Playing Techniques panel
The Playing Techniques panel contains the different playing techniques available in Dorico Pro, divided into instrument families. Pedal lines are included in the Keyboard section.
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You can hide/show the Playing Techniques panel by clicking Playing Techniques in the Notations toolbox on the right of the window in Write mode.
You can also hide/show the panel whose icon is currently selected in the Notations toolbox by pressing Ctrl/Cmd-9 or clicking the disclosure arrow on the right of the window.
The Playing Techniques panel contains the following sections:
- Common
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Contains commonly used playing techniques that also apply to multiple different instrument families, such as “mute” and “legato”.
- Wind
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Contains playing techniques typically only used for wind instruments, such as “key clicks” and “whistle tones”.
- Brass
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Contains playing techniques typically only used for brass instruments, such as “cup mute” and “stopped”.
- Unpitched Percussion
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Contains playing techniques typically only used for unpitched percussion instruments, such as “rim” and “scrape”.
- Pitched Percussion
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Contains playing techniques typically only used for pitched percussion instruments, such as “motor on” and “½ Ped.” for vibraphones.
- Keyboard
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Contains playing techniques typically only used for keyboard instruments, such as “Ped.” and different pedal depression levels.
- Choral
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Contains playing techniques typically only used for the voice, such as “mouth open” and “tongue click”.
- Strings
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Contains playing techniques typically only used for string instruments, such as “col legno battuto” and “down bow”.
- Guitar
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Contains playing techniques typically only used for guitars and fretted instruments, such as string indicators, “half barré”, and “strum up”.
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You can hover your mouse pointer over the options in each section to show the name of each playing technique.
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You can use the action bars at the bottom of each section to access the Edit Playing Techniques dialog.