Speaking from a purely guitarist’s point of view, this opens new harmonic vistas of real originality. In that case we might even just name the earlier chord Am7 and the new one Dm7 or Dm9. It is handier in building up complex chords in, say, a guitar duo where the preceding voicing for Dm11 might call for a more standard Dm7 or Dm9 in the other guitar. Even for duplicating the same chord with one guitar in Standard Tuning and another in Nashville Tuning is common enough to want this feature. This is something I have been hoping for but not expecting, so it was a doubly welcome surprise. One very handy new feature is called “ Local Chords” and it allows for different instruments to have different chords. “whammy bar”), “Vibrato Bar Scoop”, “Vibrato Bar Dip”, and a “Vibrato Bar Line” that shows the length of the effect.ĭIFFERENT CHORDS FOR DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS In addition to the existing bend we now have “Bend with Vibrato Bar” (i.e. I even got it to cover the whole Dm11 used above although in real life that would be quite a challenge.Įngraving Options now allows for collision avoidance for fingerings to the left of notes by placing them in spaces (where possible) which makes reading much easier.Įnough new guitar “ornaments” have been added to warrant their own section. The thumb can be used for any string, or a combination of strings. In answer to several readers’ questions, now “yes, you can use T to finger the thumb on those bass strings”! Simply start fingering as usual (Shift+F) and type “t” or “T”. One other nice touch is Dorico showing you which notes are missing, just in case:
Note that this newly-created version of Dm11 shows up in orange, visually reminding me that it is non-standard. I used Engrave Mode to edit the chord diagram to match the TAB:Īs Doug Gibson points out in his video, this involves an extra step that, while simple, would be nice if Dorico handled it automatically. Note that the TAB is what I want, not the chord diagram. When I enter it into Dorico 3.1 this is what I get: In this example (the same notes as the Scoring Notes example but from a current song of mine, really) I have a Dm11 chord but the bass has a riff that is heavy on the root and 3rd so the guitar has room for the 7th, 9th, 11th and the 5th on top. This is handy if you have other instruments playing them and want a rich sound. Here I will concentrate on the many new and improved features for guitarists which are well worth the wait! Many of the new features and improvements apply to the guitar’s notation and tablature but I will start with the specifically guitar-oriented ones.Ĭhord Diagrams have new functionality that allows you to label a chord as you wish, even if it lacks the root and third.
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