General "Percussion" staff
A general "Percussion" instrument in the selection box would be very helpful. To accommodate for the lack of this, the composer currently has to insert a vibes part into every score, change it to percussion clef (without the drumset), and rename it. It would also be useful to have this staff muted by default if the sounds don't back properly.
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How would you envision this being different from the existing "drum set" instrument?
A couple ways:
1. It is labeled "Percussion" (for concert band, orchestra, etc.)
2. It doesn't use "drumset mode" by default, allowing the composer to enter pitches anywhere on the staff with whatever noteheads he/she desires
or
2. It uses a different set of "drumset mode" pitches that are focused on auxiliary percussion, such as triangle, claves, woodblock, etc.
Essentially, it is one staff that combines the aux. percussion instruments available in the instrument selection menu, and lays it out as a normal percussion staff would.
I think you'd want the drumset mode - otherwise, you'd find the pitches you needed to enter to get the playback you wanted wouldn't line up with the pitches you wanted for display. That's kind of the whole point of drumset mode. So it sounds like you'd want a custom drum set that came pre-attached to an instrument called "percussion". Luckily, both of these things are already possible - you just have to edit the instruments.xml file to add the "percussion" instrument, and then create a custom drum set from the drum set editor.
And if you make those customizations, maybe you could submit them for the next release?
Great!
I'm surprised MuseScore doesn't already have this feature. As a percussionist, I halfway expect every new piece for band or orchestra to be labeled "Percussion" and have a different instrument on each line. Calling it "drum set" would mean completely different. On a part labeled "Percussion" I would expect to see gong, triangle, wind chimes, suspended cymbal, etc. On a part labeled "Drum Set" I would expect a part for drum kit, meaning hi-hat, kick drum, snare, crash and ride cymbal. It would be great if Muse Score had a general "percussion" staff function, perhaps where one drags and drops the desired instrument into the single staff.
I support this, I was just wondering about this but got no answer, I'm writing a marching band piece and this would definitely help. I have seen other marching band score. and they have at least one or two "auxiliary" parts, which is just basic percussion instruments in one staff, or general percussion, all concert band pieces do this also.
oh i just realized how old this post is, i would still like to see a feature like this thought, i would love it as seen why above
"Drum set" is what you want - you can then rename the staff whatever you want. See my response to your thread.
Thanks
See also forum topic Add "Percussion" as an instrument option (currently only "Drumset") .
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2816
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New PR: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2829. List of instruments in set by default:
Closed Hi-Hat
Pedal Hi-Hat
Open Hi-Hat
Ride
Concert Bass Drum
Snare Side Stick
Concert Snare Drum
Castanets
Tambourine
Splash Cymbal
Cowbell
Vibraslap
Concert Cymbal
Mute High Conga
Open High Conga
Low Conga
Maracas
Claves
Triangle
Shaker
Mark Tree
Fixed in branch master, commit 229c95b675
Fix #12489: General "Percussion" staff
"Percussion" five line staff, orchestral unpitched percussion instruments
Fixed in branch master, commit 5e6773913c
Merge pull request #2829 from IsaacWeiss/perc
Fix #12489: General "Percussion" staff
Fixed in branch 2.0.4, commit 059059adec
Fix #12489: General "Percussion" staff
"Percussion" five line staff, orchestral unpitched percussion instruments
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.