Playing techniques popover

The table shows some examples of what to enter into the playing techniques popover, and the playing techniques that are input into the music as a result.

When you start entering a playing technique into the playing techniques popover, a menu appears that shows valid playing techniques containing the letters or words you enter. You can choose one of these playing techniques to input.

You can open the playing techniques popover in Write mode in any of the following ways:

Press Shift-P.
Choose Write > Create Playing Technique.

Playing technique	Popover entry
Vibrato	`vibrato`
Senza vibrato	`senza vibrato`
Naturale (nat.)	`nat`
Con sordino	`con sord`
Strong air pressure	`strong air pressure`
Double-tongue	`double-tongue`
Down bow	`downbow`
Up bow	`upbow`
Sul ponticello	`sul pont`
Sul tasto	`sul tasto`
Poco sul tasto	`pst`
Pizzicato	`pizz`
Spiccato	`spicc`
Arco	`arco`
Tongue click (Stockhausen)	`tongue click`
Finger click (Stockhausen)	`finger click`
Vibraphone motor on	`motor on`
Vibraphone motor off	`motor off`
Open	`open`
Damp	`damp`
Damp (large)	`damp large`
Full barré	`full barre`
Half barré	`half barre`
Strum up	`strum up`
Strum down	`strum down`
Left hand	`lh`
Right hand	`rh`

This list is not comprehensive as there are many valid playing techniques. It is intended to illustrate how you can structure your entry to input different types of common playing techniques.

If you do not know the correct entry for a playing technique, start entering part of the playing technique and see if becomes available in the popover menu.

Note

As playing techniques correspond to specific samples, they must be input as described or selected from the popover menu.