Drum kit notation qualms and ergonomics

Dorico
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Hello all, new user and 2nd time poster. Preface: thank you all for the lovey and guiding help!

As a Sibelius user, I had become accustomed to using 4 voices to create drum transcriptions. This was useful for:

  • Delegating between ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ voices in a singular score (changing when the snare drum follows the rhythm of the kick drum or the hi-hat)
  • Changing note heads on the fly (for marching band scores)

I’m finding it difficult to learn the ergonomics of the drum set paradigm in this software. I’m finding it quite rigid and having to constantly work from the system preferences instead of working through the score bar by bar.

I have tried taking a treble staff and adding a percussion clef. Although when I input a note with the caret. The note inputs the note a 7th below (E.g. Clicking on C5 and it will input the note D4).

Thank you to whoever reads this :slight_smile:

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Have you checked out the tutorials from the official YouTube channel?

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I have yes :slight_smile: Also scoured the forms to try and help with the above issues (re; rhythm grouping of voices)

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Hi @cypress.bartlett.mus, maybe a constructive and fast way to clear your doubts, would be if you could upload a screenshot of a couple of bars of drum/percussion/whatever as you would like it to be (from Sibelius), so someone can give specific advices for your needs.

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Here I have 2 snare drums, 2 hi-hats, and bass drums. snare 1 = stem up, snare 2 = stem down… They can also have different voices, if needed. Makes it easy to do something like this.

Jesper

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You can also right-click→Percussion→Change voice and right-click→notehead to change noteheads on one or more notes.

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Awesome! Exactly the solution :slight_smile: Thank you!

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De nada.

Jesper