Hey thanks for the help all of you have given. I'm writing the timpani notes as if they are regular music. I tried a new staff but that failed, probably my error lol! I read about the \drums thing but I don't quite understand how it will work after the percussionMusic equals \relative c then the key then timpani time sig and so forth. I understand the abbreviations for high hat and snare and such and to write them as if they were music with the values, but where do I put them since they will be resting through out most of the piece. Do I have to use the voiceOne voiceTwo etc etc to do this and just make sure I aline everything so I don't have misaligned measures? lol!
Take care and be blessed. On May 8, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Carl Peterson <carlopeter...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:54 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2013 08:38:44 -0400 > Carl Peterson <carlopeter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The end result would be two staves without grouping, one for timpani > > and another for the bass/snare. > > I think you are correct except that the OP said; > > > > Ok. I'v never seen percussion music so I don't even know how to > > > looks. I have to in this final assignment write for 3 timpani's, 1 > > > player playing them, a bass drum and symbol, one player playing > > > them and a snare. > > So I think three staves if I read that right. One for the timpani, one > for the bass drum and cymbal (not symbol, btw) and a separate one for > the snare. > > Sorry, missed that...may have been the symbol vs. cymbal, but anyway... > > It does seem like a strange setup. At first I though marching band > but marching bands have one timpani per player don't they? > > With marching bands it depends (I think) on the performance venue. Virtually > all of my experience with marching band is field performance (such as a > sports venue), where the timpani will be placed at one side of the field and > played in concert setting along with keyboards, gong, chimes, etc., and the > timpani will be played by a single performer (who may be doing other things, > depending on how much the timpani are used). Typically when these bands > parade, they leave the timpani home. I think I've read of parade bands that > use timpani with one performer per drum. > > It's only a strange arrangement to me in that I would have probably paired > the snare and cymbal (depending on whether the cymbal is intended to be > played ride or crash), but ultimately in percussion the assignment of > instruments depends on which ones are being used simultaneously. In a Sousa > march, you would probably need three percussionists because each instrument > is used a lot and simultaneously. Many pieces may suffice with just one.
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