip: Create default part layouts

Lines

• Tip: Draw a line between two noteheads

Lyrics

• Tip: Ignore punctuation when positioning lyrics
• Tip: Multiple lyric words on a single note
• Tip: Paste text as a line of lyrics
• Tip: Edit Lyrics dialog
• Tip: Add a translation line to lyrics

Music fonts

• Tip: Give your scores a handwritten look by changing the music font

Notes and noteheads

• Tip: Use different noteheads in your music
• Tip: How to create stemless notes
• Tip: Switch between slashed and unlashed grace notes
• Tip: Convert notes to grace notes (and back again)

Note input and editing

Insert mode

• Tip: Insert music without overriding existing notes with Insert mode
• Tip: Control the scope of Insert mode edits
• Tip: Set a Stop position for Insert mode
• Tip: Use Insert mode when adding time signatures to avoid irregular bars

Voices

• Tip: Change the voice of selected notes with a key press
• Tip: Remove unwanted rests from multi-voice music
• Tip: Swap music between voices or staves
• Tip: Quickly filter notes in a specific voice
• Tip: Paste copied music into a new voice

Note tools popover

• Tip: Add intervals above or below selected notes
• Tip: Musical transformations with the Note Tools popover
• Tip: Build chords using the intervals popover

Editing durations

• Tip: Shorten or lengthen notes
• Tip: Extend note durations to end of selection
• Tip: Shorten note durations to remove overlaps in MIDI imports
• Tip: Extend note durations to fill gaps left when recording
• Tip: Double or halve durations of selected notes
• Tip: Quickly input a passage of dotted rhythms

Note input

• Tip: Add notations during note input
• Tip: Rhythmic grid resolution
• Tip: Undo and redo selections
• Tip: Paste articulations
• Tip: Respell notes automatically
• Tip: Flip items in Dorico to celebrate Pancake Day
• Tip: Toggle Pitch Before Duration with K
• Tip: Force the duration of notes
• Tip: Input onto multiple staves at the same time
• Tip: The Select Button
• Tip: Add harmony to a melodic line using Chord mode and Lock to Duration
• Tip: Audition whole chords in Dorico 2.2.20
• Tip: Flipping items in Dorico 2.2.10
• Tip: Move or duplicate music to the staff above or below
• Tip: Use chord mode to merge music when pasting
• Tip: Quickly adapt existing music using Lock to Duration

Ossias

• Tip: Add and edit ossias

Page layout

• Tip: Fix page layout and edit Flow Headings in Dorico Elements 4
• Tip: Set a player as tacet for a movement
• Tip: Remove page overrides to fix layout issues
• Tip: Show player names instead of instrument names
• Tip: Numbered bar regions
• Tip: Move bar to the previous or next system
• Tip: Fix number of bars shown in each system
• Tip: Justify the final system in your layout
• Tip: Choose above which staves system objects are shown
• Tip: Copy staff spacing
• Tip: Justify music so that it always fills the entire page

Page templates

• Tip: Re-use a Master Page Set in other projects

Pedal lines

• Tip: Change the appearance of the symbol at the start of a pedal line
• Tip: How to add retakes to pedal lines

Percussion

• Tip: Combine Percussion Instruments to Form a Kit

Playing techniques

• Tip: Create your own playing techniques
• Tip: Introducing the Playing Techniques editor
• Tip: Hide playing techniques

Playback

• Tip: Customise playback of dynamic markings
• Tip: Use the numeric keypad to control playback
• Tip: Fine-tune the playback of dynamics
• Tip: Key commands for starting playback
• Tip: Change the time display in the mini transport

Players and instruments

• Tip: Change a single player to a section player to allow divisi passages
• Tip: Add multiple instruments with the ensemble builder
• Tip: Use sketch instruments when composing or arranging
• Tip: Define a player as a soloist
• Tip: Celebrate 2.22.22 and make TWO of things in Dorico 4
• Tip: Instrument filters in Dorico 4
• Tip: Easy instrument changes in Dorico
• Tip: Number together instruments of different transpositions
• Tip: Change Instrument
• Tip: Choral divide arrows
• Tip: Move an instrument to a different player
• Tip: Change the size of a player’s staff to any scale value

Play mode

• Tip: Rename VST endpoints to make them easier to identify

Print mode

• Tip: Print or export a range of flows
• Tip: Print and export multiple layouts with one click

Preferences

• Tip: Set page and background colors for late-night work
• Tip: The Hand Tool and the Marquee Select Tool
• Projects
• Tip: User-defined Project Templates
• Tip: Start a new project from scratch using only the keyboard
• Tip: Start a new project from scratch using only the mouse
• Tip: Save your favourite options to be the default for new project

Properties

• Tip: Quickly find and set properties
• Tip: Change the size of music items by setting a scale value

Real-time input

• Tip: How to get great results with MIDI recording

Repeats

• Tip: Divide playthroughs across repeat endings
• Tip: Dorico plays back repeats automatically
• Tip: Make use of the powerful Repeats popover

Rhythmic slashes

• Tip: Split slash regions for easier editing
• Tip: Create slash notes using voices and regions
• Tip: Retain existing music behind slash regions

Staff labels

• Tip: Edit staff labels

Teaching materials and worksheets

• Tip: Notation tips for creating worksheets
• Tip: Create your own blank manuscript paper
• Tip: Make a music worksheet

Tempo

• Tip: How to change the beat unit of a tempo

Text

• Tip: Add music symbols to text objects
• Tip: Use the Project Info dialog to set a title and composer
• Tip: Add borders to text items
• Tip: Using tokens to show the current date and time
• Tip: Using tokens to add information to a project
• Tip: Set the default text font for new projects
• Tip: Create a list of all players using a token
• Tip: How to add a border to text
• Tip: Use indexed tokens to insert titles of specific flows

Ties

• Tip: Create laissez vibrer ties
• Tip: Using the Scissors tool
• Tip: Working with ties

Time signatures

• Tip: Create advanced time signatures with the popover
• Tip: Convert the first bar of a flow into a pick-up bar
• Tip: Create time and key signatures on a single staff
• Tip: Create custom beat groupings

Tuplets

• Tip: Hide the number and bracket for repeated tuplets
• Tip: Turn any notes in tuplets
• Tip: Delete tuplet brackets to unscale notes
• Tip: Requantize parts of a recording to notate tuplets
• Tip: Specify the tuplet unit in the popover

Workflow

• Tip: Search within options dialogs
• Tip: Instant Print Preview
• Tip: Open multiple windows for the same project
• Tip: Jump to any point in a layout with Go To Bar
• Tip: Select more
• Tip: Select an item positioned behind other items
• Tip: Smarter popovers in Dorico 2.2
• Tip: Create multiple items with the mouse

Write mode

• Tip: Navigate your music in Write mode