User manual

Bars
Bars indicate a usually regular segment of time according to the number of beats, which is
usually determined by the prevailing time signature. Bars are separated from other bars to the
left and the right by vertical barlines.
Each bar has a number, allowing players to keep track of their place in the music and aiding
rehearsal. This is especially important in music for multiple players.
Dorico Elements automatically numbers bars and shows barlines between bars as required for
the current time signature.
RELATED LINKS
Barlines on page 558
Bar numbers on page 563
Time signatures on page 949
Pick-up bars on page 953
Input methods for bars, beats, and barlines on page 235
Input methods for time signatures and pick-up bars on page 220
Bar length
Bars usually last the same duration and start and end at the same positions for all players.
However, some music involves bars of different lengths coinciding, and there are situations
where some players may have no bars indicated at all.
You can change the duration of a bar by changing its time signature or, in music in open meter,
by inputting barlines where required. You can hide time signatures you do not want to show in
the music, for example, if you are writing music with an irregular meter and you require barlines
only to group material together, but not to imply any sense of meter.
RELATED LINKS
Hiding/Showing time signatures on page 960
Deleting bars/beats
You can delete whole bars and specic beats from your project completely by using the bars and
barlines popover, for example, to shorten the last bar in
ows that start with pick-up bars.
PROCEDURE
1.
In Write mode, select one of the following:
● The rst bar you want to delete, or the rst note or rest in that bar.
● An item at the rhythmic position from which you want to delete beats.
2.
Press Shift-B to open the bars and barlines popover.
3.
Enter – (minus), followed by the number of bars or beats you want to delete into the
popover.
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Dorico Elements 3.5.12