Fw: Re: [Denemo-devel] Percussion support

[Nils Gey]

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:56:30 GMT
From: "Edward Swanzey" <address@hidden>
To: "Nils Gey" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re:  [Denemo-devel] Percussion support


May I also add re. percussion.  The biggest problem with most other music 
manuscripting programs is
that there is no way to write abbreviated notes.  This is quite crucial to 
writing classical parts and
drum corps music.  Classical American drummers are ALL trained to interpret 
these notes
as rolls with specific strokes.  Abbreviated notes are:  a quarter note with 
one slash through
the stem becomes 2 eighths notes.  Two slashes make it 4 16th notes.  Three 
slashes make
the quarter note eight eighth notes.  In other words, the slash divide the note 
whose stem it's
on into two of it's next smaller divisions.  It is applied to ALL notes with 
the same effect, even
whole notes.  In classical string music, this same convention is applied, and 
also to mandolin
and other stringed instruments.  This is a MAJOR failure of nearly all the 
music software
on the market.  I am still forced to hand-write all my drum scores for concert 
band, drum
ensemble, and classical arrangements.

Thank you all for your hard work, this will be a great program.

Ed Swanzey


-----Original Message-----
From: "Nils Gey" <address@hidden>
Sent 8/24/2008 1:46:00 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Denemo-devel] Percussion support

This is nice to hear but I think some time in the future different noteheads 
should be a native feature of Denemo.

Since Percussion Notation is absolutly not a standard (as you can see even 
those two examples are different) it would be nice to have ways to reuse 
drum-notations.

I want to ask if its possible for you to make a template script avaible where 
you can change notes with others. Maybe in the end its just a table like "a2 to 
c4" while the system is intelligent enough to fulfill this example:

"a2 to c4" and "c4 to b3". Off course this should result in c4s AND b3s and not 
only in b3s :)

With a script-template like this it would be possible to make different 
drumsetlayout and switch between them. The number-one example is notating for 
midi and use the same as a printout for a real drummer.

greetings with real-world examples,

Nils


On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:53:01 +0100
Richard Shann wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 12:47 +0100, (Snare on wishlist at denemo.org)
> wrote:
> > Hello Rshann,
> >
> > here is a small piece of my handscoring:
> > http://notimetoloose.nl/drumscore/Drumscore.jpg
> >
> > And here is a bit of a professional :-)
> > http://notimetoloose.nl/drumscore/Drumscore-pro.jpg
> >
> > I found that I can change the notehead in denemo to X 'es but that is a
> > terrible job, especially with 16th on the Hihat :-)
> You don't say why, but I just tried it and you have to change each note
> one by one.
> With the new scripting facility it will be easy to change all the
> selected noteheads at once, or even create a mode where every note
> entered has its notehead set to x
> Richard
>
>
>
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