Ho folks,
I have a piece that is swung to a traditional Zimbabwean hosho pattern. While notation can’t convey the swing perfectly, for those that haven’t been exposed to the music I want them to at least be exposed to generally what the swing will be. The piece is in 12/8 and so I want to create a key at the top of the chart that shows this swing pattern: Is this possible? Thanks!
Try downloading the “Metrico” font, and using that to enter this as shift-x text at the beginning of the flow.
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MusGlyphs can do this general sort of indication, but this figure is too complicated for that font. I don’t think Metrico can do it either.
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Whoops, I meant Mus glyphs. (Sorry Dan)
At any rate, the other option here is to create a special flow that has just this formula in it.
Create the first rhythm, add a coda, hide the coda symbol, add the second rhythm, and then put a large equals sign in the gap before the start of the coda. You can then use a custom music frame to put this at the 
of your real piece. You can use the hidden clef option for this too.
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That’s a good idea. I was also thinking if I can just get each piece looking nice graphically then I can photoshop it all together into a graphic and drop it in I think. It’s something I’ll probably reuse a lot.
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I’ll create this in MusGlyphs. Give me a few minutes.
A 3 over the triplet?
Thank you! No 3 because it’s in 12/8 and so even though the grouping is in 3 it’s not triplet. I may be theoretically wrong, but that’s how I think of it and how I notate it. :-).
Type
eee = hosho
to get this:
This was easy enough, so let me know if you want me to modify the design at all.
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Thanks so much Dan! I’m watching the MusGlyph video now to learn more about it. Very cool!
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Dan, that’s amazing. Looks great, and I just bought MusGlyphs-the best $10 I’ve spent in a while!
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