On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jack Campin wrote: > >> Is there some abc software for percussion notation? > > Except for standard stuff like the Xs or other "strange" symbols > > for cymbals, etc. and except for rolls, I'm not sure there is > > anything you couldn't notate with standard ABC. Maybe there's > > something I'm forgetting. > > Which hand whacks what when. > > I suggested an approach to this in the keep-it-simple spirit of ABC > some while ago. A lot of percussion scores use a one-line staff for > each instrument, with the note stems going up for the right hand and > down for the left. I suggested this could be done with a new kind > of key signature (as there already is for Highland pipes), say "K:P" > and two notes (as well as rests) "u" (stem-up, right) and "d" (stem- > down, left).
It's fairly standard to have an empty rectangle instead as a clef for perc-stuff. Also if you notate a drumkit, it's nromally done in a regular five-line system with this drum-clef. I saw quite some drum-books that did it this way, and somewhere in the preface the author just defines what his "pitches" and symbols means. -- love, peace & harmony Atte To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
