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Scoring for drums
Setting up a staff for drum scoring
Setting up a staff for drum scoring
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Options tab.
2. Make sure that “Use Score Drum Map” is activated.
3. If you want a single line drum staff, activate the corresponding option (see “Using
“Single Line Drum Staff”” on page 886).
4. If you want flat beams, activate the corresponding option (see “Handling beaming”
on page 797).
5. If you want all stems to end at the same position, activate Fixed Stems and set a
length for up/down stems.
• You may also want to use polyphonic voices to handle rest and stem separately.
However, you can still activate the “Fixed Stems” option if you like. See the chapter
“Polyphonic voicing” on page 779 for more information about polyphonic voices.
Entering and editing notes
This is like entering notes on a normal note system. However, Notes are edited using
their display pitch when the drum map is used. This means that when you move a note
vertically, you move it to another display pitch. What actual pitch it gets depends on
which pitch uses the display pitch you now “dropped it on”.
Ö If the drum map contains two notes with the same pitch (for example open and closed
hi-hat), you can get the second note by holding [Ctrl]/[Command].
Using “Single Line Drum Staff”
When this option is activated on the Options tab of the Staff page in the Score
Settings dialog, there is only one line in the system. Furthermore, notes can only
appear below the line, on the line and above the line.
To decide which notes go where, proceed as follows:
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Options tab.
2. Activate “Use Score Drum Map” and “Single Line Drum Staff”.
3. Set up the two pitch values to decide which pitches go on the line.
Notes below this range automatically wind up below the line and notes above wind
up above the line.
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When you enter and edit the pitch of notes on a single line drum staff, the best way is
to drag the note up or down while watching the Mouse Note Position display in the
status line.