On Tue, 21 May 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote: > 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?
Ok here you are: These two are from the april issue of modern drummer, the leading drumming magazine: http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/1.gif http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/2.gif These are from "Beyond Bop Drumming" by John Riley: http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/3.gif http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/4.gif http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/5.gif And the last three are from "Advanced concepts" by Kim Plainfield: http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/6.gif http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/7.gif http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/8.gif All are using regular five-note systems with percussion clef (the official term for the rectangular box replacing the clef). All examples rely on a "key" to define what notes are where, all though standards more or less include snare on c, hihats and cymbals high and low the stuff being played by the feet (bassdrumm and foot hihat). What's needed to implement this in abc is just the special noteheads + the precussion clef. I asked the guy who supplied me with this about the single line system, and he said that he couldn't think of "any serious application" for that. He agreed that sometimes you just wanna write really simplified percussion stuff, but that that would normally be notated as the above examples. -- love, peace & harmony Atte To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
