More 5 line drum options

• May 28, 2012 - 21:18

There should be alot more options for the 5 line drum set. I am kind of dissapointed at the amount of different drum parts there are on a 5 line drum set.

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• May 28, 2012 - 23:53

Is there something specific you are missing? Have you read the documentation checked out the tutorials? UseScore should be capable of notating virtually anything you can think of; it may bust be a matter of your not having figured how how yet. So if watching the tutorial doesn't answer your questions, you could try describing more specifically what you want to do, and chance are we'll be able to show how it can be done.

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• May 30, 2012 - 00:26

How would you like these notated? Could you a picture of what you are trying to accomplish, or at least describe it in (much) more detail? Lots of different noteheads are available for things like ghost notes. Ad it isn't clear what you mean by an "overdubbed" snare, unless you just mean two different drums hit at once, which is easy enough to do.

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• May 30, 2012 - 11:42

Overdubbing is a recording technique used to insert material into a mix after the main recording session, often on a separate track, although the technique used to be used to correct errors in a recording by the musician playing along with his recorded track, and then the recording engineer activating the record head on the tape just before the error and then deactivating it just after - this used to be known as "punching in and out".

The second use of overdubbing makes no sense in a MuseScore context, so presumably you are wanting to add extra snare drum beats to the main drum track.

The way forward with this is to write a separate drum stave for the snare drum you wish to "overdub" in playback.

As for ghost notes, there is currently no way to produce the standard percussion notation for these in MuseScore, but as Marc says, there are a variety of noteheads for you to choose from to indicate these. As for playback the velocity of ghost notes can be customised using the Note properties dialogue.

HTH
Michael

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• May 30, 2012 - 16:56

I know several notations for ghost notes. My prefered one is small notes and this is possible in MuseScore (right click -> note properties -> small). Another popular one is to add parenthesis around them. That's also possible, select a note, press Z and add the two parenthesis. You will need to move the closing one, and you can copy paste them on other notes. See http://musescore.com/nicolas/scores/47602

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