Finger clickin' good.....
I am working on a score (based on Peggy Lee's 'Fever") that I am stripping down to a simple melody line that's passed around between five instruments.
When not playing, the other instruments will finger click (cool dude style) . But I don't want to waste space by writing out a percussion line for them all, if I can write that somehow into their instrument lines.
I can just write that out as an instruction ( and hope they will remember...) But does anyone have any bright ideas as to how to write a percussion note (or just a silent cue) into an instrument stave ?
Comments
Use an "x" notehead ? (and make it silent)
In reply to Use an "x" notehead ? (and… by Jojo-Schmitz
And please give the wind players a couple of bars free after finger clicking to get their instruments in position before resuming playing. It avoids broken teeth! :-)
In reply to And please give the wind… by SteveBlower
Thanks, Steve. This is for a saxophone ensemble - so we'll need that!
In reply to Use an "x" notehead ? (and… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks, JoJo.
Is there a simple description of how to do that somewhere? I must have missed it.
In reply to Thanks, JoJo. Is there a… by Robbie Johnson
In Inspector change the nothead group and disable play
In reply to In Inspector change the… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks JoJo. I'll give that a go.
In reply to Thanks JoJo. I'll give that… by Robbie Johnson
Hmm. Something missing yet in that advice.
I have the Inspector open - but I see no option there to change note heads, not in that side panel. (See screen shot attached)
Where do I look now?
In reply to Hmm. Something missing yet… by Robbie Johnson
you haven't seleted a note, but a rest. A rest doesn't have a head to change...
In reply to you haven't seleted a note by Jojo-Schmitz
Aha!
Obvious when you know.
Thanks!
In reply to Hmm. Something missing yet… by Robbie Johnson
You have a rest selected, not a note.
In reply to You have a rest selected,… by mike320
Aha!
Obvious when you know.
Thanks!
In reply to Use an "x" notehead ? (and… by Jojo-Schmitz
"and make it silent"
Or use instrument change text to make it sound like fingersnaps. You may have to experiment with pitches to find the correct sound, but it's there. (I think it's C#6?) Just remember to change your instrument sound back to original when they need to play pitches.
In reply to "and make it silent" Or use… by toffle
Not sure you can change a normal staff to a drúm staff that way?
In reply to Not sure you can change a… by Jojo-Schmitz
No, but you can change to a drum voice. The problem is that I'm not familiar with the mapping of drum sounds to know where the various sounds exist. I did experiment with adding an instrument change to a pitched staff and selecting finger snaps from the body percussion group. It worked... sort of. The sounds were definitely percussion, (sounded mostly like Latin percussion) but I had to hunt to find a pitch that sounded like snaps.
I think you'd have to be a lot better at drum mapping than I am to be able to really take advantage of this.
And what a great piece of software this is, that can cater for so much!
And what a great supportive and knowledgable community that can answer my dumb questions, and so fast!
In reply to And what a great piece of… by Robbie Johnson
Don't be too hard on yourself. If you don't know you're not dumb. You were wise enough to ask the question so you can learn.