Re: Snare drum/perc. notation in Lilypond

[Graham Percival]

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I have no experience with drum notation, but this may be of interest to 
somebody else
on lilypond-devel, so I'll send it there.
- Graham

On 2-Feb-05, at 8:09 AM, Peter Mogensen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I write to you because I do not subscribe to lilypond-devel and I see 
> that you replied on one of the posts.
>
> I've read the post:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2004-09/msg00180.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2004-12/msg00143.html
>
> I agree with the posters that Lilypond needs just a little extra 
> features to be fully usable for percussion notation.
>
> My personal problem is flams, drags, ruffs and rolls. However, the 
> notation used in most Danish marching bands is a bit different from 
> the one referenced in the above posts.
>
> To describe it shortly we use:
>
> Flams: single 8th gracenote with a stroke. With or without a tie. Like:
>
> flam = \drums {
>    \override Stem #'stroke-style = #"grace" \grace sn8
> }
>
> Rolls: Three strokes across the stem, like a tremolo. Preferable 
> thinner strokes and _not_ alligned with any beams.
>
> Ruffs: Ditto... but only two strokes.
>
>
>
> The biggest problem with the current implementation is that tremolo 
> strokes are alligned to the beam of an 8th note, which makes a ruff 
> look very wrong when applied to a beamed note.
>
> I hope this can be of use for the developers.
>
> regards,
> Peter Mogensen
>