Drum shuffle?

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: ___ ___ ___ ___ | | | | | | | | xrx xr x xr x xr x

Re: Drum Shuffle

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? Roberto Leibman Roberto Leibman wrote: I don't know if this made it before (I don'

Drum Shuffle

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

Repeat volta: how many times to repeat?

I'm sorry if this has been asked before in some other way I could not quite figure out. I'm a bit new at both lilypond and music notation in general... my excuse? I'm a drummer. I want to mark a bar repeated 5 times. What I've often see are the volta marks, with a little number at top of the c