Table of Contents
Writing music
Now that you have set up your project, you can start writing the music. The following tasks take you through inputting the notes and notation items required for this piano piece, with a separate task for each item for clarity, although Dorico is designed so that you can also input most items at the same time as inputting notes and other notations: you don’t have to stop note input to add a dynamic, for example.
Deleting rests
Dorico automatically shows rests between the notes you input, as appropriate for the prevailing time signature and their position in the bar. When using voices to notate passing notes, as in bar 29, rests in those voices are not always wanted. In such cases, you can delete rests.

Deleting rests

Dorico automatically shows rests between the notes you input, as appropriate for the prevailing time signature and their position in the bar. When using voices to notate passing notes, as in bar 29, rests in those voices are not always wanted. In such cases, you can delete rests.

Procedure

In bar 29, click on the staff to select all items in the bar.
Choose Edit > Remove Rests.

Result

All rests within the selection are removed. This is done by automatically activating the Starts voice and Ends voice properties in the Notes and Rests group of the Properties panel on the required notes so that no rests are shown in the selected region.

Rests removed from bar 29