Dorico Basics: Notation Tools and Techniques
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29 videos; 2 hours 4 minutes total. Instructor: Leo Nicholson.
Dorico is Steinberg’s flagship music notation software. Learn all you need to know to get started with Dorico in this course by pianist, arranger, and Steinberg Certified Trainer Leo Nicholson.
Dorico is Steinberg’s flagship music notation software. Learn all you need to know to get started with Dorico in this course by pianist, arranger, and Steinberg Certified Trainer Leo Nicholson.
With an extremely active and ever-growing online community, Dorico has become a very popular music scoring software amongst musicians, educators, students and composers. It’s fast, flexible and offers tons of innovative features to cover your music notation needs. Whatever version you’re using (SE, Elements, or Pro), this 101 course is designed to guide you through all the fundamentals, and more.
Leo starts the course with a tour of the user interface, showing Dorico’s templates, its five modes (setup, write, engrave, play and print), and its panels and tools. Leo demonstrates how quickly and efficiently you can enter notes using different techniques, whether it’s your computer mouse or keyboard, or your MIDI controller. You learn how to enter dynamics, articulations and slurs, how to add chord symbols, grace notes, ties and input lyrics. You learn the importance of Engraving and Layout options and how they affect notation on the page. The quickest way around Dorico is to learn and use key commands, and this is why Leo covers all the essential ones during the course.
So join composer and arranger Leo Nicholson now, and start creating beautiful scores the quick and easy way!
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| Operating System | Mac, Windows |
|---|---|
| Platform | Dorico |
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Course outline
Section 1: Getting started
| No. | Topic | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to Dorico 101 | 1:20 |
| 2 | Quick Tour of the Interface | 4:53 |
| 3 | Key Commands | 3:08 |
| 4 | Setup Mode | 5:03 |
Section 2: Note Input
| No. | Topic | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Note Input with the Mouse | 4:23 |
| 6 | Note Input with the Keyboard | 4:57 |
| 7 | Pitch Before Duration | 1:58 |
| 8 | The Caret and Rhythmic Grid | 3:32 |
| 9 | Realtime MIDI Recording | 4:00 |
| 10 | Intervals, Chords and Repitching | 4:17 |
| 11 | Working with Voices | 3:13 |
| 12 | Popovers | 4:47 |
| 13 | Dynamics | 4:17 |
| 14 | Articulations and Slurs | 2:48 |
| 15 | Chord Symbols | 5:49 |
| 16 | Grace Notes | 1:54 |
| 17 | The System Track | 2:11 |
| 18 | Force Duration, Ties and the Scissors | 5:22 |
Section 3: Global Options
| No. | Topic | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Changing the Rules | 4:50 |
| 20 | Breaking the Rules with the Properties Panel | 2:41 |
Section 4: Text
| No. | Topic | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Text Within Music | 6:48 |
| 22 | Titles and Other Non-Music Text | 5:06 |
| 23 | Styling Text | 4:59 |
Section 5: Layout
| No. | Topic | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | Master Pages | 4:35 |
| 25 | Moving Objects Graphically | 4:51 |
| 26 | Horizontal Spacing | 5:30 |
| 27 | Vertical Spacing | 4:14 |
| 28 | Formatting Parts | 5:37 |
Section 6: Printing
| No. | Topic | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Printing and Exporting PDFs | 6:27 |
Instructor
Leo Nicholson
Leo is a Steinberg Certified Trainer and is an expert Dorico user, pianist, engraver and contributor to Scoring Notes, the authoritative web site about music notation software and related technology. Leo devised the Notation Express and Notation Express XL Dorico layout and key commands, and programmed the Notation Express and Notation Express XL Stream Deck profiles for Dorico.
Nor Eddine Bahha –
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Nor Eddine Bahha –
These courses should be bundled with any future Dorico purchases, yes there are several video tutorials on YouTube but Leo just made it near to the earth. Everything is clearly explained. Many thanks Leo and Bravo!