drum charts with kicks
I'm hoping to get some help here about drum chart notation. I've read some posts here, but think I am doing something wrong. My basic issue is simple: I need to create a jazz drum chart with slashes and rhythms written with smaller, but regular noteheads above the staff. I entered my simple and of 4 kick as a snare rhythm, and then exchanged voices 1-3, as suggested here. Issue 1: I can't edit the size of the flag on the 8th note - not a big deal, but it looks kind of silly. Issue 2 (my main problem): when I move the 8th note up to the area just above the staff, I can't change the notehead from the default cross, as the option to edit this is greyed out. All of this fussing about seems a little time consuming, is there a template available to make this a little quicker? I would love to be able to just enter rhyhms above the slash notation, but when I started with the slashes and went to enter the kicks, it got very messy fast. Any help is appreciated.
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Comments
Looks like you're still using an older version of MuseScore that had some problems here and in other areas - much better results in the current version (4.0.2).
But, also, I'm not quite understanding what you mean about the size of the flag - it looks like all eighth notes in that font, which is pretty standard for "handwritten" fonts. And more importantly, I don't see where you've done the "toggle rhythmic slash notation" which is normally the next step after the voice exchange. It's meant to be very quick:
1) enter the desired rhythm in voice 1 (eg, using snare)
2) exchange voice 1-3
3) toggle rhythmic slash notation
4) fill with slashes
Steps 2-4 go extremely quickly because the selection remains valid the whole time.