On Tue, 21 May 2002, Jack Campin wrote: > > 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. > > Yeah, but. That's instrument-specific to the drumkit (middling number > of instruments), whereas the single-line notation works for any old > drums/gongs/blocks/cymbals in any numbers from one to hundreds. Single- > line has more widespread use across a variety of genres. ABC tries not > to be instrument-specific unless it can't be helped.
Let me get back to you on this. I'll get some examples from drummers (jazz) and percussionists (classical) at school (Royal Conservatory, The Hague), assuming you wanna get some real pro info, and not another guy' (=me) guess? I can scan some examples, put them on my sitespace and mail the link here. How about that? > How does the notation you're talking about manage to avoid stemming > conflicts? - I presume it still uses stem direction to indicate hands? Again that is dependant on the author, for instance I saw simply "L" or "R" above notes... -- love, peace & harmony Atte To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
