Bruce, Thanks for the post. I have started working on a define file (see below) that could be included to bring Lilypond's drumset notation more inline with PAS standards. The file does everything I need at the moment (I am a lousy drummer), but I may extend it in the future.
Rick On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 01:50 +1100, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > Hello all. > > I've just finished reading through Norman Weinberg's _Guide to > Standardized Drumset Notation_ published by the Percussive Arts Society > (1998). I've put up a synopsis of some of the more important points at > > http://home.iprimus.com.au/brucemcintyre/percussion-notation.png > > Note the numbers on the toms. If you need to describe music for 3 toms, > use toms 1, 2 and 3. If you want 6 toms use toms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. > The pitch of each tom is governed by its height as in normal music--tom > 9 is higher than tom 1; tom 10 lower. > > The notation conventions recommended by Mr Weinberg have been adopted by > Modern Drummer Magazine, the various PAS publications as well as publishers > such as audiograffiti > (http://www.audiograffiti.com.au/doc/audiograffitidrumnotation.pdf) > berklee and others. > > Lilypond's drum notation is missing a few features to implement this > scheme: > > 1. Rimshot notation (where a \ overlays the notehead) > > 2. Crosstick notation (circle surrounding notehead). > > 3. The "ghost" note, where the notehead is in parentheses. > > This can be implemented by molecule call backs, but looks kludgy > at the moment. > > 4. Lilypond's naming conventions don't support enough instruments: > > 10 toms are needed (I personally don't own that many!) > 2 hihats > 2 rides > 3 crashes > > 5. Some symbol shapes are wrong: > > The triangle should be equalateral with the base parallel with > the staff lines. Here noteheads-d1do and noteheads-d2do would > suffice. > > The symbol for a minim or semibreve cymbal should not be an open > 'x' but an open diamond, somewhat like that used for harmonics. > > 6. Lilypond lacks the mallet symbols as well as the bell/edge > center/edge symbols. > > Personally I find Norman's Bell and Edge symbols ugly. The > latter especially is frustrating as it projects out to the right > of the note colum. > > Rod Morgenstein in his _Drum Set Warm-Ups_ follows this scheme, > but uses cross with circle surrounding for a cymbal bell > indication. Often drummers will alternate between ride cymbal > bell and normal strokes every other quaver or semiquaver. > Morgenstien's scheme is much less cluttered-looking than > Weinberg's when this is notated. > > I hope this email provides some ideas for future improvements to our beloved > Lilypond. > > Cheers, > Bruce. > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
