Re: Drum notation and style

On 2024-01-20 06:33, Adrian wrote: is it possible to create a "z" stem for buzz rolls? Maybe esmuflily is useful for you. The following requires no extra font and achieves horizontal beams in two ways: manual beams and an empty tremolo

Re: Drum notation and style

Yes, it very likely is not formally correct. As pointed out in the original post: > I'm not sure if the bottom version is formally correct, but I would like the > option to display a roll like that anyways. Where the original notation (bottom version not produced by LilyPond) was:

Re: Drum notation and style

Hello Adrian, Being a drummer, I'm certain there is something wrong in the sticking off the roll the way you wrote it (see screen capture below) [cid:466e02cf-022d-4c6f-9e53-7a137f8740ef] I did a small example with the "unfolded roll" so you can see what I mean. Maybe what you want to do is

Re: Drum notation and style

Thanks to everyone who offered solutions and advice, very happy and excited to be able to use LilyPond to accomplish everything I set out to do. Everything has been resolved! [Screenshot 2024-01-20 183043.png] This is the code that made the drumroll equivalent to the original image for future

Re: Drum notation and style

On 2024-01-20 06:33, Adrian wrote: is it possible to create a "z" stem for buzz rolls? Maybe this helps: \version "2.24.0" % Buzz rolls with stem down % Second parameter values: %  4.0 puts the z on the middle line %  3.5 puts the z on the 2nd space up %  3.0 puts the z on the

Re: Drum notation and style

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 7:35 AM Adrian wrote: > > First, how would you create extra spacing between staves, such as the > first two above? > This looks like a job for system-system-spacing (or maybe staff-staff-spacing): \paper { system-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 12)

Re: Drum notation and style

Thanks for all the help, that worked. I just have a couple of quick questions regarding the current results: [Screenshot 2024-01-20 081822.png] First, how would you create extra spacing between staves, such as the first two above? Second, and this comes after the reading an article on notating

Re: Drum notation and style

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 13:46, Adrian wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, and apologies for not replying to all. However, > > \override Lyrics.LyricsText.font-name = "Font Name" > > returns the following warning: > > warning: not a grob name, `LyricsText' > > and doesn't alter the font. Sorry, my

Re: Drum notation and style

Adrian writes: > Thanks for the reply, and apologies for not replying to all. However, > > \override Lyrics.LyricsText.font-name = "Font Name" > > returns the following warning: > > warning: not a grob name, `LyricsText' > > and doesn't alter the font. It's actually LyricText . -- David

Re: Drum notation and style

Thanks for the reply, and apologies for not replying to all. However, \override Lyrics.LyricsText.font-name = "Font Name" returns the following warning: warning: not a grob name, `LyricsText' and doesn't alter the font. On Friday, January 19th, 2024 at 2:45 AM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > On

Re: Drum notation and style

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 01:42, Adrian wrote: > > How would you change the font of the lyrics? > > \override LyricsText.font-name = "Font Name" > > doesn't work yet throws no error. At the moment, I haven't found a method to identify the name of the object to style or the name of the style property

Re: Drum notation and style

Thanks, Xavier, for the instructions for lyrics above the staff - I'd tried multiple times to do this without success! There's always a solution with LilyPond! On 2024-01-18 13:02, Xavier Scheuer wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 21:26, Stu McKenzie wrote: > > I often use Lyrics to provide

Re: Drum notation and style

On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 21:26, Stu McKenzie wrote: > > I often use Lyrics to provide sticking. Hello, That would have been my suggestion as well, especially if you want the sticking to be horizontally aligned. > The lyrics are below the staff, but this can be changed. Personally, I've had

Re: Drum notation and style

nuary 18, 2024 13:47 To: Sebastien Richard Subject: Re: Drum notation and style Thanks for the help, The solution by YTG 1234: \override StaffGroup.SpanBar.color = "slateblue" \override Score.SystemStartBar.color = "slateblue" works perfectly. And the solution for two lines of s

Re: Drum notation and style

Sorry all, I forgot to delete the original email in my reply ... BR, --- Sébastien RICHARD