Re: Use fingering notation for percussion and drum “ sticking”

[David Kastrup]

Ben Finney <address@hidden> writes:

> Some time ago, there was a discussion about percussion notation:
>
> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I know nothing of percussion myself, so I'll copy this to -user to
>> elicit some responses from those that do.  In particular, how best to
>> indicate "sticking", and the notation for a drum-roll.
>
> My interest here is with the “sticking” notation (telling LilyPond which
> hand to use for a note).
>
> The workaround that is now in the manual suggests using “n^"L"” and
> “n^"R"”, the normal note annotation feature.
>
> But this is not ideal, since the note cannot then have both “sticking”
> and an arbitrary annotation.
>
>
> What would be better is for the “fingering” feature to support “L” and
> “R” as fingers.

Use \L and \R instead.

L=-\tweak #'Fingering #'text "L"-1
R=-\tweak #'Fignering #'text "R"-1
>
> As the earlier discussion pointed out in a message from Levi Hendricks:
>
>> Also, sticking is just as important for a percussionist as fingering
>> is for piano player. I understand how to use a -4 suffix to add a
>> fingering to a note, but I have not had success with this in drummode.
>
> So “sticking” is “fingering” for percussion. It's essentially the same
> information, just with different values to be shown; and should ideally
> be in the same place and use the same notation feature.
>
> For example:
>
>     c c8 c8-R c8-L^"Ben's favourite note" c8-R->

LL=-\tweak #'text #"L"-1
RR=-\tweak #'text #"R"-1

{ c c8 c8-\RR c8-\LL^"Ben's favourite note" c8-\RR-> }

> The ‘n-R’ and ‘n-L’ (where ‘n’ is whatever note is chosen) would be
> interpreted as fingers, just as ‘n-1’, ‘n-2’, and so on, and render
> using the same markup and position.
>
> As another possibility, perhaps the ‘n-1’ and ‘n-2’ notation could be
> used in the document, but *rendered* as the characters “R” and “L” by
> some configuration.

Somebody else take this.

-- 
David Kastrup