Christopher Smith wrote:
As a rule, I try to let the drummer have every measure notated, as in Chuck's example. It might seem wasteful when there are long passages of just playing time, but if you number elapsed measures (there is a plugin for this!) and take care with the layout to have phrases starting systems it is very easy to read. It also allows the drummer to write in his own cues if needed in the middle of a phrase. You know, when you decide that you REALLY want him to catch that trombone hit in bar 6, but all he has written is "Play 16 bars" so he has no place to write it, it really slows things down.
I seem to be somewhere in between. I put cues in the measures where there's something that has to be accented, but for long sections, I just put "TIME" at the first measure, and then numbers (above the measure, in (parentheses)) every 4 measures to let the drummer keep track of where he is. This lets him know at a glance that he has (for example) 13 measures out of a 16 bar phrase to just play time, and 3 measures where he has something specific to accent.
It seems to make the drummers I work with happy. cd -- http://www.livejournal.com/users/dershem/# http://members.cox.net/dershem _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
