Quads? Tuned bass drums?
I've been doing some arranging for marching band settings, and I've noticed that there isn't any good way to make quad or bass drum parts. If we could get a percussion staff with a variable amount of lines, that would be nice. The voices would be ultra-nice, but not necessary. All I really need is a way to write the part.
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Could you post an example, a picture of what you are trying to achieve? There is a little chance that a developer knows everything about "Quads" or "bass drum parts".
For marching band sound, check http://musescore.org/en/node/8223
Quads are just a set of tuned tom toms - four per set. So you can notate them using an ordinary drum staff - either 3 or 5 lines. I believe 2.0 will even allow custom numbers of staff lines. As for bass drums, I,m not sure wht about the current bass drum you find in adequate - you spcan create it as its own staff or as part of a drum set staff no problem.
In reply to Quads are just a set of tuned by Marc Sabatella
Tuned bass drums are the same concept as quads; they're tuned to specific pitches, except it's one drum per person (due to size) instead of 4 drums per person. Image link
I agree with this, I have run into the exact same problem trying to arrange for marching band. For tuned bass drums, all the pitches and rhythms are usually notated on top of each other in one percussion staff (image link ). If you don't need the playback you could go ahead and just use a drum set staff, though the capability would be limited. This would be a great feature for a future release.
In reply to Tuned bass drums are the same by AvenueQ
Even if you do need playback, you can just use a drum set staff. The whole mapping of displayed pitches to sounds is completely customizable - just right click the staff and Edit Drum Set.
In reply to Even if you do need playback, by Marc Sabatella
Or watch my tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvVBHW-O5Ww&list=PL8B82247D27273147
Incidentally Marching Percussion will be going into the Instrument list for Musescore 2 shortly.
Just as soon as I have finished the Electronic Instruments section.
In reply to Or watch my by ChurchOrganist
What a great tutorial, thanks for sharing! I had no idea Musescore had that kind of capability, I'll obviously have to try to utilize more features.
In reply to Or watch my by ChurchOrganist
I am playing around with the MikeSchorsch.sfz but the tenor pitches seem incorrectly matched to the staff lines. Haven't tried with the tuned bass drums yet.
Does anyone know a way to remap the sounded pitches to the correct staff positions?
Thanks
In reply to I am playing around with the by Jim___
I'm not sure what would define "correct" versus "incorrect" - seems that depends on the specific soundfont and your particular idea of how you like to see percussion notated (there are many different standards). But you can customize the association between MIDI pitches and staff lines by pressing the Edit Drumset button in the drum entry toolbar or the right click menu for a drum staff.
Sorry that my comment was not clear.
I meant to say that the lowest note on the staff is not sounding the lowest pitched drum sound, etc.