My experience is that drummers like *everything* in their part written the same layer -- hihat/cymbal, snare, toms, bass drum, etc -- all with stems up. It's much easier to see how things line up that way. Most drumers do not like having the part separated into multiple layers.
However, if you are going to separate into layers, it should definitely be hat/cymbals in the stems-up layer, and everything else stems down. I've never seen snare written in the cymbals layer, it (obviously) belongs to the drum layer. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 27 Sep 2011, at 12:06 PM, Nigel Hanley wrote: > Is there a consensus as to whether drum parts should be written with the > snare in the same voice/layer as the kick drum, as opposed to being part of > the hi-hat/cymbal layer? > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
