Playing Techniques panel
The Playing Techniques panel contains the different playing techniques available in Dorico Elements, 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”.
You can hover your mouse pointer over the options in each section to show the name of each playing technique.