[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Drum parts and horizontal beams
From: |
Carl D. Sorensen |
Subject: |
Re: Drum parts and horizontal beams |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:58:05 -0600 |
On 10/20/08 11:26 AM, "canduc" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Hi everybody.
> I'm trying to write a drum part, but I'm not able to obtain perfectly
> orizontal beams.
>
> For example when I write two eight notes, one of snare drum (corresponding
> to a c') and the other of bass drum (e), their connection beam is oblique. I
> would like to obtain the snare drum stem longer, in a way to connect it with
> the bass drum note with an horizontal beam.
You must set the beam-damping to +inf.0
\override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0
I found this by doing the following:
1. I went to the notation reference.
2. I went to the LilyPond index.
3. I looked up beam (which sent me to Automaic Beams).
4. At this point, there was no snippet which showed how to make a beam
perfectly horizontal (I remembered seeing something about it in reading the
docs earlier), so I went to the link to the Internals Reference for Beam.
5. I read through the doc-strings. concaveness refers to "damping the
slope of the beam", and there is a parameter called "damping" that adjustst
the "Amount of beam slope damping", but neither of these meant anything to
me at that time.
5. I looked at the beam-interface link at the bottom of the Beam page.
This gave me a list of all user-settable beam properties. This time I
noticed damping, and decided that that might be the property I needed.
6. I downloaded the Notation Reference as one big page, and searched for
damping. The very first hit was a snippet for horizontal beams (in the
section on Tablature, which was why I remembered it, because I do more
guitar than drum music).
You could also go to the LilyPond Snippet Repository and search for beam:
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=beam&s=0&m=10
You would then find the tablature snippet that showed how to make beams
perfectly horizontal.
I'm not mentioning all this because I think you didn't spend enough time
trying to find it; I'm mentioning this to help you know how I find
information so you don't have to wait on the list.
HTH,
Carl Sorensen
- Drum parts and horizontal beams, canduc, 2008/10/20
- Drum parts and horizontal beams, canduc, 2008/10/21
- Re: Drum parts and horizontal beams,
Carl D. Sorensen <=
- RE: Drum parts and horizontal beams, Nick Payne, 2008/10/21
- Re: Drum parts and horizontal beams, Jonathan Kulp, 2008/10/21
- Re: Drum parts and horizontal beams, Jonathan Kulp, 2008/10/21
- RE: Drum parts and horizontal beams, Nick Payne, 2008/10/22
- Re: Drum parts and horizontal beams, Jonathan Kulp, 2008/10/22
- Re: Drum parts and horizontal beams, Robin Bannister, 2008/10/21
- assertBeamSlope function, Nick Payne, 2008/10/23
- Message not available
- Re: assertBeamSlope function, Patrick McCarty, 2008/10/23