Re: Drum Shuffle

[Trevor Daniels]

Roberto Leibman wrote Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:19 AM


> 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?

Afraid not, AFAIK.  As you have found, manual beaming is the
only way to place beams over rests.  Although with a commonly
repeated pattern you could define something like

hhrhh = \drummode { hh8 [ r hh ] }

and then use

\drummode { ... \hhrhh \hhrhh \hhrhh \hhrhh ... }


Trevor

> 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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