Reduce ambiguity in marching snare drum notation
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
I'm also switching the key to press for "snare hit" and "buzz", since "B" isn't as easy of a key to hit as "A", and you use "snare hit" far more often than "buzz" (and buzz starts with "B").
See also: #113656: Reduce ambiguity in marching cymbal notation, #113646: Improve keyboard assignment for marching tenors, and #113651: Improve keyboard assignment for marching basses (all spawned from Re-assign notes for keyboard entry of marching percussion parts? and will be handled in the same PR)
Comments
I don't really have anything to contribute, except say "keep up the good work." Just a note about the git workflow—whether you use multiple commits or one, you should include "fix #00000" in the commit message(s). If it's one commit, just put them one after another: "fix #113816, fix #113656, fix #113646, fix #113651: Various marching percussion improvements" (or something like that).
I've made commit 77bdc12 with my proposed changes. I've got a couple of questions about issues #109826: Add 2nd spock drum to Marching Percussion Tenor instrument and clean up amplitude envelopes, #114186: Add stick clicks to Marching Tenor instrument, and #114181: Add simultaneous hit to Marching Bassdrum instrument I'd like answered before I send it in for a real PR.
Let me know what you think of the key assignments and if you find that my improved notation is, in fact, an improvement.
It is in https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2711, but needs a rebase
I rebased the commit so that it works nicely with the nightly. I will need to make another commit to update the templates where these instruments are used once this PR is accepted.
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