[LAU] How to write beats

Philippe Hezaine philippe.hezaine at free.fr
Mon Apr 21 14:03:28 EDT 2008


Anders Dahnielson a écrit :
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:15 PM, schoappied <schoappied at gmail.com 
> <mailto:schoappied at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     I was wondering, is there information available to learn putting those
>     beats into notation? What 'symbol' belongs to the bass, hi-hat etc.
>     Is there information on the internet about it? Or does someone knows a
>     other method (good book) for it?
>
>     And how easy is it to match the notes with a drumkit in for example
>     hydrogen? I think it should possible to play the drum score in
>     Rosegarden with Hydrogen as a synth..
>
>
> Sure there is!
>
> Here's an introduction to drum notation:
>
> http://www.drums-and-drum-sets.com/drum-notation.php
>
> And the Lilypond documentation has a nice overview of which "pitch" 
> maps to what drum in different notation styles:
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Percussion-staves#Percussion-staves
>
> When it comes to drums and MIDI you have a choice of drum maps (which 
> note maps to what drum) either standard GM drum map, the nifty MC505 
> map or some custom map (because every drum kit is different and MIDI 
> should be regarded as "recorded performances" and not as "notation" -- 
> although most maps is usually compatible when it comes to basic kick, 
> snare and hihat).
>
> -- 
> Anders Dahnielson
> <anders at dahnielson.com <mailto:anders at dahnielson.com>>
Sorry for the inconvenient. My post was too big.
Here is a  zip with my map. It isn't so different than Lilypond's 
standard notation, apart for a few percussions.
For a few days:

http://philippe.hezaine.free.fr/spip.php?article28

all the best.

-- 
Phil.
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