Re: Drum Shuffle

[Roberto Leibman]

OK, I'm replying to myself...

I was able to make it work, by putting the beams in manually:

hh8[ r hh] hh[ r hh] hh[ r hh] hh[ r hh]

Is there any way to make beams like this automatically?

Roberto Leibman


Roberto Leibman wrote:
> I don't know if this made it before (I don't see it in the archive)
>
> I have the following piece in 12/8:
>
> hh8 r8 hh8  hh8 r8 hh8  hh8 r8 hh8  hh8 r8 hh8
>
> In drum notation this is traditionally grouped with bars as this:
>
> _____    _____    _____    _____ |     |  |     |  |     |  |     |
> x  r  x  x  r  x  x  r  x  x  r  x
>
> That is to say, groups of three, with an 8th rest in the middle.
>
> I can't seem to get the beams to look like this. I tried the following 
> settings:
>
> %%% revert default values in scm/auto-beam.scm regarding 12/8 time
> #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 3 8)
> #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 3 4)
> #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 9 8)
> #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 2 1)
> #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 1 8)
>
> %%% your new values
> #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 3 8)
> #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 6 8)
> #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 9 8)
> #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 12 8)
>
> This works if I have three consecutive 8th notes, but not if I have 
> the rest in the middle.
>
> Of course, this can also be notated as 4/4 with triplets and a rest in 
> between the triplets, but I see the same thing: no beams.
>
> How do I notate this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roberto
>
>
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