Re: Percussion

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
I know it's not the whole solution, but to abbreviate things you might
use:

    \repeat unfold x {\beatnotes}

...to avoid repetition.

Also, if you have a riff which you use over and over again, how about
defining it separately:

myriff = \notes {a8 a8 a4 a4 a8 a8}
myotherriff = \notes {a4 a a a}

\notes { \time 4/4 
    \myriff | 
    \myriff |
    \myotherriff |
    etc.
    }

Regards,
Ralph



On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:38:11AM -0500, Scott Webber wrote:
> Also, I don't know if anyone's ever brought this up before, but since
> percussion parts are most often one note, there should be a way to not
type
> the note name every time...something like this:
> 
> \notes {
>        \time 4/4
>        c'8 16 16 16 16 16 16 8 r8
>      }
> 
> Does that make sense to anyone else?

Yes!  When I make lead sheets for rhythm guitar, I often use a
RhythmStaff and slash note heads to indicate strumming patterns.

The result is somthing like:

\notes { \time 4/4 
    a8 a8 a4 a4 a8 a8 | 
    a8 a8 a4 a4 a8 a8 |
    a4 a4 a4 a4 |
    etc.
    }

In this case, I really only want to indicate durations and leave off
the pitch since it does not matter on a RhythmStaff.  Having said that,
it is not very hard to add the note, but it makes the resulting code
more verbose than necessary. 

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