hah - thanks, Leo! But that setting made my Bongos a 5 line staff in addition to the Drum Kit. (Typically bongos would be a 2-line staff.) Is it possible to have 2-line bongos and a 5-line basic drum kit?
Not held by the same player, no: if you need your bongos to be shown on a two-line grid and your drum set to be shown on a five-line staff, assign them to separate players. If you want them in the same instrumental part later on, you can assign two players to a part layout with no problems.
awesome, thank you. I don’t think the drummer will mind if the bongos are on a 5-line stave, I guess that’s not a big deal.
A related issue to the 5-line drum stave, I apologise, but I see that Dorico sometimes makes smart decisions with the drumset notation (see bars 1 and 2, where the hi-hat is in an up-stem voice and the kick drum is down) and sometimes really unhelpful (see bar 3, where both the toms and kick drum are in the same voice).
that’s brilliant, Daniel, thank you!
It’s good to know both approaches – for me, anything that goes with the hands should be up-stem and things that go with the feet would be down-stem – but sometimes it’s also good to make exceptions, such as the case here with the snare drum, below:
The only thing I’d say is – why is there a “Change Voice” section for normal instruments and a separate “Change Voice” section for percussion instruments that’s in the Percussion submenu?
A percussion kit is not just a single “player” or “instrument” in one sense. It’s multiple instruments, combined together in an intelligent and flexible way. So things behave a little differently. You assign a voice to an instrument here, rather than a conventional staff that can accommodate multiple voices.
