Re: basic question regarding \drummode

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 2016-11-05 12:39 GMT+01:00 Malte Meyn <address@hidden>:
>>
>>
>> Am 04.11.2016 um 23:15 schrieb Tobin Chodos:
>>>
>>> What's the best way to handle a percussion part that has a lot of
>>> pitched and un-pitched material?
>>
>>
>> You could have a “pitched” Staff accept not only “pitched” Voices but also
>> DrumVoices:
>>
>> \version "2.18.2"
>>
>> \new Staff \with {
>>   \accepts DrumVoice
>> } \relative {
>>   c' d e f
>>   \new DrumVoice \drummode {
>>     bd hh sn hh
>>   }
>>   g a b c
>>
>> }
>
>
> Hi Malte,
>
> this will fail if the DrumVoice is created before Voice, uncomment
> Voice to make it work.
>
> \new Staff \with { \accepts DrumVoice }
>   \relative {
>     %\context Voice { <> }
>     \context DrumVoice \drummode { hh4 hh hh hh }
>     g a b c
> }

Thinking too complex: you can just nest them:

\new Staff \with { \accepts DrumVoice }
  \relative \new Voice {
    \new DrumVoice \drummode { hh4 hh hh hh }
    g a b c
}

Now here is another consideration: I wanted to use \drums here but it
created another DrumStaff.

It turns out that the shortcuts

    \figures \chords \drums \lyrics

all create a Bottom context _except_ for \drums.  Should we change \drums
revert to creating a DrumVoice?  At the current point of time, only a
DrumStaff accepts a DrumVoice so this should cause very little change.
The only change to be feared is that

\drums \with ... { }

would apply the context mod to the DrumVoice, not the DrumStaff.  This
will make it impossible to influence DrumStaff-level engravers with a
context mod here.  However, it will allow to _override_ DrumVoice-level
settings.  Overall, this might be a bit less confusing.  Our code base
does not currently contain \drums \with .

-- 
David Kastrup