Re: Custom drum notes

[Toine Schreurs]

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On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:45:22AM -0500, Mike J. Bell wrote:
> Thanks, that seems to do the trick.
> 
> What if I need to specify the note duration though?
> \th8 doesn't work.  Tried <\th>8 too...no go.  Sorry, I'm a newbie...not
> very comfortable with lilypond syntax yet.

A simple and crude method:

th=\drummode { tomh^"3" }
thh=\drummode { tomh2^"3" }
thq=\drummode { tomh4^"3" }
the=\drummode { tomh8^"3" }
ths=\drummode { tomh16^"3" }
(with h,q,e,s abreviations for half, quarter, eight and sixteenth)

Toine