Finishing Touches – Dorico for iPad Tutorial, Part 3

A step-by-step guide to writing your first melody in Dorico for iPad, the best music notation app for iPad. A 3-part mini series on this amazing FREE app!

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00:00 Overview and Free Guide
00:35 Adding Musical Elements:
00:44 Dynamics
01:40 Selecting Multiple Notes
02:53 Adding Slurs
03:18 Adding Articulations
03:35 “Trim” – Getting Rid of extra bars at the end of your music
03:59 Playback Controls
04:17 Changing the Project Info: Title, Subtitle, Composer, Copyright, etc.
05:02 Engraving Options for the FREE Account: Remove Staff Label Names, Casting Off (4 measures per system), Fixing Justification
06:43 4-finger tap to see Entire Score
06:57 Editing Slurs & Other Elements
07:23 Share as PDF
07:42 Chord Mode: adding multiples notes to a voice
08:23 Add voice: adding a second line
09:14 Grab the Free Guide!

Welcome to Part 3: Adding Musical Elements (Articulations, Dynamics, Slurs), Making the Score Look Good in the Free Version, & Sharing the PDF. As a Bonus, also includes How to Use Chord Mode and Add Multiple Voices

I’ll walk you through everything you need to know to write your first melody in Dorico for iPad. We’ll go from a blank project to a complete melody with musical elements AND how to make it look good, all with the FREE version of Dorico’s iPad app. This will be for a single-line melody, but stick around to the end of Part 3, where I’ll show you how to write Chords and Multiple Voices.

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