Dorico: Lead Sheet Complete Walkthrough

[@stevekobb3850]

What a terrific video! Dorico is a treasure trove of functionality, so newbies like me need tutorials like this to guide us.

[@gregwyard]

I’m one of the many forced to switch to Dorico after 3 decades invested in Finale, and your tutorial brought to light all the things that frustrated me with Finale - slash notation, fitting music, repeat bars, lengthening notes - the list goes on… Thank you for an informative, easy to follow, highly useful tutorial. Subscribed!

[@rodterrell304]

This was much better than the “official “ dorico “ videos. This was clear and concise, to the point. Thank you so much, I learned more in these few minutes than all the time I spent looking at Dorico videos and looking in then”help” section in Dorico.

[@GodfreyGuitar]

This is very useful. I'm learning Dorico now out of necessity since Finale is going extinct. With about 30 years of Finale experience under my belt, it's daunting to learn a new piece of software. There is so much in your video to unpack. It's going to be useful to keep your lesson up as a reference while I create my first lead sheets in Dorico.

[@BrianMegilligan]

Man, I'm right there with you. I guess we have no choice but to switch to something new!

[@drphilChemist]

Thank you! This vid has been bookmarked and liked. As someone who mostly does lead sheets and is a future Finale "refugee" migrating to Dorico this was exactly what I needed to see.

[@daviddas]

I actually did a complete walkthrough video on making a lead sheet in Dorico. This is before I knew many of the shortcuts -- if I redid this today I could do it even faster. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3Lbk4F9fcaWsJI

[@swhib1]

This needs another 'this is an awesome video' comment. Races through a whole bunch of uber helpful shortcuts. David Das, thank you Sir!

[@rogocomposer]

Hey David, finally making the leap to Dorico after 32 years with Finale! 😮 Best decision ever. This program is everything I always Finale to be. I’ve learned it all so quickly because it’s so intuitive, but also thanks to tuts like yours. This was an excellent walk through for setting up lead sheets! I’ve done a few in the past couple of days and wished I saw your video first. 😂 Fantastic, thanks 🙏!

[@israelcanova]

I'm watching and doing along. It does setup things so beautifully and nicely. I'm no longer spending tons of time tidying things up on Finale!

[@andreievkalupniek5717]

This is great - I like how you are presenting this quickly and it helps a lot with learning - also, this is a "use-case" video which is grouping a number of useful features for lead-sheet creation.

[@GeorgiAndre]

ThanksDavid - this tutorial is really great, helps a lot!

[@clayperry_noizemakers]

Another "forced" convert, but your videos give me hope! Thanks Davis. All the best.

[@daviddas]

Thanks so much mrblue.

[@DavidMorehead]

Thanks for the video. Lots of great info. Another way to quickly get rid of the distractions on the music is to push \. I am using this a lot.

[@dorico]

Great tutorial. You don't have to use Cmd-A to select all before applying the key signature, you can just select something at the start of the project. Also useful if you want to change key part-way through, you can just select an item at that point.

[@daviddas]

Great tips, thanks @Dorico! If you get a chance, take a look at 11:49 and let me know why, after I selected m54, the phrases in m5-6 and m9-10 suddenly and inexplicably gained an extra voice (whole rest).

[@frankheckel3382]

@@daviddas You entered the notes as a down-stem voice (have a look at the stem-direction of the note-symbol at the caret …) In addition: You seldom have to actually copy something to the clipboard in Dorico: alt-click will insert the selected material where you click. If you want to repeat e.g. a bar (or several …) just hit R for »Repeat« …

[@glenirvine6161]

Thank you. Coming to grips with Dorico and this is very valuable. Well done.

[@BrianMegilligan]

How does Dorico handle more complex chords - like jazz chords? Can you type in A7b9 or A7#11/13 or something like that?

[@juliocaliman]

If there's one thing I miss in Dorico is the CTRL+M command to make 4 bars per mesure or anything like that... Great tutorial though.

[@anthonycubbage3068]

Thanks so much for going through this! Super helpful and well done

[@joelroberts1581]

There's some great information here, thank you. I'd recommend having a read through the quick start tutorial for note input as there's a few fabulous shortcuts that you're missing, like clicking on the beam of a set of semiquavers to add a slur. When repeating the contents of a bar in the next bar, you can just click on the whole notated bar and press r. This type of approach is new for me coming from Finale as many here are too. Cheers.

[@daviddas]

Thanks for the tip. Yup, I've learned a lot new keyboard shortcuts since making this video!

[@pedllz]

Thanks!!..way better than the official tutorials. I wish youtube had suggested this one a while ago when I was learning ...how to learn Dorico

[@peterfalconer]

Excellent video - thank you!

[@robinbramlett110]

Thanks so much for this video. It was very helpful.

[@jazzviewer]

wow great video--perfect pace

[@peterleese2040]

Fantastic. I have saved for future reference. Thank you!!

[@wesleygt.amorim]

Thank you for sharing brother!

[@MannyfromdaD]

Hi Dave, Thanks for all the info. How do you insert a chord that is not on the scale, for example Im trying to add a B flat chord in C scale but it won't let me. what do I do? Thanks

[@KrishnaKumar-maestro]

Hi l too is the one of many forced to switch to Dorico. Your tutorials are too good. Even then I am stuck with multi measure rests in master score. Is there a way to add multi measure rests in the master score ?

[@pianomannequin5686]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@Avlimusic]

Such a great video!!! Thanks so much!

[@JmlMusicNorway]

Great video on Lead Sheet, thanks a lot 😊

[@mk-musicproduction]

Nice video. Thank you for taking the time.

[@andrewguarrine4396]

I love how easy it is to use, however I still can't hear the instruments through the mixer. Did I not install correctly? Can I re-install without a problem. HELP, HELP PLEASE - the video is AWESOME

[@r-i-ch]

There's a good thread on the Dorico forums that helped me figure out my sound issues

[@prashantjohnmichael]

Superb. Thanks!

[@notsiwelc]

Awesome!

[@nnapsR]

i just transferred over from Finale and i am soooooo lost, my greatest issue today is, i cannot get any sounds when i insert notes or for playback, any suggestions?

[@daviddas]

Too hard to tutor you via KZbin comment, but I suggest you go to the Dorico page on KZbin, as they have many tips and walkthroughs for Finale users!

[@garyhoffman1]

Oh man, this was exactly what I needed. Perfect. The only thing I didn’t see you cover, but easy enough to find out myself, is if you can change the text in front of the tempo marking, like from Andante to Afro-Cuban in order to indicate a style. Otherwise, this video is my reference until I get a tune or two under my fingers. Thanks!

[@michaeldaymusician]

Thank you for this! Truly appreciated. I've been having quite a time trying to sort out adjusting/setting specific numbers of measures per system. Typical lead sheets have four bars per system. Is there a tool/series of steps that I'm overlooking that you know about? Cheers!

[@NeoDavinci]

Engrave-->Graphic Editing-->Format Systems-->Make into System (the graphic on the bottom)

[@rudigerk]

Thank you very much! Very helpful! 👏

[@daviddas]

I'm glad!

[@nantschev]

Thanks

[@radhikar3529]

Thanks!

[@daviddas]

THANK YOU!

[@julienmarocco]

Hey David ! To reposition the text below the staff there's no need to go to Engrave mode, simply select the text then in the properties panel click on Position : Below. As for the rests, the reason is because it created an extra voice when pasting the slashes. Otherwise nice video !

[@daviddas]

Great tips! Thank you. Yes, I was fully aware when I taped it that there are often multiple ways to do the same thing. (For example, much of it can be accomplished through popups too.) I was just trying to get from start to finish in one simple take.

[@pinedajap1]

What about the DS coda? Or DC ? Just wondering

[@pinedajap1]

Thank you for the video very helpful

[@peterbransche4674]

May I please ask which version of Dorico you used for this video?

[@daviddas]

Can't remember because I've updated several times since then. This video was probably done with Dorico 4.x but it wouldn't make a difference -- all of the steps should be the same in the current version of Dorico.

[@geirsolerd6479]

Nice! Some tweaks are better done in engraving settings for consistency (Like size of metronome mark).

[@DavidMorehead]

You can also push R to repeat things.

[@joebowbeer]

4:42 Normal Notes 7:00 Create Slash Voice

[@enriquesanchez2001]

OPEN your CC capability please ♥

[@angelvoicemusic]

So I'm not the first one that created his leadsheets with Finale for the last decades. Transporting 3800 sheets via mxl- Foramt to Dorico sucked! Sorry to say. The layout was not taken over (4bars per line are EXTREMELY important) Some chords were just wrong (a E7add#9 does not exist). So I tried sibelius Free version. It keeps the layout perfectly, writes chord symbols correctly, but I found some limitations. And I don't like the annual fee they charge for the full version. In the leadsheet you created here I don't agree with tha fact, that parts like Chorus and Bridge don't start at the beginning of the line. This is a little bit a relic of classical notation, I really prefer to see a song very clearly in it's structure. All the REAL BOOKS are written like this! The layout has to be totally cleaned up. Like this it is way easier to remember a song, there is less danger to get lost while improvising over a tune and so on. We don't need to save paper, nobody is printing music anymore. I'm still in trouble with the plan to import mxl- files to Dorico. Many live gigs, Macbook on Piano, many constantly changing singers, demanding different keys. Easy spontaneous transposing with finale sheets. This is what I want to have keep going. One more bad thing, my support email to Dorico two weeks ago has not been answered.

[@hoangtruong7166]

Terrible Dorico

[@mikew4646]

Fantastic video! Thank you!

[@herbieha]

Thanks!

[@daviddas]

Thanks so much herbieha.