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

Drum notation and style

specifying the color of the bar lines that connect staves and the entire opening bar line Just looking through the list of layout objects in the internals documentation, I think you need to override the color of SpanBar and SystemStartBar, like %%% \override StaffGroup.SpanBar.color =