Adding a solo piano player

The piece you are replicating is for solo piano, so you need to add a single solo player and assign a piano instrument to them.

Procedure

  1. Press Shift-P to add a new solo player and open the instrument picker.
    • You can also click Add Solo Player Add Solo Player button in the project start area in the project start area.

  2. Enter piano into the instrument picker search box.

    Instrument picker filtered by the search term "piano"

  3. Click Add or press Return.

Result

You have added a solo player and assigned a piano instrument to them. In the music area, the required piano staves and their respective clefs appear.

In the Layouts panel on the right of the window, there is now a piano part layout in addition to the existing full score layout. Dorico automatically creates a part layout for every player you add to the project.

Project window in Setup mode after adding a solo piano player