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by N. Grossingink
25 Feb 2017, 12:47
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Place in score of drum set staff
Replies: 8
Views: 11467

Re: Place in score of drum set staff

My clients (educational music) set up the percussion section like this:

Percussion 1 (Snare Drum and Bass Drum, or Drum Set)
Percussion 2 (Cymbals and accessories)
(another stave Percussion 3 if needed)
Mallet Percussion
(another stave Mallets 2 if needed)
Timpani

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by N. Grossingink
08 Oct 2015, 17:48
Forum: Manual Notation
Topic: Pencils for music
Replies: 21
Views: 48114

Re: Pencils for music

Hi, all... Harvey Phillips told me that a great deal of the "hurry-up" pencil work in NYC in the '50s and '60s was done using a Scripto K780 mechanical pencil and a dark lead. He showed me several examples of his parts (maybe Sauter-Finegan IIRC) that were done using the K780 and had a co...
by N. Grossingink
07 Oct 2015, 10:39
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Maestro font
Replies: 4
Views: 7919

Re: Maestro font

If you want to make your Sibelius output look more like Finale, take a look at the following link: http://www.sibeliusblog.com/tips/making-finale-look-more-like-sibelius/ The suggestions can be used to go either way - Sibelius > Finale or Finale > Sibelius. From what I've noticed, slurs and ties in ...
by N. Grossingink
05 Oct 2015, 19:02
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: 12/8 Question
Replies: 60
Views: 88697

Re: 12/8 Question

How do you mean this is not easily accomplished in Finale? There are options for beaming over rests and for drawing stemlets automatically. The only problem with those options, however, is that they are global over the whole document. That's what I meant - an extended beam over/under the eighth res...
by N. Grossingink
05 Oct 2015, 18:44
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: 12/8 Question
Replies: 60
Views: 88697

Re: 12/8 Question

That sort of points out the problem here though. If the goal of notation is to make the music as clear as possible and the performer has to add information just to see the beat, then the engraver didn't really make it completely clear. If it's a casual rehearsal for a jazz quartet then it's not a b...
by N. Grossingink
05 Oct 2015, 17:24
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: 12/8 Question
Replies: 60
Views: 88697

Re: 12/8 Question

I prefer measure 2 as well. However, I have trouble seeing the fourth beat. If I were performing this, I'd probably whip out the pencil and draw hashmarks above the beats. Depends a lot on tempo, frequency of the pattern and if the pattern stays the same or changes.

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