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Dorico Elements notates and beams notes appropriately according to their duration, the current

time signature, and their position in the bar. This includes showing notes as tie chains if required.

If you advance the caret without inputting notes, Dorico Elements lls the gaps between notes

with implicit rests of the appropriate duration.

If you input notes on notation staves belonging to fretted instruments, Dorico Elements

automatically allocates these notes to the strings on which they can be played closest to the

nut. Because this calculation is done for each note separately, multiple notes can be allocated

to the same string. Similarly, when you input chords on tablature using pitch before duration

with a MIDI keyboard, all notes in the chord are allocated to the same string. In such cases, the

notes are shown next to each other on tablature and are colored green. You can then select them

individually and make your own string allocation.

TIP

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You can switch between using pitch before duration and duration before pitch note input at

any time by pressing

K or clicking Pitch Before Duration , for example, duration before

pitch can be easier when inputting a sequence of notes with the same duration.

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You can specify custom beat groupings within individual time signatures.

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You can change whether note input uses pitch before duration or duration before pitch by

default on the Note Input and Editing page in Preferences.

AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK

You can move notes to different rhythmic positions and other staves after they have been input.

You can also show brackets on noteheads individually.