Thanks Chuck and Darcy, you have together proven my dilemma. I'm in Australia, and was always led to believe in the hand drums, stems up, and foot drums stems down system. Apparently this isn't gospel truth. I can see both arguments, so I'm pleased to hear both sides.
cheers, Nigel Hanley On 28/09/2011, at 2:25 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > 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 >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
