Hello Brett,
When trying I noticed also it is complicated. Some say Djembe is
impossible to notated. But I do not agree with them.
Myself I do not have a very good memory to remember all ritmes. And I
am not the only one. I feel it is Djembe notation is not impossible,
although hard to do. Some may find their own style of notation, which
makes it even harder to comprehend and play ritmes notated by others.
There is a soundfount with Djembe which I bought, which can be played
in midi using Piano kind keys. See
http://rekkerd.org/rob-weber-releases-djembe-soundfont The sound of
this soundfount is good.
It is very easy to make a mistake in the notation, which is very hard
to find. By playing the notation in midi using the Djembe soundfount a
mistake can be very easy be heard and corrected. If the notation is
correct in each detail, it will be more easy be used.
So what I want is, together with others, try to find a Djembe standard
notation. Which is very easy to read and played, so just using notes.
This part is not complicated and quite far. And which can be easily
verified by playing the notation in midi with the real Djembe sounds.
Thanks for you help.
Bernard
Quoting Brett McCoy <idragos...@gmail.com>:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:47 PM, <lilyp...@bernardhulsman.nl> wrote:
I want to write a notation for Djembe. Normal notation in Lilypond is fine.
But how can I write a "mute" tone. This is one hand on the Djembe, which
mutes the sound and the other hand plays the normal tone, f.e. the bass.
Mute is rarely used. I think about a special token which mark the tone
should be played as mute.
I had to score some music recently that included a dumbek part. I gave
up trying to do anything fancy, since there's no standard dumbek
notation anyway, so I just used a standard percussion staff and
indicated the note names under the staff (using D T K for dum tek ka),
and placing bass drum and snare notes on the staff. Trying to get
fancier than that would have been overkill since I just wanted to
establish the basic rhythm over which a live player would be able to
improvise fills and such.
-- Brett
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