Hi, Tree slashes across the stem in drum notes means a roll (norwegian: virvel, there might be special words in german and french) the production of a continuous sound.
As with the bowing on the violin tremolo, the you beat the drum indefinitely fast with the aim of producing a sound as continuous as possible. On the snare drum one uses double strokes: for each one movement of the hand the drumstick hits the drum twice, by bouncing up-down-up after the first hit. On the timpany one uses single-stroke rolls: one hit on the drum for one movement of the hand, but this is still done indefinitely fast. "The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear." [1913 Webster] Olav On Tuesday 01 July 2008 04:24:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Olav -- > > This explanation was very helpful in clarifying the subtleties of slash > notation. In piping there is no need for the notation. Because the > instrument sounds constantly, an intervening note of some other pitch must > be fingered to give the impression of two successive notes at the same > pitch. Piping scores are normally explicit on the pitch of such > separating notes, which are written out as gracenotes. (The intervening > notes are typically chosen for ease of fingering. A skillful composer can > choose playable notes which also sound as a sort of descant.) > > Drum scores for pipe tunes often contain the slashing notation, however. > I am still trying to figure out if drummers recognize any practical or > semantic difference between a slashed note and its beamed, written-out > equivalent. > .... > -- Doug MacKenzie > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
