How do I get snare to display as quarters?
Add another up-stem (or down-stem) voice in the Kit editor.
Thanks! Though that doesnât make quarter notes like the original, whatâs duration mean for percussion anyway? Iâm going with this.
I tried that earlier and couldnât make it work, but Robbyâs solution is simple.
As a percussionist, the difference between an eighth note, quarter note, half note, and whole note just has to deal with how much space we have to wait to play the next note (unless there is tremolo or some other notation of sustain for a roll).
In the example you have above, technically that snare note can be an 8th note, and not a quarter note if you really wanted. A drum, while it does have a ring in some cases, has no real sustain from a single hit.
If you are concerned about the quarter rests in the snare voice, I would tell you to not worry about them. Itâs extra un-needed information. No percussionist would question what was supposed to happen. If you have to have the quarter rests, that will require a bit of playing around to make that happen.
Robby
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Yeah, as a non-percussionist band director, I get that. My âwhatâs duration mean?â was sort of rhetorical. Itâs interesting to see the different ways people go about writing the same rhythms. I like minimizing rests. In this instance Iâm not trying to replicate the original notation, just the intention.
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Theyâre not actually quarter notesâŚ
If you want them in the same voice as the hi-hat, enter them as eighth notesâŚ
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@larrycfc the example you gave is from an old book I think. It is an obsolete way of writing an basic groove like this. Iâm an drummer. Robby Poole solution is the way to do it.
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Ok, now Iâm confused. After years of getting a different answer from every drummer I asked about preference for voices, I thought these days it had pretty much settled down to âhands up, feet downâ? Unless thereâs a particular sn or hh/kick ostinato pattern that would be easier read with different voice allocationâŚ
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I do what you have suggested though the topic definitely not âsettledâ.
Thatâs how the stems are here, both in the original and my first attempt. I recall that John Barronâs tutorials show changing the Dorico default of snare stems down to stems up.
âsettledâ? Is anything in this world???
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That is 100% ok I think. There is one more option and that is single voice. It is up to you what you like the most.
In the original post example there are 3 voices, I consider that obsolete.