DORICO 101 Dorico Basics: Notation Tools and Techniques

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Leo Nicholson

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1.Introduction to Dorico 101.mp4

01:20

2.Quick Tour of the Interface.mp4

04:53

3.Key Commands.mp4

03:08

4.Setup Mode.mp4

05:03

5.Note Input with the Mouse.mp4

04:23

6.Note Input with the Keyboard.mp4

04:57

7.Pitch Before Duration.mp4

01:58

8.The Caret and Rhythmic grid.mp4

03:32

9.Realtime MIDI Recording.mp4

04:00

10.Intervals, Chords and Repitching.mp4

04:17

11.Working with Voices.mp4

03:13

12.Popovers.mp4

04:47

13.Dynamics.mp4

04:17

14.Articulations and Slurs.mp4

02:48

15.Chord Symbols.mp4

05:49

16.Grace Notes.mp4

01:54

17.The System Track.mp4

02:11

18.Force Duration, Ties and the Scissors.mp4

05:22

19.Changing the Rules.mp4

04:50

20.Breaking the Rules with the Properties Panel.mp4

02:41

21.Text Within Music.mp4

06:48

22.Titles and other Non-Music Text.mp4

05:06

23.Styling Text.mp4

04:59

24.Master Pages.mp4

04:35

25.Moving Objects Graphically.mp4

04:51

26.Horizontal Spacing.mp4

05:30

27.Vertical Spacing.mp4

04:14

28.Formatting Parts.mp4

05:37

29.Printing and Exporting PDFs.mp4

06:27

Description

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.

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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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Leo's in considerable demand as an arranger and music engraver with publishers and composers around the world, mainly in the classical music and educational sectors.

Leo is a Steinberg Certified Trainer and developed the Dorico Notation Express profiles for Stream Deck in association with NYC Music Services/Notation Central. Though not a Steinberg employee he spends rather too much time on the Steinberg forums and the Dorico Facebook group.

He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity Laban, in London, where he lives with his girlfriend Samara, three cellos, many keyboards and a Persian cat.