Playing Techniques panel

• 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.

  

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The Playing Techniques panel contains the following sections:

Common

Contains commonly used playing techniques that also apply to multiple different instrument families, such as mute and legato.

Wind

Contains playing techniques typically only used for wind instruments, such as key clicks and whistle tones.

Brass

Contains playing techniques typically only used for brass instruments, such as cup mute and stopped.

Unpitched Percussion

Contains playing techniques typically only used for unpitched percussion instruments, such as rim and scrape.

Pitched Percussion

Contains playing techniques typically only used for pitched percussion instruments, such as motor on and ½ Ped. for vibraphones.

Keyboard

Contains playing techniques typically only used for keyboard instruments, such as Ped. and different pedal depression levels.

Choral

Contains playing techniques typically only used for the voice, such as mouth open and tongue click.

Strings

Contains playing techniques typically only used for string instruments, such as col legno battuto and down bow.

Guitar

Contains playing techniques typically only used for guitars and fretted instruments, such as half barré and strum up.